- #1
Dropped. Conceptually I love it. If the book did what the summary wrote, then I would be happy. But literary-wise, writing-wise, plot-wise, structure-wise, I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE (being overdramatic*). This is not for me. Too many flashbacks. In fact this book is living in the past to tell the love story of the dads. Fine in concept, horrendous in execution: the only warning you'll get that you'll be reading a past section is just CONTEXT CLUES of the mentions of university. Sometimes out of nowhere, in the middle of a "present day" scene where I'm still invested in seeing what happens but no, I just have to time travel in the past AGAIN FOR THE 20TH TIME!!The writing is not good enough to incorporate the flashbacks, past story in a cohesive manner. I'm picky and I'm proud of it. I'm not going to sit here and read this flashback whiplash just bc I like the concept of this novel. This novel is 65% in the past. Hardly much spoiling of the girl or present day interesting family scenes, past the first 10 chapters. The writing for present day is also way more telling over showing than the past story sections which is... A choice. I DISLIKE. anyways, if you want gay fluff and you don't mind janky/non-existent transitions and chapters of full flashbacks, then this is for you. I gave it 3 stars for the concept (that wasn't there really)... I'm honestly being very nice.