Ricky
I was so enchanted by Crash Test that I immediately bought this sequel on ebook since there was a 3 month wait through the library. Honestly, it's not a thrilling story, which I mostly liked honestly. It was just nice to continue to spend time with these characters and their world and as far as this genre goes, I enjoyed the prose. I didn't realize how much until I went back to the library this evening to try to find some more fun reads like Crash Test, but every queer/MM romance I picked up I would read the first page and cringe at the awful prose. So I guess these must be fairly well-written.
The one thing I was a bit sour on in this one was the "I'm unworthy" trope. l get it, but it's laid on too thick here, as it always is in these books. Can't say exactly why I enjoy these characters so much, but maybe it has to do with the structure of the first book where we get invested in them each individually as we come to understand them as a couple. There's such a change in Jacob's character here from where we met him in the first book. Sometimes it felt a bit jarring but at the end of the day he went through a lot and is still figuring out who he is following all of these changes.
I was so enchanted by Crash Test that I immediately bought this sequel on ebook since there was a 3 month wait through the library. Honestly, it's not a thrilling story, which I mostly liked honestly. It was just nice to continue to spend time with these characters and their world and as far as this genre goes, I enjoyed the prose. I didn't realize how much until I went back to the library this evening to try to find some more fun reads like Crash Test, but every queer/MM romance I picked up I would read the first page and cringe at the awful prose. So I guess these must be fairly well-written.
The one thing I was a bit sour on in this one was the "I'm unworthy" trope. l get it, but it's laid on too thick here, as it always is in these books. Can't say exactly why I enjoy these characters so much, but maybe it has to do with the structure of the first book where we get invested in them each individually as we come to understand them as a couple. There's such a change in Jacob's character here from where we met him in the first book. Sometimes it felt a bit jarring but at the end of the day he went through a lot and is still figuring out who he is following all of these changes.