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A review by alilbitofmonica
Cross the Line by Simone Soltani
2.0
This book just did not work for me overall. I found it kind of slow and boring, and maybe that's just because I don't know (or care?) about F1 that much. Buckle up (get it? because of racing?) because this review is not good.
- The wedding at the end was so much fun and everything around that was some of the most exciting in the book. Also the epilogue. Not gonna lie, I was hoping that scene would happen sooner, oops. But that's where my praises end.
- The audiobook was terrible. It actually made this book worse somehow? The female narrator was fine, other than not really having any feeling in her tone. But the male narrator? Jail time. His portrayal of a woman's voice makes her sound like a literal child and this does not change even during sex scenes. No thank you.
- The secret pining and eventual relationship was tiring, the "what are we" conversation happened entirely too often with nothing coming from it.
- I totally understand why, professionally, she would need to be cautious of her career being tainted by the whole "I'm dating my boss" thing, but that seemed like the least of their worries, which worried me...
- Justice for Oakley, he had every right to be angry at them for lying to him for so long. And literally right next door.
The more I wrote this review the more I realized how much of a 2 star this is instead of the 2.5 I was leaning toward.
Potentially spoilery kind of comment for the epilogue:
- WTF was the hospital scene at the end??? im sorry but getting hard from a conversation with your future teammate while he's in a hospital bed isn't cute, it's weird. k bye
- The wedding at the end was so much fun and everything around that was some of the most exciting in the book. Also the epilogue. Not gonna lie, I was hoping that scene would happen sooner, oops. But that's where my praises end.
- The audiobook was terrible. It actually made this book worse somehow? The female narrator was fine, other than not really having any feeling in her tone. But the male narrator? Jail time. His portrayal of a woman's voice makes her sound like a literal child and this does not change even during sex scenes. No thank you.
- The secret pining and eventual relationship was tiring, the "what are we" conversation happened entirely too often with nothing coming from it.
- I totally understand why, professionally, she would need to be cautious of her career being tainted by the whole "I'm dating my boss" thing, but that seemed like the least of their worries, which worried me...
- Justice for Oakley, he had every right to be angry at them for lying to him for so long. And literally right next door.
The more I wrote this review the more I realized how much of a 2 star this is instead of the 2.5 I was leaning toward.
Potentially spoilery kind of comment for the epilogue:
- WTF was the hospital scene at the end??? im sorry but getting hard from a conversation with your future teammate while he's in a hospital bed isn't cute, it's weird. k bye