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Resisting the Grump
Ashley Munoz, brings a deliciously fun small-town romance, full of hilarious antics and a grumpy recluse-with no idea he has to not only win the girl but redeem himself in the process.
Stalking the town recluse wasn’t exactly wise.
Davis was five years older than me…antisocial and temperamental. And there was the little fact that he didn’t know I existed.
Still, I gave him my heart, and he crushed it.
So I picked up the pieces and ran away to New York City. I had a plan that would keep my heart intact for years.
But one phone call changed everything.
Returning home meant facing the past…and the man who ruined me.
I had hoped that the mountain had swallowed him whole.
But, as I set out to help my parents, I discover he’s not only alive and well, but that they apparently love the jerk.
He has no idea that we have a past, which is both a relief and salt in the wound.
I promise myself I’ll ignore how his eyes linger on me, or how his touch feels like a live wire, and I’ll remember that once upon a time he broke me, and for that, I refuse to fall for him again.
But I can’t control that he seems to be falling for me this time.
Stalking the town recluse wasn’t exactly wise.
Davis was five years older than me…antisocial and temperamental. And there was the little fact that he didn’t know I existed.
Still, I gave him my heart, and he crushed it.
So I picked up the pieces and ran away to New York City. I had a plan that would keep my heart intact for years.
But one phone call changed everything.
Returning home meant facing the past…and the man who ruined me.
I had hoped that the mountain had swallowed him whole.
But, as I set out to help my parents, I discover he’s not only alive and well, but that they apparently love the jerk.
He has no idea that we have a past, which is both a relief and salt in the wound.
I promise myself I’ll ignore how his eyes linger on me, or how his touch feels like a live wire, and I’ll remember that once upon a time he broke me, and for that, I refuse to fall for him again.
But I can’t control that he seems to be falling for me this time.
332 pages, Paperback
Published December 3, 2022
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September 3, 2024
So there with things I liked & things I did not. In the most part though, it was a nice story that was well written (aka non fluffy) which I appreciated.
SPOILERS – WARNING!
Backstory first:
Davis (aka Thomas) is 27 yrs old. He lives isolated on a mountain and rarely interacts with people – unless he has to for his work. He has one best friend & is very close to heroine’s parents who he considers as family and is rich.
Rae is 22 yrs old and an only child but has a BFF (Nora) that she considers as her sister. These two are very close and a hoot (BTW, I can’t wait for Nora’s story with Davis friend Colton! Those two together are something else!)….
From the time that Rae was 16 to 18, she had a major crush on Davis. She followed him everywhere and tried to befriend but he always ignored her. She tried leaving him letters & notes but he considered it stalking. So when she finally turned 18 she thought he would notice her because in her head she thought the reason he always ignored her was because of her age. Finally though she thinks she got her wish as someone close to her gave her a letter from him that requested they meet & talk.
So all excited she goes to meet him and gets her heart crushed when she walks in to find him having sex with OW! She leaves town and goes to NY to attend college.
Davis, while in the midst having sex, looks up and sees the kid that had been stalking him and freezes with guilt at the devastated look. Four years go by and in the present, Rae comes back home to help her parents as they are struggling with their business but to her shock she finds Davis is now a close member of her family!
At first, they don’t get along because Rae is still dealing with the hurt of not only seeing him with the OW but what she believes he did by being cruel to send her a note to meet him just to crush her heart (only he never did!). Davis doesn’t recognize Rae as his former stalker and he has had a slight crush on this girl for 4 years after hearing so much stories from her parents and couldn’t wait to meet her. But when he realizes that she hates him and is always being cruel to him by words & wanting nothing to do him, he feels rejected and hurt.
They eventually start a friendship/relationship and there is a lot of sex that turns to love for both them. However, as with all stories, there has to be some drama and that happens towards the end of the story when he finally learns who she really is. On top of that, he has to deal with a heartbreaking other thing with his family so he had it rough for a while but eventually they get their HEA and it was sweet.
Now for some things that I didn’t like:
- First of, I will say this until I’m blue in the face. WHY do we constantly have to have scenes with Heroes who f**k OP and especially having heroine see them do the deed? In this case, that scene was not needed at all. He could have easily just kissed the OW and have heroine see it and leave it there. Showing us how they can easily get turned on & f**k OP the way they did with each other is the fastest way to lose me as a reader! It means there is nothing special between the two that they couldn’t get from someone else! Also, it annoys me that heroine never remembers that scene when she herself is having sex with him – often in the same reenacted act! Come on! In RL, if you saw your man having sex with someone else, wouldn’t you at the very least want to punch him in his little dinky donk? I would - even if we had not been together then! The memory would have me gagging and not wanting him to touch me at all in case of cooties!!!! Oh well….
- The sex. They were constantly F*****g and sometimes it was kinky/hardcore which I for one don’t enjoy at all! It was as if the Author was trying to fill up pages so off she went with one sex scene after another and not much relationship development!
- The angst/drama at the end when he finally learns who she is was a letdown. Maybe it’s me, but the cruel words he used and the way he said that he never saw her as anything more than an aggravating kid annoyed me to bits! First of all, she was 18. Not a little girl and he was only 23 so not much of an age difference!
- Secondly, he could have been written as having feelings for her too but ignored them because of not feeling worthy or some other shite that everyone uses these days. The fact that he was not attracted to the old Rae at all (especially as she was described as wearing braces & having acne), tells me that he is a douche. In one instance, he states that she was the only person in his life then who loved & gave a f**k for him, so why wasn’t there any warm feelings & attraction to her?
- Thirdly, he states that he stopped the sex with the OW after seeing Rae’s devastated face and that he felt “guilty” for years because he was afraid she may have done something to harm herself. Well, that didn’t make sense because he still f****d around for 4 yrs with OP and he never tried to find out anything concrete about his “stalker” until she came back into the picture. But even then, he made a half ass attempt to do so. So it did not make me believe he regretted anything and at the end, it was wasted because it could have been a really sweet scene if he realized just how important she had always been in his life and how stupid & cruel he had been to not see her beauty & how special she was and the years they wasted! THAT is what I had hoped for in that scene – not the one where he called her pathetic and saw an ugly kid hounding him! I wanted him to suffer a thousand deaths but heroine let it go! Ugh!!!
- Lastly, I hate when writers leave plot points hanging without explanation or conclusion. For example, we never really got an answer why Carl was so ambivalent towards Davis. Why did he hate him so much to the point he kept lying over & over again? I thought initially he was some psycho or something, but no. Then there was the drama with his parents. What happened there? Also, what happened to the double date he was supposed to go on with his BFF? Did he go? He had agreed to go and then it was never mentioned again! Grrrr!
So all in all, it was not a bad read. I did enjoy a lot of it, I just wished that Author had taken the time to make it worthy. Sometimes I feel they cater to a select group of readers who get their books for free and ignore those of us who actually pay for it. How the hell does that even make sense!!!??? *sigh”
Safety:
Safe in the most part, discounting the scene at the start when he is with OW before anything happens with heroine, but No OW/OM Drama in the present. Heroine does goes on a double blind date with her BFF but she doesn’t even like the guy.
No virgins. Heroine was saving herself for the Hero until she sees him with OW. She said she lost her virginity in college during her freshman year so I was happy she was not frozen. She had two sexual partners but she describes the sex as just okay. Hero has been celibate for a year but had lots of hook ups before then.
No condoms used and that bothered me because in the scene with him & the OW, he wasn’t described as wearing one and that made me think he went commando every time he had sex! Yuck!
SPOILERS – WARNING!
Backstory first:
Davis (aka Thomas) is 27 yrs old. He lives isolated on a mountain and rarely interacts with people – unless he has to for his work. He has one best friend & is very close to heroine’s parents who he considers as family and is rich.
Rae is 22 yrs old and an only child but has a BFF (Nora) that she considers as her sister. These two are very close and a hoot (BTW, I can’t wait for Nora’s story with Davis friend Colton! Those two together are something else!)….
From the time that Rae was 16 to 18, she had a major crush on Davis. She followed him everywhere and tried to befriend but he always ignored her. She tried leaving him letters & notes but he considered it stalking. So when she finally turned 18 she thought he would notice her because in her head she thought the reason he always ignored her was because of her age. Finally though she thinks she got her wish as someone close to her gave her a letter from him that requested they meet & talk.
So all excited she goes to meet him and gets her heart crushed when she walks in to find him having sex with OW! She leaves town and goes to NY to attend college.
Davis, while in the midst having sex, looks up and sees the kid that had been stalking him and freezes with guilt at the devastated look. Four years go by and in the present, Rae comes back home to help her parents as they are struggling with their business but to her shock she finds Davis is now a close member of her family!
At first, they don’t get along because Rae is still dealing with the hurt of not only seeing him with the OW but what she believes he did by being cruel to send her a note to meet him just to crush her heart (only he never did!). Davis doesn’t recognize Rae as his former stalker and he has had a slight crush on this girl for 4 years after hearing so much stories from her parents and couldn’t wait to meet her. But when he realizes that she hates him and is always being cruel to him by words & wanting nothing to do him, he feels rejected and hurt.
They eventually start a friendship/relationship and there is a lot of sex that turns to love for both them. However, as with all stories, there has to be some drama and that happens towards the end of the story when he finally learns who she really is. On top of that, he has to deal with a heartbreaking other thing with his family so he had it rough for a while but eventually they get their HEA and it was sweet.
Now for some things that I didn’t like:
- First of, I will say this until I’m blue in the face. WHY do we constantly have to have scenes with Heroes who f**k OP and especially having heroine see them do the deed? In this case, that scene was not needed at all. He could have easily just kissed the OW and have heroine see it and leave it there. Showing us how they can easily get turned on & f**k OP the way they did with each other is the fastest way to lose me as a reader! It means there is nothing special between the two that they couldn’t get from someone else! Also, it annoys me that heroine never remembers that scene when she herself is having sex with him – often in the same reenacted act! Come on! In RL, if you saw your man having sex with someone else, wouldn’t you at the very least want to punch him in his little dinky donk? I would - even if we had not been together then! The memory would have me gagging and not wanting him to touch me at all in case of cooties!!!! Oh well….
- The sex. They were constantly F*****g and sometimes it was kinky/hardcore which I for one don’t enjoy at all! It was as if the Author was trying to fill up pages so off she went with one sex scene after another and not much relationship development!
- The angst/drama at the end when he finally learns who she is was a letdown. Maybe it’s me, but the cruel words he used and the way he said that he never saw her as anything more than an aggravating kid annoyed me to bits! First of all, she was 18. Not a little girl and he was only 23 so not much of an age difference!
- Secondly, he could have been written as having feelings for her too but ignored them because of not feeling worthy or some other shite that everyone uses these days. The fact that he was not attracted to the old Rae at all (especially as she was described as wearing braces & having acne), tells me that he is a douche. In one instance, he states that she was the only person in his life then who loved & gave a f**k for him, so why wasn’t there any warm feelings & attraction to her?
- Thirdly, he states that he stopped the sex with the OW after seeing Rae’s devastated face and that he felt “guilty” for years because he was afraid she may have done something to harm herself. Well, that didn’t make sense because he still f****d around for 4 yrs with OP and he never tried to find out anything concrete about his “stalker” until she came back into the picture. But even then, he made a half ass attempt to do so. So it did not make me believe he regretted anything and at the end, it was wasted because it could have been a really sweet scene if he realized just how important she had always been in his life and how stupid & cruel he had been to not see her beauty & how special she was and the years they wasted! THAT is what I had hoped for in that scene – not the one where he called her pathetic and saw an ugly kid hounding him! I wanted him to suffer a thousand deaths but heroine let it go! Ugh!!!
- Lastly, I hate when writers leave plot points hanging without explanation or conclusion. For example, we never really got an answer why Carl was so ambivalent towards Davis. Why did he hate him so much to the point he kept lying over & over again? I thought initially he was some psycho or something, but no. Then there was the drama with his parents. What happened there? Also, what happened to the double date he was supposed to go on with his BFF? Did he go? He had agreed to go and then it was never mentioned again! Grrrr!
So all in all, it was not a bad read. I did enjoy a lot of it, I just wished that Author had taken the time to make it worthy. Sometimes I feel they cater to a select group of readers who get their books for free and ignore those of us who actually pay for it. How the hell does that even make sense!!!??? *sigh”
Safety:
Safe in the most part, discounting the scene at the start when he is with OW before anything happens with heroine, but No OW/OM Drama in the present. Heroine does goes on a double blind date with her BFF but she doesn’t even like the guy.
No virgins. Heroine was saving herself for the Hero until she sees him with OW. She said she lost her virginity in college during her freshman year so I was happy she was not frozen. She had two sexual partners but she describes the sex as just okay. Hero has been celibate for a year but had lots of hook ups before then.
No condoms used and that bothered me because in the scene with him & the OW, he wasn’t described as wearing one and that made me think he went commando every time he had sex! Yuck!
May 9, 2023
Yet another romance fail.
We have the manwhore zero who sticks his syphilitic dick into any random skank he can find. Because using women as objects to relieve one’s balls into is so swoon-worthy! And to go along with the anti-swoon scumbaggery, we have ON PAGE sliming with OW, which the heroine sees.
PSA to authors: STOP👏🏽 DOING👏🏽 THIS👏🏽 SHIT👏🏽 There’s NEVER ever a fucking good reason to have sex scenes with between a MC and another in a romance.
This isn’t romantic or uplifting, it does nothing to build character development or move the story forward. It is a CHEAP, ugly way to create drama and it shows a distinctive lack of creativity.
And then, as if the oozing slimy degradation couldn’t get any worse, the author decided to have the heartbroken heroine run away to college where she mindlessly spreads her legs for some losers to crawl between her legs, break her in, severing the bond and primal connection that comes from giving her innocence to her soulmate so she could waste it on some selfish frat boys to grunt and heave and slime all over her.
Because apparently it’s all the rage nowadays in romance if the hero is a slimy manwhore, the heroine can’t be much better. She can’t have better values or hold onto any virtue or integrity. She TOO has to jump into the sewer of sexual degradation and see if she can outcompete the hero in scumbaggery and sleaziness. It’s a race to the bottom, but with no winners at all, only the loss of something irreplaceable and beautiful, a bond and connection that can NEVER EVER be reclaimed. GTFOH with that slimy, putrid BS.
I really wish these disgusting, ugly tropes would die a bloody, screaming death. We all deserve better than this toxic sludge.
We have the manwhore zero who sticks his syphilitic dick into any random skank he can find. Because using women as objects to relieve one’s balls into is so swoon-worthy! And to go along with the anti-swoon scumbaggery, we have ON PAGE sliming with OW, which the heroine sees.
PSA to authors: STOP👏🏽 DOING👏🏽 THIS👏🏽 SHIT👏🏽 There’s NEVER ever a fucking good reason to have sex scenes with between a MC and another in a romance.
This isn’t romantic or uplifting, it does nothing to build character development or move the story forward. It is a CHEAP, ugly way to create drama and it shows a distinctive lack of creativity.
And then, as if the oozing slimy degradation couldn’t get any worse, the author decided to have the heartbroken heroine run away to college where she mindlessly spreads her legs for some losers to crawl between her legs, break her in, severing the bond and primal connection that comes from giving her innocence to her soulmate so she could waste it on some selfish frat boys to grunt and heave and slime all over her.
Because apparently it’s all the rage nowadays in romance if the hero is a slimy manwhore, the heroine can’t be much better. She can’t have better values or hold onto any virtue or integrity. She TOO has to jump into the sewer of sexual degradation and see if she can outcompete the hero in scumbaggery and sleaziness. It’s a race to the bottom, but with no winners at all, only the loss of something irreplaceable and beautiful, a bond and connection that can NEVER EVER be reclaimed. GTFOH with that slimy, putrid BS.
I really wish these disgusting, ugly tropes would die a bloody, screaming death. We all deserve better than this toxic sludge.
February 12, 2023
4.25⭐
Featuring ~ enemies~ish to lovers, small town, grumpy, slow burn, age gap (5 years), dual 1st person POV, mostly in the present with some flashbacks. I loved this writing style for this book.
Raelyn had a teenage crush on Davis. She thinks he's finally noticed her when a note is left for her by him. She gets all dolled up, only to get her heart broken leading her to flee Oregon for NYC.
Davis is known as the town recluse due to something that happened with his family. He lets very few people get close to him, but has a solid friendship with Roger and Millie, Rae's parents. He's never met Rae, but feels a connection to her through all the stories he's heard over the years. Once they finally meet he has no clue that she's the stalker from his past and she's grateful.
They can't seem to stay away from each other and phew boy there's some pretty good steamage. I was yelling at them one page and awwing at them the next. We've got the usual secret that should have been revealed earlier than it was that puts a damper on things for a bit, but we get a happily ever after just as we knew we would.
My one gripe is that Rae, even when she's 22, does come across as very immature throughout most of the book, except for when she's trying to help the town. I really liked that there was a focus on local businesses and how they struggle, especially in small towns.
This is my first time reading Ashley's work and I look forward to devouring more from her in the future. I bet book 2 following Nora will be just as great.
*Thanks to Ashley Munoz and Social Butterfly for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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Featuring ~ enemies~ish to lovers, small town, grumpy, slow burn, age gap (5 years), dual 1st person POV, mostly in the present with some flashbacks. I loved this writing style for this book.
Raelyn had a teenage crush on Davis. She thinks he's finally noticed her when a note is left for her by him. She gets all dolled up, only to get her heart broken leading her to flee Oregon for NYC.
Davis is known as the town recluse due to something that happened with his family. He lets very few people get close to him, but has a solid friendship with Roger and Millie, Rae's parents. He's never met Rae, but feels a connection to her through all the stories he's heard over the years. Once they finally meet he has no clue that she's the stalker from his past and she's grateful.
They can't seem to stay away from each other and phew boy there's some pretty good steamage. I was yelling at them one page and awwing at them the next. We've got the usual secret that should have been revealed earlier than it was that puts a damper on things for a bit, but we get a happily ever after just as we knew we would.
My one gripe is that Rae, even when she's 22, does come across as very immature throughout most of the book, except for when she's trying to help the town. I really liked that there was a focus on local businesses and how they struggle, especially in small towns.
This is my first time reading Ashley's work and I look forward to devouring more from her in the future. I bet book 2 following Nora will be just as great.
*Thanks to Ashley Munoz and Social Butterfly for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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January 1, 2024
I'm sorry, but NO. Absolutely NO.
This was THE CRINGIEST book I have EVER read! Seriously, I would rather read Centaur-smut any day over this. This was awful. I truly don't understand how this has a 4-star average.
These are the most annoyingly dysfunctional MCs. They both give off "Brainy" from Hey Arnold vibes. I kid you not, they are certifiable stalkers. And not in a sexy way.
The whole premise, or dare I say the whole plot, is just massive desperation. And everyone is UTTERLY UNLIKABLE. Like, remember Krystal from The Bachelor. THAT UNLIKABLE!
My advice: find something else. Anything else.
This was THE CRINGIEST book I have EVER read! Seriously, I would rather read Centaur-smut any day over this. This was awful. I truly don't understand how this has a 4-star average.
These are the most annoyingly dysfunctional MCs. They both give off "Brainy" from Hey Arnold vibes. I kid you not, they are certifiable stalkers. And not in a sexy way.
The whole premise, or dare I say the whole plot, is just massive desperation. And everyone is UTTERLY UNLIKABLE. Like, remember Krystal from The Bachelor. THAT UNLIKABLE!
My advice: find something else. Anything else.
October 4, 2022
Ok, so first of all... I'd like to say that I just saw a one star review for this book where the person went on a rant about purity and integrity - as though people having sex just to have sex is a bad thing. Please GTFO. Perhaps reading only Christian authors where the main characters save themselves for marriage is a better option for you. Stop slut-shaming the FMC of this book just because she had sex and didn't "save herself" for her "soulmate." LMAOOOOOOOO. Also this person says there's OW drama at the start of the book but, like... If you read the book you'd know that the MMC literally doesn't interact with the FMC or really know anything about her other than that she's younger than him, has a huge crush on him, and is literally stalking him....
ANYWAY. This book wasn't that great. Definitely some sweet moments throughout but an overall odd story without much of an actual plot. There are certain plot points that stick out to me as weird, that I just can't get over because I don't think they're well done/well written at all.
For example, what's the deal with her parents spending all their time with the MMC and not telling her any more? What the hell was up with the diner cook even giving her that fake note? She was a teenager, that's so fucking weird.
I read the book. I wouldn't read it again. I wouldn't recommend it. I wasn't a big fan.
ANYWAY. This book wasn't that great. Definitely some sweet moments throughout but an overall odd story without much of an actual plot. There are certain plot points that stick out to me as weird, that I just can't get over because I don't think they're well done/well written at all.
For example, what's the deal with her parents spending all their time with the MMC and not telling her any more? What the hell was up with the diner cook even giving her that fake note? She was a teenager, that's so fucking weird.
I read the book. I wouldn't read it again. I wouldn't recommend it. I wasn't a big fan.
September 3, 2024
I hated the fact that h had to watch H fuck some OW even have foreplay while she loved him, I also hated the fact that in the end, H had the audacity to propose to h in the same place she watched him having sex with OW.
DISGUSTING!!
DISGUSTING!!
did-not-finish
May 26, 2024DNF at 2%.
I will never understand why romance writers include sex scenes with other people. And this one is bad because the heroine watches him have sex with someone else.
I will never understand why romance writers include sex scenes with other people. And this one is bad because the heroine watches him have sex with someone else.
August 31, 2022
Ok... so Ashley Munoz has stepped up her spice game y'all!!! AND I AM HERE FOR IT!!! Yesssss girl!!! Davis is 🥵🥵🔥💦 and ohhhh so swoony! Raelyn was in love with Davis when she was a teenager, bit he was 5 years older than her and didn't even notice her at all..... plus he was in a really bad place in his life and was not very nice to her when she tried to get him to notice her. Well, she gets her hopes up just to be let down in a very rude AF fashion... so she leaves. 4 years, and a college degree. later she comes back home to find that he parents have befriended him and become the only family that Davis really has. So that means she is forced to be around him, but he doesn't recognize her. The ups and downs with these 2 are like a crazy roller coaster. And the mouth that Davis has on him...... whew!!! Rae is quite sassy and determined to not be as naïve as she was before.
This is absolutely one that you will want to get your hands on! It had me laughing, crying, raging and fanning myself!
Story 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Swoon 😍😍😍😍😍
Angst 💔💔💔💔
This is absolutely one that you will want to get your hands on! It had me laughing, crying, raging and fanning myself!
Story 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Spice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Swoon 😍😍😍😍😍
Angst 💔💔💔💔
October 18, 2022
I just couldn’t help speaking out loud how HATE i can be when I meet a story like this!!!
All ridiculous drama could have been forbidden, but the author was being like:
NAH, no matter what happened, i need to write down Manwhore hero, no matter how readers feel frustrated, i will continually write horny-as-f**k hero because the more gross he was, the more happy I am. Because this kind of hero made me happy. 🌝🌝🌝🌝
Seriously, I lost my freaking mind when I meet an I-love-you-but-I-had-to sleep-around-because-I-couldn’t-help-putting-my-penis-inside-my-god-damn-pants-and-I-am-not-guilty-at-all-because-I-just-made-a-normal-mistake-that-all-men-could-have-made hero and I just want to smile because i don’t know what else expressions can I have on my face.
😁😁😁SO LET’S JUST SMILE!!!😁😁😁
All ridiculous drama could have been forbidden, but the author was being like:
NAH, no matter what happened, i need to write down Manwhore hero, no matter how readers feel frustrated, i will continually write horny-as-f**k hero because the more gross he was, the more happy I am. Because this kind of hero made me happy. 🌝🌝🌝🌝
Seriously, I lost my freaking mind when I meet an I-love-you-but-I-had-to sleep-around-because-I-couldn’t-help-putting-my-penis-inside-my-god-damn-pants-and-I-am-not-guilty-at-all-because-I-just-made-a-normal-mistake-that-all-men-could-have-made hero and I just want to smile because i don’t know what else expressions can I have on my face.
😁😁😁SO LET’S JUST SMILE!!!😁😁😁
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
did-not-finish
December 25, 2022DNF 15% No Rating
I was hoping for more from this book but I couldn't buy into the premise. 4 years before the present day in the book, innocent and naive h is in love with the town hermit, who is an older guy who comes into her parent's diner. On the night of her High School graduation, she gets a note handed to her (supposedly from the H) to meet her at the library that night. She rushes to the library to meet the man she's been stalking and creeping on, her true love! and interrupts him having sex with some chick on a table in the unlocked library. She thinks he set her up (and I already know who is responsible, and we're still in the prologue!) Already I'm turned off.
But the worst part for me is that the h ran away after this to go to college and only came home a few times to see her neglected parents. She still 4 years later! hasn't matured as a person or grown up and moved on.
The poor H has been haunted by having the h walk in on him screwing some town girl and has never been able to forget her and wonders who she is. From what I can tell, 4 years after the incident, he spends a lot of the book searching for this mystery girl to find out what happened to her and make sure she's OK.
Then we find out that the day the h ran into the library, she was:
*18 years old - old enough to know she's acting like a loon stalking this guy and that he would never give her a note for someone else to deliver. What is this? 7th grade?
* Graduated High School while still wearing braces. This isn't unheard of, but I've never seen anyone at their graduation still wearing braces. That should have been finished years before.
*Has a "round face" with acne.
None of these things alone is a problem, but all of them combined? The author describes her in very unflattering terms and even the H comments on that one girl that used to follow him around. She sounds unhinged and so out of touch with reality that I can't be excited for her to get the man of her dreams (who she also saw having sex with some OW. Ick)
I'm sorry to all the people who read and loved this book. I just can't get past the premise so I'm going to have to dnf.
I was hoping for more from this book but I couldn't buy into the premise. 4 years before the present day in the book, innocent and naive h is in love with the town hermit, who is an older guy who comes into her parent's diner. On the night of her High School graduation, she gets a note handed to her (supposedly from the H) to meet her at the library that night. She rushes to the library to meet the man she's been stalking and creeping on, her true love! and interrupts him having sex with some chick on a table in the unlocked library. She thinks he set her up (and I already know who is responsible, and we're still in the prologue!) Already I'm turned off.
But the worst part for me is that the h ran away after this to go to college and only came home a few times to see her neglected parents. She still 4 years later! hasn't matured as a person or grown up and moved on.
The poor H has been haunted by having the h walk in on him screwing some town girl and has never been able to forget her and wonders who she is. From what I can tell, 4 years after the incident, he spends a lot of the book searching for this mystery girl to find out what happened to her and make sure she's OK.
Then we find out that the day the h ran into the library, she was:
*18 years old - old enough to know she's acting like a loon stalking this guy and that he would never give her a note for someone else to deliver. What is this? 7th grade?
* Graduated High School while still wearing braces. This isn't unheard of, but I've never seen anyone at their graduation still wearing braces. That should have been finished years before.
*Has a "round face" with acne.
None of these things alone is a problem, but all of them combined? The author describes her in very unflattering terms and even the H comments on that one girl that used to follow him around. She sounds unhinged and so out of touch with reality that I can't be excited for her to get the man of her dreams (who she also saw having sex with some OW. Ick)
I'm sorry to all the people who read and loved this book. I just can't get past the premise so I'm going to have to dnf.
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July 29, 2023
Anytime I hear "grump vs. sunshine" I'm drawn to the story and I also love the unrequited-love-trope so I had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, this one was not for me. Several cringe worthy things:
The way both the hero and heroine talked to each other. So awful and mean. I enjoy a good enemies to lovers trope but this was more than that and it often led to sex, which had me scratching my head. You hate this person and all of sudden...sex?
The sex scenes were just ugh. I'm sure Davis was supposed to come off as alpha male in some of the things he did, ordering her, I'm not going to detail it out here, but for me it was over the top.
Raeanne's POV from when she was a teenager crushing on Davis. It was obsessive and basically stalking, which she recognized in the future, but even before the big moment where she was humiliated and he broke her heart in the library, Davis had already rejected her or snubbed her a couple of times before. I didn't get why she kept trying. She's like 18 yrs old, not 14. It was painful.
The way both the hero and heroine talked to each other. So awful and mean. I enjoy a good enemies to lovers trope but this was more than that and it often led to sex, which had me scratching my head. You hate this person and all of sudden...sex?
The sex scenes were just ugh. I'm sure Davis was supposed to come off as alpha male in some of the things he did, ordering her, I'm not going to detail it out here, but for me it was over the top.
Raeanne's POV from when she was a teenager crushing on Davis. It was obsessive and basically stalking, which she recognized in the future, but even before the big moment where she was humiliated and he broke her heart in the library, Davis had already rejected her or snubbed her a couple of times before. I didn't get why she kept trying. She's like 18 yrs old, not 14. It was painful.
October 11, 2022
HE DID NOT JUST ASK HER TO BE HIS WIFE IN THE SAME PLACE HE HAD SEX WITH SOME WOMAN???? I mean I get it he didn’t know her back then and she was obsessed with him. The story was….something. She saw him fuckin this woman and broke down. She left the town. Came back and they fell in love. All toxic and nice and then HE ASKS HER TO MARRY HIM IN THE SAME PLACE “to heal what was broken” ???? Sorry NO. JUST NO.
September 5, 2022
Loved Loved Loved and dammmmn talk about spicy🌶️😳 Davis is one hot mountain man..
This book had all the feels for sure, 1 min I was smiling the next I had tears in my eyes.
Lovely book❤️
This book had all the feels for sure, 1 min I was smiling the next I had tears in my eyes.
Lovely book❤️
dnf
April 25, 2023DNF at 25%
Sadly it’s the execution and the direction of the story that wasn’t working for me.
Sadly it’s the execution and the direction of the story that wasn’t working for me.
April 22, 2024
DNF at 54%
The reactions in this book were just a little OTT and it was setting up for something that just seemed really immature. Rae stalked Davis, from 15 (I think) until her graduation from high school. Then she received a letter, ostensibly from Davis, to meet him, only oops, what she saw when she got there is actually him having sex with another girl. (This is all prologue, so I don't consider it spoiler territory.) The fact that she never questioned who the letter came from, just assumed for years that Davis really sent it to her as some sort of mean prank, rather than realizing that anyone can write a letter and sign someone else's name to it, just seemed really strange to me. I mean, yeah, it could have been him, it isn't like she knew anything about him despite the stalking behavior, but for that not even to enter her mind seemed strange to me. Then again, I guess I'm supposed to figure she was a teenager and they don't always have the best reasoning.
So anyway, Rae decides to go off to college and get away from Davis and her crush, pick back up four years later, where Rae apparently looks totally different because she changed her hair and lost some weight, and meanwhile Davis has formed close ties with her parents (not realizing at any point that their absent daughter was the weird kid who stalked him). He's also, through their stories, gotten kind of a crush on said absent daughter -- again, having no idea this is the same kid who stalked him because I guess her parents don't keep childhood photos of her around the house (to be fair, this is addressed saying that at some point Rae had gone through and hidden all childhood photos of herself, but that explanation seems kind of weak). So when Rae comes back he's all kinds of into her because 4 years is totally enough to change a person's appearance entirely. (Davis must be related to Lois Lane.) At least until she picks fights with him over, pretty much nothing and then they do this weird hate-you-but-have-chemistry thing where they're both also secretly into each other.
I dunno, this just seemed forced to me. The best part of the book was Davis's dirty talk, but even then ... I put it down when I realized that Rae was still too immature to tell him she was the kid who'd stalked him, even after they started doing the dirty. That's the kind of thing that could have been ironed out in Act 1. If it lingers until after that, it's likely going to become part of the Big Misunderstanding, and I just didn't have the mental strength.
Extra points to this one for 1) the healthy, silly BFF relationship between Rae and Nora, and 2) yes, Davis's dirty talk. The actual sex scenes that I read were meh (especially that one listed in the spoiler tag), but the dirty talk was not bad at all.
The reactions in this book were just a little OTT and it was setting up for something that just seemed really immature. Rae stalked Davis, from 15 (I think) until her graduation from high school. Then she received a letter, ostensibly from Davis, to meet him, only oops, what she saw when she got there is actually him having sex with another girl. (This is all prologue, so I don't consider it spoiler territory.) The fact that she never questioned who the letter came from, just assumed for years that Davis really sent it to her as some sort of mean prank, rather than realizing that anyone can write a letter and sign someone else's name to it, just seemed really strange to me. I mean, yeah, it could have been him, it isn't like she knew anything about him despite the stalking behavior, but for that not even to enter her mind seemed strange to me. Then again, I guess I'm supposed to figure she was a teenager and they don't always have the best reasoning.
So anyway, Rae decides to go off to college and get away from Davis and her crush, pick back up four years later, where Rae apparently looks totally different because she changed her hair and lost some weight, and meanwhile Davis has formed close ties with her parents (not realizing at any point that their absent daughter was the weird kid who stalked him). He's also, through their stories, gotten kind of a crush on said absent daughter -- again, having no idea this is the same kid who stalked him because I guess her parents don't keep childhood photos of her around the house (to be fair, this is addressed saying that at some point Rae had gone through and hidden all childhood photos of herself, but that explanation seems kind of weak). So when Rae comes back he's all kinds of into her because 4 years is totally enough to change a person's appearance entirely. (Davis must be related to Lois Lane.) At least until she picks fights with him over, pretty much nothing and then they do this weird hate-you-but-have-chemistry thing where they're both also secretly into each other.
I dunno, this just seemed forced to me. The best part of the book was Davis's dirty talk, but even then ... I put it down when I realized that Rae was still too immature to tell him she was the kid who'd stalked him, even after they started doing the dirty. That's the kind of thing that could have been ironed out in Act 1. If it lingers until after that, it's likely going to become part of the Big Misunderstanding, and I just didn't have the mental strength.
Extra points to this one for 1) the healthy, silly BFF relationship between Rae and Nora, and 2) yes, Davis's dirty talk. The actual sex scenes that I read were meh (especially that one listed in the spoiler tag), but the dirty talk was not bad at all.
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May 16, 2025DNF- This is the story of the female stalker ugly duckling. The fmc is an 18 yo teenage girl crushing on a guy 5 years older. He’s creeped out. She gets a note which we all know isn’t really from the H to
Meet up at the library. She walks in on him having no sex. She’s devastated and runs away for 4 years to college where she is transformed into a beautiful swan. She returns to town where the H drools over and falls in love with the beautiful swan. He doesn’t recognize her as the ugly duckling she once was… until one day her mother shows him the fmcs phot album.. busted! The H has a tantrum calls her names and makes fun of her once ugly duckling looks. He’s so upset and says repeatedly she lied to him. I think this was ridiculous and shows what a shallow guy the H was and is. Most teens go through an awkward stage. It’s mean to ridicule someone for not sharing with someone their dating that oh btw I was ugly Betty when I was a kid. The whole premise of this book was weak and we’re left waiting for the inevitable third act 80% breakup we all know is coming from page one.
Meet up at the library. She walks in on him having no sex. She’s devastated and runs away for 4 years to college where she is transformed into a beautiful swan. She returns to town where the H drools over and falls in love with the beautiful swan. He doesn’t recognize her as the ugly duckling she once was… until one day her mother shows him the fmcs phot album.. busted! The H has a tantrum calls her names and makes fun of her once ugly duckling looks. He’s so upset and says repeatedly she lied to him. I think this was ridiculous and shows what a shallow guy the H was and is. Most teens go through an awkward stage. It’s mean to ridicule someone for not sharing with someone their dating that oh btw I was ugly Betty when I was a kid. The whole premise of this book was weak and we’re left waiting for the inevitable third act 80% breakup we all know is coming from page one.
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September 2, 2023
This book made me so angry. 😭 First of all, the h was a stalker, she stalked the H when she was in high school because she had a crush on him which turned into love. Which yes I can admit was kind of 😬 BUT she was literally quite sweet and harmless, not a creepy stalker. The H on the other hand ✋️ could not stand him. 😤 I hate it when Authors write a scene where one of their MCs is intimate with someone else IN FRONT OF THEIR LOVE INTEREST. The h literally had to see him have sex with another woman and he was sooo cruel when he found out later that she was the girl who "stalked" him in high school. AND he fucking proposed to her in that same spot she caught him having sex with that other girl. Like I didn't mind the book UNTIL THAT. LIKE WHY WOULD HE PROPOSE IN THAT SAME SPOT. 😭😭😭
November 24, 2023
girly literally STALKED him when he didn’t even know her name and then she gets heartbroken and leaves the town when he’s with another girl?? 😭😭 THEN COMES BACK AND IS SOOOO RUDE TO HIM AS IF HE OWED HER ANYTHING BACK THEN💀💀 her behaviour was so childish idk how her parents didn’t smack her
This book made me lose brain cells fr.
I’m not even exaggerating when I say she stalked him…she literally had a diary with his whereabouts when he didn’t EVEN KNOW SHE EXISTED 😭😭😭💀
This book made me lose brain cells fr.
I’m not even exaggerating when I say she stalked him…she literally had a diary with his whereabouts when he didn’t EVEN KNOW SHE EXISTED 😭😭😭💀
July 31, 2023
why does she have to say sorry for being a stalker? cant women have hobbies?
September 2, 2022
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Raelyn was an awkward teen when she started crushing on the town's anti-social, gorgeous guy, Davis. She did everything she could think of to get his eyes on her, to get his attention, but nothing worked. Until it did. But did it really? I guess not, because that night she thought things were going to change, he broke her heart and she ran away to the big city to get away from the pain. Now it's years later and she's come back home to help her parents with their family business. And guess who's their favorite person? The man who's become like a son to them? Yep, the very guy who broke her heart once upon a time. There's no way she can possibly be around him, can she?
Davis isn't sure why the daughter of the couple who've become like parents to him, seems to hate him so much. He's heard so many good things about her over the years, only to meet her and realize she's not what he's been told, that she hates him for some reason. Well, he's not going anywhere, not giving up his friendship with her parents, so Raelyn will just have to deal. Just as he'll have to deal with his growing attraction and feelings for her...
Whew, the heat between these two enemies is smokin!! Poor Raelyn, that girl was just so narrowly focused, and so young that she had no idea she was cruising for heartbreak. I was cringing in the beginning, knowing it was going to be brutal when she got hurt, and it was, it really was. But when she came back home, oh boy the sass! So much fun, igniting the sparks between her and Davis. Speaking of Davis...he had such a heartbreaking past, I wanted to give him a big hug. Thank God he had Raelyn, and her parents, because they helped him find some peace. I loved this story, a lot of fun, a component of emotional pain, and with crazy electric chemistry and tons of heart.
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January 16, 2023
Have you ever had a crush?
One that Consumed your every thought, your time?. It is all that you lived for. Despite the fact that you were 17, still in College and " The Crush" was still yet to realise that you even walked on this earth.
Whether you have or haven't, this is the book for you.
WE see what the crush meant to our heroine "Rae" and how it was still affecting her 4 years on, after she felt that Davis, the young man of her dreams "Crushed" all that she felt and dreamed for him.
In a strange twist of fate, Rae after moving back home to her small town of Mount Macon, that she grew up in, happens to meet Davis and they fall into a "friends relationship".
We deal with how Rae copes with her feelings which she has told herself she does not have, and we see how Davis, despite the secrets he carries, falls for Rae, and not knowing that the young girl who saw him in a precarious position years before with another girl, is indeed "Rae"
This book had it all for me,
SMALLTOWN
SECRETS
INTRODUCES OTHER CHARACTERS FOR FURTHER BOOKS
GREAT FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
HEA ...... & a hot hero in Davis. Also he rides a motorbike Yayyyy.
I adore Ashley when she writes Smalltown stories.
Ashley manages to wrap you up into the story and you are able to see it from two POV. Always a bonus I think.
I loved reading how both characters coped when the Truth came out.... the good and not so good in the fallout.
look forward to the bonus "hottt" alternative epilogues, that come at the end of the book.
Cant wait to read "Tempting the Neighbour" Colson & Nora's story.
One that Consumed your every thought, your time?. It is all that you lived for. Despite the fact that you were 17, still in College and " The Crush" was still yet to realise that you even walked on this earth.
Whether you have or haven't, this is the book for you.
WE see what the crush meant to our heroine "Rae" and how it was still affecting her 4 years on, after she felt that Davis, the young man of her dreams "Crushed" all that she felt and dreamed for him.
In a strange twist of fate, Rae after moving back home to her small town of Mount Macon, that she grew up in, happens to meet Davis and they fall into a "friends relationship".
We deal with how Rae copes with her feelings which she has told herself she does not have, and we see how Davis, despite the secrets he carries, falls for Rae, and not knowing that the young girl who saw him in a precarious position years before with another girl, is indeed "Rae"
This book had it all for me,
SMALLTOWN
SECRETS
INTRODUCES OTHER CHARACTERS FOR FURTHER BOOKS
GREAT FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS
HEA ...... & a hot hero in Davis. Also he rides a motorbike Yayyyy.
I adore Ashley when she writes Smalltown stories.
Ashley manages to wrap you up into the story and you are able to see it from two POV. Always a bonus I think.
I loved reading how both characters coped when the Truth came out.... the good and not so good in the fallout.
look forward to the bonus "hottt" alternative epilogues, that come at the end of the book.
Cant wait to read "Tempting the Neighbour" Colson & Nora's story.
May 5, 2023
TOP TEN WORST
DNF. Ridiculous, unnecessary, idiotic, terrible writing. It’s just bad. It’s one of those books that I’m embarrassed I chose. I feel dumb for having read beyond the Prologue.
DNF. Ridiculous, unnecessary, idiotic, terrible writing. It’s just bad. It’s one of those books that I’m embarrassed I chose. I feel dumb for having read beyond the Prologue.
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January 3, 2025First DNF of 2025.
Creepy, immature heroine.
Creepy, immature heroine.
September 3, 2022
100% CAPTIVATED & ENAMORED WITH THIS GRUMP!!
Ashley Munoz just gave me a little slice of this world that I love and don't always get with every book I come across. Sometimes it can take me days to read a book that I truly love and enjoy. But every now and then a book will come along that just consumes my every moment. I can't think of anything else but what is going on inside that world and I can't wait to finish the responsibilities of my own world so I can go back to theirs. Resisting the Grump is one of those books. I could not stop reading; binged it in one sitting.
Unrequited love stories can do a real number on my romance loving soul but I crave them every now and then. This is one of the best ones I've ever read! It'll have to go on my 2022 favorites shelf because I couldn't put it down. I needed more of Davis, more Rae, MORE OF THEM!!!! Their moments, so intense and wild; I was constantly torn between reading faster to get THERE or slow down so I could soak every bit of them in. The back and forth with these two...WHEW! It got a little warm in there for a minute! Okay...a lot of minutes! These two were FIRE!!!
I think one of my favorite parts is how the author handled Davis' demons. I won't spoil it, I'll just say I love Ashley Munoz's writing and every bit of how she wrote Davis & Rae's story.
If you love:
*reclusive & broken hero
*sweet & feisty heroine
*Unrequited love
*slightly older man
*small town romance
*ALL the steamy moments
THEN definitely check this one out!
Now I'll try to wait as patiently as I can for the next book from this world.
Ashley Munoz just gave me a little slice of this world that I love and don't always get with every book I come across. Sometimes it can take me days to read a book that I truly love and enjoy. But every now and then a book will come along that just consumes my every moment. I can't think of anything else but what is going on inside that world and I can't wait to finish the responsibilities of my own world so I can go back to theirs. Resisting the Grump is one of those books. I could not stop reading; binged it in one sitting.
Unrequited love stories can do a real number on my romance loving soul but I crave them every now and then. This is one of the best ones I've ever read! It'll have to go on my 2022 favorites shelf because I couldn't put it down. I needed more of Davis, more Rae, MORE OF THEM!!!! Their moments, so intense and wild; I was constantly torn between reading faster to get THERE or slow down so I could soak every bit of them in. The back and forth with these two...WHEW! It got a little warm in there for a minute! Okay...a lot of minutes! These two were FIRE!!!
I think one of my favorite parts is how the author handled Davis' demons. I won't spoil it, I'll just say I love Ashley Munoz's writing and every bit of how she wrote Davis & Rae's story.
If you love:
*reclusive & broken hero
*sweet & feisty heroine
*Unrequited love
*slightly older man
*small town romance
*ALL the steamy moments
THEN definitely check this one out!
Now I'll try to wait as patiently as I can for the next book from this world.
April 26, 2025
4.5 🌟/5
So this is a really interesting premise and started out with a bang.
The fmc is a stalker...she doesn't see other like that, she's a teenager ( 16 to 18) and the guy she's obsessed with is 5 years older ( 21 to 23). She's in deep limerence and follows him everywhere. He does notice and asks her to back off but continues until one day alone gets a letter signed from him telling her to meet him in the public library.
She thinks finally..he noticed me ..then sees him intimately with another woman. He sees her and her horrfied expression. She leaves the small town and retreats to NYC where she finishes college and is working at 23. She lives in a tiny apartment.
When her parents ask her to come back to her hometown to help them with their food delivery business she goes..knowing that her crush is still there. He's now a recluse and became friends with her parents.
Her parents unknowing about their past interaction, try to set them up together. To her shock he doesn't recognize her but does pursue her romantic lyrics. She thinks she can sleep their past under the rug and continue a relationship with the town grump. He's a recluse for a reason though..which has traumatized him.
Sooner or later the ball drops and he may find out who she is..then the angst begins again..
I did think this book was really well written. It was entertained although there were some cheesy parts.
August 30, 2022
I devoured this small town, enemies to lovers romance book in one sitting! This book is filled with humour that will have you laughing out loud many times! It is also jammed pack with many steamy scenes as the chemistry between Davis and Rae is off the charts. I enjoyed seeing their relationship evolve and that Davies opens up and makes himself very vulnerable. I really hope we get to see more of Rae and David in Nora & Colson’s book!
September 6, 2022
Resisting the Grump has everything I love in a good romance! An emotional roller coaster, a heavy push and pull, and an irresistible grump that kept me engaged until the very last page. The steam was off the charts and the swoon was SO SWOONY! Once Davis fell for Rae, he fell hard. The build up to the pivotal moment had my heart pounding in my chest. I can't wait to see what Ashley comes up with next. This book is a must read!
October 31, 2022
such a great book
I loved this book. I loved their energy. Davis and Rae were amazing. I loved the twists of the story. I loved the tragic backstory and honestly how real the healing was. Totally worth the read. And the spice Omg. I was not prepared. At. All. Like wow.
I loved this book. I loved their energy. Davis and Rae were amazing. I loved the twists of the story. I loved the tragic backstory and honestly how real the healing was. Totally worth the read. And the spice Omg. I was not prepared. At. All. Like wow.
December 7, 2022
DNFed at 44%
I picked this up from Amazon where I saw the cover and title, then I read the blur and I was intrigued. This is a NEW TO ME author and I wanted to give it a try. The beginning starts off with the heroine having this crush on the hero when she was 18, she ends up discovering him with his pants down in another girl. Forward 4 years and the heroine is back in town helping her parents. Not like she was living the life up in NY but yea she came back when her parents asked her. So she left to college after the hero incident and never looked back. That said I have to say that the heroine in this and so far I'm only at 31% she is a F bitch. Wow! And the worst part about all this I am so confused because she hates him for what, for not knowing she existed because she was young and then they jump into a kiss and the hero is instigating it all this time not knowing who she is. So confused but this is just 31% in, I almost DNFed it but I am not a quitter and want to continue to see what happens when they both find out the truth. I lied, this one is a DNF after her surprise chock of thinking that the hero was following her after umm she stalked him when she was younger which by the way was super weird. Then it jumped into a sex scene and I was kind of, it was weird that's all I will say. The whole dynamic and story line just took a turn for me. I will not be coming back to finish it or skip forward to see what will happen when he finds out the "girl" he was looking for that he doesn't even remember is her. I am just missing the whole everything of this book. I am left confused and just feeling weird about it.
September 22, 2023
2.5 ☆
I was excited about this one and honestly it was a letdown. The premise was interesting and the writing was alright but the romance itself was not it. The ml was outright cruel when he spoke about her as a stalker (she had a crush on him as a 16-18 y/o) and even more cruel (in terms of language) later on.
Also very early on in the book we get the FL witnessing the ML having seggs with OW (its like the main thing about why she was so heartbroken and stuff before time-skip) and even though i hate when authors do that (its so icky, specially if it’s written just like the encounter between the main leads) i don’t mind it TOO much if the most of the relationships between the main characters is not only segg but also chemistry, their personalities, and just them as people aligning.
However, in this book their whole relationship is them doing the devils tango and talking a lil bit (more like fighting for DELIVERY - and not in a hot way- ) so it genuinely felt like there was a very weak base to their relationship and its just roommates hooking up and à replaceable relationships.
So yeah, not my fav. Im still reading the rest of the series because im intrigued about nora (the bestie of the fl) - also, nora seems like an actual good friend, that was a positive about this book, the fl having a good friend she could rely on that wasn’t secretly rooting for her misery or being delulu and giving her bad advice just to push her and ml together, (very common in romance books) hopefully this translates to the fl being a good friend for nora and that that scene were she not only lets the ml invite the man her bestie hates/is embarrassed to be around to HER INTIMATE DINNER PARTY but also ditching her midway through to fuck the ml loudly and ruining it. (Yeah i don’t have high hope for the viceversa)
I was excited about this one and honestly it was a letdown. The premise was interesting and the writing was alright but the romance itself was not it. The ml was outright cruel when he spoke about her as a stalker (she had a crush on him as a 16-18 y/o) and even more cruel (in terms of language) later on.
Also very early on in the book we get the FL witnessing the ML having seggs with OW (its like the main thing about why she was so heartbroken and stuff before time-skip) and even though i hate when authors do that (its so icky, specially if it’s written just like the encounter between the main leads) i don’t mind it TOO much if the most of the relationships between the main characters is not only segg but also chemistry, their personalities, and just them as people aligning.
However, in this book their whole relationship is them doing the devils tango and talking a lil bit (more like fighting for DELIVERY - and not in a hot way- ) so it genuinely felt like there was a very weak base to their relationship and its just roommates hooking up and à replaceable relationships.
So yeah, not my fav. Im still reading the rest of the series because im intrigued about nora (the bestie of the fl) - also, nora seems like an actual good friend, that was a positive about this book, the fl having a good friend she could rely on that wasn’t secretly rooting for her misery or being delulu and giving her bad advice just to push her and ml together, (very common in romance books) hopefully this translates to the fl being a good friend for nora and that that scene were she not only lets the ml invite the man her bestie hates/is embarrassed to be around to HER INTIMATE DINNER PARTY but also ditching her midway through to fuck the ml loudly and ruining it. (Yeah i don’t have high hope for the viceversa)
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