This was just simply bad writing.
The author tells one thing but the lead character acts another way.
Not only is the character not thought through, but also a hypocrite and contradicts herself constantly.
The story starts out with our lead character wanting to get a promotion. By getting the promo, she has to win a competition by writing a fun and sexy column about dating three men via a social dating service app.
Contradictions:
She is a journalist. Yet, she isn’t able to look up an address up front, where the first date takes place?
She chooses a personal trainer for her first date, yet she is surprised and loathes the fact he chose a sportive activity for the date? I remind you, she is a journalist.
She doesn’t want to date at all. This is work. Professional. Research for her article. After the second date is a fail, I keep wondering. Why is it a fail. it can’t be a fail, being simply research and not personal. So again, she doesn’t show much professionalism.
Next she compares herself to a prostitute? Because she has a date in an upper class restaurant? You know, one can be underdressed without comparing one self with ‘pretty woman’. Sigh. And why didn’t she look the place up before going?
....I would like to say that I’m shocked but in the ten minutes I’ve been here, I’ve gotten a pretty good read on this guy, and I’m not sure that he could say much that would surprise me....
And guess what, the next instance her mouth is hanging open in shock.
I don’t know what the author is thinking really. The character isn’t really thought through.
Then we get again misleading information.
She panics because she thinks she looses her promotion. Because her third date is bad and she wants to cut it short. That doesn’t make any sense. Because she cut the first date short by faking an SOS call with her girlfriend to leave and didn’t worry at all.
It all contradicts itself.
I just don’t get it. The author tells us her boss told her to write a fun and sexy column about three dates.
But during the dates she acts, as if she wasn’t able to choose her dates by herself via the dating app, and is disappointed as if someone else choose them for her. The first she cuts short and at the third she acts as if she looses her job by doing so.
She is on the phone with her best friend who wants to know, why, she after 2 years of single lady life suddenly goes on a second date in two days.
And instead of a short answer, it is for the job, a column she is writing and more details later, they talk back and forth, she is insisting on not being able to tell her now but will do so later!!
Her reasoning about cheating is very weird.
It helped her see things? I might add that breaking up and talking out why before one even cheats could also do the trick. To realise in hindsight the relationship wasn’t healthy or lopsided. But I guess to everyone it’s own. Yet she criticises and isn’t even understanding when someone is still dealing with anger and feelings of betrayal and been taking advantage of after being cheated on. That of course isn’t first date talking material, but she told us not a few sentences before she could see herself getting friends with the guy. Just friends. So then act as a friend, even having the experience of being cheated on in common.
This is in general a bad writing. I don’t think I will last much longer with this book. It was in a desperate need of an editor or even a beta reader. To give the book a concept and foremost a consistent character.
The idea so far wasn’t bad. But the execution lacks. The side characters were one dimensional and stereotypical.
I can’t tell much about the storyline as I am only at chapter 4 and it fails miserably.