Awk-weird by Avery Flynn
Oct 27, 2019 17:28:02 GMT -7
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Post by linviolet on Oct 27, 2019 17:28:02 GMT -7
Awk-Weird by Avery Flynn
Hello everyone! I hope you all have had a good weekend. I know I did, just resting and doing nothing all day today but read. And so I end the night with a review.
Disclaimer: if there are any misspelled words, or any other errors or things are not making sense I blame my lack of sleep. But I had the house to myself today and took full advantage of that.
Mild spoilers ahead!
This is one of those authors I love and I am a bit sad with the way this book turned out, mostly due to the h letting the H get his way every time and the H that stepped all over the h because he was so set on the path/future he had imagined for himself. I don't hate the book but I also don't love it. So much happens but I felt that the way it was all resolved was way too easy, at least for two people who has so much issues personally and with each other. The characters are both smart and funny on their own but once together I did not feel that chemistry I believe two characters in love would feel. There was a moment where I liked their banter and the way they interacted, but once they were technically a couple I was less inclined to keep on reading. As I said before I love the author, a lot of her books are really really good.
Okay, our main leads meet at a wedding rehearsal while the hockey team is trying to play a trivia game and trying to one up each other. The h is a human encyclopedia/Wikipedia and the H sees her mouthing the answers to every question. He of course pulls her into the game and on his team and they loose because she decides that since H is their older teammate that he should give them a break. They have amazing banter at the start of the that night and they have fun with each other.
The h and H in the end run off together and the next morning they are together in bed, they have a bit of an awkward situation but she tells him at the wedding reception that she doesn't expect anything to come from their one night together.
Now our H has been on this on and off relationship with another woman and while the wedding is happening they have been off for a good nine months but he is still holding on to the hope that they would get back together again. Our leading man is so afraid of anything changing that he has the same plays in all of his games, not a single thing changes in the ice for him, and since it has worked so well he has no real plans of changing it either. The man is not afraid of commitment but he can't stand change... and life throws him a big change.
The h is a florist and is renting from her uncle the building where she has her shop and where she has her apartment. She has had a hard life, and she has a backbone that folds nicely when it comes to her family, like where the H is rigid in his ways the h is like super lax and the total opposite of the H. Her only rays of hope and happiness is her business, her flower shop, and her adorable cat.
Her uncle is a piece of work who instead of doing his job and hearing what his niece as a tenant has been complaining about waits until everything collapses on her and then gleefully hires his stepson (could be his son, I don't remember) to overcharge and drag our the repair work. He also tells her that while the repairs are happening she cannot stay in her apartment, and that she has to look for a place to live in momentarily.
The uncle is trying to get her to move elsewhere so he can sell the building. And this happens to the h the moment she finds herself very much pregnant by the Thor look alike hockey player.
Remember how well the H takes to change? Well the news doesn't exactly have him throwing a fit, and he is of course supportive of her decision (though for a second he fully expected her to abort) and every one of his teammates pretty much force him to have the h move into the H's home. H of course is thrown for a loop when the cat wonders around the house and does what a cats do best. It makes out rigid H become even more of a stubborn and so set on his ways. Everything he did was counting on the ex coming back into his life and them getting back together.
I wanted to like the Thor like ice hockey player with not so secret brains with the awkwardly weird nerdy florist who rambled random factoids whenever she was nervous. Instead I felt something was missing, maybe more chapters? I dunno, I just know that the H messes up and the h does as well, but the grovel scene was none existing for me. Like I was left unsatisfied with the result of their fallout, maybe it was too obviously avoided, and then at the same time the scene is too short...
Then all is well between the two of them and we move forward to the epilogue and it's like we have a totally different H than the one we knew. We are just told he has changed his ways and that she has as well, and I was hoping for maybe (at the very least) a year or two time jump on the epilogue and instead it's the birth of their child.
No one who is so set on things being their way and the way he was so stuck on the routine he had would change the way he changed, at least not from my perspective.
Maybe someone else here read it and can add their two cents...?
P.S. after finishing this book I remembered I also read another book previous to this one where the H was a set in his ways type of man... and I loved the book until the last like 3 chapters. I guess the book gods wanted me to read them. For anyone wondering the title of the book with the stubborn H is Well Met by Jen DeLuca.
Hello everyone! I hope you all have had a good weekend. I know I did, just resting and doing nothing all day today but read. And so I end the night with a review.
Disclaimer: if there are any misspelled words, or any other errors or things are not making sense I blame my lack of sleep. But I had the house to myself today and took full advantage of that.
Mild spoilers ahead!
This is one of those authors I love and I am a bit sad with the way this book turned out, mostly due to the h letting the H get his way every time and the H that stepped all over the h because he was so set on the path/future he had imagined for himself. I don't hate the book but I also don't love it. So much happens but I felt that the way it was all resolved was way too easy, at least for two people who has so much issues personally and with each other. The characters are both smart and funny on their own but once together I did not feel that chemistry I believe two characters in love would feel. There was a moment where I liked their banter and the way they interacted, but once they were technically a couple I was less inclined to keep on reading. As I said before I love the author, a lot of her books are really really good.
Okay, our main leads meet at a wedding rehearsal while the hockey team is trying to play a trivia game and trying to one up each other. The h is a human encyclopedia/Wikipedia and the H sees her mouthing the answers to every question. He of course pulls her into the game and on his team and they loose because she decides that since H is their older teammate that he should give them a break. They have amazing banter at the start of the that night and they have fun with each other.
The h and H in the end run off together and the next morning they are together in bed, they have a bit of an awkward situation but she tells him at the wedding reception that she doesn't expect anything to come from their one night together.
Now our H has been on this on and off relationship with another woman and while the wedding is happening they have been off for a good nine months but he is still holding on to the hope that they would get back together again. Our leading man is so afraid of anything changing that he has the same plays in all of his games, not a single thing changes in the ice for him, and since it has worked so well he has no real plans of changing it either. The man is not afraid of commitment but he can't stand change... and life throws him a big change.
The h is a florist and is renting from her uncle the building where she has her shop and where she has her apartment. She has had a hard life, and she has a backbone that folds nicely when it comes to her family, like where the H is rigid in his ways the h is like super lax and the total opposite of the H. Her only rays of hope and happiness is her business, her flower shop, and her adorable cat.
Her uncle is a piece of work who instead of doing his job and hearing what his niece as a tenant has been complaining about waits until everything collapses on her and then gleefully hires his stepson (could be his son, I don't remember) to overcharge and drag our the repair work. He also tells her that while the repairs are happening she cannot stay in her apartment, and that she has to look for a place to live in momentarily.
The uncle is trying to get her to move elsewhere so he can sell the building. And this happens to the h the moment she finds herself very much pregnant by the Thor look alike hockey player.
Remember how well the H takes to change? Well the news doesn't exactly have him throwing a fit, and he is of course supportive of her decision (though for a second he fully expected her to abort) and every one of his teammates pretty much force him to have the h move into the H's home. H of course is thrown for a loop when the cat wonders around the house and does what a cats do best. It makes out rigid H become even more of a stubborn and so set on his ways. Everything he did was counting on the ex coming back into his life and them getting back together.
I wanted to like the Thor like ice hockey player with not so secret brains with the awkwardly weird nerdy florist who rambled random factoids whenever she was nervous. Instead I felt something was missing, maybe more chapters? I dunno, I just know that the H messes up and the h does as well, but the grovel scene was none existing for me. Like I was left unsatisfied with the result of their fallout, maybe it was too obviously avoided, and then at the same time the scene is too short...
Then all is well between the two of them and we move forward to the epilogue and it's like we have a totally different H than the one we knew. We are just told he has changed his ways and that she has as well, and I was hoping for maybe (at the very least) a year or two time jump on the epilogue and instead it's the birth of their child.
No one who is so set on things being their way and the way he was so stuck on the routine he had would change the way he changed, at least not from my perspective.
Maybe someone else here read it and can add their two cents...?
P.S. after finishing this book I remembered I also read another book previous to this one where the H was a set in his ways type of man... and I loved the book until the last like 3 chapters. I guess the book gods wanted me to read them. For anyone wondering the title of the book with the stubborn H is Well Met by Jen DeLuca.