1/5⭐️
1/5🌶️
🩸“Guess you don’t need brains with tits like those”🩸
🔪I received this book as a gift from the author, signed and all. With that being said, I really wanted to like it. It was such a sweet gesture, but I would not pride myself as a reader if I did not give an honest review…I HATED THIS BOOK. Not only was it extremely predictable, but it was sexist as hell. I usually get nervous reading male authors (call me prejudiced lol idc), especially when they write female protagonists and this book is the PERFECT example why I don’t like male authors 😐
Y’know those really corny and god-awful scary movies that just have a lot of boobs and blood in them? That’s what reading this book felt like. I found myself laughing out loud, and I know for a fact that the author was SO serious.
Less than 10 pages in, one female character was having a sex fantasy about her female best friend even though she swears she’s not lesbian or bisexual. Then 20 pages later, two other female characters are kissing each other passionately in front of their male friends who OF COURSE get turned on (because why wouldn’t they? 😒). And while I’m not a hater of sapphic romance, it just ticks me off that these scenes just feel like females being sexualized BY THE MALE GAZE. In addition, just read the quote I included at the top. One of the male characters thinks that about his “hookup” and he’s being fr. It’s just such an antiquated form of thinking and as a female, it really ticked me off. Last but not least, the protagonist, Lexa, was sexualized by all the characters and EVEN BY HERSELF. There was a part in the shower where the “soap washed her supple body” — what female describes herself like that?? There was so much focus on her virginity, her supple body, her creamy thighs, her wet & rose-colored lips. I was pulling my hair out. It’s one thing to include some spice, but it’s another to objectify/sexualize your protagonist in the grossest way.
Overall, I’m very appreciative of the gesture of this book. Thank you, Rob Watson, but this book is NOT for me. 🔪