Loving Bad

I can’t really understand the mechanism of this book, how the story could be so compelling and heartwarming, yet the writing and vocabulary so poor and stilted. I liked the journey I went through reading the story with all the heartbreak, drama, chemistry, fear and love. I should have completely fell head over heels in love with Loving bad and in some ways I did. The writing however, kind of put a damper on things.

This isn’t the first book I’ve read from Regan Ure and as I’ve noticed from earlier books she is amazing with building up a complex story, place some twists and turns along the way and keep me as the reader one hundred procent invested from start to finish. That is what a good book should be, right? But even though my heart was in the story, it also meant that the writing annoyed and bothered me so so much more. This author really needs to work on her vocabulary because everywhere I read the same words used over and over. For example there was a lot of “revealed”, “started/began”, “cryptically”. Worst of all was all the repetitive sentences and conversations. Taylor had the exact same conversation with Slater as she had with Sin. With the exact same specific questions and answers. And she kept explaining that she loved her brother but found him overbearing and overprotective. In. Every. Single. Chapter. Even the sex scenes were all too similar, the main characters inner thoughts and dialog the same. Pro tip; have you written it once then you don’t need to write it ten more times. Two times is fine at most. If that.

As much as I loved the romance and connection between Taylor and Sin, I also found it in some ways plain and bareboned. In the beginning it was mostly about sex and attraction, which is to be expected because of the plot. However, as the story goes on and they start to fall for each other they also should have formed a more emotional bond as well. Sure, that’s what Regan Ure tried to convince us was happening when she wrote that they “talked about everything and nothing”. Here’s the thing though, if we readers aren’t a part of the dialogue (that’s to say if some of the dialogues isn’t written out, but rather recapped or just mentioned) then we aren’t going to be convinced or even believe that there is this “amazing relationship” between them. That’s not to say there weren’t any written out conversation at all, but the dialogues that were, were either inessentially shallow or awkwardly written. So that did not give me much anyway. Plus, on several occasions Sin called Taylor stupid. And she did not even react. What the hell was that about?

As much as the writing did bug me I just couldn’t help liking this book. I don’t understand why even, but there’s just something in it that made this book a page turner. If only the writing weren’t so repetitive this might actually have been a five star story.