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Diana's Drummer Dilemma by Louisa Cornell
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death
Minor: Child abuse
Christmas at Turtledove Place by Jennifer Griffith
0.25
Only 0.25 cause the kids were semi cute.
This book was sooooo poorly written. There wasn’t a thing likable about it. All women are vixens or only good for being wives and mothers. BLEH. MMC is a military weapons contractor which is just not great. He “needs a wife” so his kids can be taken care of (barf). He convinced his ex-wife to have these kids to “repair their marriage” in the first place. The author literally had to forcibly write their mother as a terrible person cause I honestly could understand why she would leave. It was DISGUSTING that Tracey felt that she needed to keep her little sister away from her husband so he wouldn’t lust after her. HER SISTER WAS A CHILD WHEN THEY GOT MARRIED. The age gap between Sophie and Beau could be anywhere between 7 and 12 years and they met when FMC was 12 years old. It was just really gross. And MMC says he wished he waited for FMC to turn 18 and would’ve been with her instead of marrying his ex-wife like WHO SAYS THAT. It’s clear that MMC will expect FMC to be a stay at home mom if they got married (as he often says he can’t take her away from her career and that’s why he can’t marry her). And WHY did the author make Sophie and Tracey look nearly identical?? It just keeps getting more disturbing by the chapter, folks. Not to mention, MMC mentions that FMC (who only had the kids visit 3-4 weeks of the year) knows HIS kids BETTER than HE does. Wow. Yes, he’s such a good father (*eye roll*). Somehow, busy single mothers make time for their kids. Also, it’s clear the author has some religious beliefs, and while that’s valid, it’s pretty ridiculous to have adults cursing like children (adults already have their own words they could use instead of cursing) and instead of alcohol making FMC lose her inhibitions, a lit fireplace made her near-drunk?? To be clear, her being inebriated while they have the Christian version of doing the deed, is not okay either way. But it’s so ridiculous to say a fire did this to her.
Look, I love wholesome, sweet, cozy romances that don’t have sex talk in it or even fade-to-black scenes. Very chaste and focused on the corny, cutesy stuff. But this book was trying too hard and was insanely cringey. If I didn’t need the book to fulfill a reading challenge and I was down to the wire on completing it, this would’ve been the first book I DNF’d in 4 years.
This book was sooooo poorly written. There wasn’t a thing likable about it. All women are vixens or only good for being wives and mothers. BLEH. MMC is a military weapons contractor which is just not great. He “needs a wife” so his kids can be taken care of (barf). He convinced his ex-wife to have these kids to “repair their marriage” in the first place. The author literally had to forcibly write their mother as a terrible person cause I honestly could understand why she would leave. It was DISGUSTING that Tracey felt that she needed to keep her little sister away from her husband so he wouldn’t lust after her. HER SISTER WAS A CHILD WHEN THEY GOT MARRIED. The age gap between Sophie and Beau could be anywhere between 7 and 12 years and they met when FMC was 12 years old. It was just really gross. And MMC says he wished he waited for FMC to turn 18 and would’ve been with her instead of marrying his ex-wife like WHO SAYS THAT. It’s clear that MMC will expect FMC to be a stay at home mom if they got married (as he often says he can’t take her away from her career and that’s why he can’t marry her). And WHY did the author make Sophie and Tracey look nearly identical?? It just keeps getting more disturbing by the chapter, folks. Not to mention, MMC mentions that FMC (who only had the kids visit 3-4 weeks of the year) knows HIS kids BETTER than HE does. Wow. Yes, he’s such a good father (*eye roll*). Somehow, busy single mothers make time for their kids. Also, it’s clear the author has some religious beliefs, and while that’s valid, it’s pretty ridiculous to have adults cursing like children (adults already have their own words they could use instead of cursing) and instead of alcohol making FMC lose her inhibitions, a lit fireplace made her near-drunk?? To be clear, her being inebriated while they have the Christian version of doing the deed, is not okay either way. But it’s so ridiculous to say a fire did this to her.
Look, I love wholesome, sweet, cozy romances that don’t have sex talk in it or even fade-to-black scenes. Very chaste and focused on the corny, cutesy stuff. But this book was trying too hard and was insanely cringey. If I didn’t need the book to fulfill a reading challenge and I was down to the wire on completing it, this would’ve been the first book I DNF’d in 4 years.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism