Lila Danisa
Actual rating: 3,5 stars.
Let see what I need to get out of my chess first. The premises of this book were really good and intrigued me so much. Feeling for stepfather definitely a taboo theme. Adding huge age gap (I assumed) since the FMC was only 18, another point plus in taboo side of the story. But this book missed all those details, I didn't know how old Owen (the MMC) was. Either I didn't catch it or I just entirely skip the part where Owen told his age. Owen and Mei (the heroine) chemistry was also not good at all. For me, they didn't even have any sizzling lust. They just suddenly kissed and had sex and loved each other. I normally fine with instalove, but in this book, the instalove was not well delivered. The plot twists were also weird. So messy and chaotic. The ending was also anticlimactic. What I disappointed a lot was there was no explanations on how Owen's three kids (which almost the same age with Mei) reacted on Mei being Owen's partner. Like I said, the story was so freaking messy. I understand that this is novella and the author might want to keep everything light, but this book left me unsatisfied with almost everything.
Thank you to K. Webster and Chaotic Creatives for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.
Actual rating: 3,5 stars.
Let see what I need to get out of my chess first. The premises of this book were really good and intrigued me so much. Feeling for stepfather definitely a taboo theme. Adding huge age gap (I assumed) since the FMC was only 18, another point plus in taboo side of the story. But this book missed all those details, I didn't know how old Owen (the MMC) was. Either I didn't catch it or I just entirely skip the part where Owen told his age. Owen and Mei (the heroine) chemistry was also not good at all. For me, they didn't even have any sizzling lust. They just suddenly kissed and had sex and loved each other. I normally fine with instalove, but in this book, the instalove was not well delivered. The plot twists were also weird. So messy and chaotic. The ending was also anticlimactic. What I disappointed a lot was there was no explanations on how Owen's three kids (which almost the same age with Mei) reacted on Mei being Owen's partner. Like I said, the story was so freaking messy. I understand that this is novella and the author might want to keep everything light, but this book left me unsatisfied with almost everything.
Thank you to K. Webster and Chaotic Creatives for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.