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Brighter Than the Sun (The Lyndon Sisters, #2)
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Charles and Ellie end up married because of Plot Contrivances. Except she doesn't want to sleep with a Horrible Dirty Rake, and all he wants to do is sleep with his Stunning Hot Wife.
Oh, also there's yelling, sabotage, kidnap, yelling, murder, and more yelling.
1. SO MUCH GODDAMNED YELLING. Literally 80% of this book is Ellie and Charles YELLING AT ONE ANOTHER. And about the same stupid shit: Ellie is incompetent. Charles wants sex. It's the same conversation AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
For example: Ellie thinks Charles is a Horrible Dirty Rake...that lets his cousins live with him; gets sloppy drunk TWICE (once before he even meets her and once after he falls off a goddamned roof); is caring of the feelings of his younger cousins; agrees to not consummate the marriage immediately... The list goes on. Other than one damning list made weeks before he met and married Ellie, there's no real evidence of this alleged rake-hood.
Meanwhile, Charles thinks Ellie is careless about certain household tasks...except for the fact that she basically ran her father's house FOR YEARS, and repeatedly claims that someone is setting her up. There are clue-by-fours scattered throughout every chapter, but Charles just keeps patting Ellie on the head while telling her that it's cute that she tried.
And the fact that they don't listen to one another tells me basically everything I need to know about this relationship.
2. The tone, again, was just too light. There's no depth to anything.
3. And there were just so many discordant elements to this book! Nothing came together organically or in a way that made sense or felt real. It was all slapstick and forced and sloppy and, ultimately, disappointing.
Oh, also there's yelling, sabotage, kidnap, yelling, murder, and more yelling.
1. SO MUCH GODDAMNED YELLING. Literally 80% of this book is Ellie and Charles YELLING AT ONE ANOTHER. And about the same stupid shit: Ellie is incompetent. Charles wants sex. It's the same conversation AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN.
For example: Ellie thinks Charles is a Horrible Dirty Rake...that lets his cousins live with him; gets sloppy drunk TWICE (once before he even meets her and once after he falls off a goddamned roof); is caring of the feelings of his younger cousins; agrees to not consummate the marriage immediately... The list goes on. Other than one damning list made weeks before he met and married Ellie, there's no real evidence of this alleged rake-hood.
Meanwhile, Charles thinks Ellie is careless about certain household tasks...except for the fact that she basically ran her father's house FOR YEARS, and repeatedly claims that someone is setting her up. There are clue-by-fours scattered throughout every chapter, but Charles just keeps patting Ellie on the head while telling her that it's cute that she tried.
And the fact that they don't listen to one another tells me basically everything I need to know about this relationship.
2. The tone, again, was just too light. There's no depth to anything.
3. And there were just so many discordant elements to this book! Nothing came together organically or in a way that made sense or felt real. It was all slapstick and forced and sloppy and, ultimately, disappointing.
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