Purity: A Friends-to-Lovers College Romance

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I've been in love with Cole Walker since the first day he walked into class and sat beside me. How could I not? Six foot five, gorgeous, and a sweetheart to boot. He's charming enough to get any girl he wants. Now.. if H would NOT had romantic or lust feelings for h for years, or would have been celibate or SUPER discrete about it.. i would have liked him .. maybe. Why does he has to be so open and in everybody face about his manho ways? I understand that for this main chracter, she needed to rebel and go outside the scope of her usual life. I understand that, and I can respect that. My issue is that she forced herself to do things that she didn't necessarily seem comfortable with, and I'm not sure I like the message that sends. But, I digress. My issue had nothing to do with her purity contract and her commentary on purity culture. I appreciated the refreshing honesty that purity culture IS toxic. She and her best friend have had a strange relationship for 4 years. Basically boyfriend/girlfriend without a real relationship. She’s on a shelf, and well, he is not. This may annoy some readers but honestly, it feels necessary to the storyline. Purity, depending on your religious views, could be contentious for some. Skyler does a fantastic job of separating religion from purity culture when it comes to the character's views. (Livvy believes purity culture is toxic, but religion itself is not portrayed in a negative way).

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I'm not Christian nor religious and I think the whole purity thing is horrid. The way her dad cried and said she was not a 'little girl' anymore - I wanted to vomit I seriously need to tattoo Skyler Mason’s name (the Author) in my brain because I absolutely despise all of her books and i never realise they are by her until i come to goodreads to complain about them. From puritanical virgin to primal sex kitten, Livvy’s story has allowed me expand the repertoire of smut I’ve consumed into a realm I could have lived without knowing existed. Heroine is a complete and utter doormat while the hero is a manwhore who has sex with countless OW while supposedly being in love with her the whole time. He even attempts to have sex with OW after he and the heroine have passionately made out (it gets interrupted with OW for external reasons but they still kiss, etc). I just felt like I was missing something- because although the writing wasn't necessarily bad, the story was just really surface-level. And when considering the fact that there wasn't really a plot behind this book, that just didn't make sense to me.I don't really know how I feel about the H. I liked his character, but he just wasn't developed enough😭? I genuinely don't know anything about him aside from his daddy issues and weird, unexplainable infatuation with the heroine. As always, her characters are real. Their problems are real. They live like normal people. So it’s so easy to fall in love with her writing.

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What's even worse is both Cole and Livvy read like fake plastic people. I can't connect to fake plastic people! But when I tell Cole my request, his reaction is not what I expect. He's furious and over-the-top protective. He won't touch me, but apparently no one else can either? It doesn't make any sense. Purity by Skylar Mason read online is available. It is a romantic novel that explores sexual liberation and the consequences of being raised in purity culture. Basically she is a Christian girl who realizes that she need a change in the way she is livin her live. So far fine. So she make a to do list with impure things se wants to do within 3 months.

What happens when a shy virgin raised in purity culture asks her gorgeous, player best friend to take her V-card? But when I tell Cole my request, his reaction is not what I expect. He’s furious and over-the-top protective. He won’t touch me, but apparently no one else can either? It doesn’t make any sense. In terms of the side characters, it was alright?? I wasn't really attached to any of them, and there were a lot of unresolved characters/ storylines that sort of annoyed me, but let's move on. I’ve been in love with Cole Walker since the first day he walked into class and sat beside me. How could I not? Six foot five, gorgeous, and a sweetheart to boot. He’s charming enough to get any girl he wants.

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There were a few niggling little things from a technical stand point that kinda irked me, but they were minor. I thought that the way the characters spoke was a little out of touch with twenty-one years old. Had they been late twenties, it would have fit perfectly. It’s time to move on and start living my life. This summer, I’m going to ask him to take my V-card with no strings attached. I didn't appreciate that it switched out one toxic way of thinking for another. It's okay that she chose to have sex before marriage. I make no judgement there. But, with the way that it is discussed, it makes it sound like any person who did grow up in purity culture and still choses to abstain from sex until marriage is somehow less evolved in their faith and still buying in to toxic thought processes. It isn't always about that. Sometimes it is a personal choice not bred from shame but instead a decision for oneself. It doesn't have to have anything to do with your "future spouse". You can make the decision for you and someone who does so should not be shamed and pitied for "buying into a toxic culture". I’ve been in love with Cole Walker since the first day he walked into class and sat beside me. Who could blame me? Six foot five, gorgeous, and a sweetheart to boot. He’s charming enough to get any girl he wants.

After reading this book, that’s such a baffling perspective. If you read this book, and walked away with that thought, you didn’t read the book. You just didn’t. And that’s okay. Go read it, you know? Though I would have expected this on Wattpad, it being a published novel is what perplexes me. But then again, I read it, so what do I really know. BookTok did this to me. I'm not sure why it chose to do me this way or what I may have done to warrant this sort of treatment but nonetheless, here I am. Again. I do agree with another reviewer that it could have done with more...there's one small scene with her dad, but (unless I'm forgetting) the mom never makes an appearance. A bit more of struggle/coming to terms with parents would have been nice to see, along with why Livvy had a change of heart regarding her beliefs. Cole: Livy’s gorgeous, player best friend who she’s been in love with since the first day they met. Purity by Skyler Mason Summary