Things We Never Got Over
Ratings188
Average rating3.8
⋆˙⟡♡ pre-reading
I settled on a romance for my next book (to renew my faith in love) but after reading some of the reviews by my GR friends and others I'm sort of instantly regretting my decision.. it's so highly rated though? either way I've bought it so we're going to give it a go, I'm hoping to not add another DNF to this month!
Naomi Witt meninggalkan calon suaminya di altar dan semua kehidupan yang dia tahu, untuk menemui Tina, saudara kembarnya di Knockemout, kota kecil di Virginia. Naomi berharap Tina sudah berubah, seiring waktu yang mereka habiskan hidup terpisah.
Namun Tina sama sekali belum berubah. Tina justru mencuri mobil dan semua harta benda Naomi. Bahkan Tina meninggalkan Waylay, anaknya yang berumur 11 tahun untuk diurus Naomi. Kini Naomi terjebak di Knockemout, tanpa mobil, tanpa uang, tanpa pekerjaan dan tanpa rencana hidup yang jelas.
Naomi bertemu Knox, saudara laki-laki kepala Polisi, yang awalnya mengira Naomi adalah Tina. Kesan pertama yang tidak begitu baik membuat Naomi jengkel pada Knox. Namun karena Naomi kini bertanggung jawab terhadap Waylay, mau tidak mau Knox membantu Naomi, setidaknya hingga kondisi keuangan Naomi lebih stabil. Setidaknya begitulah rencana Knox.
Aku tertarik pada buku ini karena cukup hype. Kebetulan ada fisiknya di Perpus Jakarta, karena ebook tidak tersedia di OverDrive/Libby. Seperti ciri khas buku romance akhir-akhir ini, aku ada disini hanya untuk bagian smut
Well I didn't hate it 😂
I love a small town romance so a lot of this worked for me - the family, the side characters in town, the kid, the animals, the suspense element, etc.
However Knox was a dick for a lot of this, not in a "grumpy alpha who softens when he falls for her" kinda way, but in the "has absolutely no idea how to speak to or think about humans way". I could list all his faults but there's so many other reviews with actual quotes which do that. Even on the very last page he pissed me off (in reference to pregnancy hormones) "I'd have handled her tears, but probably not well". Fuck off, if she's the love of your life you wipe her tears and hold her until she feels better, especially if she's growing your child or having fertility issues, dick.
It also had my most hated third act breakup reason - "I'm breaking up with her for her own good/to protect her/to keep her safe". Ugh 🙄
I loved this book. Knox was so stubborn and dumb not to realize his own feelings. I adored Way and Naomi's relationship. Their chemistry was soo good from the get go. I can't wait for the next book in this series!
Me ha encantado este libro. Me ha entretenido muchísimo y he amado a sus personajes. Tengo muchas ganas de seguir con la trilogía.
Okay. I had such a love hate relationship with this book. Lets lay it out. Read with caution if you care about spoilers.
Love:
- Naomi is incredibly relatable in some ways. That really really helped me reading this. Examples:
“Sure, maybe I wasn't a ride-with-no-hands or a sneak-out-of-a-sleepover-to-go-kiss-boys fun, or a call-in-sick-to-go-to-a-concert fun kind of gal, but I didn't hate fun. There was usually just too much that needed doing before I could get to the fun.”
“I don't think I talk too much. I just have a lot of information that needs to be disseminated to the public.”
“He was a man with a lot of feelings locked up tight. Part of me wanted to crack him open. The other part wanted to just go back to bed and forget everything for a few hours.”
Please check my kindle notes and highlights for this book.
Five minutes into the episode, I heard a soft snore. Knox had his feet propped up on the coffee table and his head pitched back against the cushion. His eyes were closed, and his mouth was open. I looked at Waylay, and she grinned at me. Knox snored again, and we both giggled quietly.
“The woman might have been pixie-sized, but she certainly had big ideas about how to expand the library's services to the community. It was both exciting and interesting to be part of something that was so focused on helping people.”
lot
such an ass?
“hot, tight channel”
“tight, wet wonderland”
“I almost went cross-eyed trying to keep my release in my balls where it churned.”
Super leuk, super sexy en super schattig boek! Niet alleen romance, maar ook super veel plot. Het is een lang boek, maar het voelt totaal niet lang
Tengo que decir que le tenia mucho hype a este libro y aunque he amado a Knox no me ha parecido nada del otro mundo
I had to really push through this book. It was loooooong and I did not like the main characters. The main make Knox is just a jerk. He Furby get better. The female main Naomi is the classic boring, run of the mill woman. The stars are for Waylay and the dogs.
Really enjoyed the characters and storyline of this book. It would have been a 5 star read but for me some of the romance was a bit cringy. There was also times where Knox as a character acted in ways that were very unrealistic which took me out of the narrative.
I missed stories like this. Full of romance, typical sunshine and grumpy characters. Books that are ideal to enjoy at the beach or to relax at home.
It may not be perfect but hey who is?
3.25/5
I feel like this book was unnecessarily long but at the same time, all the moments and scenes felt important. though i could gone without endless interventions knox got about him leaving naomi.
overall, it was a nice and fun read
Preface on this review, I did listen to this book on audiobook and I don't think I get as into books that way vs reading. This book was a bit of a miss for me. It felt a bit overly cliche with damsel in distress meets handsome bad guy who's emotionally unavailable. It was a three star for me because there were a couple of twists and sweet characters and moments, but overall for a fairly hyped book it felt kind of banal to me. The way the characters spoke sounded overly scripted, set up to be blandly “profound” and I just found many of them to be unrealistic (giving me the “this would never happen in real life” feel throughout the book).
It was an enjoyable book but definitely not one I'm running to tell everyone about.
3.75-4 stars. Things got a little crazy in the end and there were some communication issues that I am not fond of. Otherwise, it was an engaging book that I couldn't put down.
I love Knox and Naomi. Their personalities match mine and my husbands so I was kind of partial to their story. I love how protective he is of her. They both taught each other things and it was just a really sweet story with some crazy added in. It was really really good.
i fucking hate Knox and how posessive he is. Especially by the end. He breaks up with Naomi and yet doesn't give her the space she needs and is pissy and whiny that she wants to avoid him? And then he didn't ask her to marry him, no, he demanded. He didn't let her tell him she loves him, he forced her to wait. And when he broke up with her he blamed that on her because ‘he told her not to expect anything' while HE WAS THERE, CARING FOR HER. ACTIONS SPOKE LOUDER THAN THE WORDS (though his words to Naomi were shitty too). The only reason i'm giving it this high rating is the background characters: Nash, Sloane, Lucian (I really hope there will be a third book about them, I'm very intrigued!), and Waylay. I hate Knox so much, he's such a misogynistic pig who controls everything Naomi does.
This book has all the tropes and ticks all the boxes of everything I tend to hate:
- Dependent girl
- Bossy, rude and controlling guy
- Adults who behave like children
- Break-up close to the end of the book
- Absolutely excessive amount of references to coffee and subsequent moaning about it
- Gay character fully based on stereotypes
- Everyone in the town is hot
- New parenthood
- Poorly written
- Excessively long
However, and almost embarrassingly, I ended up liking and was thoroughly entertained.
3 stars? 4?
This book is amazingly compelling, even though it is extremely anti feminist and even though disbelief is hard to suspend at times.
At a lot of times.
Yet the dialogue is witty. And the friends and family and village in the book are like those in a Coca Cola Christmas commercial. Amazingly sweet and supportive.
Yes it's full of cliche's.
Yes it's twice as long as needs be.
Yes the sex scenes are over the top and very traditional in a way.
And yet, I had a good time. Especially during the first half of the book.
It has an addictive cadence and a nice lightheartedness.
