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Honestly awful

Revisado: 02-12-25

What on earth are these five star reviewers thinking? Genuinely baffled. This book fully sucked. Tessa Bailey often veers too far into the weirdly toxic possessive trope with her male leads, but at least she normally balances them out with a woman who can hold her own. Chloe is the kind of pathetic and helpless and clueless that made me want to actively root against her, and Sig infantilizes her and treats her like some kind of helpless baby in a way I found truly nauseating. They seem to barely know anything of substance each other and somehow we are expected to believe that they fell in the kind of earth shattering love that means it’s okay to f*** your presumed stepsister?? This stepsiblings plotline wasn’t hot, it was just totally weird and uncomfortable end to end. The plot was super weak, and in general lacked any genuine conflict (the drama of adult stepsiblings dating would never end a famous NHL player’s career, come on!) and even the epilogue felt cringey and forced. The performances were good, but I wish Tessa had thrown this one in the trash instead of wasting my time. Yuck.

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Wildly Unrealistic Plot, Toxic Characters. Dumb.

Revisado: 01-24-25

Just yikes. Absolutely no merit here. The plot has more holes than Swiss cheese, the characters are unlikable and have basically no personality or chemistry, and there was like zero world building or realistic/relatable context. No idea where all these positive reviews are coming from?

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Boring, poor writing

Revisado: 07-20-24

This barely had a story to tell. Zero real plot arc, whiny characters without much to say. Felt like it was written by a teenager. Narrator sounded weirdly robotic. Not worth it.

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Great listen—EXCEPT she pronounced “Ewan” SO wrong!!!

Revisado: 08-06-23

Really great book, totally delightful as expected and was a balm to my soul—the narrator did a great job EXCEPT why on earth wouldn’t she look up how to pronounce the name Ewan before recording an ENTIRE BOOK?! She pronounced it “ee-wahn” which is patently insane and frankly embarrassing when everyone (including world famous actor Ewan McGregor!) knows it’s pronounced “you-un” and honestly it nearly ruined the whole thing for me every time she said it. Girl, you have one job to do. Ask how to pronounce the name. How are none of these reviews talking about this?! Blech.

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Meh

Revisado: 07-07-23

The story was fine, but I’ve never seen characters who need therapy more in my life. Being neurodivergent isn’t an identity, and neurodivergent people aren’t victims, and being neurodivergent isn’t the only thing they think about. The extent to which the author allowed Sam’s dyslexia and ADD to be the only real driving forces or key personality traits for her character felt totally artificial and forced, and felt like a total charicature of what it’s actually like to be a neurodivergent person. I can tell the author tried here but she overshot and by the end of the book I just felt annoyed by most of the characters.

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Is there a plot?

Revisado: 06-15-23

I’m confused. I kept waiting for there to be some kind of conflict or reasonable plot arc, but it feels like the author really dropped the ball. She just wanted to publish the next book and had thought up some good characters but she didn’t actually have a story to tell? It wasn’t a total waste of a listen but I still found it super underwhelming. Meh.

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Please re-record!! Narration is horrible

Revisado: 02-13-23

Tessa Bailey is the best and her books are always my jam, but I could barely get through the first few chapters of this book. The narration is so, so bad. Who on earth would cast this male narrator as a romantic lead?! I’ll have to add this one to my actually-read-not-just-listen stack. But please I beg you re-record this with a narrator worthy of the writing!

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Horrible narrator, good story

Revisado: 02-03-23

While I liked the story and writing, someone really needs to teach this narrator that she doesn’t need to aggressively enunciate every single word. She makes the characters sound like robots and sort of ruined the experience for me. Please re-record with someone who knows how to do this job!

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