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A review by kaisbooknook
The Many Mistakes of Amy Love by RA Hunter
emotional
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
It hurts me to say this, since I wanted to love this book so badly, but it pained me to read it.
Firstly, I personally felt like the main characters didn't have a lot of chemistry with each other, and whenever I felt that they did, they were having sex. Amy felt so guilty for what she did, and claimed she never wanted to hurt Lauren, but she did just that. She hurt her repeatedly, and barely even apologized for it. Instead of apologies, she would tell Lauren about parts of the reasons why she hurt her in the first place. She didn't even take accountability whatsoever. Amy honestly just pissed me off. She kept on hurting Lauren with what felt like no remorse, and she just continued not communicating. I get that she has a troubled past, but that means she shouldn't be having one night stands with people if she can't communicate.
Secondly, the writing style was very confusing, because it went from being in the third person to being in the first person and then changing character perspectives all in one chapter without notice. I was just left to try and figure out what was happening. The main thing I found the author doing was telling the audience the main characters were in love, instead of showing us with actions that they loved each other.
The writing style also felt very immature, which is weird considering this book is very smutty and also has all adult characters.
The majority of this book is just smut, which I wouldn't have a problem with normally, but in this case it just felt a little cringe at times, and felt unnecessary when the two main characters could have done things that were romantic instead of sexual. They went on 3 dates and had sex many more times than that. It just felt like the author was focused on the wrong thing to me.
And the ending just pissed me off. There was no reason anything needed to happen in that way, and it was over dramatized when I would much rather have the two main characters talk about their feelings like adults.
Overall, I wouldn't really recommend this book. I found there were a lot of conceptual issues with it, but I hope other readers enjoy this more than me
Thank you to RA Hunter for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
Firstly, I personally felt like the main characters didn't have a lot of chemistry with each other, and whenever I felt that they did, they were having sex. Amy felt so guilty for what she did, and claimed she never wanted to hurt Lauren, but she did just that. She hurt her repeatedly, and barely even apologized for it. Instead of apologies, she would tell Lauren about parts of the reasons why she hurt her in the first place. She didn't even take accountability whatsoever. Amy honestly just pissed me off. She kept on hurting Lauren with what felt like no remorse, and she just continued not communicating. I get that she has a troubled past, but that means she shouldn't be having one night stands with people if she can't communicate.
Secondly, the writing style was very confusing, because it went from being in the third person to being in the first person and then changing character perspectives all in one chapter without notice. I was just left to try and figure out what was happening. The main thing I found the author doing was telling the audience the main characters were in love, instead of showing us with actions that they loved each other.
The writing style also felt very immature, which is weird considering this book is very smutty and also has all adult characters.
The majority of this book is just smut, which I wouldn't have a problem with normally, but in this case it just felt a little cringe at times, and felt unnecessary when the two main characters could have done things that were romantic instead of sexual. They went on 3 dates and had sex many more times than that. It just felt like the author was focused on the wrong thing to me.
And the ending just pissed me off. There was no reason anything needed to happen in that way, and it was over dramatized when I would much rather have the two main characters talk about their feelings like adults.
Overall, I wouldn't really recommend this book. I found there were a lot of conceptual issues with it, but I hope other readers enjoy this more than me
Thank you to RA Hunter for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!