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This book should've been called "Red Flag" This book is about a married couple trying to salvage their relationship, and I was excited because I loooove the "marriage on the rocks" trope. However. Rosie and Dominic should've gotten a divorce. There's absolutely nothing to their relationships except sex. And I enjoy myself a heavy smut book every now and then, but they literally can't even make eye contact without getting mega horny. Imagine having a partner you have been married to for a decade and you can't even have a single conversation. Also, Dominic is super overbearing and possessive. His wife isn't allowed to have a social life because he doesn't want to "share" her. She belongs at home with him because she's his wife. (I'm sorry, is this the 1900s calling?) They basically know nothing about each other because they don't talk. Dominic is an army veteran who came back from Afghanistan and probably suffers from PTSD but they never actually address it. He should go into therapy before attempting to fix his relationship. The therapist they go to for their couples therapy is just... weird? He does drugs during sessions and makes them do weird shit. Like forcing them to go on a camping trip only to show up himself with two women to have a threesome. Like what? Tessa Bailey always writes books that are very centered around sex but I really need ANY sign of actual connection to root for this couple. There's nothing. Absolutely nothing. She could hump a body pillow every night to get her orgasm and it would have the same emotional connection as her husband. The only thing I liked about this book is that Rosie is a chef who wants to start her own restaurant and I like the descriptions of delicious food. That's it.
Spätestens jetzt nach 4 Büchern hab ich in Tessa Bailey meine neue Lieblings-RomCom-Autorin gefunden. Jede ihrer Storys ist anders, jedoch immer kurzweilig und süß. Die Figuren absolut unterschiedlich in ihren Wünschen, Ambitionen und Charakterzügen aber nie fehlerfrei, sodass auch hier wieder nicht nur eine Lovestory erzählt wird, sondern das Wachsen zweier Menschen. Dieses Mal während einer Paartherapie, die auch mir gerade bezüglich dem Thema "Liebessprachen" neuen Input gegeben hat. Der Humor ist wie immer toll und den wunderbaren Nebenfiguren zu verdanken. Der Spice ist nahezu perfekt. Klar, es ist kitschig und stellenweise vorhersehbar, aber absolut zu verschmerzen.
Ein spannendes Thema, dass ein verheiratetes Paar wieder zueinander finden möchte und süß in der Dynamik miteinander. Allerdings bin ich mir abschließend nicht sicher, ob ihre Probleme wirklich vollends aus der Welt geschafft wurden und manche Ansichten von Dominic fand ich fragwürdig und nervig. Ich habe das Buch gerne gelesen, würde es aber nicht als must read bezeichnen🥰
Se me está atragantado muchísimo la lectura, Dominic me cae fatal y ella igual. Las interacciones que tienen me dan muchísimo cringe, que él este todo el rato que "mi esposa mi esposa, mi esposa"súper posesivo me enerva muchísimo. Puedes crear un personaje Parco en palabras o hacia adentro sin que sea tan cromañón, un ejemplo es el coprotagonista de Normal People. Luego, las escenas smut me dan cringe también entonces mal. Creo que lo voy a dejar aparcado y lo retomaré en un futuro, aunque sinceramente creo que ya no es mi tipo de lectura.
This was my second Tessa Bailey book and I enjoyed this way more than "It happened one summer".First of all, I loved that we already had a married couple and we got to know them already being "stuck" in their relationship, compared to other romcoms where we go through the whole "get to know the people", which was very refreshing.I think Rosie and Dominic are a perfect fit and I loved seeing them fall in love again without actually fallen out of love.I think what I most enjoyed in this book, and this might be a bit too deep for the genre, is that this is probably one of the most relatable situations a couple can be in. Met at school, married at a young age, he was in the army, he lost himself a bit more every time he got home and after 10 years of their relationship all there was is the very base, which is their physical attraction and the safety of knowing the other person. Add to this forgotten communication and being stuck in routines. As basic and easy fix as it sounds from the outside, I think books like this are needed.Also, shoutout to couples therapy. While Armie was not like your typical therapist, he and his methods fitted not only the book perfectly but also the couple. I don't think his advice and the sessions themselves were too far off from reality.Another thing which was very clear in Dominic's behaviour was the influence of immigrant parents as well as just the older generation. The need to work and provide as the "man in the household" reflected perfectly in Dominic, which ended up in having a lot of repetitive thoughts. One might call this old school traits. I think the only thing I don't really get with Tessa's books is the rough, one might call it vulgar, language when it comes to the sex scenes. It doesn't really flow when I compare it to the rest of the novel. I don't know ? Maybe it’s not my kind of dirty talk. Anyway, good book.
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This book should've been called "Red Flag" This book is about a married couple trying to salvage their relationship, and I was excited because I loooove the "marriage on the rocks" trope. However. Rosie and Dominic should've gotten a divorce. There's absolutely nothing to their relationships except sex. And I enjoy myself a heavy smut book every now and then, but they literally can't even make eye contact without getting mega horny. Imagine having a partner you have been married to for a decade and you can't even have a single conversation. Also, Dominic is super overbearing and possessive. His wife isn't allowed to have a social life because he doesn't want to "share" her. She belongs at home with him because she's his wife. (I'm sorry, is this the 1900s calling?) They basically know nothing about each other because they don't talk. Dominic is an army veteran who came back from Afghanistan and probably suffers from PTSD but they never actually address it. He should go into therapy before attempting to fix his relationship. The therapist they go to for their couples therapy is just... weird? He does drugs during sessions and makes them do weird shit. Like forcing them to go on a camping trip only to show up himself with two women to have a threesome. Like what? Tessa Bailey always writes books that are very centered around sex but I really need ANY sign of actual connection to root for this couple. There's nothing. Absolutely nothing. She could hump a body pillow every night to get her orgasm and it would have the same emotional connection as her husband. The only thing I liked about this book is that Rosie is a chef who wants to start her own restaurant and I like the descriptions of delicious food. That's it.
Spätestens jetzt nach 4 Büchern hab ich in Tessa Bailey meine neue Lieblings-RomCom-Autorin gefunden. Jede ihrer Storys ist anders, jedoch immer kurzweilig und süß. Die Figuren absolut unterschiedlich in ihren Wünschen, Ambitionen und Charakterzügen aber nie fehlerfrei, sodass auch hier wieder nicht nur eine Lovestory erzählt wird, sondern das Wachsen zweier Menschen. Dieses Mal während einer Paartherapie, die auch mir gerade bezüglich dem Thema "Liebessprachen" neuen Input gegeben hat. Der Humor ist wie immer toll und den wunderbaren Nebenfiguren zu verdanken. Der Spice ist nahezu perfekt. Klar, es ist kitschig und stellenweise vorhersehbar, aber absolut zu verschmerzen.
Ein spannendes Thema, dass ein verheiratetes Paar wieder zueinander finden möchte und süß in der Dynamik miteinander. Allerdings bin ich mir abschließend nicht sicher, ob ihre Probleme wirklich vollends aus der Welt geschafft wurden und manche Ansichten von Dominic fand ich fragwürdig und nervig. Ich habe das Buch gerne gelesen, würde es aber nicht als must read bezeichnen🥰
Se me está atragantado muchísimo la lectura, Dominic me cae fatal y ella igual. Las interacciones que tienen me dan muchísimo cringe, que él este todo el rato que "mi esposa mi esposa, mi esposa"súper posesivo me enerva muchísimo. Puedes crear un personaje Parco en palabras o hacia adentro sin que sea tan cromañón, un ejemplo es el coprotagonista de Normal People. Luego, las escenas smut me dan cringe también entonces mal. Creo que lo voy a dejar aparcado y lo retomaré en un futuro, aunque sinceramente creo que ya no es mi tipo de lectura.
This was my second Tessa Bailey book and I enjoyed this way more than "It happened one summer".First of all, I loved that we already had a married couple and we got to know them already being "stuck" in their relationship, compared to other romcoms where we go through the whole "get to know the people", which was very refreshing.I think Rosie and Dominic are a perfect fit and I loved seeing them fall in love again without actually fallen out of love.I think what I most enjoyed in this book, and this might be a bit too deep for the genre, is that this is probably one of the most relatable situations a couple can be in. Met at school, married at a young age, he was in the army, he lost himself a bit more every time he got home and after 10 years of their relationship all there was is the very base, which is their physical attraction and the safety of knowing the other person. Add to this forgotten communication and being stuck in routines. As basic and easy fix as it sounds from the outside, I think books like this are needed.Also, shoutout to couples therapy. While Armie was not like your typical therapist, he and his methods fitted not only the book perfectly but also the couple. I don't think his advice and the sessions themselves were too far off from reality.Another thing which was very clear in Dominic's behaviour was the influence of immigrant parents as well as just the older generation. The need to work and provide as the "man in the household" reflected perfectly in Dominic, which ended up in having a lot of repetitive thoughts. One might call this old school traits. I think the only thing I don't really get with Tessa's books is the rough, one might call it vulgar, language when it comes to the sex scenes. It doesn't really flow when I compare it to the rest of the novel. I don't know ? Maybe it’s not my kind of dirty talk. Anyway, good book.