I honestly enjoyed this book.
The story was fun, well paced, and kept me invested in the characters.
With that said, I have to mention the ending, technically the epilogue. Spoiler warning:
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During the whole book, Lucas was emotionally hung up and refused to even think clearly about other women. But during the final moments of the book, one of the characters calmly sits on his lap and proceeds to (effectively) slowly rape him. I say rape, because he wasn’t sure if he wanted what was happening and what was going to happen. He sat there, and just listened to the conversation as the woman “took what she wanted from him.” It was jarring to me.
The whole book he stopped himself from enjoying the women around him, and suddenly, he just let it happen. He wasn’t even that upset about it either. That’s the part that actually bothered me the most. He wasn’t upset after. By this point in the book, he even made a scene about how angry he was that everyone was too loud and prevented him from remembering a moment of his dead wife. He was very distraught over it. And then in the moment in the epilogue when this happened to him, he wasn’t. He didn’t talk to himself about it, it was just a non-issue. That’s the part that bothered me. It was like a part of the character just died inside and stroked out and let it happen. I don’t think that was what the author intended. But it came across that way. As I mentioned, I can forgive the female character raping him, but not how the character lost a part of himself in that moment.
With that rant over, again, I want to say, I enjoyed this book. Listen to it or read it.
Sincerely,
Virgil Allen Moore