The Pairing

DNF at page 272. It's never a good thing when I start writing the review in my head before I'm even finished with a book.

Last night Matt asked me how my book was. “Horny and pretentious,” I said. The sex dare wasn't fun. There's so much description of Kit and Theo being each other's One True Love, and yet they spend so much time trying to screw anything else that moves, sometimes together, sometimes on their own, but always for show to try to one-up each other. Not in a fun way. In an I-wish-I-were-with-you-instead way. It was like a game of Who's More Over Whom chicken, except they were both really bad at it.

On top of that, they're on a food and wine tour through Europe, sure. The tour guide and some of the other people on their tour were fun to hang out with, and at the beginning I enjoyed some of the descriptions of what they're trying. But it got tedious around the sixth or seventh location. Theo and Kit themselves are insufferable, and I'm sorry - I have a hard time being super invested in other people's travels if the stories aren't good, and I don't find pages about Kit wandering through art museums or Theo describing wine notes to be interesting at all.

I waited