moonlightbooks
Reading a bit of everything! Fantasy, romance, thrillers are my favorite genres!
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My expectations for this weren’t high at all and yet this still disappointed me deeply. If some books are entertaining trash, this is the book that should be at the bottom of THAT trash pile because this is THAT bad.
Besides the misogyny and covert racism, this book is so badly written I can’t believe this got published. It genuinely baffles my mind. Also, this isn’t romance it’s erotica. If you expect a romance, you’ll be sorely disappointed. Both Allie and Dean have 0 romantic chemistry. All they do is have sex and that is IT. Not one moment/interaction between them that doesn’t involve sex.
Deen is an asshole. He has an overinflated ego, cannot take the word no and harasses Allie to sleep with him by getting her drunk. How did ppl not see how utterly disgusting this is???? Hello??? Can we please normalize reading books with our BRAINS?
And Dean doesn’t have one normal interaction with a girl without the author making that side character a seductress or stripper because what do you mean every barista and waitress is throwing herself at him? EVERY SINGLE GIRL, guys!!! How realistic is that? Do you mean to tell me in the presence of an attractive man, all women puff their chests out and sway their asses and wink at them? So, I wasn’t a fan of writing female characters like that.
Also, someone said oh those girls are puckbunnies and that’s the point ok then even that term is misogynistic, and making all characters like that is misogynistic and gross. Also the only Black character made a cameo and the author made him out to be the worst stereotype and made it humorous. I hated that too and cringed.
Anyways, this is a waste of time and brain cells. If anyone wants to read this before the show, I’ll just spoil it for you.
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The Score (Off-Campus, #3)
Elle Kennedy
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moonlightbooks commented on glaw33's review of The Score (Off-Campus, #3)
Awful!!! Incredibly cringey and awful and sexist and weird!! All they did was have sex and then we’re in love? All of a sudden?
I did however read the whole thing of my own free will so ummmmm kinda embarassing for me
1moonlightbooks commented on katrinaj's review of The Score (Off-Campus, #3)
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Molka
Monika Kim
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‘Hot girl smorgasmbord’ How did this trash get published? Istg this book is an insult to my intelligence as a reader!!!! 🤢 and how do women LIKE these guys when they talk like this????? HOW??? If you’re a fan of the books no disrespect but I’m genuinely curious what makes you like this book 😭
13moonlightbooks commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I'm pondering something this morning (and admittedly probably have had too much caffeine this morning) but in most non fiction, and really specifically "self help" type books, there's no plotline, no big twists or surprises, just an author's take on various concepts really. Is it considered a spoiler to take one of the author's concepts and expand on it?
I feel like there's no such thing as a "spoiler" in books such as this. But I'm curious about others' thoughts on the matter?
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‘Hot girl smorgasmbord’ How did this trash get published? Istg this book is an insult to my intelligence as a reader!!!! 🤢 and how do women LIKE these guys when they talk like this????? HOW??? If you’re a fan of the books no disrespect but I’m genuinely curious what makes you like this book 😭
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The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
R.F. Kuang
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Somehow Allie is ‘slender and curvy at the same time’ and has a ‘flat belly’. I just really hate how fat girls are looked down on but our curves are sexualised and given to skinny girls. I hate it if I can’t tell if a character is fat or skinny; you cannot have our curves on skinny girls I’m sorry but this is really rude. I’d really appreciate authors making it clear what a character really looks like. If they’re skinny say they’re skinny, don’t take the features you admire of fat girls and give it to skinny girls. Not body shaming anyone here I’m just frustrated at the lack of good rep fat girls have in books and how our curves are given to skinny girls to make them the perfect girl I guess. There’s so much misogyny to unpack here towards both fat girls and skinny girls.
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I just started re-reading this one and I have to be honest, I HATE this book. watching the show really changed my opinion on alliedean and Dean himself, but I don't think this will apply to the book. this was the first and probably only book I ever hated, and to be here reading it again seems like a dead end. show dean and book dean feel like two completely different people, and I'm not sure I'm gonna change my mind. still, I'm hopeful to gain a new perspective on this story, at least I hope I won't hate it as much.
4Post from the The Score (Off-Campus, #3) forum
Somehow Allie is ‘slender and curvy at the same time’ and has a ‘flat belly’. I just really hate how fat girls are looked down on but our curves are sexualised and given to skinny girls. I hate it if I can’t tell if a character is fat or skinny; you cannot have our curves on skinny girls I’m sorry but this is really rude. I’d really appreciate authors making it clear what a character really looks like. If they’re skinny say they’re skinny, don’t take the features you admire of fat girls and give it to skinny girls. Not body shaming anyone here I’m just frustrated at the lack of good rep fat girls have in books and how our curves are given to skinny girls to make them the perfect girl I guess. There’s so much misogyny to unpack here towards both fat girls and skinny girls.
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