Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I reread this for a book club and I only finished it because I don't like disappointing my club members. It was even worse than I remembered. I thought it was just okay the first time I read it. Then I read the godawful "The Proposal" and I realized many of my problems with this book has to do with Jasmine Guillory's writing style. This book feels like a first draft that was slapped together the night before it was due. The plot is nonexistent. The dialogue makes me full-body cringe. The characters are beyond unlikable. Drew is an insecure neurotic the book keeps insisting is a smooth ladies' man. He's a horrible doctor, friend and boyfriend. Alexa is dumber than a dead goldfish. In one scene, she leaves for a booty call and takes her underpants off BEFORE getting on the plane, rather than waiting until she lands and arrives at Drew's house. Speaking of, get ready to read a lot of poorly described and gratuitous sex scenes. Their "romance" is really just them being horny for each other. I'm all for light, fluffy reads. "The Unhoneymooners," for example, is genuinely one of the funniest romances I've read this year. It doesn't take itself too seriously and there aren't any wild or crazy stakes. It's just a couple on a Hawaiian vacation discovering they like each other. This book has none of that. There's nothing fun about! It's 320-plus pages of anxiety and stress. You can't sit back and enjoy the story because the writing is such a turn off and the neurotic characters are constantly making stupid, infuriating decisions. I'd also like to point out that this book DOES try to tackle important themes like racism and privilege. And it completely fumbles it! In one scene, Drew tells Alexa that two of his buddies will be in attendance at a party they'll be attending. The only reason he's telling her about them is because they're black. Alexa has nothing in common with these men. They are just bros Drew practices basketball with. But he gives her this shallow heads up because all black people know each other, am I right? This is the WRONG lesson to teach. This is the absolute last time I waste my energy on anything by Jasmine Guillory. My blood pressure can't take it anymore.