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coolspacequips · 5 months ago

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Have been reading this sci-fi romance and like UGH u ever really wish a book was just at least a little better??? There's stuff in this that's interesting but also a lot about it that's so... Juvenile and kinda undercooked lol...... But it's so hard finding good romance bc for a lot of romance readers this is enough, except even then not really since they prolly didn't fuck nasty enough in this book for the ppl that just need the merest pretense to read smut (which is fine if that's what u like there's just an oversaturation of this, esp when you can have a light plot/heavy smut story with slightly better writing and internal world building without having to explain and describe the 'boring' parts 😅)

#i have another romance series i like and return to and i feel like i couch it so much when i say its good actually #but my recent attempts to get back into reading and find a good romance this last year has kinda shown me #i was taking the quality of writing in that series for GRANTED #this series which has more smut than the book I'm reading but has very compelling world building evocative writing interesting cast #meanwhile the author I'm reading might as well just say I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE WRITING THIS at points of the book and worse #they're upfront that this aesthetic in this book is inspired by a game and it's clear #they're taking for granted u know the aesthetic and barely describe anything #which is kind of a problem in contemporary romance a lot but there's times when the writer clearly has a vision and just doesn't communicate #anyway this is for no one I'm just right about to finish it after hoping every chapter it would be better #text posts #the thing is too i have played this game they're referencing and it's got nothing to do with the game except the setting/environment #but if i hadn't played that game i wonder how well i could picture it #they also didn't name another game that I'm pretty sure they took inspiration from #i know it's hard when you want to write a character that's smarter than you but over and over it's like why make her have a skillset #if you clearly aren't willing to do any of the bare minimum to make it seem like she actually has the skills or knows anything 😔#the forward on this book is literally like A/N: I didn't want to research anything for this book so i didn't #and since i said so you can't judge me!!!#yes i can.... it's only by the grace of the fact I'm reading this on a borrowed ku account and didn't pay for it that I'm not harsher lol

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