Aye…

I’ve had this book on my TBR for awhile. I liked the premise, liked the cover… but wow was this a sh*tshow.
This book was in need of several professional editors. There were lots of cliches, Connor’s POV was insufferable and an eyesore to read through, and some storylines were questionable (did we really need a ghetto white girl character who brags about  sibling incest ?). But what took the cake is the blasphemy that is Kahalani and Connor’s “relationship”.


High schooler Kahalani Edwards gets the courage to ask out Connor O’Shea , an Irish white boy she’s been crushing on for YEARS. He accepts and in her mind she’s Mrs. O’Shea meanwhile HE’s thinking of how to let her down ‘easy’ because “black girls are ghetto and only good for FWB ”.

*Slams book closed*. No ma’am.  I do not read swirl romances for the WM to act “meh” towards the BW. I will not subject myself to that struggle love!!!

After their first date, Irish mobster  boy realizes “hey, maybe there are perks to a (somewhat cute) black girl desperately in love with everything I say and do”, and decides to “keep her” .  And the rest of the book is split between him being a lunatic boyfriend by day, and psychopathic Irish crimelord by night. Oh and we also get  lots of pedophiles *dont ask*.

As much as I begged and pleaded through my screen for this girl to be done with this man, my prayers were ignored.
“He was a walking red flag, but I was in love with him and was going to stick beside my man”
Girlie pop is lost in the ginger sauce.


There are some positives, and I must admit I was entertained enough to finish it through. But unlike Kahalani (who gives a shameless inception-like plug of this book by reading it in one scene—-again, LAUGHABLE) I will not be reading Part 2 of the Irish Don’s Black Beauty. 

P.S.: This does not mean I won’t read another Rose Marie book, in fact I have another one of her books in my TBR! I just think this book was written primarily for a Wattpad audience and needed some serious editing to be KDP-ready. I hope her writing has matured, bc I see the potential.