![]() ![]() Sometimes I felt like the angst and pain was relevant and other times gratuitous. Ryan's characterization was heavy on the angst and pain having much to do with his dysfunctional family and the toll that's taken on him. I would've liked a better overall balance. It focused more on them as a couple and growing closer. Then the second half was like the flip side of the coin. I was looking for some relationship development but all I got was sexual chemistry. Every time I turned around they were gearing up again like they were freebasing Viagra. Times when I felt I was being told rather than shown and vice versa. Moments of brilliance like the phone call scene when I simultaneously respected the hell out of Misha while feeling their connection paired with redundancy and repetition like the lotion and water. That's precisely how this read went for me. It was like something died on that paper. That mofo returned papers to me that looked like his pen Hulked out all over my writes. ![]() Witt's editor did her a disservice by not acting like my college philosophy prof, in my opinion. ![]() Maybe not a first draft, maybe a second or third, but a draft nonetheless. I didn't love this book mostly because it felt like a draft. My rationale was I wanted to see what I remembered, see if my feels changed at all with time. Yeah, I'm not a procrastinator when it comes to reviewing. I did something with this review that I've never done since I began reviewing. ![]()
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