Eshana Ranasinghe’s Reviews > Heated Rivalry > Status Update

There was no vodka or pasta at his parent's place? Unbelievable 😩

Romance novels are great. They are so easy to read. Why do I waste so much time struggling through novels with 'word building' and 'plot' and 'themes' and big words I need to google and plots I need to use brain-power to focus on?

After Shane's post tuna melt freak out (Tuna melt down?) the narrative changes from calling the other by their last name to their first names which was a great touch (previously in Shane's pov it was always Rosonov and in Ilya's pov it was Hollander)

But also, Shane didnt wash his hands! He fixed his clothes and put on his shoes and left the apartment and walked to his hotel without washing his hands??!

When I watched the show I complained how the stoey felt rushed because it was basically jump cuts between short scenes like vignette without a solid overarching plot tying them together other than the Hollander/Rozanov situationship but yeah that's just how the book is written. In fact the show fleshed out a bunch of the scenes. I feel bad for complaining, they did their best!

The dialogue is great but man, the writing around the dialogue makes me cringe so hard I curl into myself like a snail sprinkled with salt like what is thiiiis?
'"You gonna come for me, Hollander?”
Hollander was going to. And he did'

Brother urgh!!!