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I picked up this book solely because I liked the cover but I am only judging it after completing it :p
It is a good book to binge read, the author has added one flaw to each character and that’s their entire personality. Not many layered characters, easy to read book.
The novel spans the whirlwind romance of Cleo & Frank (Cleopatra & Frankenstein) and its ultimate demise, with their friends’ lives sprinkled here and there.
Some good things about the writer is that she starts and ends the book well. Both Cleo & Frank are charmingly flirtatious in the beginning and somberly reflective in the end.
However, the book is a hot mess in the middle. Men date women decades younger than them and then cry about having to support them financially. Just date someone who is your age then!
Honestly, almost every relationship depicted, with the exception of Santigo’s and Eleanor’s, can be reduced to something transactional. After a point I actually started wondering - is the author promoting May-December relationships because the younger person gets stability and the older person can relive their youth?
It lowkey reminded me of another hot mess movie called Closer.
But one thing that’s common about hot messes is that you can’t help but watch it unfold and wonder how it is gonna end. That’s how my experience was with this book.
I picked up this book solely because I liked the cover but I am only judging it after completing it :p
It is a good book to binge read, the author has added one flaw to each character and that’s their entire personality. Not many layered characters, easy to read book.
The novel spans the whirlwind romance of Cleo & Frank (Cleopatra & Frankenstein) and its ultimate demise, with their friends’ lives sprinkled here and there.
Some good things about the writer is that she starts and ends the book well. Both Cleo & Frank are charmingly flirtatious in the beginning and somberly reflective in the end.
However, the book is a hot mess in the middle. Men date women decades younger than them and then cry about having to support them financially. Just date someone who is your age then!
Honestly, almost every relationship depicted, with the exception of Santigo’s and Eleanor’s, can be reduced to something transactional. After a point I actually started wondering - is the author promoting May-December relationships because the younger person gets stability and the older person can relive their youth?
It lowkey reminded me of another hot mess movie called Closer.
But one thing that’s common about hot messes is that you can’t help but watch it unfold and wonder how it is gonna end. That’s how my experience was with this book.