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Not that insects aren't potentially nutritious, but really? It's also just way too long. Probably because it was originally fan fiction and most likely released a chapter at a time, but reading one after the other it's just so long. Not sure if that ever gets addressed, but I think it should. Anyway, didn't like it, didn't finish it, maybe it got better by the end, but I doubt it.

I rated this fairly low, but finished the book so that I could give a fair and hopefully nuanced explanation. To start with, this is extremely in that a lot of the humour and language is no longer acceptable in modern romance writing. A random side character introduced solely to incite jealousy is called a slut. This is made worse when later in the book, we learn that Devlyn has not had much sexual experience at all, and chose to wait until after marriage with her deceased wife for some strange reason.

If nothing else, in modern times, an out and proud lesbian who is the first woman and gay person holding the office of the POTUS would be incredibly careful about reinforcing the harmful stereotype of the predatory lesbian by coming on to her in-residence biographer who was previously married to a man. She is happy to snap at, yell at, or fire people based on how they behave towards her love interest indirect employee.

Diplomatic relations are affected by how badly Devlyn is unable to control her emotional reactions to anyone else admiring or wanting to ask out the object of her interest. The Presidential model here, where Devlyn throws childish tantrums, yells at her staff when irked, and is an inarticulate mess on most occasions that are not direct public speaking, simply would not work in modern-day romances with characters embodying power as women.

Aside from the characterization, the idea that any sitting President would give no-holds-barred access with full control over what they include or how they frame things in the biography with an explicit exception for state secrets and classified informationis laughable. Another glaring problem is that neither woman seems particularly interested in their chosen career.

Devlyn takes being President for granted, using her position of power to have the taxpayers fund gifts for the object of her affection, special privileges for dates, and housing at the White House with open permission to wander. After this gig concludes somehow there is a very unrealistic plan made near the end of the book to just transfer the costs and all the top secret material Lauren has had access to over to a third-party publisherLauren will not have a shred of credibility left as a serious biographer but nobody seems too concerned about it.

An excellent example of this very situation is found in The Brutal Truthwhere Elena Bartell, despite caring a great deal for the young reporter, Maddie Grey, advises her to be shrewd in her dealings, even at the cost of her own magazine being nailed down in a less than ideal deal, and keeping Maddie at a distance until she is able to conclude her own messy divorce since they are both in the public eye and it would not be good for their careers.

All of the above were things I think may have been acceptable in for a romance novel, in terms of characterization and making it all a bit hand-wavy and fairytale-ish. This story desperately needs an editor with a very sharp knife to trim it down and speed things along. The two boys are young and interchangeably cute, loud, and messy, so it just clutters things up.

To conclude, while I did not enjoy this book, it was an important read for me to be able to get a blayne cooper biography of williams for where sapphic romance literature was at the beginning of the millennium and be able to appreciate how nuanced, inclusive, and deep it is now just to be able to rise about the many releases coming out every week.

I can always appreciate a wellrounded story, and this novel provided that. But without a strong conflict, it felt a bit was left to be desired. However, this is my own personal opinion, and the story was still quite enjoyable all the way through. I've read this story before but it was the online, Xena-uber fan fiction version.

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I was young in my lesfic reading career and pretty easily impressed. I liked this story pretty well back then. I read it a second time a few years ago and liked it less. I still liked the humor and some of the situations the characters found themselves in and the relationships between the main and the most prominent secondary characters were fun and felt genuine.

It was only a few months ago, I think, when the newest edition was released for sale on Amazon and I was happy when I was able to grab a copy on a free day. I felt much less lucky as I got into the book and discovered it is absolutely riddled with typos, missing words, and other problems that should have been cleaned up before releasing it to the lesfic consumers.

Setting aside all the standard old fan fic issues of head hopping, identifying characters by their eye or hair color or profession, not taking the time to run spell check or hire a proofreader before charging money for the book put me in a bad place while reading. If I had paid for it, I'd be really pissed and likely would have returned it for a refund.

I already know that most of my friends would still rate this a 4 or 5 star book simply because they'd read it before when fan fic was still going strong in the Xenaverse, and I wouldn't rate the free online version with only two stars. But this is supposed to be a professionally produced product that readers are paying for. Judging the book in that way, two stars, in my opinion, is fair.

When I started this, I was quite impressed.

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The strong Xena vibe, the first gay president, setting the story in near future despite being written in I was all in. But then, while reading the book, I had some issues. The characters sometimes behaved very, how to put this, childish even? The way the main couple talked sometimes, it was more as if 16 year old kids talked, not adults.

I was not impressed. And the writer kept insisting on calling them 'friend' in their thoughts even after dating officialy and sleeping together. It was my biggest issue. I think it was sometimes before their engagement - which was near the very end - that the author started using the word 'partner' instead. The funny thing was surely reading about the year And how the authors imagined it back in Clearly they didn't think the gay marriage would be legal in all states of USA.

I don't blame them. It was a sweet, very vanilla story. No angst. No drama.

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I think some drama was missing, since I was bored sometimes. Last but not least, if you're into more explicit sex scenes, you'll be disappointed. The very few love scenes 'faded to black'. I didn't mind, not everything I read has to be explicit. Enjoyed this - long book - but you could tell there were two authors - Lauren or The Writer depending on who was writing or that is my theory!

Some things are just perfect in your memory because the timing was right, or your experience was adequate. After a lot of consideration I downgraded this from 5 to 4 because me has different taste in books and this is a good story that could have been shorter or in several books, but it just felt long and about nothing specific that made that worth it.

This is Xenafiction in its prime. I just re-read this book and I still love it as much as I did the first time I read it, but I had to drop my rating from 5 stars to 4. After the second time going through I realised that there is quite a lot of page space taken up by irrelevant information. I know it added to the characters and the story but I feel like it just created an unnecessarily long book which could turn people off but it really shouldn't.

I would still recommend this book to anyone looking for a a good lesfic comedy romance because it will not disappoint. These two books were incredibly racist towards the Asian population in general. Considering the contents of this book are in some ways promoting equal rights and the rise of women, I just can't fathom how the authors deemed it okay to have such blatant racism e.

Disappointed is all I can say. A really nice story, nice evolution of the protagonists, slow but sure. I liked it. My 3 stars. So it's I'm late again, and the book is set way ahead than ours. I'll be honest this book made me laugh, made me sad a little BUT, it lacks in a lot of ways. This couldve been a good book if not of the tossing and turning.

For one, it's a very blayne cooper biography of williams read that made me bored in some ways just my opinion really So I skipped it many many times. And just like what Lex said, Dev is not so presidential when it comes to a character. Gee, I'm way matured than hers, way political and I'm not even a politician. There are scenes that are so left out that might as well not write it at all if the author would just skip it like a fine day.

So hmm. There goes my 3 not so happy stars. Enjoying love story, kinda of slow burn in blossoming which is nice. It's really interesting to read this book for the first time because the story starts in November but had been written two decades ago. They are some futuristic element voice command, auto drive implemented by the writer but our true gadgets are not there, like Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

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