The Boyfriend Sitter by autheras

Please note: This review contains mild spoilers to the story. I recommend leaving this review if you have not read the story in question. Thank you.

You know, as much as I like to pick out the worst in Wattpad, I do often pride myself on also bringing out the best of what Wattpad can offer, and so it goes that I can find hidden gems throughout the website, and then rip apart the reasons to why some stories just shouldn’t be popular.

But unlike those tactics to my working style, I do sometimes find stories that are intriguing. So captivating that I do feel like I have to read on to see what happens, even when there are so, so many things wrong with it. Such is the case of The Boyfriend Sitter.

If I can be 100% honest, I originally started reading this story because I was looking for something to pick apart. My main rule of thumb is to not rip on stories that have less than a million reads, because chances are that anything under a million reads isn’t popular enough to be well known, let alone good of quality to the Wattpad community. And despite that this book is under the 100k threshold, let alone 1 milly, it wasn’t originally going to get a review because I didn’t feel the need to read into something that clearly wasn’t getting enough traction to begin with.

But, it caught me off guard. Like, surprisingly well.

The writing isn’t all that great. If anything, it’s defiantly first draft material, with only one pair of eyes overlooking the entire thing (i.e the author’s) and throughout reading this story I found myself picking out a lot of mistakes that I didn’t necessarily bring up, nor did it prompt me enough to leave a vote for the chapters uploaded.

But, holy fuck. If I could recommend a quick, easy, edge of your seat read, that will probably take you all of three hours to finish (given you’re a fast reader) this would be the book. I was literally holding on for almost every update this schedule was offering, not because of the writing (because, that wasn’t edge-of-your-seat worthy) but for the way the author opened up so many possibilities, took us all by surprise again and again, and even kept us second guessing what we thought we knew about everything.

It was so bloody brilliant to have my senses played with like that! I was so captivated by the way the story unfolded, and how each and every character just worked together like a giant jigsaw.

But, speaking of characters, I will mention that I didn’t ‘swoon’ or ‘nosebleed’ to anybody mentioned in this book.

They were all a little ‘ehh’ and a bit running on the cliche side, what with the mysterious womaniser, the bad girl queen bee, and the unsupportive and abusive family (I don’t want to give too many big spoilers away, but to prove a point, we could all tell that the mother was gonna be a bitch.) So I didn’t ‘love’ the characters. They all did have their own unique personalities and quirks, and the story of all of them is incredibly interesting, but that’s honestly all they make good for: an interesting story.

And aside from predictable characters, the ending was incredibly lackluster. Majority of the story runs in this quick, need-to-get-the-point across, ear-splitting frantic, but the ending itself was a huge, stinking pile of a mess that left me feeling like I had wasted so much energy and heartache into wanting more of those story. It was just so…abrupt. Like, snap of the fingers to cease production kind of abrupt. It’s like everything that had happened was immediately tossed out the window to be soaked into the pouring rain and run into the sewers below. It’s like nothing mattered. Ever.

And sure, everything all works out in the end, but it was completed all in two chapters. There was no revision on how everyone felt, there was just minimal glancing over the aftermath of the execution, and I’m not sure what the message to end all this was, but I was just flabbergasted that it was over. And not for the good reason.

I. Wanted. More. Closure. After giving my heart to these characters, and hearing their stories, and investing in their lives, I wasn’t given anything to be satisfactorily finished with. Honestly, it was just a ‘see ya later. Your work here is done’ kind of bullshit ending, and it was really, really disappointing that it came to that. Because I expected way, way more.

But, overall, despite the disappointing ending, and the bland characterisation, and the writing style that needed more than one person working on it, this story held enough potential in it’s plot alone that it kept me on my toes for the entire time I was reading it. And that’s with everything else included. The plot was that good, that striking, and indulging, that the low tier efforts of everything else seemed to underweigh beneath it altogether.

This story holds potential. Be it not for the writing, or the characters, but for the story it holds within. If we could get someone else to look over it, offer some advice on how it could be improved, how we could learn to absolutely adore these characters, and finish off smoothly, we could have a really terrific story on our hands that would be absolutely worthy of one million reads, should it ever reach that height.

I’m glad I took the time to read this, and I’m glad I invested my time into the story as much as I did. It was a really, really great read, that needs a hell of a lot of improvements done, but god-damn did it deliver with that story.

And I hope that the author can come back in a few months time, read over and learn from their mistakes, and present us with a book that could becoming something worth more than the money Penelope was paying Joselyn.

Give it a read folks. It’s really not all that bad.

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R A T I N G

Plot - 5/5

Characters - 3/5

Style - 2/5

Originality -3/5

OVERALL SCORE - 65