I didn’t necessarily want to write this review because I knew it would be filled with a lot of complaints. But I also didn’t want this book to be the only one [of the books I’ve read in the past two years] that I haven’t written a review for so here we are.
I finished reading “Truth”, even though I didn’t want to. “Truth” felt all over the place, and I wasn’t connected to any of the characters. As far as tropes, I don’t even really know how to describe Truth and Merci’s relationship. I guess it’ll be “enemies-to-lovers”? The secondary love story (with two other characters) is brother’s best friend.
I didn’t feel the love between Truth and Merci and them finally getting together felt hella rushed. Most of our time spent with Truth and Merci is filled with them bickering or taking jabs at one another. I could call it banter but banter is usually cute. They weren’t that. In all actuality, Truth and Merci were two broken people who shouldn’t’ve gotten together until they healed.
When Truth said he felt the need to protect Merci after the shooting, I was like “ok so how did we get here?” When Merci started flipping tf out in Truth’s kitchen after they’d been intimate and mentioned love, I was even more confused cause when tf did that happen? Truth and Merci had only interacted three times before he forced her to stay with him and each of those interactions were filled with back-and-forth and eye rolls. Now, if Merci would’ve been pissed only because they f*cked twice and each time Truth tried to distance himself after, I would’ve understood. But girl. Love? They were horny for each other for sure but love? Nah. But I also haven’t trauma bonded with someone so maybe that kind of emotional connection hits different 🤷🏾♀️
The conclusion felt messy (as in unorganized) to me. Like Truth and Merci made up off the pages and everything is just perfect six months later. Then we don’t even get the conclusion to the secondary love story. What was the point of even having that storyline? That storyline was the driving force for me finishing this book. I was more interested in them and wanted to know how things unfolded when the relationship was revealed.