"I’m a miserable cynic (a newer development) and a dreamy romantic (always have been), and it’s such a terrible combination that I don’t know how to tolerate myself."
pub: 2020
pgs: 285
read: april 21 to may 11, 2022
book: 16 in 2022
THOUGHTS
i forgot i read this book.
i forgot i read this book.
i was dreading writing the next review but i gotta do it so i log into goodreads and boom.
anyway. uh - i liked this book. it was just maybe uhm read at the wrong time. it wasn't a fave of mine but it wasn't bad. It's actually pretty funny in lots of places.
i appreciate that Nick stuck around with Naomi throughout everything even though she was annoying as fuck. its explained and understandable. i think i was just over it because it was made bigger than it should have been? idk. is this book like about borderline depression or something? did i read this wrong? im not saying that her feelings werent valid...i think i would have just liked to have known where how or why they started falling apart? Did I miss the how and when of when it happened? I can't really remember.
(In no way am I saying that depression is not a serious thing! what I'm doing a horrible job at trying to say is that I don't understand how they got to where they got and so she was kinda grinding my gears because she would never speak up. But honestly maybe we were never sposed to read that part? - the how they got there part.)
i know she was feeling like shit because of work and school and stuff which valid because hello am I there in this point of my life.... but her and nick were always golden right? so why did they stop? where? how?
why was nick all "why arent you on my side about my mom!" once we're in the book but what about before? i think he mentions it but idk? Bro like if you needed help tag teaming your mom why didn't you let Naomi in? (bahahaha)
idk.
i didn't hate it.
i think having Nicks POV would have been icing on the cake tho.
overall, this one is a thinker (it was for me) and maybe it goes deep in different levels for different people. Honestly, maybe I read this wrong? or read it at the wrong time? Idk.
life right now is a mess.
I know I always say ill re-read a book and then never do but if the audio exists i would like to. I think maybe I'd grab more the second time around? Idk.
File this one under idk.
SPOILERS
oof it's been a while so sorry thanks for understanding.
Naomi and nick date, get engaged and then realize maybe they're not the one so now she's tryina get him to dump her because she can't afford to be stuck with the wedding bill.
They live in a town so small, Naomi just lost her job and Nick is tethered to a low paying position (I think) bc Naomi refused to let them move to another city.
Idk.
They fight, argue, nick buys Leon's (I think thats his name but in case it ain't he's Naomi's old coworker) old house in the woods, he buys a canoe, an suv type of car, and Naomi gets mad and buys Leon's old clunker of a car even though it's stick shift and she cant drive it only to leave it dumped in the streets on her way to dinner with Nick and his parents.
In the end i forget what happens, they make up and eventually tell nicks mom to eat a dick.
But Naomi's thing is that she's I guess you can say freaking/stressing out about life in general like no job, no college degree, the love of your life isn't who you thought he was.....and all in all I think she's kinds lost in herself which in turn led to her not letting nick in.
Shitty breakdown but you know they all end the same.
If I ever reread, I'll update then.
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