Neglected Merge

Neglected Merge: A Fantasy Utopian Romance
by Eve Koguce
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

My Recommendation: ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✧✧
(I received this book free in exchange for my honest review)

I have some mixed feelings about this book. It has an odd pacing that threw me off, and at times had me confused. The opening was in your face, bam! Love interest meet with a literal crash landing. Things moved quite fast after that, but at the same tie I felt there was a weird disconnect that I couldn't quite place, or it could have been a love confession after two days of interacting. I'm in a odd place where I don't know if I liked it or not.

The pace. after that interacting, slowed down quiet a but. Though the book time line it's self sped up. This again made for a weird style pacing that threw me, but at the same time kept me reading. This book itself is odd, in a good way. There are a lot of similarities to this world we live in, especially when it comes to romantic interactions, and the notion to drop things that doesn't bring us joy anymore. Ghosting is a socially accepted, friends can easily be replaced, and no one wants to know your unhappy personal life. Keep it to yourself, wear a mask, and pretend to be happy with the everyday flow.

Honestly, everything about the world-building had me fascinated, both worlds actually. So different but oddly the same. It does get you thinking, and it starts to make you question how close we are to the mundane-people pleasing world our MC lives in.

Overall this book is worth your time to read, it's intriguing and has a uniqueness to it that will keep your eyes gulled to the pages. I can't wait to see what else is to come, as this book it set up for a series, and I want more.

Happy Reading

-E.A. Walsh