Regretting You By Colleen Hoover Published Year: Page Count: 346 pages Medium Used: Kindle PW Genre : Romance, Teenage, Contemporary Fiction,2025-read. Rating : 5/5 Wow. Hoover can write. She had my complete attention while reading this book. The prose is great. The pacing is fast. I tried to jot down some points I didn't like about this story but I couldn't come up with many. Unlike most romance novels, this one doesn't have too much smut or overt sexuality. I am secretly thankful for that. When I was reading Verity by Hoover, the too many sexual descriptions had me cringing and nauseated. They were a big turn off for me. But this story has not one but two romantic tracks going on.. and strangely its mother and daughter .. and there is no smut in it. I am amazed. I also liked the maturity which the mother attains alongside her daughter when both their trust and faith are at crossroads. I felt there is too much crying and raw emotional dis...
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World By Elif Shafak Published Year: 2019 [Viking] Page Count: 303 pages Medium Used: Paperback Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Istanbul, Prostitution, 2025-read. Rating : 2.5/5 I felt the story and narration get a tad boring at times in the middle of the book. I also felt that the author could have taken more time to establish an emotional connection between the main character and her reader. Things - unfortunate, abusive - are happening to her and there is only apathy from my side because Leila, the main character, comes off as detached - that she couldn't or wouldn't be bothered by those odious things. The political, anarchist/leftist angle that the author tried to briefly introduce with the husband of Leila felt superficial. It only felt like a interjection, that was made to fill the space and make more complicated, in an otherwise non-political book. And Leila doesn't act or think like a prostitute, ...