A review by emkleinhenz
Per My Last Email by Juliana Smith

2.0

A certain point, I kept reading out of spite. I am fairly certain this author looked into my brain and saw all my pet peeves and shoved them in a novel. I will say I did read the entire thing (perhaps in an attempt o find something redeemable or maybe I hate myself). The only thing that I liked was the fact that the book was over.

The main character is such a Not Like the Other Girls that I wanted to simultaneously knock her over the head and pay for the therapy she so desperately needs. Seriously, I laughed when she said she was not judgmental. She went on a whole rant basically slit shamming women and the close they wear (sorry not everyone dresses like they are the spinster aunt in the 1800s). She treats a lot of the women in the book like crap. She only has one freind that is a woman (always a really read flag about deep seated internalized misogyny). I could go on a whole rant about this issue. She also stays in a job she clearly hates for w no real reason (she says it’s to get contacts in the publishing industry, but she makes no effort to actually make contacts.) she is so immature and childish I have seen 13 year old boys with more maturity. When she said that no one at the office likes her (except two guys (one of which wants to date her), I thought it might be a toxic environment, but the more I read the more I realized that she is the toxic person.

The love interest has so many red flags you could see them from space. He keeps calling her “little one,” which is not cute that is infantilizing and only something a grandparent should call you. I physically cringed every time he said that, which was a lot. As a side note, authors need to stop making every person who is a woman small. In this novel she is somehow 2 feet smaller than him. That would make him 7 feet tall or she has to be less than 5 feet tall. I feel like the author just does not understand how high works. Anyways, the main love interest is also a stalker (to the point where he literally admits it). That is not cute and I think the girl needs to take her toxic butt to therapy and maybe get a restraining order against him.

Save yourself the torture and do not pick up this book.
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