Twelve Dates Later – McKenna Cross

1/5 stars

Honestly, I really only finished this because it was short. I thought about DNF’ing several times, but I powered through to see if it could change my opinion.

Dallas is unlikable. This opens with her cheating with her best friend’s boyfriend and not caring at all because “he’s no good for her anyway, so I’m doing her a favour.” Then, when their other mutual friend confronts her about it, she flips him off and still has no remorse. She continues to cheat with him throughout the book despite knowing full well that she shouldn’t. She’s a horrible friend, even acknowledging that herself, and I just had no desire to see anything good happen to her.

This book also has a huge ick of mine in it that was hard for me to get passed. I’m not a fan at all of pet names being used right off the bat with someone. The first time Dallas meets her demon, he’s immediately calling her ‘my love’ and ‘kitten.’ While it may make some sense down the line with what’s revealed (very predictably), I cringed extremely hard, and I had a hard time continuing. The interactions with a lot of the characters felt really awkward and clunky, too.

This one just didn’t do it for me. I love a good redemption arc, but this was a collection of stereotypical romance tropes with characters that I just couldn’t care about. The concept was there, but the execution just didn’t do it for me.