Forget You, Ethan (Forget You Ethan #1) by Whitney G.

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Title: Forget You, Ethan (Forget You Ethan, #1)
Author: Whitney G.
Series: Forget You Ethan #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Pages: 228
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:

Blurb:

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...

I've hated Rachel Dawson since I was seven years old. My next door neighbor and number one sworn enemy, she's the reason why almost all of our childhood fights ended with me setting something of hers on fire. (Or, vice versa.)

She snitched on me when I broke curfew.

I snitched on her when she lied about having a boyfriend.

We went back and forth like this throughout high school, both vowing to never talk to each other again when we went off to college.

But that was until she showed up at my apartment during my senior year and asked me for a temporary place to stay. Until I realized just how much between us had changed, and the line I thought we'd never cross became harder and harder to ignore...

**This is a standalone friends (to enemies) to lovers romance**

My Review:

This is one of those almost books.  Which, as everyone knows almost only counts in horseshoes and grenades.  It was almost believable.  The love story was almost great.  Rachel was almost loveable.  Ethan was almost redeemable.

And so on and so on it goes.

The love story was akin to a kindergarten romance. They were mean to each other because they really liked each other.  Which is fine, cause I loves me a enemies to lovers romance all day every day.  It’s just that it was a bit too much mean-ness for me to get over.  Every time we saw them trying to act civil, one of them would mess it up and go back to the status quo.  It got a bit redundant.  Frankly, I got tired of reading the same thing over and over.  And I stopped caring about the characters.

I failed to see how Rachel suddenly becoming attractive makes Ethan look twice.  I mean, it was pretty shallow of him to hate her until she has curves.  That stood out to me for some reason.  Rachel was no better in that she was vindictive.  But the thing that really got me was the sex, it was like some magic switch.  All of a sudden Ethan wanted more after sex, more commitment, more time from her, more support.  But he was greedy and selfish in his wants, very unattractive.  And Rachel totally caved into all his wants.  I mean, you are gonna build up the hate so much, then have them cave at the first sign of physical gratification.  Not cool.  Make that shit consistent! Cause know all I have is this big column of hate that far out weighs the tiny column of love.  Maybe I’m too nit picky, but I like things to make sense, and this one just didn’t in that aspect.

But it almost did.