His Banana (Objects of Attraction #1)

This is an extremely dumb book. You know what is going to happen by the end of the first chapter. The characters are ridiculous and even the sex scenes are stupid. Don’t waste your money.

At 21% of the book, I abandoned ship. I suspect the rats left way ahead of me. Technically well-written long stretch of juvenile jokes, sexual innuendos and fantasies of a teen moron, plentitude of platitudes, and absolutely no depth of the main characters. Meant to be entertaining but really very tedious.

This is the fourth book I\’ve read this month in the rom com/romance genre. I loved how the writing was. It was easy to read and some humor in it. My only criticism is the kind of female heroine which has been almost the same in all of the 4 books from different authors. As personal as a review is, I believe the reason for turning to these kind of books for us, the readers, are most likely very similar/shared. I could not help but criticize the fact that any girl who is as \”hot\” as Natasha with that kind of a body would not have the hardest time having a very good looking guy\’s attention/attraction. If honesty, authenticity and inner beauty is trying to be emphasized by the author, why on every other ten page the reader ends up being reminded of the female heroine\’s rock hard/well taken care of/hot/sexy/goddess like qualities? I\’m reading these kind of books lately to find some encouragement or access to silly dreams and hopes I once had before a 10 year narcissistic abuse. I\’m also reading whatever I can find which is reviewed to have humor and laugh-out-loud parts in them. But for some reason I ended up feeling more self-conscious and depleted after this book.

Sorry. I envisioned a completely different story than the one I read. It wasn\’t funny or cute. It was written merely to house a couple of very vulgar sex scenes. It was poorly developed, both the story and the characters. I finished the book but it was like plodding through mud. Awful.

I really wish I could press on through this book to see what all the hype is about but I can\’t get past chapter 5. What is it with every new romance novel portraying the heroine as a bumbling fool and calling that attractive? In what world is publicly verbally attacking the CEO of the company you work for ok? I guess the same world in which it\’s ok for said CEO to continuously make sexual comments to his intern (btw, CEOs don\’t have interns)? She spills stuff on him, dents the company car, arrives late, stumbles everywhere, and the thing is, she doesn\’t give a darn. She doesn\’t even try to be professional. That\’s not cute… it\’s inconsiderate and incompetent. Not to mention that the entire premise of going undercover for a news story is unethical these days, even for investigative reporters (which she is not). And I\’m not going to even get into how the head of this major organization has time to spend his entire day devising ways to drive an INTERN to quit. That\’s just… never mind… SMH… I really tried to get past all of that to get to the actual story (I made it to page 43, surely, with all the 5 stars, it gets better). But then the intern is invited to an important business meeting with the CEO (um, what?!?! are there no VPs or even managers at this company?!?!?) and makes the conscious decision to get drunk in order to teach her boss a lesson (after undermining him in front of the clients). Come on! As someone who\’s fought hard to be respected in corporate America for decades, I\’ll literally gouge my eyes out when the CEO and/or the clients inevitably find this behavior charming and endearing. So I didn\’t turn the page. I really, really, really wish someone (anyone) would write a romcom about a woman who values herself, works hard in life, AND somehow still gets the guy. How is it that the older I get, the worse women are portrayed? At least Cinderella and Snow White worked their butts off when they had to… and they chose guys who didn\’t continuously hurt them over and over again. That makes way more sense than this. Is Disney on Kindle Unlimited lol?

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