Brooke H.

Didn’t Get Attached To The Characters…

Revisado: 07-06-21

*Spoiler Review*

My overall feeling after finishing this was that I didn’t ever get to the point where I got attached to the characters - therefore, I didn’t really care about them.

It starts off with Luke - our ‘celebrity’ love interest - accosting Natalie (the woman counterpart in this love equation) because he thinks that she’s taking pictures of him rather than of the scenery.
He was very aggressive during this exchange and grabbed at her arms/personal property. This made me feel super uneasy. It wasn’t cute or quirky. It made me want to press charges against this man, no matter if there was a misunderstanding or not.

After this, they bump into one another later and it escalates to the point where they start to speak on their mutual sexual desires.
Natalie then makes an offhand comment about certain insecurities that she has about her body. And Luke has the audacity to get angry with her about having those insecurities, as though things such as that can automatically be helped. Our own personal perceptions are mostly involuntary. How dare he try and control what she thinks of her own body.

Later on, they have sex for the first time and that is what takes up 92% of the rest of the book.
They have sex constantly.
And, they say the same things over and over again...
“Please get naked.”
“Why aren’t you naked, yet?”

Natalie is a Karen at one point and demands to speak to the manager at a restaurant. She complains about the staff getting excited over a celebrity in the restaurant and they get their meals for free and also a gift card - despite their meals being perfectly fine and the staff being super friendly.

Then, after only knowing each other days, they drop the L-bomb. And Luke whisks her off to Tahiti for a romantic vacation…
Except the location change really means nothing to the story because all you are told about the trip are their sexual exploits in their resort suite and only once in the water.
At the end of this vacation, a bell hop (a nephew of the owner of the resort) attempts to sexually assault Natalie while Luke is in the shower. This is the first that we are ever introduced to this character and it quite frankly came out of nowhere!
And as sudden as this subplot came about, as sudden as it disappeared.
Luke immediately tackled and subdued the man, Natalie had her ‘I’m not a victim’ moment by kicking him in the balls, the man is immediately arrested and is described as sobbing like a baby over the thought of prison.
And then… it is never mentioned again.
You would think that Natalie would have a phobia to sexual intercourse with Luke after this. That it would cause painful flashback to the time she was raped in high school.
But nope. This subplot had absolutely no impact on the story.

The rest was kinda boring and it was blatantly obvious that everything in this book was just a fantasy, self-insert, wish-fulfillment of the author’s part to her dream relationship and what she thinks is the perfect man.

Luke was not sexy.
Luke was controlling, angry, and jealous over stupid things.

Also, Natalie claims to not have known that Luke was a famous actor, but then she recalls not long after what Luke looked like on his movie posters… how do you know/remember that so clearly and also claim that you didn’t know that he was famous?

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Narrator Spoke Too Fast!

Revisado: 06-28-21

The story was so cute and it was easy to fall into.

Except that the narrator spoke much too quickly. There was hardly a break in-between sentences. At times, it felt like one, continuous run-on sentence when there was obviously meant to be a pause for the listener to reflect and soak in on what was said.
I had to slow down the speed of the audiobook from 1.0 to .9 speed before I could start to enjoy it.

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Only One Part Made Me Uncomfortable

Revisado: 06-27-21

**SPOILERS**

I really liked the over-all story! Especially the parts with Darcy and Elizabeth finding time alone together and Darcy thinking of his passions.
Except…
I was really uncomfortable of the idea of Col. Fitzwilliam and Georgianna.
She’s only 16 at the time of the book and a grown man (who is her guardian and practically a father-figure) loves her romantically? *shudders*
He even talks about remembering her childhood and how he watched her grow up from a sweet child to a young woman.
How creepy is that?!
Not to mention that that are cousins! I know that people married their cousins back then but with the knowledge that we have now of incest and inbreeding, why add another cousin-relationship that previously hadn’t existed before to the story?
The idea of Fitzwilliam and Georgianna made me want to throw up in my mouth a bit.

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