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The Spare: An Arranged Marriage Romance with a Modern-Day Duke

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Not gonna lie, this one just didn’t click for me.

The author was clearly trying to say something real about mental health, but the FMC’s internal monologue was on repeat basically the whole book - same struggles, over and over, until I was kind of over it. Meanwhile the MMC barely showed up? Like he was an afterthought. We’re told their relationship grew but I genuinely couldn’t tell you how, because it didn’t feel like it on the page. Didn’t even really read like a romance to me.

Honestly relieved it was short, because I don’t think I had it in me for more of her head. And the Taylor Swift comparisons had me cringing every time.

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