At first I was enjoying this so much that even though it wasn't the best thing I'd ever read I thought I'd give it 5-stars. Then around 30% and for moAt first I was enjoying this so much that even though it wasn't the best thing I'd ever read I thought I'd give it 5-stars. Then around 30% and for most of the book I thought 4-stars, but towards the end the h was just making to many annoying decisions, and the plot was messy so we were down to 3 stars. The inconsistencies were just too much. People would say something and then a chapter later they acted like they'd never heard of that thing and have totally different feelings about it. There was a lot of repetition where I feel like a good editor could have helped a lot. It felt like the writer took a break from writing and then came back, but didn't really orient themselves with where they were in the story so they just rewrote the same information, but with a different take on it making it confusing and frustrating. The h made up so much shit and never communicated with the H so they just got into fights. Everything just started to feel way too contrived, like the author was just making them fight because it was that time in the book so obviously they have to fight before they get back together but she didn't really have anything for them to fight about so everyone just looks dumb. Also sidenote but all her fainting, puking, and intolerance for fighting even though she's supposedly some badass human was a little annoying. Then at the end... that bathroom scene with Envi? Totally didn't need to happen... Definitely should've been edited out. Why at 85-90% in the book does she need to suddenly become best friends with a human? The twins had already sufficiently been seeded for their own books/future plot lines so it felt extraneous. That scene should've taken place in Envi's book not in the middle of Kol and Nova's "big misunderstanding"/climax. It was just annoying af and distracting from the meat of the plot at the end of the book. Overall, I still mostly liked this it just fell apart for me slowly throughout the most of the novel and then all at once. I honestly was thinking they were getting more than one book with how messy the very end of this shit got. Oh well.
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At first I was enjoying this so much that even though it wasn't the best thing I'd ever read I thought I'd give it 5-stars. Then around 30% and for most of the book I thought 4-stars, but towards the end the h was just making to many annoying decisions, and the plot was messy so we were down to 3 stars. The inconsistencies were just too much. People would say something and then a chapter later they acted like they'd never heard of that thing and have totally different feelings about it. There was a lot of repetition where I feel like a good editor could have helped a lot. It felt like the writer took a break from writing and then came back, but didn't really orient themselves with where they were in the story so they just rewrote the same information, but with a different take on it making it confusing and frustrating. The h made up so much shit and never communicated with the H so they just got into fights. Everything just started to feel way too contrived, like the author was just making them fight because it was that time in the book so obviously they have to fight before they get back together but she didn't really have anything for them to fight about so everyone just looks dumb. Also sidenote but all her fainting, puking, and intolerance for fighting even though she's supposedly some badass human was a little annoying. Then at the end... that bathroom scene with Envi? Totally didn't need to happen... Definitely should've been edited out. Why at 85-90% in the book does she need to suddenly become best friends with a human? The twins had already sufficiently been seeded for their own books/future plot lines so it felt extraneous. That scene should've taken place in Envi's book not in the middle of Kol and Nova's "big misunderstanding"/climax. It was just annoying af and distracting from the meat of the plot at the end of the book. Overall, I still mostly liked this it just fell apart for me slowly throughout the most of the novel and then all at once. I honestly was thinking they were getting more than one book with how messy the very end of this shit got. Oh well.
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At first I was enjoying this so much that even though it wasn't the best thing I'd ever read I thought I'd give it 5-stars. Then around 30% and for most of the book I thought 4-stars, but towards the end the h was just making to many annoying decisions, and the plot was messy so we were down to 3 stars. The inconsistencies were just too much. People would say something and then a chapter later they acted like they'd never heard of that thing and have totally different feelings about it. There was a lot of repetition where I feel like a good editor could have helped a lot. It felt like the writer took a break from writing and then came back, but didn't really orient themselves with where they were in the story so they just rewrote the same information, but with a different take on it making it confusing and frustrating. The h made up so much shit and never communicated with the H so they just got into fights. Everything just started to feel way too contrived, like the author was just making them fight because it was that time in the book so obviously they have to fight before they get back together but she didn't really have anything for them to fight about so everyone just looks dumb. Also sidenote but all her fainting, puking, and intolerance for fighting even though she's supposedly some badass human was a little annoying. Then at the end... that bathroom scene with Envi? Totally didn't need to happen... Definitely should've been edited out. Why at 85-90% in the book does she need to suddenly become best friends with a human? The twins had already sufficiently been seeded for their own books/future plot lines so it felt extraneous. That scene should've taken place in Envi's book not in the middle of Kol and Nova's "big misunderstanding"/climax. It was just annoying af and distracting from the meat of the plot at the end of the book. Overall, I still mostly liked this it just fell apart for me slowly throughout the most of the novel and then all at once. I honestly was thinking they were getting more than one book with how messy the very end of this shit got. Oh well....more
That was…not great. I flew through the first two books which also weren’t great but they were fun and it was nice to want to read all the time again. That was…not great. I flew through the first two books which also weren’t great but they were fun and it was nice to want to read all the time again. However, once she started getting with the boys in book 3 it became less interesting somehow. I just feel like the relationship progression was really bad. I kept reading basically to see how it all worked out but I wasn’t enthused anymore and the resolution was lack luster. She’s barely spoken to Tristan for like 2 books now, Windsor was such a random addition to the harem and even by the end she still barely knows him and their relationship still makes the least sense of them all. I just wanted more. Their dynamics as a group and why they’re obsessed with her individually don’t make sense, I wanted more of the 6 of them together and we never got that.
The bullying drama was lame. The Charlie situation which has been draaaagged out and it sucked. Same with the Lizzie situation…such a random story arc and the Myron thing...huh. The writing just isn’t good, soz. There was shit Marnye learned last book that she was acting like was new info this book, just lazy stuff. Idk I was pretty annoyed with this book if you can’t tell ...more
This was the most boring so far, but it’s still keeping my attention and so easy to read. Now I basically just have to read the last book to see wtf hThis was the most boring so far, but it’s still keeping my attention and so easy to read. Now I basically just have to read the last book to see wtf happens but I’m not all that excited after this one. We finally have some relationship progress but it’s all very stilted and secretive and random who she gets with and doesn’t. She’ll sleep with someone because they invited her on a date but then no one else takes that initiative even though she literally spelled it out. Her girl best friend is in love with her and I thought this harem was getting real wild but psych she’s not into girls so that just felt really random and annoying. Like does absolutely everyone have to be in love with her? What she already has going on doesn’t make any sense, let’s chill. Also the bullying is at an all time low lol. The girls are supposedly a threat but it’s all very calm and chill except for like one random thing here or there that goes nowhere. Boring. I also hate the pacing of these books, scenes just end right in the middle of good stuff and pick up days or weeks later.
Pet peeve/rant, but I hatttte these prologues. Just started book 4 and finally skipped it because idk as someone who generally doesn’t like prologues I’m not an expert, but I feel like they’re usually not just the last few pages of the book you’re reading? It can be an excerpt from a crazy moment later on but every time it’s literally just the end of the book. If I wanted to be one of those freaks who reads the last few pages of the book before I starting them I’d just do that (sorry to all you freaks but wtf lol), but I don’t like spoilers. These “prologues” suck. Anyway I could rant about these books forever, they’re kinda entertaining but not well written and totally insane but somehow I’m addicted and actually spending all my free moments reading again so can’t be too mad. Excited to be done though because my interest is really fading ...more
This is a no thinking, quick, easy, mildly entertaining alien romance. Authors often portray aliens as immature or dumb to add to their alien2.5 stars
This is a no thinking, quick, easy, mildly entertaining alien romance. Authors often portray aliens as immature or dumb to add to their alien-ness/doing things differently than humans would and this book leans a bit too hard on that, but Benjar mostly comes across as a loveable idiot. As with the first one not a ton happens. I’m not loving the ‘I need a chef so let me marry someone’ angle or the fact that all of the other romances are starting at this same exact moment/storm. It’s weird to have the first book be it’s own thing and then everyoneee else finds their mate during this one storm…...more
This might take the cake for the most fucked up JK plot line, but the smut was very smutty and there’s nothing like JK when you’re in a book slump andThis might take the cake for the most fucked up JK plot line, but the smut was very smutty and there’s nothing like JK when you’re in a book slump and need a little reset ...more
For most of this book I felt like it was better than book 1. The taboo/kink was more fun and it played out better. While there was still a large age gFor most of this book I felt like it was better than book 1. The taboo/kink was more fun and it played out better. While there was still a large age gap the taboo-ness felt more on even footing because they were both attracted to their step sibling and fucking around with them and it was fun. I didn’t love how the cam-girl thing was handled. That was almost over before it began and I think more fun could’ve been had there especially with the voyuer angle. But the majority of the book was entertaining until it all kind of fell apart for me at the end after the big ‘Drake’ reveal. I really did not like the representation of depression and suicide in this book. The H basically willed it away for a decade ...more
This was ooookay. I used to love R.S. Grey so I try her new releases every once in a while. I love a sports romance, but this one was just al2.5 stars
This was ooookay. I used to love R.S. Grey so I try her new releases every once in a while. I love a sports romance, but this one was just alright. I don’t often see the h being the emotionally unavailable one so that was…something lol idk I don’t have a lot to say about this one, but somehow I did get through it really quick and it kept my interest/kept me turning the pages so it gets points for that.
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2.5 stars
This was ooookay. I used to love R.S. Grey so I try her new releases every once in a while. I love a sports romance, but this one was just alright. I don’t often see the h being the emotionally unavailable one so that was…something lol idk I don’t have a lot to say about this one, but somehow I did get through it really quick and it kept my interest/kept me turning the pages so it gets points for that....more
This was a wild ride. I was so confused starting this book because this was nothing like Brynne Asher’s normal setup, it made more sense ev2.75 stars?
This was a wild ride. I was so confused starting this book because this was nothing like Brynne Asher’s normal setup, it made more sense eventually, but phew I was thrown for a loop there at first. Also I seriously thought I’d already read this book reading the first page, but it turns out I’ve just read enough forced marriage mafia books that the opening page with the wedding dress they didn’t pick out, the stylists working on them that they don’t know and being locked away is all just very familiar and can only be written so many ways ...more
I liked this book, but I didn’t love it as much as I was expecting too. I love a single parent who’s not the bio parent so I was very intrigued by thiI liked this book, but I didn’t love it as much as I was expecting too. I love a single parent who’s not the bio parent so I was very intrigued by this highly fictional CPS program that forced the H who’s trying to get custody of his deaf 15 year old brother and the h who’s trying to get custody of her newborn baby sister with health issues. This was definitely a fast and easy read, but while I flew through the first half it really slowed down for me in the second. I felt that they got together too soon and then I just got bored because it became cheese town USA and kinda cringe. I think most people would be fine with the OTT cutesy direction the dialogue and everything took with all characters, but I preferred the tension and quasi-asshole behaviors of the H in the first half. It was like he had a personality transplant and the instalove was just unbelievably OTT for me. I honestly love instalove and ready made families so this should’ve been my jam, but I wasn’t feeling it in the second half. That said it was still mostly cute. I liked the deaf brother and any time a man is bonding with a tiny baby I’m here for it, it just could’ve been better imo, but I know this is a debut novel for this author so props for that....more
Didn't love this one obviously. I was actually going to give it 2.75 stars rounded up to 3 until 90% when I laughed my ass off at that surp2-2.5 stars
Didn't love this one obviously. I was actually going to give it 2.75 stars rounded up to 3 until 90% when I laughed my ass off at that surprise…aw, man...just no. That compounded all the issues I had with this book.
The whole time I just thought Gigi and Ryder came off as baby adults trying to act like cool adults and really they're just dumb kids in college who need to chill and that 90% surprise really solidified that like what the actual fuck was that ...more
I was about to give this 3-3.5 stars because the fae really let me down and annoyed the fuck out of me lol like really is it impossible for one fae toI was about to give this 3-3.5 stars because the fae really let me down and annoyed the fuck out of me lol like really is it impossible for one fae to be decent? But then the epilogue had two nice surprises that saved it and that’s also when I realized this series is over ...more
Read as an audiobook. Still enjoying this series, it’s an easy thing to listen to while working or doing chores. The ending was intriguing because it Read as an audiobook. Still enjoying this series, it’s an easy thing to listen to while working or doing chores. The ending was intriguing because it entwines more with her other series and was a very Annette Marie way to end on a non urgent cliffhanger, but I’m excited to see how that unfolds in the next book. I am endlessly pissed off that Zak and Saber still haven’t explained to each other what happened when they were teenagers. Saber refuses to ask because it will confirm(?) that he’s heartless and make her re-live his betrayal and I’m just like stfu and talk about it already!! So here’s hoping that happens any time soon, but I wouldn’t be surprised if AM drags it out for a whole nother book ...more
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