Spoilers within - Don’t do it!!!
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By M@BR0
Worst book I’ve read all year. The writing was terrible, characters paper thin, there was no plot....
The first line of the story is “I don’t care how long it takes, just get it done, Hayley, please. We don’t have a boatload of time!”
Well that’s a bit of an oxymoron isn’t it? You don’t have a lot of time to get something done but you don’t care how long it takes?
At another point shortly after, Joy (still in the office) goes to check on her employee because it’s “getting late.” She then proceeds to tell said employee that it was 3am. If that’s getting late what is actually late for a 9-5 job?
So the writing was just bad...
But I continued on. The story gave me a kind of Gilmore Girls meets Hallmark Movie vibe. Which, honestly, sounds amazing but fell way short of my expectations.
There was absolutely no character growth, no obstacles to overcome, no challenges that serve as learning experiences for our protagonist.
It’s literally a story about everything that happens perfectly and there’s NOTHING else. I figured she’d fall in love, have an inner conflict about whether or not she should give up her career to pursue a future with the man of her dreams, etc. Maybe a disagreement or a moment where you think it might now work out but you know that it will.
Yeah... none of that happened. They went on three dates, got engaged, and that was the end.
The conversations were forced. There was no depth to any character. It looks like Fern tried to build up the characters at the beginning but then decided that talking about food and Christmas decorations was more crucial to the story.
Would not recommend.
