DNF'd at 21%. This is my first book by this author and I got into it quite quickly. I liked the premise and was interested to see where it would go. UDNF'd at 21%. This is my first book by this author and I got into it quite quickly. I liked the premise and was interested to see where it would go. Unfortunately, there were a few things that annoyed me and maybe my patience has grown thinner than normal, but after the cat barn attack, I had to fold.
The heroine has this cat that is ... I'm not even sure. Super huge? And apparently extremely bad tempered? He attacks people all the time and she leaves him in the barn of the hero's castle when she goes there and the cat attacks a bunch of the guards and scratches them up; they're bleeding all over the place. I know, this is super small and why on earth did it set me off? I honestly don't know. I think half was annoyance with the silliness/ridiculousness of it, and the other half was annoyance with her for being so irresponsible by leaving the cat there and/or not at least warning people.
Think I already bought the second book in this series, so I will try that and keep my fingers crossed that I enjoy it more.
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DNF'd at 21%. This is my first book by this author and I got into it quite quickly. I liked the premise and was interested to see where it would go. Unfortunately, there were a few things that annoyed me and maybe my patience has grown thinner than normal, but after the cat barn attack, I had to fold.
The heroine has this cat that is ... I'm not even sure. Super huge? And apparently extremely bad tempered? He attacks people all the time and she leaves him in the barn of the hero's castle when she goes there and the cat attacks a bunch of the guards and scratches them up; they're bleeding all over the place. I know, this is super small and why on earth did it set me off? I honestly don't know. I think half was annoyance with the silliness/ridiculousness of it, and the other half was annoyance with her for being so irresponsible by leaving the cat there and/or not at least warning people.
Think I already bought the second book in this series, so I will try that and keep my fingers crossed that I enjoy it more....more
3 stars This book had a lot of promise, but it came off as very amateurish in several ways and I found myself skimming quite a bit. There was something3 stars This book had a lot of promise, but it came off as very amateurish in several ways and I found myself skimming quite a bit. There was something very flat and one-dimensional about the characters, and a lot of telling rather than showing. I'm very interested in Coal's story, but I don't know if I'll end up reading it; this book really didn't wow me and I don't want to go through another skimming exercise....more
DNF. Got through a third of the book and decided to stop. I was interested by the premise, with the hero being a "tosher" (making his living in the seDNF. Got through a third of the book and decided to stop. I was interested by the premise, with the hero being a "tosher" (making his living in the sewers) and the heroine a 30-year-old reporter, but it got to be too eye-rolling for me quite quickly and too hard to believe. Verity wants to find the Lost Lord, her tip is that he's a tosher, ... so she decides to go down into the sewers and ... wander around? Until she finds him? Definitely a sound plan, especially since London is such a small city—it's not like there's going to be much ground to cover!!
Caldwell writes quite angst-free romances, which I often appreciate, because too much angst is not for me. However—and I promise I'm not trying to be difficult—sometimes I don't like it when couples fall too quickly and easily for one another, and for no absolute discernible reason. I have adored some CC books, but when I haven't, it's usually because of this type of thing....more
2 stars. I really did not enjoy this book. I have loved several of Maisey Yates's novels, but this is the first novella I've read by her. The characte2 stars. I really did not enjoy this book. I have loved several of Maisey Yates's novels, but this is the first novella I've read by her. The characters were very cookie cutter and stereotypical, their actions didn't always make sense, and I did not at all believe that they fell in love with each other. After not having seen each other for 8 years, they have sex like mad for a week and then are in love? Yeah, okay. Wasn't convinced that what Annabelle felt was anything beyond hero-worship ... and I didn't believe any aspect of Cooper's supposed feelings.
A romance author has a steep hill to climb when writing a romance novella, but there are some who do it successfully. Don't know if this applies to Yates's novellas overall—I'm hoping not, since I just bought all of them (!)—but it was definitely true here.
Juliana Philippa
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