Tuesday 9 August 2022

Review: The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen


I'm conflicted about what to say for this book. Ultimately, I enjoyed it and I think that's the key takeaway. However, there are also a lot of things that I didn't enjoy about this.

Ursula and Rafael sign up to The Arc - a $50,000 program that promises one perfect match. They set out on this seemingly perfect relationship but soon realise that nobody can predict or facilitate love in the way that they think...

Things I liked: the premise of The Arc, Ursula's character, Mallory the cat, Rafael's character.

Things I disliked: the too-perfect relationship they had at the beginning, the ridiculous situation that led to them breaking-up, how Ursula gets fired from her job.

The biggest issue with this book is that it was way too wordy. There were PAGES of information that just wasn't necessary to the story at all. We got a good few pages on the backstory of Rafael's parents, who then don't appear in the story at all! You could probably cut this book down by a third and still have the same journey.

Ultimately, this sounded like an interesting premise and I enjoyed it, but it was just okay.