Giving four overrated authors one final shot… 😬

kind of feeling like I'd entered an alternate reality where flawtless stories about flat and unlikable characters randomly spewing opinions on every topic Under the Sun written in the style of series grabbing my daily to-do list to me in the morning receives critical Acclaim

I read book lovers and I really liked it I ended up giving it four stars I had a great time and it really turned around my impression of Emily Henry as an author

this is very much a deep character study of this 72 year old woman Vesta her State of Mind as it deteriorates and the ways that she is in conversation with herself essentially it was very interesting I appreciated how it built in Pace and tension and paranoia and the Frantic quality of the narration

I really disliked the writing I found it very juvenile the characters felt very two-dimensional and very young I don't know why this book is classified as a romance it isn't a romance there's nothing about it that is a romance and I think that framing is really irresponsible to be honest

she is irredeemable privileged to the point of absurdity mean heady and fat phobic the whole book felt like a fever dream in the worst possible way and then the ending was so out of left field it was so absurd

there were things that I liked about it there were little moments there were a couple passages a couple quotes that I appreciated there were some ideas that I liked I did feel like the characters developed more as we went further into the story and I did find them at least slightly interesting to read about Marianne more so than Connell but that wasn't enough to make up for the lack of plot or purpose

I read people we meet on vacation and I hated it here's my review basically it did less than nothing for me

it's repetitive that the prose is very lackluster the plot makes very little sense and everyone's favorite alien well he could have only saved it if he murdered the protagonist and took over which unfortunately spoiler he did not

I am really happy honestly to be able to say that I liked this book in the end it's definitely not a perfect book for me anyway I had my pet peeves and you know some of them continued all the way through to the end but I was really pleasantly surprised to see that a lot of the things that annoyed me the most at the beginning and the things that drove me up the wall the whole time I was reading project Hail Mary they really dissipated as the book went on and yeah I ended up really enjoying it

the only book I've ever read by Colleen Hoover is her one non-romance book Verity and I despised it to quote the opening line of my Goodreads review I wish I could go back and unread this book I still feel that way