The Final Day
Ratings45
Average rating3.2
3.5 Stars
Damn, I thought I was never gonna finish this book. I have read books bigger than this one, but this shit put me in a reading slump for about a month.
With that being said...I did not hate the book, not even close. I actually really liked it, but there are a couple of reasons that it is not a 5 star book for me.
1. If you've read the first 2 books, you know these characters. Hardin is mentally and verbally abusive. For that, I knocked off a star. I don't want anyone feeling like it's ok to be treated this way.
2. It's pretty repetitive in the sense that all they do is fight. I honestly just want 75% of the book to be a happy and loving relationship. I understand that couples fight, but it's so dramatic. I felt like every other fucking page had them in a hellacious fight. This is why I was in a reading slump, I needed to rid myself of the constant drama that this series was dishing out.
3. There honestly was a lot that could have been cut out of the book. I love a good, long book like anybody else but some shit was just pointless.
This is definitely my least favorite book in the series, but I still loved it in my own way. There were good parts, parts that made me fall in love with the characters, parts that made me angry, parts that made me cry. To me, if a book can make me feel all these emotions, it's a good book.
I do have to say that I am half-way through the next book and I'm loving that one so far.
ok, so, apart from my ocd issues that made me read the series, it is really not a good book. All the comments I made in the first volume remain, and this third adds insult to injury by being much ado about nothing, hope Shakespeare pardons me for the pun, first dragging things on for a million chapters and then turning things into a Mexican soap opera, paternity tests included. I almost see someone being pushed down the stairs, it was the only thing missing.
of course, this one I read on wattpad, so I'm not commenting on the absurd typos and editing missing, the author had enough on her plate coming up with new ways of paraphrasing “we are never going to work out, I can't live like this” every five pages.
and then, the ending. Jeez. should I comment? after the bet, you would think the guy would have learned a frigging lesson. Then it all goes weird because he tries to be poetic, and suddenly, next chapter... wtf happened???? they had no explanation whatsoever (for the first time btw) for not having gotten together years before, he published all the freaking books and she is fine with it, and cherry top, he is suddenly a normal, grown up human being!! I remember Phoebe, from Friends, defying Ross:” well, at least I respected you when you stood for your beliefs”
-I felt the same. Ridiculously childish tantrum thrower couple at least was consistent - how did they vanish from one chapter to the other?
I'm still giving two stars because, cringing with embarrassment for the bad writing and crazy plot and pathetic characters, I read it all, like candy that is bad but addictive on Halloween.