Sadly this wasn’t a favorite of mine. I’m a huge fan of Ms Tate and a big consumer of grovel romances, but I found the writing here to be Ms Tate’s worst? It’s like she was not in her element writing about billionaires and whatnot. Every character was a caricature and no one was properly fleshed out.
Few points I’d like to mention that contain spoilers:
- it is said that Felix is a billionaire, but at one point Mike says to him and his employees that Lucy doesn’t need his money and could “buy and sell you lot five times over”, so she’s a writer who makes billions?
- Felix has been a workaholic his whole life, but due to his lovesickness, is able to turn his whole life upside down to be on Lucy’s beck and call? It was upsetting and a bit icky to read. He changed 100% and she changed none. I’d have expected him to fail at least once while trying to change his work habits. I’d have expected compromises in the relationships. Considering how bossy he was in the beginning, I’d have expected him to make some kind of feeding schedule for Lucy or some kind of plan to improve HER instead of enabling her unhealthy habits. Solution, I expected solutions.
- Felix’s dad was bad just because he was bad. There wasn’t any reason for it. He was just all the cliche rich men in one. I was surprised about this, because Ms Tate has written rich, snooty parent characters before, but this one was just… bad.
- Felix’s mom solving her problem so easily after the dinner was silly. If it was that easy, why did she spend a miserable life all that time? There should’ve been a heartfelt conversation between her and Felix where she explains some heart-wrenching reason she has endured everything all that time and Felix letting her know that she has options.
- Tabitha trying to be best friends with Lucy after the incident was a huge cringe fest. Apologize, be ashamed and slowly try to built trust instead of grabbing someone’s arm and pretend that this is how you guys were.
- Animal names based on LOTR characters otherwise cute, but I’d have expected this to mean that Lucy is a huge LOTR geek somehow, but this was not referenced in any way, so I thought it was just too forced
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