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A review by kickassleigh
Unloved by Marley Valentine
3.0
Rhys Should Have Had His Own Book
This has been on my TBR forever because I expected it to be a tear jerker for me as Marley’s previous books have been. I don’t know why I waited so long.
This is a 3 way hurt/comfort with drug addiction, abandonment/loss issues, past child abuse (not detailed only spoken about), mentions of parental suicide, and off page mentions of drug overdose and possible MC suicidal attempt. There’s a lot going on here, and yet I finished this story in one sitting.
I feel like this story should have been about Lennox and Samuel and Rhys should have had a book of his own. You can see and experience that Lennox and Samuel have chemistry and shared history, they’ve pined for each other and things are going to progress in the lover direction. Rhys felt like a puzzle piece that technically fits but it’s not meant to be there, which is really a disservice to his character.
It’s also a disservice to the struggles Lennox has to navigate as a newly deaf man and who has had his life turned inside out. There is so few hearing impaired representation that I have seen and I would have loved to have seen Lennox’s story expanded upon.
The whole interaction with the mother felt disingenuous. Manipulative. Disgusting to me. Placed there to give the reader and Rhys hope but the implications behind it and the mother’s implied culpability are deplorable. Not to detract from the father at all, but the mother is just as at fault in my opinion.
This definitely wasn’t my favorite.
Parting words, those who have read the book may know what I’m talking about: I sincerely hope that Mississippi Two was NOT the day preceding the EVENT for Samuel, because if it was that was I am upset it was included. I know my words mean little but I am upset at the prospect.
This has been on my TBR forever because I expected it to be a tear jerker for me as Marley’s previous books have been. I don’t know why I waited so long.
This is a 3 way hurt/comfort with drug addiction, abandonment/loss issues, past child abuse (not detailed only spoken about), mentions of parental suicide, and off page mentions of drug overdose and possible MC suicidal attempt. There’s a lot going on here, and yet I finished this story in one sitting.
I feel like this story should have been about Lennox and Samuel and Rhys should have had a book of his own. You can see and experience that Lennox and Samuel have chemistry and shared history, they’ve pined for each other and things are going to progress in the lover direction. Rhys felt like a puzzle piece that technically fits but it’s not meant to be there, which is really a disservice to his character.
It’s also a disservice to the struggles Lennox has to navigate as a newly deaf man and who has had his life turned inside out. There is so few hearing impaired representation that I have seen and I would have loved to have seen Lennox’s story expanded upon.
The whole interaction with the mother felt disingenuous. Manipulative. Disgusting to me. Placed there to give the reader and Rhys hope but the implications behind it and the mother’s implied culpability are deplorable. Not to detract from the father at all, but the mother is just as at fault in my opinion.
This definitely wasn’t my favorite.
Parting words, those who have read the book may know what I’m talking about: I sincerely hope that Mississippi Two was NOT the day preceding the EVENT for Samuel, because if it was that was I am upset it was included. I know my words mean little but I am upset at the prospect.