A review by kj468
More Myself With You by Layla Moran

Did not finish book. Stopped at 58%.
I wasn’t loving this but was powering through because it was an ARC… and then the mc went over to the LI’s apartment and the FIRST thing the mc notices, decoration-wise, is a model of General Lee. Whether the author meant the confederate general or the dukes of hazard car with the confederate flag painted on top (and named for the confederate general), I don’t care. Huge red flag either way. Just because your story takes place in the south doesn’t mean you have to have your characters have confederacy memorabilia 😬😬😬 

Some other things I noted before I dnf’d: 
  • Insta love
  • If a gay x straight porn was a book /negative
  • super fast bi (?) awakening (didn’t get vm far enough to confirm if mc is bi or something else) 
  •  whiplashy - I get the MC is going through an awakening here, but his emotions we’re ALL over the place and changed in an instant. I’d dump his ass so fast. Also his inner monologue was super problematic re: queer people
  • the mc smokes “cigs”???? really???? Not even vapes (which I’d still not like but would at least be more representative of modern college kids), smokes cigarettes
  • Overall it feels like the author wrote about college kids as the author knew them from when the author was in college in the… 2000s? Maybe? And didn’t do much updating except to give them cellphones. 
  • juvenile. I can’t even really explain it, but it felt like they were 13, just in college 
  • the worst clothing tastes I’ve even seen in some MCs, like so bad that it jarred me out of the scenes to be like WHY are they wearing that in 2024??? (The mc wears his basketball jersey to one party and then cracked tshirt and cargo shorts; the LI wears a black tshirt that says PROUD in white letters with a rainbow splash behind under a zip up hoodie to a party — i mean he couldn’t have worn CUTE pride merch???)