Review: Well, Actually

Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Two and a half stars.

Eva Kitt has a ghastly show where she interviews D-list celebrities over hot dogs (possibly the most disgusting food known to man IMHO) whilst making innuendos and giving off serial killer vibes. Its a job, but she'd much rather be a serious journalist.

Then one night she leaves a vitriolic post on her personal vlog about a fellow podcaster that she 'dated' in college which calls out his hypocrisy for hosting a podcast about deconstructing toxic masculinity when he was not only unmemorable and selfish in bed but also ghosted Eva afterwards. Of course the post goes viral and Eva's boos threatens to fire her for inappropriate behaviour, until her ex, Rylie Cooper, reaches out and agrees to be interviewed by Eva on her show where he proceeds to offer Eva a series of six dates to prove that he has grown and become a better human since college.

Maybe its my age, or the era of the social media influencers, but this is the second book in as many weeks where the FMC has had a completely BS job and it is soooo annoying.

This just felt obvious and crudely drawn. First it was obvious to this reader exactly how Rylie felt about Eva and because the book was written from Eva's POV it felt odd for her to tell the reader that he looked hurt (for example) we knew why but Eva was clueless? Like girl, if you can recognise his emotions then what do they mean? Ditto the boss. And why do all these characters have BFFS who are so mean that you wonder the entire book if they are actually back-stabbers? Get yourself some real friends. Rylie was a caricature, there was literally nothing wrong with him at all, a Ken doll, and there were 'reasons' for his behaviour back then.

Also, I don't get the motivation behind what the boss did ...

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

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