DNF at 47% – I found this book to be chaotic and the characters flat. It felt like there is so much dialogue used in order to fill in for a lack of a plot. There are so many characters in some scenes that it feels overcrowded. For example: Her first date with a guy she met on a dating website she brings her siblings (Nick, Noel, and Holly – catch the theme?) and her friends, and her ex is there, and the girl he cheated on her with, and then the guy from the dating website shows up to this crowd. Also, the whole point of her bringing all of these people is because she doesn’t know what he looks like and he doesn’t know what she looks like which seemed out of place for me since it’s set in modern day and I am pretty confident that dating websites require photos these days.
Additionally, I did not care for any of the characters. Not one. Merry comes off as immature and slightly toxic to me. Clark seems to be kind of flat and not very heartwarming for a romantic character. Jace’s dialogue doesn’t seem to fit that of a 7-year-old’s. There is so much dialogue with the many side characters that I had a hard time keeping track of what the storyline was supposed to be. There is not a lot of follow through with things that happen to Merry. For example, she has to get stitches on the bottom of her foot after an incident, but the author barely mentions the foot pain afterwards and she is already walking on her foot very shortly after. I’m not a doctor but I am pretty sure that would be painful to walk on for awhile.
In conclusion: this is not the book for me but it might be for other readers. I would not recommend this book for young readers and teenagers as there are a lot of sexual innuendos made up to the point where I gave up. There is a crochet project of a male apparatus that is heavily mentioned, for example.
Please note: I received an electronic ARC of this book by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thanks!
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