Daiga’s Reviews > A Reason to Stay > Status Update

It's quite weird to read a book that has mostly sex happening off the page mixed with increasing flowery descriptions of genitals to be suddenly bombarded with ONE single explicit word to go back to fade-to-black sex off the page.

I'm so confused. Did the author write this as a teen and then had an editor with a funny bone that threw that one word in?

Each time Rhett smiles and is happy when Ava is clearly uncomfortable by their social and wealth differences is so predatory and a major red flag. Rhett does not like or care for her, he's just very much a possessive asshole who's sexually attracted to her.
Exhibit A:
Hello, BEAUTIFUL
Good night, BEAUTIFUL.
[...], BEAUTIFUL
Does he even know her name?

Exhibit B:
Their date and Serena's jab's at Ava Rhett ignored.

Rhett met Ava's family the previous day, and had never met them before. And if Ava was telling him about them, it always happened annoyingly off-screen (as with everything in this book). And Rhett had 'taken the time to get each person in her family a gift, they were each personalized to their taste' HOW? HE DOES NOT KNOW THEM!

he pulled out a shirt sized box (there are boxes in the sizes of shirts? Did the author mean something flat and quite large like an envelope? So basically forgot the word ENVELOPE?)

We don't want to wake nana. 🤮

Alpha in him 🤮

All the grooming is making me uncomfortable. She's never appreciated as her own person but told how to act by Rhett.

Then at her nana's house apparently there's a 15 foot Christmas tree?!

Author’s vocabulary needs refreshing, at some point I can’t listen anymore to ‘squealing with laughter’ when Rhett again manhandles Ava.
And Ava is just (facepalm) Rhett's story of him owning up to his emotional shortfalls. Ava just automatically says he’s innocent and does all the toxic excusing, just because she’s in love with him, he can’t do any wrong, when opposite should be true.

Rhett has told a very drunk Ava that he doesn’t care what her friends think of him. After dragging her out of the club(?), and tossing her over his shoulder and strapping her in his car when she wanted to call an Uber home. Major red flags.

That’s it. I’m calling it. Ava is an alcoholic. Her bf stood up their dinner date with her friends, so she got drunk (again). It’s 4h38min in and she has had alcohol related issues 3 times already.