😍 😍 Review: No Expectations by Madison Diaz 😍 😍
No Expectations by Madison DiazMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I liked the illustration of the personalities of Emilia and Stephen. You see the complexities of their lives, which I honestly did not expect from an age-gap love story. Stephen and Emilia’s tale doesn't necessarily follow the traditional tropes of these types of books.
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For instance, instead of setting up these extra long character intros where said character is describing themselves to an unseen audience and then having the two central characters meet further down the road, Diaz opens the book with them already having seen one another previously and you could almost feel the attraction sizzling from the descriptions on the pages.
Everything about the characters and the situations felt extremely genuine from their actions to the dialogue. I was engrossed and didn’t get lost. And then there were the love scenes. They were hot, and I’m going to leave that right there and move on.
I saw the happy ending coming from miles away and I would have liked to see more stakes, more consequences, more risk. I would have liked to be unsure if this story would have ended happily. I think a happy ending is inherent to anything with the genre of romance, but still, personally, I like to see a lot of hardship in books to point where I don’t who’s going to make it.
Overall, Diaz is a great writer who has constructed a beautiful, complex, and even dramatic story.
Learn more about her and her work on www.authormadisondiaz.com
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