Julie Johnson (5)Rezensionen

Boring

Brooklyn Turner's life was upended at 6 years old when her mother's killer abducted her, but she managed to cause him to crash and foiled his escape. Fourteen years later, Brooklyn is still struggling with what happened but has held herself together enough to get into college. When she accidentally trips over a fire hydrant and it carried to the health center by Finn, she wants to hate his arrogance but, at the same time, can't help but be attracted to him. After several suspicious incidents begin happening to Brooklyn, she can't rule out Finn as a suspect.

Like Gravity is a very predictable new adult romantic suspense story with cliched characters and a simplistic plot. While there are a few enjoyable moments and some humorous banter, there just isn't anything unique to make this book stand out from countless others with the same premise. Overall, Like Gravity is a disappointing attempt at romantic suspense.

Ugh. DNF at 20%. And it started so well, but I saw the end coming:

At 19% in, I begin this review with a series of, I suppose they're warnings. It started well, I was enjoying it. But it's getting unbearable. I can tell I won't finish reading it.

1) This is in the kind of first person present tense that makes people hate that choice in novels. I roll my eyes as I protest, 'no one narrates their life like that, Julie.'

2) Even this early in, our MC, the heroine, has already declared no fewer than three times that she doesn't have the mental and physical reactions to men (or women, I assume) that others seem to. Insta-interest in the hero is shocking. Okay. Okay... OKAY I GET IT. I don't identify with it at all (it makes me think she ought to be something supernatural, TBH), probably because the interest for just the hero takes the monogamous theme to an extreme I can't identify with.

3) I'm really done with the gorgeous billionaire trope.

4) There are some not so nice bits; heroine disses sex workers. The horrible ex is overweight as well as horrible.

5) At 21% in, the heroine's thinking about her 'humans as art' theory (in the annoying narrator way), and I... ugh. It's just terrible. She's supposed to be an artist, a painter, yet doesn't base her theory on techniques but rather mediums. It makes no sense to anyone who knows anything about art.

6) Barely into chapter 11 (of 33) I'm bailing. MC equates attraction with weakness. That's it. I'm out.

End of the trilogy.
No intimate scenes other than the Hero and heroine. The heroine end up engaged to another man and there is a kiss though not much detail.
HEA.
Epilogue.

The author apologized for the delay in the release of this book and I know at times circumstances affect it being possible to stick to dates but for me I think the delay spoilt the book.
I normally don't read a series of its cliffhanger endings until all the books are out, but as this last book was available on pre-order on Amazon I thought I'd be okay, lesson learned.
I had forgotten who everyone was and I felt it was slow. The pop up of a character was predictable from book 1 and it is implied there is a secret about the intended groom which was pretty obvious.
Most of the book is the heroine sad and depressed and in the end it made me feel that way too.
I was originally enjoying the series so maybe if a reader reads it in one go it will fit together better.

There are only a handful of moments in this entire book that didn't make me roll my eyes. LORD.

It's a bit hard to review this book. While I did enjoy it, it was too predictable. Before I was even half way through I had already figured out who Finn was to her and who this 'stalker' was. Kind of disappointed in the so called plot twist. I also didn't care much for Brooklyn, yes she's had a horrific past but there were times where I just couldn't stand her.
Now Finn on the other hand, I loved. Yes he's made out to be the typical bad boy in a band who sleeps around and never gets serious but he's a good guy who genuinely cares for Brooklyn and helps her open up. Also, their relationship was hot.

Aside from the predictability the story as a whole was good. It had that creepy vibe throughout and the addition of flashbacks (which were told through Brooklyns nightmares) was a nice touch.

I wish I could give this a higher rating but I can't. The ending was a bit anticlimactic and I really wanted to just skip the last 15-20% and be done with it.

After reading the description I decided I just had to read this.
While it was good it wasn't anything spectacular. By the second half of the story I kind of started getting a bit bored. Ironically, this is when the story picks up and get a bit suspenseful.

Gemma and her friends were absolutely hilarious. And Gemma's habit of going off on tangents (mostly around Chase) was entertaining. Speaking of Chase. I liked him but I wasn't really feeling the romance between them. He's too controlling and he crosses way too many lines for a brand new relationship with someone he's known for less than a week.

I'm torn between 2 and 3 stars, but I'm going with 3 because I did love the beginning of the story (especially the basketball game).

I usually really enjoy this author, but it was like this book was written by a completely different person. I found the main characters annoying and cliche and the plot was trite and unbelievable.

I was surprised to learn how young this author is and a little disappointed that she's only written one book. I really liked this one. The "suspense" portion of the plot was really predictable and after the first flashback dream, I made the quite obvious connection as to who her "trigger" was, but those things didn't really bother me or detract from a really solid coming of age romance.