Strap in and buckle up for my 1200 word review 🕺🫨
Where do I even begin?
I hate to say it, but I'm incredibly disappointed in Ana's writing for the first time ever. It was dull, and while the storyline in the first novel of the duet had me hooked - falling in love abroad and enjoying the time together blah blah - we then get to the second novel in the duet, and oh god, both characters were pathetic 🤧
*major spoilers ahead - don’t read this unless you’ve already read it, or want to have the whole book spoilt*
Okay, so in the first novel, Blake and Farrah become friends, date, break up and the end. In this novel, they see each other after 5 years, and both are very emotional - kinda silly and immature and childish IMO, but, I digress. She ends up being his interior designer - because omg the fates have aligned and brought each other back together!!! (sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell). Anyway, they start to fall for each other again but Farrah doesn't want her heart broken again - I mean, I don't blame her, at all. That boy fully ripped her heart out of her chest and did a lil tap dance 🕺 on it before kicking it in the gutter. Yet again, I digress. Anyway, she keeps her guard up until she finally lets him back into her life. And you'd think he'd learnt his lesson the first time, right? WRONG. He goes and breaks her heart for the *SECOND* time (my internal reaction: 🤦♀️)
Buddy, I know you've got Daddy problems and you're insecure and yada yada. But seriously!? You just got the love of your life back after pining for her for literal YEARS (after breaking up with her!), and then you're like, 'soz babe, I don't wanna hurt you, so I'm gonna break up with you instead'. UMM 🤔 boy, you broke her heart AGAIN. Why? Dude, I don't see the point of pining and pining and utilising your right hand so damn much to ease the pain of not having her *cough* her body and attention and doormat personality *cough*, then getting her back only to chuck her away like she's trash AGAIN. Oh, and I forgot to mention, after they BOTH used EACH OTHER for sex. Purely for sex. 🙄
And then, whaddya know? He wants her back. But for real this time ("I promise Farrah" said Blake with his pathetic lil puppy eyes 🥹). I'm sorry buddy, but you had your chance! Leave her alone, for both your sakes. But ofc, Farrah sticks with him because no other guy has managed to give her so many orgasms, so… they get together AGAIN and oh boy, when I tell you I was so ready for another breakup - that DIDN'T come - thank god 😭 that was the only point that kinda saved the book I guess?? I mean, not really, because Farrah deserves more than a man who can't make up his mind, but she also should've gotten over him. I guess they'll both be happy living in their lil orgasmic world full of sex and pathetic, useless apologies.
Oh god, I can only hope the next books will save this series, I'm going to be so disappointed if not. I enjoyed hearing about Olivia and Sammy's problems - so I'm keen for their story. But goddamnit. Farrah and Blake's story made me so angry. OH. I don't know how I almost forgot to mention it, but CLEO!?!?!?!?!? Girlie you deserve every demon that is coming your way 😭🤧 How DARE you do that? Like girlie, you're the primary reason Blake is so screwed up in the head! If it weren't for you and being sad because a guy didn't like you, none of this goddamn mess would have happened! How selfish do you have to be to do *THAT*. I nearly tore the book in half at that point, I was so angry. Angry on behalf of the demons that have been stalking Blake for ages, angry on behalf of Farrah who got her heart broken multiple times because of that cow 🐮 and angry on behalf of the whole friend group who had to deal with Farrah and Blake acting like middle schoolers. Actually, that's offensive to middle schoolers - they just acted pathetic and were so immature it made me want to cry. I think the story could've been saved if Cleo wasn't a character - praise the lord I don't know anyone named Cleo otherwise I wouldn't be able to look them in the eye - but then again, no Cleo = no miscommunication, no traumatised Blake, no sad Farrah, no storyline. Ugh, that girl annoyed me so much, and Blake wasn't even that mad!?!?!? What the actual hell dude? This chic ruined your whole relationship with Farrah and you're fine with that!?!? I can't even begin to understand why you think that would be okay.
Farrah ignored the disrespect from Blake - umm girlie, I'm sure there's plenty of guys who'll make you orgasm as good as he does - but okay, don't blame me when he breaks your heart after y'all have been married for years. He was so damn toxic and literally - okay metaphorically - barked and scared off all the men Farrah supposedly had an interest in. Umm firstly, Farrah, girlie, you didn't even wanna be with Blake, so don't get angry when he's hanging out with a girl. Secondly, Blake, you TOLD her she could see other people… don't get mad when she does exactly what you said. The whole time I was reading, I was so. Damn. Confused. My emotions went: 🤦♀️😭🤧😩🕺😮💨🙄🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ Why oh why would Ana keep them together? They were so bad for each other, yet she kept them together because of "fate". Umm okay, am I fated to be with some wanker who's just gonna keep using me for sex and I just keep dealing with him because the orgasms are *earth shattering*!?!??! Like honestly, it was so pathetic, I wanted to cry.
To be *somewhat* fair, I do hate second-chance romances, but I did love Ana's 'King of Greed' which was second-chance, so idk. I guess I just had high expectations after reading the Twisted series, but I don't think Ana's ever gonna be able to top that. Honestly, Ana would have been better having 1 book for Blake & Farrah, and then 1 for Olivia, 1 for Courtney and 1 for Kris. Or, better yet, not have 2 whole damn books based on Blake and Farrah, unless the pair were able to sort out their issues and go to therapy.
Ahem, thank you for coming to my TED Talk 😌, I hope I don't have to come back on here to do another one of these for Ana's books.
If you enjoy miscommunication, irritable characters, a forgiving female character who is happily trodden on and a man who uses the girl for sex, this is the book for you. I hate to be so negative but I had such high hopes and was so disappointed 🤧
I have no problem if you liked this book, but I was disheartened by how much I didn't like it, considering I've enjoyed Ana's previous works. I still love Ana and I’m still going to read the rest of her books, I’m just not going to be able to reread this one.