Pushing Patrick by Megyn Ward ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Queen Dee
- Jun 9, 2024
- 2 min read
The two main characters of this book go on a journey throughout the book to find out who they are and to overcome their insecurities.
Let's talk about Patrick, he's Mr. Nice Guy. Always there for other people. He is always helping others, always putting others first. To the point where it's almost at the expense of himself. He's in love with Cari, and other than one moment in college, they've never pursued anything, he's sat back and watched her date, other people, even so far as her going back to the ex from the night they had their moment, without voicing anything or making a move to show that he's interested in her. This all comes to a head when they start living together. He changes due to Cari's manipulations, she breaks his control, and he becomes one of the a**holes that Cari dates. He also realizes that the nice guy act is just an act, he doesn't have balance in his life and needs to figure out who he is.
Let's talk about Cari, she's insecure and fills that void with men that are a**holes. She's in love with Patrick but after that night when they had their moment, and Patrick being Patrick gently and politely stopped things from going further because she was very obviously drunk, she's always just dated a**holes and never brought it up again. When she needs a place to live, Patrick offers her his place, his room, and Cari for her part does everything in her power to break his control, his Mister Nice Guy routine, she teases him relentlessly with her body and actions. She manipulates him. She then becomes upset when it doesn't work out how she wants it to.
I read a lot of reviews after reading this book and I saw that a lot of people were upset with the way the intimacy is initiated between them. It's a murky start to their relationship and they're both struggling. Is it, clean and gentle and nice... NO... it's murky and questionable because the characters themselves are murky and questionable. The sex scenes at times are very consensual-dubious consent. Cari isn't asking him to stop and Patrick isn't asking her if she wants him to stop. She wants him and she believes that if that's the only way that she can have him then she'll take it. UNTIL she gets sick of him being upset about something that she's already apologized for, that she's tried to explain, and then well... the book ends on a cliffhanger.
So while you're reading it, just take into account that the characters are very murky, they're dealing with a lot of identify issues, and they're exhibiting a lot of toxic traits that honestly aren't for everybody. Take into account that they don't resolve their relationship fully in the first book, if you want to get to the resolution you have to read the second book, 'Claiming Cari'.
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