Wesley James Ruined my Life by Jennifer Honeybourn

Back in the day Quinn and Wesley
were best friends. Until he ruined everything with Quinn and her family. Quinn
was happy to get rid of him when he finally moved away, but completely unprepared
when he turns up again… And at her job no less. She must get rid of him…
But how?

                Ok, so the main thing I wasn’t a
fan of in this book was Quinn. She annoyed me to NO. END. She was so naïve. The
stuff she blamed him for clearly had absolutely nothing to do with him. Like
the whole situation was anti-climactic. I’m pretty sure that was the reasoning
for the author, but the entire thing seemed so incredibly stupid and tiresome
to hold a grudge against someone for something like that for so long. And it
was even worse that she was ok with people TELLING HER what she was doing was
completely uncalled for. Yes, I get it, she didn’t want to blame the true
person for their problems, but what right did that give her to do all this to
someone else that didn’t deserve it? And then add ANOTHER person to the mix?
Ugh this is one of those instances where I wanted to jump into the book and
slap the MC because it seemed like no one else wanted to.

“Which character are you?’ She’s a wench.’“

pg. 26

And then there was the ending. That
too was anti-climactic. After all that was done, the apologies and original
make-ups weren’t even in the book! Like I ONLY kept reading this to see just
what she did to make it up to him and it was a voicemail that wasn’t even
written in the book. It kind of made the whole ending a little eye-rolley for
me. It missed the mark completely with that wasted scene.

“The only thing that’s given me any pleasure lately is my plan. I’ve spent most of the past week dreaming up ways ho get Wesley’s ass canned.“

pg. 73

However, I did like the setting. I went
to a Medieval Times with my high school band years ago on our band trip. We
went for a show too where they rode horses and the tables are high. It’s like
an arena. Anyways, because I had been there, I was able to clearly imagine what
it was like to work at Tudor Tymes. I was further transported there because I
also worked at a restaurant for a point in time and everything about the hustle
to the register to the smells sticking to you was correct. I was captivated by
the setting and found that that small aspect kept me tethered to this book.

“It’s just that I’ve noticed- and please don’t get mad at me for saying this- but it seems like he’s all you talk about lately.”

pg. 83

Lastly, the LOL moments made all
the difference. I found myself laughing at the things that happened to Quinn,
which I probably shouldn’t have, but still lol A lot of the things that
happened, she deserved. To be honest, there were times when I wish she had been
more embarrassed, but for the most part it was ok.

“Three weeks ago, no one remembered Wesley James even existed, aside from me. And now he’s completely infiltrated my life and somehow managed to brainwash my friends.“

pg. 116

I’m sorry for the ranting, but
there wasn’t anyone that I know that had read it yet and I needed to vent. I
haven’t ranted this hard about a character for a long time, but sometimes, it
has to be done. Hopefully I will like Honeybourn’s next character much more.