PopSugar 2018 reading challenge #19
I feel like I should title this review "You just met me, don't call me baby, and other completely problematic 'fantasies'".......
This was smut, but it was poorly written smut. I know, I know, you're just supposed to show up for a good time with stories like this. However, I do require my smut to have some decent writing to go along with a fun story. This was just a little cringey.
Becky goes to a Halloween party, meets Easton, and within seconds they're banging and glued at the hip. Surprise, she's pregnant because there can be consequences to one-night stands. But everything works out perfectly.
There is something lazy about the execution. Using words like "gonna" and "'cos" in a story just rub me the wrong way, and I know this isn't exactly prize-winning literature, but it still should pretend to be just a little bit more than sloppy. There are also moments where the point of view bothered me. In the second 'chapter' the POV switches to Easton, who is claiming our damsel's virginity (sigh). As he does this, his POV has the line "As the pain subsides..." and this just, again, was sloppy. How does he know when the "pain subsides"? I mean... he doesn't. It was just, technically, off-putting. Within five seconds of having her virginity taken, she's instantly saying "harder" and other nonsense.
And if it wasn't awkward enough, when Becky says she's not on the pill (of course, he's already bare and inside of her) Easton says "I'm not going to pull out" because... I guess he just doesn't care. That was bad enough for me. It seems selfish of him. But to make matters even worse, she then shouts out the dumbest line ever... "fill me with your..." you know. Yikes. This has escalated rather quickly. Poor choices, quite frankly, and while I enjoy "taboo" as much as everyone else, I don't like stupidity.
The taboo, of course, is that Becky finds out this guy is a professor in her program. Well, that would have been good to know. Becky, of course, flips out and overreacts to the entire situation, running off (crying?!) and saying they can't be seen together at school. Ugh. The premise is so immature. Just don't take a course with him. Just don't tell anyone (we all know this happens on college campuses... for better or worse). But don't act like a dumb dumb and run off and ruin an otherwise insta-perfect thing.
Don't get me started on the best friend who instantly starts accusing Easton of "harassment" because he dares walk up to Becky on the campus. I mean.... this is so problematic that I cannot believe I got this far in the story. And if that wasn't bad enough, her sister shows up and we find out she's pregnant too, but with the "head of the Mafia"'s baby... I mean... the more you read the worse it gets.
None of this story excites me as a reader.
To each their own however! I may be an outlier.