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I usually love anything by [a:Christina C. Jones 7465914 Christina C. Jones https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1444941408p2/7465914.jpg]. However, I couldn't bring myself to finish this. Halfway through there was already so much drama that I just had to quit. I don't enjoy romances where either the hero/heroine tries to make the other jealous by hitting on other people. It seems needlessly petty. I also hate the jealous outbursts that necessarily follow such displays. They often have overtones of 'I own this person'. I'm not a fan..

Another one bites the dust. And I think I can officially say I'm in a slump.

There were minor things that kept irritating me throughout the book until I finally had to stop reading it.

This is my second consecutive dnf. Please don't let this be the beginning of a reading slump/

Wasn't invested in the characters

None of the own voices reviews I've read thought this was an accurate portrayal of Islam so I'm going to give this a miss.

Every woman she meets hates her because of the male attention she gets. And the hero at one point tells her she's ‘too good' for a casual relationship and that she's not that type of girl

The heroine is a child and the hero is a douche.

After reading [b:The Spanish Love Deception 54189398 The Spanish Love Deception Elena Armas https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1610900883l/54189398.SY75.jpg 84555384], I couldn't get through another book with needlessly combative main characters. In both these books, the mcs interaction was almost exactly like thisheroine: I have a problem but I absolutely don't want your helphero: you obviously need my help. Take it!heroine: no, absolutely not!rinse and repeat about 200 times until the hero helps the heroine and then although she's upset it works out in the end.I truly don't understand why these authors kept putting their heroines in positions where the heroes would continually violate their wishes and this was framed as a good thing? In these situations, the heroine is being so needlessly stubborn in the name of feistiness that the heroes' overbearing actions seem like common sense but I hate the implications of this. I'm very uncomfortable when people's explicit wishes are ignored so I particularly hate it when authors construct situations where ignoring someone's wishes is the right thing to do. Don't see myself finishing this.

It's not Book Eaters it's me. The whole brain-eating thing weirded me out a bit too much.

Couldn't finish this. I was way too creeped out by two adult men and their attraction to a high schooler. Why was this book written this way? No!

I was bored. Also, a few things just irritated me. Wasn't worth completing.

I couldn't stop freaking out about what could possibly be happening to Marya: this inhibited my enjoyment of the book. I'll try rereading later

Within the first 100 pages or so, the hero texts the heroine pretending to be his friend (who she gave her number to) and asks her on a date. I just couldn't continue the book after that, it seemed too skeevy for me. Maybe the book gets better and addresses the hero's actions well, but I just couldn't be bothered to continue reading to find out.

Just wanted a feel-good romance but this wasn't it. Weston's protective schtick grew tiring within the first few pages. The final straw for me was that he kissed Annie just after she told him how desperate she was to be his student. The dynamics of that made me feel a teensy bit uncomfortable. I might return to this someday, just not anytime soon.

The first few chapters are just Severin dealing with his hurt lashing out and punishing the people who care about him. I have no interest in reading that or continuing the series

So may little things irritated me that I just couldn't continue. I might return at a later date though.

This is the 5th book I've dnfed in the past week. It's probably me and not the book but I struggled to stay interested

I know it's medieval fantasy but the age gap between the hero and the object of his affection really creeped me out, considering she was also kind of his charge. Couldn't finish it.

Cheating (hero has a fiancée the whole time)

Hero has a gf at the start but is still messaging the heroine on a dating app.

I'm about a third of the way through and there's not a single complex female character. There are too many books to read for me to waste my time on this one. I've read a recent interview by Abercrombie in which he addresses the poor writing of his female characters in his earlier books. From the interview, it seems he has course-corrected. I may pick up a few of his more recent works to see if I find them any more interesting.

In the middle of a book slump. This just couldn't hold my interest.

I was prepared to love this book but early on, Sam exhibited something jerk-ish behavior and after reading a review that confirmed he got much worse around the 75% mark, I decided to abandon this book. Right now I need something warm and light and a hero who's a jerk will just make me angry as opposed to happy. Might return when I'm in a different mood but I probably won't.

Just couldn't get into it. Might return later

At this point in time, I'm reading for pure escapism and this book just didn't cut it. I didn't enjoy reading about two people whose lives were going awry. I just want to read a nice, fluffy contemporary romance where the main characters were neither close to homelessness nor about to lose their lifelong dream. It was too much. This book made me want to escape into a happier book