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A review by jurnee_reads
Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline
2.0
I don’t mind the concept, I love some alien abduction and I can get behind a forced marriage trope… but the characters don’t really do it for me. I’m usually into the angry type, but this guy is more mean angry than I’d prefer… especially with the fl. She’s also kind of annoying… she doesn’t think before she acts and she feels like of stupid, if I was in her position I would be asking a ton of questions instead of fighting everyone along the way. She also sort of resolved to getting married pretty quick too, like one second she’s running and the next she’s drooling over alien men. The dynamic between them is irritating as well, I’m more into an opposites attract type and these two seem so similar it’s just weird. No chemistry for me, just angry people each trying to get one over on the other.
I had to skim over the first sexual scene a little… I think it’s suppose to be hot but it started with a little non-con and there was no warning for that… I can handle some non-con, but I don’t want to be surprised by it, also it doesn’t work with this overly aggressive character for me because it comes off rapey instead of dominant which is what I think the author was going for.
After just a couple days with Theo, Jade starts to feel like she doesn’t want to return to Earth, saying she feels like she’s living in color… but why?! Nothing is shown about her desires and wants aside from going back to Earth. We don’t know what her passions are, what she cares about… nothing. So I can’t see what she suddenly found so freeing about this place. She knows she won’t have to work but what else does she intend to do with her time? We don’t know. She doesn’t have any passions for anything, not even a passion for traveling or learning things… just nothing.
Their romance is just unbelievable… not in a good way. One round of sex and already they’re in love? I don’t get it. They were so hateful and aggressive before. That’s not romance in my mind, it’s just lazy writing. We’re told that they talked about their respective worlds and had a walk in the woods… but that doesn’t do anything for the romance. Now if we had actually seen that play out, read that interaction, then maybe I could be more on board.
The last 6 or so chapters were the best part of the book. They were actually interesting.
I had to skim over the first sexual scene a little… I think it’s suppose to be hot but it started with a little non-con and there was no warning for that… I can handle some non-con, but I don’t want to be surprised by it, also it doesn’t work with this overly aggressive character for me because it comes off rapey instead of dominant which is what I think the author was going for.
After just a couple days with Theo, Jade starts to feel like she doesn’t want to return to Earth, saying she feels like she’s living in color… but why?! Nothing is shown about her desires and wants aside from going back to Earth. We don’t know what her passions are, what she cares about… nothing. So I can’t see what she suddenly found so freeing about this place. She knows she won’t have to work but what else does she intend to do with her time? We don’t know. She doesn’t have any passions for anything, not even a passion for traveling or learning things… just nothing.
Their romance is just unbelievable… not in a good way. One round of sex and already they’re in love? I don’t get it. They were so hateful and aggressive before. That’s not romance in my mind, it’s just lazy writing. We’re told that they talked about their respective worlds and had a walk in the woods… but that doesn’t do anything for the romance. Now if we had actually seen that play out, read that interaction, then maybe I could be more on board.
The last 6 or so chapters were the best part of the book. They were actually interesting.