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The Bromance Book Club
by Lyssa Kay Adams
So many issues with this one, I don't even know where to start, but let's see:
1. first off, children should not get married (they both acted like immature brats who have no business being in a relationship and raising chilren);
2. the FMC was horrendous. I think as a reader I was supposed to be on her side, but she was a terrible partner to the MMC (who, don't get me wrong, had his own issues, but nowhere near hers). She was so unreasonable, and the way she tested Gavin by asking him to move out and then being upset that he did? Yeah, let's not normalise this shit. Our partners aren't mind readers;
3. the FMC's sister was infuriating. She acted like random people online whose only advice to relationship troubles is to break up. It pissed me off how much she was putting her nose in where it didn't belong and acting like her sister's marriage falling apart was just some good drama, never giving a single thought how it would affect her nieces;
4. it focused WAY too much on the physical. Apparently all you need to fix a marriage is to get railed really good. Instead of actually communicating with each other, they first tried to make each other horny and the rest of the book just obsessed over how horny they were. There was the tiniest bit of reflection and self-analysis, but it wasn't enough when their problems went way beyond the bedroom;
5. the way the Russian character was treated rubbed me the wrong way. It wasn't funny;
6. the author was way way WAY too heavy handed and in-your-face with her commentary on relationships and sexism. This felt very much like a "woman writing men" and they just weren't realistic (as sad as that is because naturally I wish men cared enough to learn to be better partners). The way they preached feminism to Gavin was just so over the top it was laughable. I think it was a nice idea to have this men's book club, but I expect more sublety, not to be banged over the head. It almost felt like a desperate attempt to make them likable for female readers;
7. it was just so heteronormative, and not only that, but it painted women as a single organism. No, we don't all want the same shit.
It's not the worst book I've read, but I also don't have anything good to say about it aside from the fact that at least it was a very quick read.
1. first off, children should not get married (they both acted like immature brats who have no business being in a relationship and raising chilren);
2. the FMC was horrendous. I think as a reader I was supposed to be on her side, but she was a terrible partner to the MMC (who, don't get me wrong, had his own issues, but nowhere near hers). She was so unreasonable, and the way she tested Gavin by asking him to move out and then being upset that he did? Yeah, let's not normalise this shit. Our partners aren't mind readers;
3. the FMC's sister was infuriating. She acted like random people online whose only advice to relationship troubles is to break up. It pissed me off how much she was putting her nose in where it didn't belong and acting like her sister's marriage falling apart was just some good drama, never giving a single thought how it would affect her nieces;
4. it focused WAY too much on the physical. Apparently all you need to fix a marriage is to get railed really good. Instead of actually communicating with each other, they first tried to make each other horny and the rest of the book just obsessed over how horny they were. There was the tiniest bit of reflection and self-analysis, but it wasn't enough when their problems went way beyond the bedroom;
5. the way the Russian character was treated rubbed me the wrong way. It wasn't funny;
6. the author was way way WAY too heavy handed and in-your-face with her commentary on relationships and sexism. This felt very much like a "woman writing men" and they just weren't realistic (as sad as that is because naturally I wish men cared enough to learn to be better partners). The way they preached feminism to Gavin was just so over the top it was laughable. I think it was a nice idea to have this men's book club, but I expect more sublety, not to be banged over the head. It almost felt like a desperate attempt to make them likable for female readers;
7. it was just so heteronormative, and not only that, but it painted women as a single organism. No, we don't all want the same shit.
It's not the worst book I've read, but I also don't have anything good to say about it aside from the fact that at least it was a very quick read.