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A review by luthereadingqueen
Dearly Beloved by Peggy Jaeger
1.0
I just checked and I'm the only person that has given this book less than 4 stars so I think I should start this review with the thing I hated the most about Dearly Beloved so I can get it out of my system.
The reason why I can't give this book more than 1 star is because I fuc**** hate our main character, Colleen. There's nothing that pisses me off more than when things like "anorexic looking" and "she looked as if she hadn't eaten for days" (These are exact quotes from the book) are used to describe anyone. How ignorant can you be to think something like that? People with anorexia aren't always the thin ones, that's an awful and dangerous stereotype. And even if those girls were anorexic you have no right to judge them because you don't know what the fuc* they are going through. I honestly thought we were over this but it seems we aren't and I'm furious.
She said similar things to EVERY. SINGLE. GIRL. that got remotely close to Slade, her love interest. And you know another thing I noticed? She doesn't have a single girl friend, I wasn't surprised when I realised that considering all the girl-hate she spread everywhere. I could go on and on talking about how messed up her mind was but I'm already angered just thinking about her.
I actually thought to give Dearly Beloved a half-star more due to Slade and his relationship with his younger sister. That relationship was one of the purest I've read for a while, Slade doing his best to help his sister to be happy, safe and to not worry about anything because he was there by her side and he could fix anything for her. It reminded me a lot about my own relationship with my sister, if you are an older sibling you know you always try to do your best but sometimes you make mistakes trying to protect your sibling. They relationship just melted my heart and I feel like a would be a good friend of Slade since we have so many things in common (except for the money 😂).
Moreover, I actually liked the sidecharacters. I would love to read a book from Isabelle, Mo or Charity's point of view. Even though we didn't get to know them deeply, I can still sense they have interesting secrets going on. Also, I feel like any of them would be a better main character than Colleen, if the following books are about them I might give them a chance otherwise this is over for me.
Like I mentioned before I thought about adding it a half star but I'm just so angry that I can't do it.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend this book due to its toxic main character and her thoughts, but if you think you can ignore it, there were a couple of interesting things that you may like.
The reason why I can't give this book more than 1 star is because I fuc**** hate our main character, Colleen. There's nothing that pisses me off more than when things like "anorexic looking" and "she looked as if she hadn't eaten for days" (These are exact quotes from the book) are used to describe anyone. How ignorant can you be to think something like that? People with anorexia aren't always the thin ones, that's an awful and dangerous stereotype. And even if those girls were anorexic you have no right to judge them because you don't know what the fuc* they are going through. I honestly thought we were over this but it seems we aren't and I'm furious.
She said similar things to EVERY. SINGLE. GIRL. that got remotely close to Slade, her love interest. And you know another thing I noticed? She doesn't have a single girl friend, I wasn't surprised when I realised that considering all the girl-hate she spread everywhere. I could go on and on talking about how messed up her mind was but I'm already angered just thinking about her.
I actually thought to give Dearly Beloved a half-star more due to Slade and his relationship with his younger sister. That relationship was one of the purest I've read for a while, Slade doing his best to help his sister to be happy, safe and to not worry about anything because he was there by her side and he could fix anything for her. It reminded me a lot about my own relationship with my sister, if you are an older sibling you know you always try to do your best but sometimes you make mistakes trying to protect your sibling. They relationship just melted my heart and I feel like a would be a good friend of Slade since we have so many things in common (except for the money 😂).
Moreover, I actually liked the sidecharacters. I would love to read a book from Isabelle, Mo or Charity's point of view. Even though we didn't get to know them deeply, I can still sense they have interesting secrets going on. Also, I feel like any of them would be a better main character than Colleen, if the following books are about them I might give them a chance otherwise this is over for me.
Like I mentioned before I thought about adding it a half star but I'm just so angry that I can't do it.
All in all, I wouldn't recommend this book due to its toxic main character and her thoughts, but if you think you can ignore it, there were a couple of interesting things that you may like.