Title: Bombshell (Hell's Belles #1)
Language: English
Format: audiobook
Rating: 1,5 stars
Read: 28.03-07-09.2023
It's been awhile I've been so happy to have a Scribd subscription.... Had I bought this audiobook, I would've wanted to return my purchase and asked for a reimbursement.
And it wasn't that I simply didn't like this excruciatingly slow narration that I had to listen at least at 1.5 speed to make it manageable, it was also the plot, the characters, and even the writing style, that didn't sit right with me.
For instance, I had to fall in love with a "Sexily" heroine who was anything but true to the time she was supposed to exist in. Way too modern. Had I wanted to read about a modern heroine, I would not have opened a historical romance book.
Oh, on the plus side, the heroine said that she didn't want kids and MacLean managed to not get her pregnant by the epilogue. So kudos for that.
Some of the plot ... was simply juvenile and nonsensical. For instance, there was this scene where these Hell's Belles had to get back at some sort of ... I forgot his title-dude and basically they drugged him and wrote a message on his face! Can you get any more high school drama cliche like??? And we were supposed to believe that the heroine was 30+ years old! oh, please!
Also, the romance... the slow burn lover in me weeps, because this was simply gods damn awful. Basically there's this guy who meets this girl. They interact a bit, the guy leaves the country for a year. They meet again, briefly, I might add. He goes away for another year, and then when he returns about two years after first contact they're both like "I've wanted you since the first time I laid eyes on you and I love you so bloody much" or something like that interspersed with sentences where the hero Caleb thinks that he's not good enough for the heroine Sesily. Please stop!
... and then there's poor me, simply rolling my eyes and hoping that they won't fall out. I don't know if I simply forgot amidst my eyerolling exercise regimen, or MacLean actually never did tell the readers more about the MCs earlier interaction other than a sentence or two the characters themselves mentioned, but a few flashback scenes would have been welcome. Or if I'm mistaken here, a few MEMORABLE flashback scenes would have been welcome.
And it wasn't that I simply didn't like this excruciatingly slow narration that I had to listen at least at 1.5 speed to make it manageable, it was also the plot, the characters, and even the writing style, that didn't sit right with me.
For instance, I had to fall in love with a "Sexily" heroine who was anything but true to the time she was supposed to exist in. Way too modern. Had I wanted to read about a modern heroine, I would not have opened a historical romance book.
Oh, on the plus side, the heroine said that she didn't want kids and MacLean managed to not get her pregnant by the epilogue. So kudos for that.
Some of the plot ... was simply juvenile and nonsensical. For instance, there was this scene where these Hell's Belles had to get back at some sort of ... I forgot his title-dude and basically they drugged him and wrote a message on his face! Can you get any more high school drama cliche like??? And we were supposed to believe that the heroine was 30+ years old! oh, please!
Also, the romance... the slow burn lover in me weeps, because this was simply gods damn awful. Basically there's this guy who meets this girl. They interact a bit, the guy leaves the country for a year. They meet again, briefly, I might add. He goes away for another year, and then when he returns about two years after first contact they're both like "I've wanted you since the first time I laid eyes on you and I love you so bloody much" or something like that interspersed with sentences where the hero Caleb thinks that he's not good enough for the heroine Sesily. Please stop!
... and then there's poor me, simply rolling my eyes and hoping that they won't fall out. I don't know if I simply forgot amidst my eyerolling exercise regimen, or MacLean actually never did tell the readers more about the MCs earlier interaction other than a sentence or two the characters themselves mentioned, but a few flashback scenes would have been welcome. Or if I'm mistaken here, a few MEMORABLE flashback scenes would have been welcome.
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