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shadowkatI'm 68% of the way through (according to the Kindle) of "Three Wishes", a contemporary romance with fantasy elements. Think Aladdin meets Billionaire Bad Boy Romance. And...I'm coming to the conclusion that me and contemporary romance novels may be unmixy things? This book is so bad...yet, I can't stop reading it for some reason. The plot makes no sense. The characters make no sense. I can't figure out when it takes place. The sentence structure is also off at times.
Example?
No one could help him do that. Except but one person.
Ugh. It should be "except one person". She does this all the time. It's not helped by the fact that I have a tendency to flip words around when distracted. Although "Except one but person" is rather funny.
Right now? The two main characters are having a fight over money. Apparently the hero doesn't want the heroine to pay for anything. He pays for everything. He's insanely wealthy. He gave her seven million pounds and he doesn't want her to buy him an expensive motorcycle with it. (First of all he already has an expensive motorcycle in London, she decides to get him one for Somerset? Why not have him bring the one in London to Somerset? Second, the money she's using, he gave her.) And I'm thinking...why would you buy someone an expensive motorcycle with money they gave you? OR at all? Particularly if he already owns a motorcycle? And why is he upset about it? It's not like he can't give her more money? It seems...well absurd.
Oh and apparently the reason he doesn't want her to spend the money -- is he wants her to have something and be taken care of in case something happens to him? So he doesn't have an insurance policy? The man is insanely wealthy. And oh, now, he's furious because she has an existing trust fund set up for their daughter -- before he popped up again, and he's upset it exists, because he should fund the daughter solely. Honestly, it's not that hard to liquidate a trust fund and the daughter having two trust funds is not a big deal. I doubt she'll complain. Sigh wealth fantasies are annoying. (If this is bugging the hero, how's he going to handle the fact that the heroine has her own personal genie and could wish for unlimited wealth, his death/disappearance, or pretty much anything within reason at any time?)
These characters just throw material things and money at each other, and have sex, to show love. Every time they have a fight -- they have sex. But having a conversation...seems to be beyond them. The hero refuses to talk about himself or his job. (I've no idea what he does. I know what she does.) He also refuses to talk about his interests.
Honestly why is she in love with him? Because he's pretty and is great at sex? And has lots of money? That's not love. Lust yes. Love no. He's also a controlling bastard who throws a temper tantrum whenever she doesn't do what he wants. I'd have kicked his ass to the curb by now and married the nice lawyer.
It could still be a satire...can't really tell at this point. If it is, it's unintentional..which...okay. I'm curious as to what the last wish will be. The second one was well for this dude to appear in the heroine's life. She wanted a contemporary romance hero and lots of trials and tribulations...guess what? She got it. If I were writing this -- the last wish would be to undo the second wish...and un-write everything ...so she ends up with the lawyer. Having never met the hero or his insane family, and her parents never die in a plane crash. The hero dies instead.
But that's not going to happen.
Example?
No one could help him do that. Except but one person.
Ugh. It should be "except one person". She does this all the time. It's not helped by the fact that I have a tendency to flip words around when distracted. Although "Except one but person" is rather funny.
Right now? The two main characters are having a fight over money. Apparently the hero doesn't want the heroine to pay for anything. He pays for everything. He's insanely wealthy. He gave her seven million pounds and he doesn't want her to buy him an expensive motorcycle with it. (First of all he already has an expensive motorcycle in London, she decides to get him one for Somerset? Why not have him bring the one in London to Somerset? Second, the money she's using, he gave her.) And I'm thinking...why would you buy someone an expensive motorcycle with money they gave you? OR at all? Particularly if he already owns a motorcycle? And why is he upset about it? It's not like he can't give her more money? It seems...well absurd.
Oh and apparently the reason he doesn't want her to spend the money -- is he wants her to have something and be taken care of in case something happens to him? So he doesn't have an insurance policy? The man is insanely wealthy. And oh, now, he's furious because she has an existing trust fund set up for their daughter -- before he popped up again, and he's upset it exists, because he should fund the daughter solely. Honestly, it's not that hard to liquidate a trust fund and the daughter having two trust funds is not a big deal. I doubt she'll complain. Sigh wealth fantasies are annoying. (If this is bugging the hero, how's he going to handle the fact that the heroine has her own personal genie and could wish for unlimited wealth, his death/disappearance, or pretty much anything within reason at any time?)
These characters just throw material things and money at each other, and have sex, to show love. Every time they have a fight -- they have sex. But having a conversation...seems to be beyond them. The hero refuses to talk about himself or his job. (I've no idea what he does. I know what she does.) He also refuses to talk about his interests.
Honestly why is she in love with him? Because he's pretty and is great at sex? And has lots of money? That's not love. Lust yes. Love no. He's also a controlling bastard who throws a temper tantrum whenever she doesn't do what he wants. I'd have kicked his ass to the curb by now and married the nice lawyer.
It could still be a satire...can't really tell at this point. If it is, it's unintentional..which...okay. I'm curious as to what the last wish will be. The second one was well for this dude to appear in the heroine's life. She wanted a contemporary romance hero and lots of trials and tribulations...guess what? She got it. If I were writing this -- the last wish would be to undo the second wish...and un-write everything ...so she ends up with the lawyer. Having never met the hero or his insane family, and her parents never die in a plane crash. The hero dies instead.
But that's not going to happen.