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The Last of August
by Brittany Cavallaro
I’m hesitant to give this book 3 stars.
And here we have the second installment of the ‘Charlotte Holmes’ series. I was very excited for this book, but it really didn’t work that well for me in the end.
I felt like Jamie was just a sidekick and thrown to the side in this book. He was made to look stupid, and I absolutely hated it considering Jamie is very smart (at times). This book just made him feel like he was an idiot 24/7.
I also hated Charlotte for 3/4 of the novel. Sure she had her good moments, and her vulnerable times, but the way she treats Jamie and everyone else around her is awful. You don’t treat the guy your supposedly in love with, and the guy who’s your bests friend like that. She kept putting him to the side as if was just an Stranger she met on the street and it set me the wrong way.
Milo is a asshole, August has no substance (along with his boring siblings), and the rest of the characters (besides Charlottes uncle, he’s like my gay soul mate) are really fucking boring. They all felt 1 dimensional and very different from how they were in the first installment of the ‘Charlotte Holmes’ series.
The plot also wasn’t as great as I thought it’d be. Their really wasn’t a mystery, considering Charlotte found out who was behind her Uncles kidnapping within the first 100-150 pages of the book. So like “A Study in Charlotte” this book dragged on for far to damn long than needed.
The novel was also confusing at times, where were supposed to assume we understand things Charlotte, August, and Jamie are saying and talking about, and I was confused.
But this book had the perfect amount of angst and ‘will they, won’t they’ shit that I fucking squealed over, as well as the greatest fucking witty banter, funny shit, and lovable characters (when they weren’t being annoying), that I kind of felt obligated to give this book 3 stars.
I will still continue on with the series though (but merely for the angsty, cute, romance shit that I fucking want to read a lot more of, and Jamie and Charlotte because their adorable).
And here we have the second installment of the ‘Charlotte Holmes’ series. I was very excited for this book, but it really didn’t work that well for me in the end.
I felt like Jamie was just a sidekick and thrown to the side in this book. He was made to look stupid, and I absolutely hated it considering Jamie is very smart (at times). This book just made him feel like he was an idiot 24/7.
I also hated Charlotte for 3/4 of the novel. Sure she had her good moments, and her vulnerable times, but the way she treats Jamie and everyone else around her is awful. You don’t treat the guy your supposedly in love with, and the guy who’s your bests friend like that. She kept putting him to the side as if was just an Stranger she met on the street and it set me the wrong way.
Milo is a asshole, August has no substance (along with his boring siblings), and the rest of the characters (besides Charlottes uncle, he’s like my gay soul mate) are really fucking boring. They all felt 1 dimensional and very different from how they were in the first installment of the ‘Charlotte Holmes’ series.
The plot also wasn’t as great as I thought it’d be. Their really wasn’t a mystery, considering Charlotte found out who was behind her Uncles kidnapping within the first 100-150 pages of the book. So like “A Study in Charlotte” this book dragged on for far to damn long than needed.
The novel was also confusing at times, where were supposed to assume we understand things Charlotte, August, and Jamie are saying and talking about, and I was confused.
But this book had the perfect amount of angst and ‘will they, won’t they’ shit that I fucking squealed over, as well as the greatest fucking witty banter, funny shit, and lovable characters (when they weren’t being annoying), that I kind of felt obligated to give this book 3 stars.
I will still continue on with the series though (but merely for the angsty, cute, romance shit that I fucking want to read a lot more of, and Jamie and Charlotte because their adorable).