Unabridged Audiobook
This one is too bland for words. I’ve read worse, but this has no substance whatsoever. The female protagonist is someone who seems to be able to reciprocate any romantic feelings a male character shows her at a moment’s notice (see cab drivers, her boss, an heir in the gala), she finds herself to be able to catalogue smiles and gestures of any man and reacts in a very calculated way, so her responses to her boss (suddenly) romantic feelings towards her seem at best calculating and not at all genuine. The male character walks around without glasses and considering he even admits he needs them constantly irks me as an optometrist (and considering that’s revealed pretty early on, it admittedly coloured all my perception of him). Then there’s the plot (or lack thereof) - vague reason why they need to pretend to date, then not at all thought out or without any natural progression of transitioning to a real relationship, and then the mother who seems like an unnecessary antagonist who at times cheers the FC on and at times seems like the driving factor for the couples breakup? All that with the weird descriptions of food (this seriously was trying to ruin skittles for me), and at times was portraying weird fat-phobia/cheering on? Plus the warped sense of body shaming/double standards for the MC? I understand body positivity, and the double standards for men and women in society, but hinting at it and never nailing a single point I have no idea if this book was enforcing or challenging the issues in society.
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