I guess the insta-obsessed stalker hero doesn't work for me when the guy is a normal, regular civilian. Bro stalked her and then came home to watch1/5
I guess the insta-obsessed stalker hero doesn't work for me when the guy is a normal, regular civilian. Bro stalked her and then came home to watch Netflix and play video games.
Also, can authors stop writing heroes who come in questionable objects?
"I want to come in her lotion so she has to put me on her skin. Wear me."
What's attractive about it? What's attractive about getting a rash??...more
I literally wrote to amazon for a refund, what a disappointment. The plot twist and whatever happened after it, ruined the whole book for me. I wis1/5
I literally wrote to amazon for a refund, what a disappointment. The plot twist and whatever happened after it, ruined the whole book for me. I wish this was more detailed in the trigger warnings because I definitely wouldn't have read this book.
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I literally wrote to amazon for a refund, what a disappointment. The plot twist and whatever happened after it, ruined the whole book for me. I wish this was more detailed in the trigger warnings because I definitely wouldn't have read this book....more
I had it on my tbr for over two years, so I finally decided to give it a chance. Well, it turns out it wasn't my best decision.
My main problem here1/5
I had it on my tbr for over two years, so I finally decided to give it a chance. Well, it turns out it wasn't my best decision.
My main problem here was the heroine, Bristol. She was definitely not a 'girls girly'. She was so judgmental and presumptuous.
"My eyes do the slow crawl from the girl’s hot pink toenails in her wedge heels, over the skimpy cut-off denim shorts and the bikini top, which barely bridles her breasts. Bright blue eyes and blonde hair complete the California package. If all the girls look like this, and a quick glance around Mick’s dining room tells me a lot of them do, I may reconsider my secret plan to move here when I graduate."
You may reconsider your plan to move here because the women in California look different than you? I forgot that you wearing a leather jacket and boots is so mysterious and different.
“I wasn’t judging her.” His look and the twist of his lips say otherwise. “Okay, maybe I was judging her a little bit.” I laugh and am glad when he laughs, too. “She’s a pretty girl, and sometimes they get a bad rap.”
You were totally judging her and WHAT??? So when a girl is pretty and takes care of herself, you assume she has a 'bad rap'. I don’t even know how to comment that, because I have no words.
"I sigh and nod my head out to the hall. “Look, we better get going.” “What’s the hurry? Rhyson’s at the studio and Grady’s at his retreat all week. Just an empty house waiting for us.” “I’m ready to go. I have better things to do than give a perfect stranger a grand tour of my place when I need to be working.”
Or here, when she wanted to pee, so she went to Grip's apartment and it was so obvious that he felt uncomfortable with it, but she started walking and looking at it and was far from leaving his place.
The situation with her brother.
“I don’t know if I can do that shit again, Bris. It takes so much, and I only got through it with the drugs. I don’t want to create a situation where I need those again. If there was one thing I learned when I kicked the habit, it was that I have an addictive personality. Music is the only thing I need to be addicted to.”
"I know it’s farfetched. I know it’s irrational to stake my entire college career, my future, on the dreams Rhyson isn’t even dreaming, but to hear Grip affirm my lunacy chafes."
Her brother ran away from their family because his parents took advantage of him for money because he was a piano prodigy. He started doing something else, related to music, and she came to him and said that he should come back and she would be his manager. Girl. Leave this guy alone. I know he is your brother and you want good for him, but he was miserable. Also, the fact that she choose her future career based on his talent, even though she didn’t talk to him for years (it was his fault as he thought their parents made her reach out to him to go back to his piano career), was just plain ridiculous.
“Don’t you have any dreams of your own?” he asks."
Yes exactly. I know her family had some music business, but she planned her future based on her brother's passion. The one he ran away from, because he was unhappy about it. Quite sad and not very smart.
Grip and Jimmy were the only characters I liked.
Maybe it's just me, but when I picked this novella up I expected something different....more
I don’t know if it’s me, the book, my weird reading slump because I dnfed too much books recently, or the fact that i1/5
What the hell did I just read?
I don’t know if it’s me, the book, my weird reading slump because I dnfed too much books recently, or the fact that it’s the end of my dark romances era. The last thing is the least possible because this era lasts from at least six years. My final decision is the book. I came to the conclusion that I can only read dark romances where the heroine is strong, like-able, smart and has even a little bit of self respect. For example like Lana Myers from the Mindf*ck Series (Mindf*ck, #1-5). Not the one that says one thing, and does another.
Let's start with the fact that I thought I was going to like this book. Unfortunately, the more I read the more I didn’t know if I should laugh or be horrified. Maybe, it was my mistake because I thought the cowboy dark mafia romance somehow will worked out to me. Shocking spoiler. It didn’t.
I think it will be easier to write in points what I didn't like about this book. Just at the beginning, it’s my opinion. I was aware of the trigger warnings and they weren't the issue here. Mostly because I've read some really weird and dark books in my life. So moving on.
ONE I couldn’t take seriously the fact that it was a cowboy dark mafia? romance. I tried to imagine men in a small cowboy town being all mafia, bad and scary and I end up laughing. What will they do to me? Send some horses after me? I know they did some shady stuff in the book, but that was my only thought.
TWO The heroine’s behavior made me almost throw my kindle out the window. Her father was mixed with "the mafia" in her small town and died. Then some weird, shady but obviously beautiful and handsome guy approached her who was a walking big red flag. And even though she thought about ignoring him, she still wouldn't let him go. If he at least sounded mysterious, hot and sexy then maybe I would be like "Okay girl I kinda get you". But no. He sounded cringy, funny and like a frat bro who only wants in your pants. When he approached her for the first time I was like "Please don’t tell me that’s her love interest". The last thing about her. Probably not the last in the book because I skipped too many pages. She had a car incident and the hero obviously suddenly appears next to her on his black and sexy bike. She was going to visit her friend, and although she was skeptical about him because she had only known him for less than an hour, she went back with him. Without texting her friend about it. Girl seriously? Be serious. You really should inform you friend about stuff like that. Or the fact that she was telling her sister one and then doing exactly the same.
“Avery, you need to be careful,” I said sternly. “You can’t just go around getting involved with dangerous men and bull riding. You could get seriously hurt.”
I don’t want to talk about her anymore so moving next.
THREE If I read a romance book I need to literally salivate about the hero, because real life men suck. The only thing Declan made me do was slap myself in the face for his actions and sentences. Through the book I wished to some different man to suddenly appear and stole her. Seriously. I laughed when he said that she belong to him, but he knew he was in town for four days.
“Out here in the open. You belong to me—and I want the world to know it.”
They were in the middle of nowhere, in some field. Then a second later.
“You’re not staying.” “I’m not.” But that didn’t mean she couldn’t come with me."
Then a second later.
“What do you want from me?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. I smiled. “I want everything,”
Damn man. [image]
I found the fact that they didn't even know each other twenty-four hours in total, but he said things like that funny.
"Today, I’d paint the ground a bloody red for her. I’d tear the world apart for her. I’d serve up vengeance on a silver platter for her."
The next thing. This actually made me angry and sad. She was just r***d, not by him, and he thought that tying her would be a good idea. Indeed a mastermind.
“Safe? You’ve tied me up!” she cried, her voice choked with fear. She was desperate, struggling to make sense of the madness unfolding around her. “Yes, and I won’t apologize for it,” I replied simply. “You’ll understand someday, Clover. But for now, you need to stay here. For your own safety.”
That’s not hot at all. At all. Even in the slightest. Almost the last thing, there was probably more, was that he was keeping her in his RV. I mean, if he at least kept her in some mansion or apartment. But an RV?
The last thing.
"But I was r***d. I was fucking r***d, and then right after, Declan did something that felt a whole fucking lot like r**e but maybe wasn’t."
It was girl. It was.
FOUR The last point. I couldn’t take the book seriously, because it was build like that. A cheesy, cringy conversation. Then deep description about how mysterious, sexi he is or how amazing and deep they connectiom is, even though they know each other max an hour. A cheesy, cringy conversation. etc etc
I’m ending this review because I’m done. It’s not even that I wrote everyting what was wrong here because I skipped some (a lot of) pages and I know they were trigger warnings at the begging but damn, some things here were just wrong. Dark romances stop hitting like they used to. Or maybe that’s me. I don’t know....more
No No No No No. I’m not reading this. I can't do that when the main characters are people I usually hate with a padnf 55%
The review contains spoilers!
No No No No No. I’m not reading this. I can't do that when the main characters are people I usually hate with a passion. I want to forget about this book as soon as possible, so a quick review.
The first part of the story.
Our main characters had a one-night stand that turned into a week-long fuck fest, with some breaks, but the first hundred and twenty pages were them fucking eight percent of the time. If you like smutty books, you might like it, but I'm not a fan so I skipped almost all of them.
The third part. The second part was just them exchanging letters for twelve months, so there's not much to say.
So as it turns out - we actually know this from the prologue, but we don't know who this person is - Pierce is married and cheats on his partner with Will/Auden (that’s the same guy, just his two names). But the person he is cheating on is Auden’s sister. A very nice, loving and just sweet sister who did nothing wrong. Auden returns from the army after twelve months for his sister's wedding and then finds out that Pierce is marrying his sister, there is an explanation in the book why he didn't make the connection that they were siblings. An explanation which I still don't understand because he saw the photo when Auden was eight years old, and his wife and Auden had the same last name. I skipped to the end to see if she was cheating on him or if she was a bad person who deserved to be cheated on, but she isn't. So, I can’t do that. I hate these types of cheaters. I wish them well.
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