I can't believe I'm DNFing this one at 60%. This has been on my to-read list forever! I just didn't connect with the characters.
This book has a 4.41 I can't believe I'm DNFing this one at 60%. This has been on my to-read list forever! I just didn't connect with the characters.
This book has a 4.41 rating with my Goodreads friends. That is a crazy high rating from a group of very discerning people (yes I'm talking about you, friends!). Perhaps take my review with a grain of salt then. I am one of the few that didn't love this book.
My issues with this one started pretty much right out the gate. For a guy who is used to working with some pretty shady people and has to watch his back, Danny is one careless mo-fo. Starting with letting the police manipulate him (come one, this can't be your first interrogation room! I wasn't even fooled by the stupid police ploys and I'm not a hardened criminal!). Leaving a safe-house to meet up with a friend on the street in the middle of the day?? Don't you think someone could be watching for that? The drug lords want you dead, man, you should be paranoid as $hit! Drawing a gun on some random guy walking his dog and then just standing there like a dummy while your FBI guy has to scramble for a lame cover story? Just plain stupid. It is no surprise the bad guys were onto you. I couldn't help myself compare this one to Zero at the Bone, and you can bet that D wouldn't step one foot in broad daylight for any reason while he was watching his man.
However, for me, the real killer was the lack of chemistry between the two guys. I didn't get why they all of the sudden went for each other. I didn't see the spark. The awkward sex-scenes didn't help either. I could definitely tell that this is Brooke McKinley's first M/M book. I felt a strange lack of heat between the two guys... it was like anti-sexy. Also, for someone as deep in the closet as Miller, he sure went from 0-60 in no time! He went from denial to love so quickly... it just didn't ring true for me.
I don't know, I thought that this book would be an easy 4 or 5 stars for me... I'm really disappointed that it was a miss.
Merged review:
I can't believe I'm DNFing this one at 60%. This has been on my to-read list forever! I just didn't connect with the characters.
This book has a 4.41 rating with my Goodreads friends. That is a crazy high rating from a group of very discerning people (yes I'm talking about you, friends!). Perhaps take my review with a grain of salt then. I am one of the few that didn't love this book.
My issues with this one started pretty much right out the gate. For a guy who is used to working with some pretty shady people and has to watch his back, Danny is one careless mo-fo. Starting with letting the police manipulate him (come one, this can't be your first interrogation room! I wasn't even fooled by the stupid police ploys and I'm not a hardened criminal!). Leaving a safe-house to meet up with a friend on the street in the middle of the day?? Don't you think someone could be watching for that? The drug lords want you dead, man, you should be paranoid as $hit! Drawing a gun on some random guy walking his dog and then just standing there like a dummy while your FBI guy has to scramble for a lame cover story? Just plain stupid. It is no surprise the bad guys were onto you. I couldn't help myself compare this one to Zero at the Bone, and you can bet that D wouldn't step one foot in broad daylight for any reason while he was watching his man.
However, for me, the real killer was the lack of chemistry between the two guys. I didn't get why they all of the sudden went for each other. I didn't see the spark. The awkward sex-scenes didn't help either. I could definitely tell that this is Brooke McKinley's first M/M book. I felt a strange lack of heat between the two guys... it was like anti-sexy. Also, for someone as deep in the closet as Miller, he sure went from 0-60 in no time! He went from denial to love so quickly... it just didn't ring true for me.
I don't know, I thought that this book would be an easy 4 or 5 stars for me... I'm really disappointed that it was a miss....more
Listened to this in audio and I have some thoughts.
I don't know why, but this book draaaaaaaggged for me. I think part of it was being in the head ofListened to this in audio and I have some thoughts.
I don't know why, but this book draaaaaaaggged for me. I think part of it was being in the head of someone with anxiety. I loved having the anxiety rep, but the repetition of thoughts and worries over and over again made for tedious reading. It got redundant and clunky feeling, and it was hard to push to finish (spoiler: I didn't finish).
Usually, I adore a hockey book. However, this didn't feel really like a hockey book to me. Sure, there were some hockey details, but it was mostly about being a single dad of a daughter with a chronic illness/disability, and it just wasn't my jam.
I really enjoyed the narration from Greg Boudreaux, but I didn't like the narration style of Michael Ferraiuolo nearly as much. It took me out of moment when he narrated.
With all of the amazing hockey romances out there, this just doesn't measure up for me.
I'm not going to leave a rating, but it was painful for me to get through this audiobook. I gave up about 1/4 of the way through. I guess only VERY paI'm not going to leave a rating, but it was painful for me to get through this audiobook. I gave up about 1/4 of the way through. I guess only VERY particular Riley Hart books work for me. ...more
I always want to love Meghan Maslow's particular brand of dark paranormal books, but they never seem to work for me. I gave this one the old college tI always want to love Meghan Maslow's particular brand of dark paranormal books, but they never seem to work for me. I gave this one the old college try, and I listened in audio (I usually adore Greg Boudreaux), but I DNFed at about 83% in.
I think I always want more out of Meghan's world-building. I don't know if there was another book in this world previously that I missed, but I just was sort of confused and not really into the universe where this book took place. It felt... incomplete. I also think that the way this author paces her sex scenes and how often they take place in the book didn't quite work for me. When I'm reading an urban fantasy or paranormal romance, it's more about the plot and excitement for me than anything else, and I think that's just my personal preference.
I'm in the minority with this one, and I don't want to rain on this author's parade, but I just wanted more from this story.
So very cringy, so far from a good holiday romance.
I wanted a sexy, fun little sapphic holiday book, and this just failed on multiple levels (it was So very cringy, so far from a good holiday romance.
I wanted a sexy, fun little sapphic holiday book, and this just failed on multiple levels (it was sapphic, I'll give it that). First of all, as someone who skis, the teaching skiing details were just painful to read. Just not at all how you would teach a first timer, and I'm convinced this author has never hit the slopes. Also, I also think the main characters are sort of trash?? They aren't the best people, and their jokes and banter just never landed. I didn't find this story to be charming at all.
I actually DNFed this book at 82%, and you can't convince me that it improved much from there on out.
Ugh, TENTACLES and still only two stars? I wanted this to be amazing SO BADLY.
I listened to Acsquidentally in Love in audio, and I was DOWN and all fUgh, TENTACLES and still only two stars? I wanted this to be amazing SO BADLY.
I listened to Acsquidentally in Love in audio, and I was DOWN and all for it... at first. It was fun, silly, and sexy, but then things got really repetitive. I had issues.
Let's talk narration. I've gone from a John Solo hater to a lover to... something. I have met him in person, and I really like him, and I've 5-starred a bunch of his audiobooks, but this book wasn't him at his best. He gave it his all, but he sounded so goofy. I just struggled with it all. I couldn't even be bothered to finish the last 20%, and that says a LOT. I think mostly it was the writing and not the narration, but it was a struggle regardless.
I found the plot to be too sexual (weird for me to say, I know- I'm cringing) but not sexy at the same time. I ended up skimming a lot of the sex scenes. The plot was a mystery but just really convoluted, and a bit too repetitive. I was into it at first, but then it went on for too long and it got boring.
I adore Tal Bauer but this book was mega cringe for me, so much so that I gave up around 45% in. That's baaaadddd.
Now, Tal does schmoopy romances, buI adore Tal Bauer but this book was mega cringe for me, so much so that I gave up around 45% in. That's baaaadddd.
Now, Tal does schmoopy romances, but this sappy, insta-lovey story just about made my eyes roll permanently into my head. It was just too much
However, my main pet peeve was the weird insertions of French into every sentence. I've read a ton of books with bilingual characters, and they don't constantly shove in other languages in every sentence. Trust me, we would have gotten that he was from Quebec without Tal's awkward, novice-level French making every conversation feel stilted and strange. I had a hard time getting through it.
I love Tal AND I adore hockey romances, but this book is not it.
I have read many, MANY ghost romance books or haunted house/living paranormal mash-ups, and I usually love them. There have been many authYeah... no.
I have read many, MANY ghost romance books or haunted house/living paranormal mash-ups, and I usually love them. There have been many authors who do a great job with these types of stories, but I have to say, I didn't think that Flipping was one of them.
I think when there is a ghost romance book, there needs to be really clear rules about how the living and dead interact, and that was one of my main sources of confusion here. I had SO many questions. The eating, the being able to be seen and touched, and way they can affect the living or vice versa... it was all very muddled in this story. Each ghost seemed to have different boundaries, and I felt like even those kept shifting over time.
Was the romance even good? The answer is, unfortunately, no. Both of these two guys are pretty crappy to each other, from (view spoiler)[attempted murder to outright cheating (hide spoiler)], and I was not at all into their pairing. Also, poor descriptions of physicality abound. I think one of the MCs was Black or a POC but I felt like even that was unclear. I was confused about who these two men were the whole time.
The plot was okay, but I was checked out from the story and actually DNFed at 81%, which is rare for me. I felt the urge to put the book down constantly, so it really wasn't worth my time to finish. It wasn't a bad story, but it wasn't to my tastes and there are much better books like it out there.
I LOVED Spoiler Alert, and it was one of my favorite books of 2020, but All the Feels is not even in the same league.
I usually don't rate aDNF at 47%
I LOVED Spoiler Alert, and it was one of my favorite books of 2020, but All the Feels is not even in the same league.
I usually don't rate a book unless I've read most of it, but I couldn't push myself to finish this one, and I think that deserves consideration.
It is very hard to get past the first 25% of this book. The male MC constantly negs the female MC... like constantly. It isn't charming, and it wasn't funny to me. Yes, I know he is a "good guy," but I found it extremely hard to see any sparks happening between them when he constantly calls her bird-like, short, and round... like, barely concealed disgust for her looks. This is supposed to be an enemies-to-lovers story, but I think the author didn't quite go about it the right way.
The chemistry felt so forced that I couldn't finish it. Maybe I'll return to it one day, but today is not that day.
I need to try this book again in ebook format. I could NOT focus on the audio (even with Teddy Hamilton!!), and I ended up DNFing at 70% without reallI need to try this book again in ebook format. I could NOT focus on the audio (even with Teddy Hamilton!!), and I ended up DNFing at 70% without really even remembering much detail from the book. I was just not in the right headspace for audiobooks ATM. *shrugs*...more
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