It baffles me that this book has an average of 4.5 on here and a 4.14 on Goodreads. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from More Than This?Īs stated above, I'd cut all of it. Jeremy York and Allison Lynnewood were fine, but if I ever run into a book where they're narrating, I might have war flashbacks to this book so they're definitely off the table for The Best Narrators I Listened to in 2018. I wouldn't subject ANY of my favorite narrators to this trash heap. Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jeremy York and Allison Lynnewood ? I'd realize this book isn't salvageable and just scrap it because it would actually be pretty close to being a crime to call this a book and sell this to people for real life money. If I were writing this book, I'd read it, realize it was a garbage concept packed with clichés, slut shaming, characters so jealous their skin would be green if they were real (which, come on, they aren't real, they barely act like actual human beings), and that, even on the basest level of intending for it to be a romance and realizing not a since line or really even a single WORD in this book is romantic, sexy, cute, etc.I'd realize that, and I'd throw out the concept.

I know this isn't constructive, but basically everything. What could Jay McLean have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

I'd be tempted to call this a 'so bad it's good' book because I DID laugh at it so much, but it would be too painful to call anything about it 'good' even in the ironic sense of the word. I was expecting a fun, sexy romance and instead I got a bizarre fever dream that pretended to be fun and sexy and instead came off as deeply, deeply troubling, vain, childish, poorly written, with all-around awful and unlikable characters that ended up being a metaphorical dumpster fire of clichés, bad writing, mediocre performances, and unrealistic plot points that were unintentionally hilarious.

What disappointed you about More Than This? The Worst Book I've Had the Displeasure of Reading

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