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A review by petapants
Shucked by Kate Canterbary
5.0
Pining.
Sexy, sexy pining.
I was horny in the BEST way for more of this book.
This is brother‘s best friend done so well and such a different way that it almost didn’t even feel like brother‘s best friend. I think that is probably why I loved it so much. The fact that it wasn’t heavy-handed, it wasn’t in your face and it wasn’t painful. Also, the interactions around her brother finding out were handled so well by both MCs that it felt authentic to how I would respond, personally.
It took me longer than I expected to see the parallels between Noah and Beck. Not to say that they are the same character in different fonts. It wasn’t really until the final conversation at the SPOC bar with Noah being his beautiful brooding self - of course, Noah is sitting at the bar drinking his beer, whilst Shane is having oysters and cheese and wine and whatever with her friends. Like, if Noah wasn’t there, it would feel so disingenuous and inauthentic - but I felt like, sure, there were some similarities in their situations, but they def weren’t the same character in different fonts. Yes, they are both fixer, and yes, they both came back to small towns to solve problems, it felt very different at a cellular level.
But, also, if they don’t become best friends, I am going to throw my phone in the ocean. If Daddy Bread Maker and Daddy Oyster Shucker don’t become best friends, I’m coming for you, Kate. I’m coming for you.
Not for nothing, and not even as a throwaway comment, but the banter in this book is SO FUCKING AMAZING.
Also, the extended Epi is the best Epi I have read in a long, long time.
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On vibes alone, this is 700 stars. But if I want to take a deeper look into the story and the way that it was written, I get a little bit stuck on what feels to me like condescending and patronising behaviour by the FMC. Completely acknowledging the fact that MMC has so far to go in terms of emotional intelligence, the way that she spoke to him sometime is made me want to punch her in the throat. If I was in a relationship with someone who spoke to me like that in mind was like that I would leave them. That might not be a solid long-term solution, I think I would sit comfortably in a decision that I wouldn’t want to be with somebody who spoke to me like that, who lorded what they felt like was there advanced EQ in that didn’t feel supportive at all. But that could say more about me than that says about anything else. And I’m okay with that. Because daddy oyster shucker did have a long way to go, he still has a long way to go but then don’t we all?
Sexy, sexy pining.
I was horny in the BEST way for more of this book.
This is brother‘s best friend done so well and such a different way that it almost didn’t even feel like brother‘s best friend. I think that is probably why I loved it so much. The fact that it wasn’t heavy-handed, it wasn’t in your face and it wasn’t painful. Also, the interactions around her brother finding out were handled so well by both MCs that it felt authentic to how I would respond, personally.
It took me longer than I expected to see the parallels between Noah and Beck. Not to say that they are the same character in different fonts. It wasn’t really until the final conversation at the SPOC bar with Noah being his beautiful brooding self - of course, Noah is sitting at the bar drinking his beer, whilst Shane is having oysters and cheese and wine and whatever with her friends. Like, if Noah wasn’t there, it would feel so disingenuous and inauthentic - but I felt like, sure, there were some similarities in their situations, but they def weren’t the same character in different fonts. Yes, they are both fixer, and yes, they both came back to small towns to solve problems, it felt very different at a cellular level.
But, also, if they don’t become best friends, I am going to throw my phone in the ocean. If Daddy Bread Maker and Daddy Oyster Shucker don’t become best friends, I’m coming for you, Kate. I’m coming for you.
Not for nothing, and not even as a throwaway comment, but the banter in this book is SO FUCKING AMAZING.
Also, the extended Epi is the best Epi I have read in a long, long time.
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On vibes alone, this is 700 stars. But if I want to take a deeper look into the story and the way that it was written, I get a little bit stuck on what feels to me like condescending and patronising behaviour by the FMC. Completely acknowledging the fact that MMC has so far to go in terms of emotional intelligence, the way that she spoke to him sometime is made me want to punch her in the throat. If I was in a relationship with someone who spoke to me like that in mind was like that I would leave them. That might not be a solid long-term solution, I think I would sit comfortably in a decision that I wouldn’t want to be with somebody who spoke to me like that, who lorded what they felt like was there advanced EQ in that didn’t feel supportive at all. But that could say more about me than that says about anything else. And I’m okay with that. Because daddy oyster shucker did have a long way to go, he still has a long way to go but then don’t we all?