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A review by bookish_kristina
Rebel at Heart by Zoe York
3.0
Decent read but something was missing.
This was ok but could have been better. The timeline and momentum with the love story (meet, attraction, love etc) were very off. Most of the relationship building for this couple happened off page. It was tell and not show with flash backs and fast forwards and all that we really got between these two was sex. I liked the heat they had together and the beginning with their meeting and him teaching her about the racing world - had a whole Fast and the Furious feel- but then it shifted into present day and lost all of its excitement. It was just too incomplete and most of the story was missing from this.
I enjoy this author’s writing style, liked that she had both of them remain celibate during their separation, but everything else was just so bland.
Also never love the term honey for female arousal and a new cringe-term ‘puffy seam’ was introduced here to my disgust. Purple prose doesn’t do it for me in contemporary.
Anyway, lots of editing issues and some continuity or timeline disparities but since I had an arc copy, I hope those were corrected in the final edit.
Thanks to Victoria Editing and NetGalley for the copy, this was my honest opinion.
This was ok but could have been better. The timeline and momentum with the love story (meet, attraction, love etc) were very off. Most of the relationship building for this couple happened off page. It was tell and not show with flash backs and fast forwards and all that we really got between these two was sex. I liked the heat they had together and the beginning with their meeting and him teaching her about the racing world - had a whole Fast and the Furious feel- but then it shifted into present day and lost all of its excitement. It was just too incomplete and most of the story was missing from this.
I enjoy this author’s writing style, liked that she had both of them remain celibate during their separation, but everything else was just so bland.
Also never love the term honey for female arousal and a new cringe-term ‘puffy seam’ was introduced here to my disgust. Purple prose doesn’t do it for me in contemporary.
Anyway, lots of editing issues and some continuity or timeline disparities but since I had an arc copy, I hope those were corrected in the final edit.
Thanks to Victoria Editing and NetGalley for the copy, this was my honest opinion.