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Talk about ending it with a whimper. Looking back at the first part and then on what I just read, the two parts are so unrecognizable from each other. It started high and ended way low.
I don’t even know where to start. So much in this book – part, whatever, irked me. Especially the characters. Just starting with Lily who thought she had some right to a baby that wasn’t hers just because she was friends with the dad. I mean, giving him a middle name, taking maternity leave from work and wanting to claim paternal rights for the kid. Overstepping isn’t even close enough to describe what she was doing. Talk about entitlement to a whole new level, and the worst part was that the story handled it like some cutsie joke and a tool to make her and Tommy suddenly be heads over heels in love at the end of the day. How convenient that the whole friend group not only found love within the group but suddenly had always been “secretly” in love with each other …
That’s only the side characters of the story. Nothing irked me more than the actual main characters, being all over the place of where they stood. They were going to figure it out together, then it couldn’t work, then it could work all of a sudden, then it couldn’t. In the end it just magically solved itself with both of them getting everything they wanted. Not only that, it had to be solved with an epic romantic speech that made people who didn’t know them cry, swoon and almost faint over how oh so in love they were. Like really? Is that how the author thinks the world works, least of all a freaking court house? If so at least she could have made them something I as a reader could swoon over instead of just writing stuff like ”we gazed into each other’s eyes and made out passionately” and just leaving it there.
Seriously, the chemistry the main character mentions continuously was as dead as the Dead Sea between the two, mainly because their interactions were so basic and forced and just all over the place when the weren’t fighting. Really, so were their personalities. Even Tommy, who previously had charm was dead in the personality department. Even so, there were more chemistry between him and Rose than any other character. A friendly one of course, which I liked, but also made the whole adding that they at one point had tried to be together so so unnecessary and completely pointless, especially since the story was already starting to conclude.
And the conclusion … sigh. It’s like realism is an alien language to this author. It just tried to be way too perfect for everyone. Everyone had the absolute perfect family and life, every grievance and conflicts was solved and ever sentence started with how much they loved this or that. The ending is actually kind of ironic considering the series started with a bang and ended in a whimper.