Status Updates From An Innocent's Deal with the...

If I took a sip for every sentence that started with ‘and’, ‘or’, or ‘because’, I would need my stomach pumped

I’m so close to finishing this book, but it is unfortunately closer to finishing me

Not a great read but it's for book club right!?

This is not good

This is for book club… I won’t hear a word about it…

if there were people, and throughout her life, there should have been other people to admire. Not necessarily pursued. But this thing of only greatly admiring one person especially since he is older than her. I am not one for that kind of torch. She has that good influence of her grandparents with the combo of terrible negligent parents who put this deep rejection into her core persona. It's solid 3.5 maybe +

I think this is a case of sure you could sell this romance. I thought pretty early that these two people could benefit from having cleared the air and moving on to find better people. I like them both enough but I am not too keen on being so hung on a person that you act like no good people are around. In this case, he wisks her away to a CASTLE so there are no other people. if there were people, and throughout her

Yana is likeable. I am a sucker for a person who is sensitive but acts like they're not. But...I think the misdemeanors of the past were not great. This thing liking children is a wow factor. I think it's almost written as an assumption. I think you have to be thorough with that characteristic in the plot to impress me.

it's better paced than her other books. But I tend to have the same issues with her books. I am not going to delve into that. I think pacing is the main issue. It's probably hq page count. That's why it's so speedy at the end. I think of her books this is better paced. The speeding up is contextualized better in Yana's life than the previous characters.