This is War

Cliffhanger!
Book 1 of 2
Dual POVs

Viola hates Travis but she has a huge crush on him. He hurt her when she was 13 and she never got over it. To me, since she is 22 years old in the present, it means she is emotionally a 5 year old for holding a childhood grudge for so long. It’s pathetic. I’m not a fan of her. Travis is a man whore who enjoys giving Viola a hard time when he can. He’s pretty typical for this kind of book.

Their love-hate relationship drags on excessively in the book. I skipped chapters and didn’t miss a thing by doing it. There is no need for this story to be stretched out to 2 books.

There wasn’t a whole lot of imagination that went into this book. It’s your typical “he’s a jerk to her then he adores her” romance. I mention that because 2 award winning authors wrote this book. I expected something better than a run of the mill romance.

Let me start by saying I had a lot of hope for this book going in. But neither of the main characters were at all likable. Both were incredibly petty, and immature. Neither one acted the way a real adult acted. I was raised by a single father with many of his buddies around, and I also a brothers. Ive never met a man who slept around the way Travis did in this book. It was completely disgusting they way he constantly threw his sex life in her face, and she just came across as a shrew. Completely skipped over the sexual scenes with other women and there were more than a few. Actually I skipped over a lot of the main characters interactions too. This book honestly wasnt very enthralling and definitely not worth buying a second book for. The cliffhanger and everything that led up to it just had me rolling my eyes. Not worth your time.

This much hyped book has been on my TBR since release day, so I finally decided to give it a try. I didn’t get far before I had to DNF it. The hero is a complete @$$ to everyone, especially the heroine. Who wants a hero who has sex with other women, then brags about it to the heroine? How “manly”. If that’s considered romance, then I need to switch to a different genre.

I almost stopped reading it about halfway through because I can’t stand weak Hs. I kept hoping she would wake up and turn things around. Unfortunately, that never happened. Viola is one of the most pathetic Hs I’ve encountered. I read about 20 books a month and this is one of the very very few where I couldn’t stomach her constant weakness. Seriously, how many women who have been hurt terribly by a man/boy in the past, have him flaunt having sex with someone else in his room right next to hers, then just can’t resist his sexual advances to her – over and over and over again – then gets mad at him. I’m just not a fan of doormats. Clearly, I’m the exception in wanting to read about women who take charge of their life and don’t take whatever crumbs the man whore is willing to send her way. Am I missing something?

She was so nasty. Just got tired of the repetition in that respect. Just when she showed a little humanity to the H the book ended with no true ending. Need to buy the next book in the series to find out the ending. Not sure if I am willing to spend the $$ to purchase. I usually don’t buy series- I just missed that when I was reading the reviews on the book.

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