AVON PUBLISHED THIS??? i wonder if the audiobook is the selfpub or trad pub bc if it’s trad that shit is a MESSSS!!!! willing to give the next book a shot though since i’m hoping harper collins had more of a hand in its development. okay sorry that was my last edit.
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omg i just remembered that there were a thousand POVs which was so confusing especially bc the tone did not change much between characters. that’s just lazy writing. i shouldn’t have to literally be in every characters head to understand them and form opinions on their relationship to the story.
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this is hard to rate bc on one hand it was super interesting, well written, and well paced from a sports perspective (even though the idea that she’d win that much in her first season in f1 is unfathomable and honestly laughable.) i learned soooo much about f1 and racing in general, and the experience of reading those parts had the same thrill of watching a sport live.

however this is denoted a romance book and was marketed as such. and unfortunately the romance fell flat on its ass and deflated like a capri sun in those old commercials. there was no zero nada chemistry between the leads.

the writing felt clunky at times, and there were a lot of loose ends and plot holes by the end of the book, too. the author would’ve benefitted from a structural editor.

if this author wrote straight up contemporary f1 general fiction, i’d gobble that shit UPPPP.