Purpleberry’s Reviews > The Road Ahead > Status Update

I let out a Darth Vader-ish Nooooo! And collapse with my head in my arms, sobbing like a teenager fool. Okay book, you win. I am vanquished. My god, I have never had my butt kicked this hard by a novel in a long time. I am mourning for the loss of something within myself.

Review to come as soon as I reel my mind back
from the depths to which it has gone.

For the first time Arabella noticed how Rebecca smells, and it’s of course amazing and not at all what former guy was like. This book is driving me crazy! It’s highjacked my life. I’m holding my head in my hands between scenes.

We just had the first scene with actual feelings and it ends in the typical “breakup” run out the door and no communication (not that there was any relationship to speak of, holy crap this book gives a new meaning to slow burn). I’m so close from just giving up but I don’t want to DNF this one.

Now they’re painting. This book is never going to end...

Okay, the sexual tension has begun! At least on Rebecca’s part. This is a sloooooow burn but it’ll get there eventually (in the next book).
Ouch!

Rebecca and Arabella are actually starting to have chemistry and it’s kind of sweet.

I just realized this is SQ fanfic. At first the age gap and personalities made me lean toward DWP. Color me late to the game!
shoutout to lampshading the 1950s marriage thing! One page the best friend says: suck it up and deal with the fact it’s your lot in life. The very next page she’s all: It’s the 21st century, not the 1950s, you don’t have to suck it up and deal with it, you GO grrrl!

Aaaaaaand we have the personality change.

Update: Rebecca just outed herself as liking older women. A 29-year age gap?! Wow, girl! Also apparently being straight means you have to go back in time to the 1950s.

I know this is a toaster oven book, but does the het relationship have to be so bland and loveless?

Arabella, stop being a pretentious twat.