Status Updates From Why I Loathe Sterling Lane

Finished chapter 1. Probably won't hate it but I won't admire it.

hmm. let's outline how this book is NOT e2l (and even problematic)
1) the guy (forgot his name) gaslights the girl (also forgot her name tbh) when she tries to bring up his actions to chris
2) her brother (chris) literally sides w the new guy rather than his twin sister and doesn't believe anything she says
3) the "chemistry" consists of the girl blushing when the guy does anything questionable but with a smirk!

how the actual hell did sterling put a mini cooper in a dorm room that's not even on the ground floor without using magic or breaking a fucking wall and, first of all, without being noticed

am i the only one finding this ridiculous or what

why is she acting like a five year old i want to cry at how bad her character is written

still one star btw

"this horrible, nonsensical farce of my worst nightmare" is a pretty great way to describe how i'm feeling toward this book right now

also, am i the only one extremely unsettled by how men talk about Harper like she's not in front of them? and they're soooo condescending, for fucks sake

the premises of this book are ridiculous and so some scenes, still a one star read for me

Gaslight, mansplaining and an abundance of patronizing for now — hope it gets better otherwise it's going to be a one star rating

okay never mind i was wrong theyre kinda cute i guess 🙄

no because parker would be a better love interest than sterling by a long shot

so far i remain unimpressed but i’m not DNF-ing because i want to see where this goes

sterling is a dick tbh and the main character is a snooze fest if the author can pull this together i’ll be impressed

getting some real pearl (2022) vibes from this

the problem i'm having is that harper didn't like sterling BEFORE she knew that he knew her brother. if she had been irritated and then find out that they know each other and then be actively collecting evidence against sterling, that actually makes sense.

dnfing here

if this doesn't get better i'm gonna give up, harper and sterling are kind of unbearable

Currently reading this masterpiece because I'm in a book funk and I want to laugh and have fun

“perfect New England diction” foh im from ne and i talk like shit actually

You know how you read the first chapter of a book and you're instantly hooked and you just know that it's gonna be a good satisfying read?
That's what this book has done. Want a enemies to lovers story? Here ya go