Shameless Affairs

If I were Megan, this would be my villain origin story. Took you in and you fuck her man on her bed? (and on her table and her basement and her couch). Bring back shame.

Sadly, she's already so flanderized as the cold ungrateful girlfriend that there's nothing new she can possibly add.

A pity.

This is an 'almost' book. Where it could have been good, but kept missing the mark just enough each time to leave you unsatisfied.

There's no nuance to Megan's character. If I'm reading a cheating book, I want to at least feel a modicum of pity for the cheated on partner. I want to root for the cheaters in spite of their actions. Not let out a sigh of relief because the original partner is so bad.

I don't know if that makes sense. Meg was written in such a way that you're literally praying for something or someone to save Garret from her. This is a liberation story. Not a cheating story.

This was almost a good friends to lovers story. But again, fell just a bit short. They knew themselves for such a short time that the love declarations were premature.

The friendship was built on a great basis but the jump to being in love was too quick. This read more as two guys who became friends during a period when both needed a friend more than they needed a lover, and then latched on to the friendship they found and projected everything onto it.

The angst was non-existent. I enjoy books with the cheating storylines because the angst is usually too delicious to pass up. But there was no back and forth or genuine guilt in this.

Aaron was cosplaying feeling guilty. He wasn't sorry for what he was doing. He just felt sorry because he never expected to be someone else's Nick.

Garret was too much of a green flag that I knew how he'd handle Meg's return before he did it. Literally at no single point did I think......oh,he's going to need a moment to think and decide. And I know the irony of calling a cheater a green flag. But yes, Garret was the greenest of flags.

There was genuinely no conflict in this book. Aside from the petty bickering between Meg and Garret. Imagine.

Overall, this was an experience in edging. A book to almost get you there, but not quite.