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.... it has the aura of a Wattpad story written by a relatively talented 16 year old. i don't mean that in a mean spirited way. just a statement to take as you will. i did say relatively talented.

Dropped because the main character is too... sand sculpture for me. Could be someone else's cup of tea but every word out of her mouth (and head) irritates me.

author has no concept of pacing and everything feels awkward and stilted

it's cute or whateverrr

I've read this elsewhere but it's genuinely so good I wanted to bring it on here too.

A reminder for yourself: you dropped this bc it was way too weird for you that she was born knowing everyone can hear her thoughts and everyone just carried in as normal having a conversation with a full on newborn. Half the fun of loudspeaker is everyone scrambling and getting progressively more ridiculous trying to keep the secret. Not my cup of tea.

I was somewhat enjoying it. The gossip was fun, the pacing was fun, but the author seems to have a one track mind where every shred of gossip has to do with sex. Like of the scandals exposed, 90% of them are sex scandals. The remaining are relationship scandals. It's just. Tiring. A bit of a one trick pony. I don't mind a sex scandal, but are you unable to think of literally anything else that would be fun to gossip about?

Also there's this weird judgemental aura? If that makes sense? I have read PLENTY of gossip novels. But this one specifically barely straddled the line of misogynistic and homophobic, and even the scandals the MC chose not to expose as "harmless" had this weird aura where the narrative seemed to just be playing lip service to saying it was "harmless" because the author knew if she said what she really thought people would get pissed.

It was just. It was this combination of "the author chooses the conflict" and "can we choose literally any other melon category i have outrageous bisexual sex scandal fatigue and why cant you find some more straight men to make the enemy here" and "this feels mean spirited". Because as an author, you DO choose the conflict. I wouldn't mind if she was choosing conflict I would consider in poor taste IF the overall theme wasn't about morality. But it is. So when the author chooses to make a situation like "this man was arrested for making porn overseas and I justified it by having him call a female celebrity fat so we know he's a bad person even if i don't REALLY think porn is bad!!!" it's like. really girl. is that the case.

anyways i dont appreciate being preached to about morality from a narrative standpoint that is really clearly mean spirited and shallow. so. dropped.