Hold Me Today

My goodness was this book good. It was funny. It was sweet. It was sexy. It made me cry. It had great banter. It was well written. It had a great plot. There was no OW or OM drama. It had a great cast of diverse secondary characters. Both the main characters were very likable. Nick was swoon-worthy. He wasn't an asshole or a manwhore (thankfully), just an all around decent guy. Mina was also a great character. Not a virgin (again thankfully). In fact, one of the things I especially liked was that even though Mina had been crushing on Nick since she was a teen, she didn't sit around pining for him but moved on with her life. She was opening her own business. She slept with OM. Sure she still harbored a crush for the guy, but it didn't stop her from living. Last, it was all wrapped up in a sweet ending.



So with all that good stuff, why not 5-Stars? I thought it was a bit too long. I found that the story did drag here and there, and I struggled a little bit not to skim in places. This is what I would call a slow burn type of story as it takes quite a while for this couple to get their sh!t together. I think the story could have been about fifty pages shorter. But honestly, that was just a minor grievance, and all in all, I thought it was a fantastic book.

Can the authors fucking stop having their couples getting engaged after only a month of dating? What the fuck? It's not a historical romance when that shit might have worked, it's MODERN. CONTEMPORARY. I don't care how much you love them, if you want them to end up engaged, you can do it LATER. The plot wouldn't change if Nick proposed to Mina a year later, but my perception of the book would. it took me out, completely, I stopped enjoying the story.

The relationship won't end if the main couple gets engaged a year after they begun dating, and they tie a knot a year after that. What is it with American authors being obsessed with having their couples engaged after a week or a month of dating? It doesn't matter that they've known each other their whole lives. If you think the relationship's going to work after they get engaged a MONTH after officially starting dating, you're delusional.

Those books should come with a warning at the beginning: “Warning: the main couple gets engaged ____ after they oficially started dating. “ Would save my time and energy and I wouldn't be so goddamn annoyed right now.

And I liked this book.
I relaly enjoyed this book, was gonna give it 4.75 stars but the engagement? took it down to 2 stars immediately. Only reason I changed the rating to 3.25 is because I was relieved that Mina found out who her real father was and I liked both Mina and Nick before that. And I really enjoyed the story prior to the engagemnt, damnit!

STOP HAVING YOUR COUPLE GET ENGAGED BEFORE THEY'RE DATING FOR A FULL YEAR, THIS ISN'T A REGENCY ERA WHEN IT WAS COMMON. It's 21st century ffs, PATIENCE (which was a real important fucking theme in this book, ironically), won't kill you.