iamcupid_'s reviews
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I'm not sure how to rate this honestly. It was so boring and annoying for the most part but it got so much better in the end. Like, nothing really happened in the first part and then everything got crammed in the second part, which I finished all today because I knew if I didn't I'd end up dropping the whole series.  

Well, that was torture. Marshall and Benedikt made it tolerable and for that, I thank them. I was rolling my eyes throughout reading this book. Such dramatic characters. I'm glad this is just a duology because it's already 2 books too much, can you imagine a third book? *exasperated groaning* so yeah, finally done🎉🎉🎉🎉 

this book was so annoying. 90% of my reaction reading this was to groan. I mean, seriously, the scene that I liked the most was Marshall licking Benedikt's palm and Benedikt ignoring him, it was funny. 

I don't even know where to start. This was so dissapointing, damn. I really thought this was going to be better than the first book, Southern Storms, because it's Connor! How can a romance with Connor fail!?!?

I stand corrected.

I liked it at first, honestly. But then it got so cheesy. This book is if a motivational quote decided to write/become a book. I mean, honestly, this book had so much monologues. It's a compilation of the most dramatic scenes and dialogues/monologues you can ever imagine. It felt like I was reading a self-help book and I hated it. I hated it so much. 

There were several scenes I liked, of couse. Even if I can't remember it because I only really remember the bad parts. 

The part I hated the most was how Aaliyah didn't tell Connor about her heart disease when she knew what Connor went through with his mother:/ it was so shitty! Dude, I don't know. I'm just glad I finished it, even if it took me more than a month. I held hope it would get better, but no.

And there was just so much stuff crammed at the ending. It all went by so fast. 

I'm done. Just done. 

I would've rated it a solid 5 if it wasn't for a few parts I didn't like, excluding the flashbacks because, dude, I really hate flashbacks. But my main issue would be that some things fell flat? Or felt off? But for the most part it was great so I'm not complaining. This was such a cute read! And I appreaciated the epilogue very much, might've let out a few tears, sue me (don't actually). And I just love the very casual "I'm gay" character, even if we only saw him for 5 seconds. For an adult romance book, this was a really refereshing read but I've only read a handful of adult romance book so I'm not really the best judge. The characters were all loveable and fleshed out. I fell in love with Connor the most and so imagine my joy when I found out he was the main character for the second part of this series.

This was really good and I got the idea, but the writing and overall execution was... mediocre at best? It was easy for me to put it down even though a part of me was invested because it was just so simple. I kept trying to force myself to not focus on the writing as much but I just couldn't. The writing in books is very important to me.

There were also a lot of things that happened in the time I started and finished this book so it took more than a month to finish this finally. It's a surprise I didn't drop it to be honest. I'm 90% sure I'll pick up the second book but I don't think I'll have that much regret if I don't. 

Oh but I have to give my kudos to the plot twist in the ending with Danny, I did not see that coming at all. I hope book 2 and book 3 has more of that. 

The start was okay, but it went downhill after a few chapters. The Sweetest Oblivion was boring, The Maddest Obsession was amazing, and this was just plain terrible. I can't pinpoint exactly why I hated this so much, maybe I just did for no reason. I regret picking up the Made series to be honest, no matter how much I loved The Maddest Obsession, if it meant not reading TSO and TDT, I would give it up in a heartbeat. 

Also, this was the longest book in the series, with 600 pages, it still makes me wonder how I finished it. By pure willpower, I guess. 

Suffice to say, I'm done with this series. With the author, too, since I heard she was problematic. Never gonna pick up another book of hers again. 

That one tiktok sound that goes "o-kayyy that shit was ass." 

I'm speechless. This was so bad. The first few chapters were tolerable. I was even planning on giving this 2 stars for at least the attempt at writing a cute sapphic romance but every page just got worse and worse. This took my favorite trope, childhood friend to lovers, and stomped it into the ground. It spit on it and called it a whore. I am baffled at how anyone can ever make childhood friends to lovers as bad as The Gravity Between Us did. 

I just also had so many issues with this book. I wish I took notes while reading but halfway into it I got sick and was in a bad state and shape and just wanted to die, taking notes at the bad things this book had was the last thing from my mind. There were so many things that happened in between starting this book and finishing it, I'm almost surprised how I even managed to finish it. This book has a curse in it probably. I wasn't expecting much going into this book but I've read it was good but it WASN'T, not one bit. I can't imagine anyone genuinely enjoying this. 

I understood the idea. Just thinking about "actress x musician childhood best friends fall in love" already gives me butterflies but the execution was just so bad. 

Yeah, that's it. I'm just saying things at the top of my head, imagine if I actually put thought into my review, this would be a thousand words long. But to be honest I'm just glad I'm finally done with this piece of flaming garbage. Sayonara!

Reading slump

I enjoyed this way too much, it makes me feel dirty😭😭 is this really me, is this what i've become. also, can i just say, the maddest obsession >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the sweetest oblivion.