ARC Review: The Rivals of Casper Road by Roan Parrish
The Rivals of Casper Road by Roan Parrish
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3 Stars
I wanted to like this book more but there was a whole lot of nonsense and not nearly enough of the promised Halloween-y romance. The book was part dissertation on architectural theory, part introspective essay on getting over a breakup, part meddling family, part low stakes prank war, part trauma recovery, part Halloween decorating contest, part cameos from all the queers of Garnet Run and tiny part romance I guess. For such a short book I am kind of impressed how much was shoved in.
So yeah while it was competently written and had the start of some of the right vibes there was too much other stuff going on for me to fully enjoy it. Particularly the past trauma for the sad boy main character Zachary that was a bit much. So was all the inner monologuing on architecture I had enough of it in architecture school I don't need that crap in my romance books too! Give me more Halloween and actual romance instead, please!
I received an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3 Stars
I wanted to like this book more but there was a whole lot of nonsense and not nearly enough of the promised Halloween-y romance. The book was part dissertation on architectural theory, part introspective essay on getting over a breakup, part meddling family, part low stakes prank war, part trauma recovery, part Halloween decorating contest, part cameos from all the queers of Garnet Run and tiny part romance I guess. For such a short book I am kind of impressed how much was shoved in.
So yeah while it was competently written and had the start of some of the right vibes there was too much other stuff going on for me to fully enjoy it. Particularly the past trauma for the sad boy main character Zachary that was a bit much. So was all the inner monologuing on architecture I had enough of it in architecture school I don't need that crap in my romance books too! Give me more Halloween and actual romance instead, please!
I received an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
View all my reviews
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