3.5 ⭐️

I have never been so glad to have NOT started my histrom journey here.

Was this awful? No. But I’m not sure it would have moved me to continue on with the genre. For a book published in 2006 is has some very problematic rhetoric, it didnt have me wanting to end but it had me thinking about all the other wonderful histroms I’ve read that are 10-15 years older than this that don’t include these problematic themes.

Having watched the show first and not really liking the first season I was deterred from starting the series because of how stiff Daphne and Simon seemed. They weren’t at all like that in the books they were actually pretty funny. Simon had such a great personality and yes he does get quite stoic when certain conversations come up from his past, but for the most part he was kinda hilarious 🤷‍♀️ the same with Daphne. In the show she seems uptight but I mean in the books she’s a friend to almost everyone so much so it’s put her at a disadvantage of finding a husband.

There’s not a lot of detail in the writing. It’s very much “this happened and then this. And she said this and he said that” which I’m not entirely used to in histroms. The POV also didn’t help it made things quite muddled.

All in all not an awful read but there are far better histroms out there that are superior. It was good to get out of a slump though 🙂‍↕️