eARC Review: Technically Yours by Denise Williams
Romance
Technically Yours
Book Info
Released Date: December 5th
Publication: Berkley
Pages: 384
Format: eBook
“wanted to fall in love with Pearl and Cord”
I don’t know how I feel about this book because the beginning started off rough. I typically read all of my books in the blind, not reading the book summary, so I can have the full experience. So I didn’t know that this romance book was a second-chance romance trope in the beginning. It’s not my particular favorite trope to read.
As I kept reading it, I soon realized that this book was going to have dual POVs. I particularly don’t like past POVs. Sometimes, the past tends to take up the majority of the book rather than staying in the present. Unfortunately, this became the problem in this book. I understood that they had a past with each other, but that doesn’t mean to go back to the past so much. They shared feelings and attraction for each other, but they never went anywhere with it in the past. There was no need to keep going back to the past.
Besides my endless rant about past perspectives in romance books, I truly felt no connection between the two characters, Pearl and Cord. There wasn’t a spark between them. I knew that Cord fell for Pearl so many times, but I don’t see the attraction of Pearl to Cord. She seems disconnected from him. She mainly debates about her career and her choices.
I wanted to fall in love with Pearl and Cord. Ultimately, it just wasn’t it. I absolutely love Cord because he always loved her from the beginning, even for the second time. The problem is Pearl. I understand that it’s hard to be in charge when you are a woman of color in the tech industry. It doesn’t mean that you have to self-sabotage yourself. And that’s what Pearl does through the whole book. It just doesn’t vibe with me.
