A review by indiekay
She's a Keeper by Ali K. Mulford

1.0

Woof. I was going to keep going with this, but after the chapter I just read, where the ENTIRE chapter was just about the FMC having diarrhoea multiple times against a tree in the middle of the night and describing in detail the exact texture of her shit, I decided I did not need to keep punishing myself by reading this.

I got 60% in. At least half of what I read was just about faeces - both monkey and human shit. The "meet cute" involves the FMC having her entire arm armpit-deep into a drain blocked with monkey shit. She constantly says she has monkey shit on her clothes and in her hair. At one point a baby howler monkey has diarrhoea and clings to her face while covered in shit. This is WAY more shit than I ever want to see in a romance book.

But even besides that, if you're the kind of person that gets really strong second hand embarrassment, please for the love of God do not read this book. The FMC is the most cringe fail embarrassing person in the entire world, and she's so stupid sometimes. Like she and the MMC have to share a hotel room and he leaves to get coffee so she can shower, and after her shower she decides to masturbate while she's alone - like how long does she think it takes to get coffee?? So of course the MMC comes back while she's in the middle of it, and she tries to pretend she wasn't doing anything, but she had managed to tuck her dress into her underwear, and of course he knew exactly what she was doing.

Meanwhile, the MMC is absolutely perfect and hot and the most amazing person in the world, and the FMC is an absolute asshole to him constantly because she refuses to allow herself to be attracted to a man (