Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

L.J . Shen used to be a go to author for me, but in the last couple of years she has been hit and miss. This book suffers from being a Frankenstein's monster of tropes and themes. Both main characters suffer from a lack of development, arc and likeability. Ness is an odd mix of aggressive and spineless. She is unnecessarily rude with little provocation and then completely spineless when she is actually being treated poorly. I'm not convinced that the female mc is all alone in the world because of her teen pregnancy. It's probably because she's purposefully acts dumb and has a bad attitude.I usually enjoy this authors wit, but the use of sarcasm and metaphor is becoming overwrought and lazy. Instead of telling us that the hero looks like Ryan Gosling in Drive use your writing skills to describe him. That's just lazy. Also, is he supposed to be a likeable doctor? He seems like a shut shaming, snobby narcissist . I wish that the author took more time to flesh out her ideas lately. Because when she's on there are very few people who are as capable of humanizing unlikable characters. I think she needs new beta readers. I'm convinced that the only feedback she gets is from her friends who are too afraid to give her honest criticism.