Reverie
by Shain Rose
Vick
Ever austere, billionaire businessman, Jett Stonewood, refuses to even crack a smile while vacationing in paradise. I’m determined to break him down by introducing some fun into his life.
If we have a bit too much by sleeping together, so be it.
The rude, overly practical man soon reveals that he can also be caring—thoughtful, and before long he’s the one wrecking me.
He’s drawn me into a complex dream I’ll have to find a way to forget when we return home.
The problem: Jett acquired my company.
He’s everywhere now, a constant reminder of the unattainable.
Jett
Victory Blakely needs a lesson in safety precautions. Not that she would follow it if our recent tumble in the sheets is any indication.
She’s too peppy... so naive it’s dangerous. Someone should break down her fortress of positivity, teach her that warnings aren’t meant to be invitations.
The solution: I’m the man for the job. I’ll Infiltrate myself into her life and let the disassembling begin.
The little pixie flutters around in reverie. Let’s see how well she flies when I reduce her fairytale bubble to dust.
Spice Level: 3.25/6 | Story Score: 6/10 | Rating: 3.75/5 |
Another TikTok book! This book is the definition of grumpy/sunshine mixed with enemies to lovers. Her best friend and his brother are getting married in Hawaii, so they’re forced to walk down the aisle together. He’s grumpy. She’s sunshine. They bang anyway. The next morning he’s a tool and she’s fucking delusional. (Annoying.) They continue playing a stupid game of him being wishy-washy and her taking what she can get. They get back to reality and he buys the company she works for. She is officially his employee, so the workplace banging starts. He’s still fucking grumpy as she wins over every single person in his office. Eventually, there’s a fall out, there’s a secret revealed, and boom: together!
I understood these characters. I get why he was beyond “realistic” and she was determined to live life. The storyline for most of the book made sense even though I did NOT agree with her choices a lot. I understood them, I just didn’t agree. I think this book is worth reading, however, I think that it should’ve been another 100 pages. The build up is loooooong and the space between the climax and the end is too short.
-SPOILERS-
The big deal of this book is that the FMC had leukemia when she was 17. She had to fight through a horrible cancer and when she got out, she decided that she was going to live fully. That makes sense to me. Afterall, I had cancer when I was 26.
However, the FMC says repeatedly that she wants to get married, have kids, a house with a white picket fence, a dog… and the MMC continually says that he isn’t that man. But she keeps sleeping with him. The OM in the story is a fucking loser and she just keeps deluding herself into thinking he could be the one.
I’m pissed.
After having cancer, I do not accept that you just force yourself to settle for someone that is utterly lackluster. You don’t make a thousand excuses for someone when they continually let you down.
If she wanted kids so badly, just fucking have them. Do not tie yourself to someone that sucks in the name of it.
I’ll admit that when she finally starts admitting to herself the amount of fear that she had that the cancer would come back at any given time: IT MAKES SENSE. It happens constantly. Everything is a question of ‘is this when it comes back and kills me’...I understood that part to the point of it being triggering for me. I nearly had a panic attack reading it because holy fuck, it’s how your brain works. It was both my favorite part of the book and my least favorite. Beating cancer is like winning an epic war, only to realize afterward that it wasn’t the war, that was just a battle and now you get to battle with your mind for the rest of your life as well. This entire scene of the book, which is probably only 2 pages long, is why I wanted to give it a 5. My initial rating was a 5. Because this hit home so hard for me that it was hard not to.
But then I started telling people about it and I realized all the things that made me ranty about the book.
Why the fuck was she so mean and dismissive of her parents? Most cancer patients would give anything to have that kind of support. Granted, I HATED hearing all the upbeat, overly-cheerful, plastic responses from people. “We’ll beat this,” “We’ll get you the best of everything,” “Just stay positive,” etc. They all sucked. I just wanted someone to sit beside me and shut up. Or distract me. Anything but telling me how much they expected from me when I couldn’t even trust my body to do what it was supposed to. After a couple rounds of chemo, I couldn’t even stop puking, and I didn’t need the pressure on me from anywhere. But still, instead of facing her parents, she just treats them like shit. I hated it.
Then, I understand living life to the fullest. But why on Earth would you just NOT take the heart medication that was “mandatory” and not talk to anyone about it? I understand taking certain risks. Like riding the train and working in the city and stuff like that. Those made sense. But not all the stuff she did.
Just because you’re living for the moment and making the most of things, doesn’t mean you should overlook a man coming to a party with another woman and then make out with him. Cancer does NOT make you lose your self respect, not to mention, your respect for other women. I get that in this book, the other woman wasn’t WITH the MMC, but she doesn’t know that when it happens. She’s the worst kind of woman at that moment and she can’t blame it on the cancer. She can only blame it on the fact that she was selfish, unable to think with anything other than her vagina, and a shitty person. I’m pissed.
Next, does it not make you an inconsiderate person that you don’t tell the person you’re dating (and see yourself with indefinitely) that you had cancer which could come back at any time and that took your ability to have kids away. Not being able to have kids is a big deal for some people and it should be stated. I don’t think that a person should ever be ashamed that they can’t have kids, but it still needs to be discussed. The same as someone who doesn’t want kids. It’s not a bad thing, but it is a life decision that impacts both people.
I have a thousand more things to say about all this, but I’m done. Cancer rants are hard for me.
Book #2 in the Stonewood Brothers series | 388 Pages | Trope Challenge: Wedding |
“We need this conversation to be over, and we probably need to stop what we’re doing.”
“You’re that scared?”
“I’m not exactly excited about falling for you and having my heart broken. I’ll fall too. Like an idiot seeing all the stop signs and still going full speed ahead.”
- Reverie by Shain Rose
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