My Review of

“Binding 13” by Chloe Walsh - 2.5/5 ⭐️

DISCLAIMER: Anything negative i say about this book is not a personal attack on you. how could it? i don’t even know you. if this is your favorite book ever, great! i’m happy for you! just remember that i do not know you nor do you know me, so this is not a personal attack. you can have your opinions, and i can have mine. cool? cool.

✨ minor spoilers ahead! ✨

well, this book did what it came to do: entertain me. i had fun reading this and feeling emotions as i read. i do, however, feel like this book needed an editor and to be cut down a few hundred pages. i really liked every character besides shannon, and we’ll get there, and i absolutely hated bella, but honestly, who doesn’t?

for starters, the repetition and miscommunication in this book? horrendous and it made me want to pull my hair out in the worst way possible. this could have easily been cut down 300 pages if shannon and johnny actually shared their feelings and stopped lying to each other and themselves. also, side note, love getting invalidated as an aroace person 🙃 i’m not empty, butthole.

anyway, i digress, reasons why i hate shannon: 1) because of how short she is (i’m 5’2”, she’s two inches shorter than me, so i’m allowed to hate her for that reason) and 2) there was no character arch with her. she was the same on page 1 to 603, and she didn’t move the story anywhere. i wouldn’t be able to tell you her personality besides that she’s a “boss” at GTA. ok? anything else? i also hated that she took johnny’s words as the exact opposite of what he had said 50 times. another reason for the repetition and the one step forward and 20 steps back.

some chapters were not necessary, either. majority of the short chapters were recaps of what i just read about? don’t really know why we needed them, but whatever. and i kept a counter for how many times they called shannon small or tiny. 55 times. 55 times, they called shannon small. that is not necessary. and i might’ve even missed a few more times, but jesus christ, i do not need to be reminded that this girl is short 55 times. 5 will do.

overall, the book was fun. just so many cringes i have with it, and majority of them are shannon and some of the really sexist hypocrisies the male characters have. it just kind if felt like a better version of self-insert fanfiction.

✨ my horrible description of the book:

the kissing booth + after + rugby = “Binding 13”

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