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A review by evedream
A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
3.0
10 min in the audiobook and I thought that this was devil in winter 2.0. Tessa Dare really pulled the "Can I copy your homework?"
What's-his-name, might as well just call him Sebastian, is a carbon copy of Sebastian St. Vincent from Devil In Winter. The plot is so similar as well: Shy wallflower proposes (fake) marriage of convenience to a broke rake with the body of Apollo and the mind of the devil? Yeah seems familiar. HE EVEN CALLS HER THE SAME NICKNAME. As unoriginal as it all is, you don't see me complaining.
I bet he is gonna fall in love with her but is held back by his believe that love is a sham or that he is incapable of love bc of his dramatic backtstory. Daddy didn't love him enough? Mommy left him?
Well I was right. At least, about him being left by his parents. But I must say the tone was very different. It seemed more like friends to lovers. The banter they had together and the way they fooled around with eachother just had that vibe. There shenanigans reminded me of one of those weekly shows were something bad happen to the mc's every episode but they make it out with the power of friendship. Thát was actually very very different from devil in winter. Collin was very very lovable. His intrictate telling of lies didn't fail to amuse me. His trauma was... wel it certainly made for a convenient set up.
And Minerva... If Tessa Dare is good in something it's absolutely contradicting herself. Minerva is an independent women who lives for her dream of archaeology. She will do anything to get there, even destroying her status in the process. Except that she throws it all away for a man. So...OK. And then for a man, which she keeps saying, who's terrible trauma and mental health issues she can't fix. Oh but wait! She does "fix" him. Simply by existing as well. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Sure. She had a magical vagina I guess.
On to things I did like.
Ohhhh My GoD the smut. Holy moly. It was soooo hot. Just the passion UGH. I was surprised that Tessa Dare actually DID know what consent is. What I don't understand is, if she does know how consent works why is it so lacking in her books? Consent is not the absence of saying "no" it's saying "yes".
What's-his-name, might as well just call him Sebastian, is a carbon copy of Sebastian St. Vincent from Devil In Winter. The plot is so similar as well: Shy wallflower proposes (fake) marriage of convenience to a broke rake with the body of Apollo and the mind of the devil? Yeah seems familiar. HE EVEN CALLS HER THE SAME NICKNAME. As unoriginal as it all is, you don't see me complaining.
I bet he is gonna fall in love with her but is held back by his believe that love is a sham or that he is incapable of love bc of his dramatic backtstory. Daddy didn't love him enough? Mommy left him?
Well I was right. At least, about him being left by his parents. But I must say the tone was very different. It seemed more like friends to lovers. The banter they had together and the way they fooled around with eachother just had that vibe. There shenanigans reminded me of one of those weekly shows were something bad happen to the mc's every episode but they make it out with the power of friendship. Thát was actually very very different from devil in winter. Collin was very very lovable. His intrictate telling of lies didn't fail to amuse me. His trauma was... wel it certainly made for a convenient set up.
And Minerva... If Tessa Dare is good in something it's absolutely contradicting herself. Minerva is an independent women who lives for her dream of archaeology. She will do anything to get there, even destroying her status in the process. Except that she throws it all away for a man. So...OK. And then for a man, which she keeps saying, who's terrible trauma and mental health issues she can't fix. Oh but wait! She does "fix" him. Simply by existing as well. Hmmmmmmmmmm. Sure. She had a magical vagina I guess.
On to things I did like.
Ohhhh My GoD the smut. Holy moly. It was soooo hot. Just the passion UGH. I was surprised that Tessa Dare actually DID know what consent is. What I don't understand is, if she does know how consent works why is it so lacking in her books? Consent is not the absence of saying "no" it's saying "yes".