Sometimes I really really really wish I just stuck to the books I originally wanted to read from a series as a standalone without going back and readiSometimes I really really really wish I just stuck to the books I originally wanted to read from a series as a standalone without going back and reading previous installments. Ugh, why did I do that?
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Sometimes I really really really wish I just stuck to the books I originally wanted to read from a series as a standalone without going back and reading previous installments. Ugh, why did I do that?...more
-Weston Belmont made for a sweet hero. Was he memorable though compared to other Silver heroes? No. He's a walking green flJust some random thoughts.
-Weston Belmont made for a sweet hero. Was he memorable though compared to other Silver heroes? No. He's a walking green flag and a sweetie but he felt a *little* too perfect for me that it fell flat and kinda boring. Always throwing winks and cracking jokes felt a little too on the nose. I love nice guy heroes but I need a little something more underneath the surface. He felt way too laid back on some things too. He's supposedly protective of his kids and introducing new women to them but it didn't feel that way with the heroine once they got intimate. The fact that he didn't even bat an eye over his daughter catching them in bed together is an example of that. A lot of conversations seemed to happen off the page. He's a horse trainer but the "cowboy" aspect was nonexistent.
-West's two kids Oliver and Emmy were cute, I especially loved Oliver. But his little girl Emmy who is 6 years old sounded like a 12 year old going on 20 and it kept throwing me off and taking me out of scenes. It was so distracting. Does anyone know a 6 year old who talks this way?...
“I’ll come up with one and show you. If you like it, we’ll need to negotiate a price. I don’t work for free.”
“No, fancy girls don’t drink out of cans, Skylar,” Emmy argues. “What about a champagne glass? I think Dad has one back here somewhere.”
Emmy lets out a little scoff before turning to me dramatically. “It’s amateur hour over here.”
-Skylar Stone made for a sweet heroine. I don't love musician characters/stories, so that didn't really grab my attention and probably why I wasn't as invested as I should be in this story. It certainly didn't help here that Skylar didn't really feel like this big famous musician considering all the details about her music making and lifestyle wasn't really shown. She's supposedly a Taylor Swift-type of famous but it really didn't come off that way. Like her writing her whole new album pretty much happens in small bits and pieces and then boom! skip a few months(?) ahead... album is out. Which made no sense. Your heroine is a superstar shouldn't we see that creative process in real time? Her abusive asshole parents pushed her into stardom at a young age and controlled her whole life so it was nice to see her break free from that and discover what she really wants in life. Just wish the actual plot and chemistry was more exciting. I didn't feel invested/interested until the last 100 or so pages. I especially didn't feel the chemistry and angst till the near end which felt late.
-The standout character for me: The heroine's foul mouthed African Grey parrot, Cherry. ...more
Perfect cozy holiday novella. Just what I was looking for and needed to end the year with. A grumpy Welsh man with a jaded heart and 3.74 stars
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Perfect cozy holiday novella. Just what I was looking for and needed to end the year with. A grumpy Welsh man with a jaded heart and a sunshiny sweet American curvy heroine who live in the same apartment building in Paris and hate each other but get stuck in their tiny elevator lift on Christmas Eve. Colin and Jules were cute. And the body positivity and praise kink in this was nicely done. That nod to Love Actually was sweet. I recommend this for those who love wanderlust romances!
ETA: Ok after reading the bonus epilogue I just have to say Ms. Anders is in need of an editor or a good one at least. The amount of typos in just 20 pages is hard to miss. I noticed this in the initial story too, for some reason she tends to skip over her words a lot and it's really obvious especially during intimate scenes and dialogue. Important words are missing or repeated at odd times so it reads like mistakes. Her writing is a bit hiccupy because of that....more
This is how it had been in California. One measly lunch had led to months of staring off into space trying to remember the exact sha
3.75 stars
This is how it had been in California. One measly lunch had led to months of staring off into space trying to remember the exact shade of her eyes.
Wavering on the rating. This was cute. I liked it for the most part but to be honest I was really hoping to love it. I was obsessed with Burgess from just a gruff "hello" in the last book so yeah my expectations for this were a little skewed and I'm being harsher. The meet cute set up and tropes at play really had me looking forward to this. But a lot of odd plot choices were made here that felt contrived/forced into the book. I don't know it just felt very sloppy and lackadaisical in places. Some details didn't make sense or explained clearly. And I have never seen a book take such drastic left pivot in the first 30 pages just to introduce a new character to set up the next book in this series. Like...why? That was so clumsy and so unnecessary. You're telling me Chloe couldn't be introduced another way? Chloe whose soon-to-be stepsibling is a teammate and friend of the hero's? Instead you had to have your heroine in the opening scene of the book suddenly get cold feet for her new Au Pair job (that has free boarding) just to randomly go apartment hunting and meeting her new "friend" Chloe to create a new friend circle and set up for the next book?...... M'kay. Felt like a waste of page time for me. Moving on....
“Could you kiss me? One time. I’ll never ask again—” He went into the kiss like a bear being handed a pot of honey after a winter in hibernation.
“Burgess,” she gasped, patting him on the shoulder with a shaky hand. “O-okay. Okay.” “Okay what, gorgeous?” he muttered thickly. She moaned as he licked up the side of her neck. “This is . . . we’re getting c-carried away.” “I’ll carry you anywhere you want to go.”
She wasn’t sure what compelled her to break into a jog, only that she wanted to be in those strong arms as quickly as possible—and he was already opening them for her. She ran, jumped, and was enfolded in the warmest, safest hug of all time. All she had to do was dangle there, surrounded in strength.
He rubbed at the back of his neck. “I guess I want to be important to you. Instead of the man you could . . . maybe fall for someday. When I take you to bed for the first time, I want you looking back at me like you might. Like you could, you know. Fall for me.” He cleared his throat extra hard.
Burgess and Tallulah were very cute and sexy, the sexual chemistry and steam was ...more
The perfect nanny/single dad book does not exist. Liz Tomforde: WANNA BET??!
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The perfect nanny/single dad book does not exist. Liz Tomforde: WANNA BET??!
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“I simply stopped running when the two best boys I know caught me.”
Wowie did I love this. Happy New Year to meeee! This was a complete home run and yes I just used a baseball analogy for a baseball book I don't care. lol I need to sue Liz Tomforde for emotional distress. Her books keep stomping on my ovaries, flambéing, frapeying, just kaboom boom booming them to smithereens. ...more
This was adorable and charming all around and I get the fanfare over this series if4.5 Stars
"Sometimes the quietest love is the loudest."
This was adorable and charming all around and I get the fanfare over this series if this was anything to go by. Ryan Shay and Indy Ivers just melt your heart, two extreme opposites forced to live as roommates who slowly fall for each other was so sweet and satisfying to see. This definitely was one of those books that checks off all kinds of tropes and I personally didn't mind it because it felt like little surprises that popped up and didn't feel forced in.
What I loved: -Hero Ryan Shay is a NBA basketball player who looks like a cross between Stephen Curry & Michael Ealy (in my head at least). -Heroine Indy is the hero's twin sister's best friend who is coming off an awful break up when she caught her fiance cheating on her and now needs a new place to live. She's a flight attendant who is a caretaker by nature and wears her heart on her sleeve and the embodiment of sunshine and firecracker. She's hilarious and adorable in trying to fluster the uptight OCD hero. -Heroine's full name is Indigo so hero gives her the nickname Blue. (it's a recurring joke) -Hero builds heroine a bookcase to hold all her romance books. -Hero learns ASL to communicate with heroine's father who is deaf. -Hero makes sure to bring veggie food to a camping trip with his General Manager's family who didn't know she's vegetarian. -The praise kink. (The way these two hype each other up is really sweet too) -Care taking when heroine is sick. -Fake dating shenanigans including one bed scenario and a jealous hero. (I have never laughed so hard over a guy confusing the craft store Michael's for a real man ...more
“Maybe I’m just over being nothing but the footnote of an epic love story!”
I didn't feeI came for Nalla but stayed for Bitty.
Nate & Nalla
“Maybe I’m just over being nothing but the footnote of an epic love story!”
I didn't feel the chemistry between these two at all. Everything felt rushed and instantaneous so it fell flat. I appreciated Nate's backstory being similar to Nalla's father Zsadist. As a young, Nate and his mother were tested on and tortured horrifically by humans in a lab for scientific studies where they would inject Nate and his mother with human diseases and cancer. He was rescued from the lab by BDB Brother Muhrder and his mate Sarah who ended up adopting and raising him. Thirty years later we still see some of that trauma and PTSD peak through. All the elements were there to make this a great love story but unfortunately I struggled to connect with either of them. I didn't believe in the connection between Nate and Nalla because there was literally no build up to it. Like zero. Nate goes from pining over Rahyvnne for 33 YEARS to instantly lusting/smitten with Nalla after 1 scene. Page 83 no less. That's all. These two barely talked or knew much of each other before that so it didn't resonate. All it takes is one moment of seeing Nalla karate chop a lesser for Nate to snap out of his self-destructiveness? Seriously? ...more
Really loved this. There's just something about Shupe's writing I really enjoy when the story is right. It's so intelligent, precise, sexy an4.5 stars
Really loved this. There's just something about Shupe's writing I really enjoy when the story is right. It's so intelligent, precise, sexy and well researched. It does take on a bit of a modern tone in some areas as far as female autonomy and independence but it's not distracting. This is the biggest age gap romance I've read and I'll be honest if this was a Contemporary I would not have touched it. There's a 23 age difference here. The hero is 41 and the heroine is 18 and yes it took me some getting used to considering he's known her since she was a baby and he has a teenage son who is 2 years younger than the heroine Violet. I would have liked it more if Violet was 21 at least. But she's very mature for her age (a little too mature at times if I'm being honest lol). It definitely helped that the hero Max tried to put some distance and barriers between him and Violet who is doggedly pursuing him and is freaked out that she wants him. She's hurt that he's put distance between them since her coming out and it turns out he did it for a reason as he found her beautiful but much too young for him and it freaks him out. This also helped because if he had just went along with it easily I would have dropped this in a hot second. He's terrified and tries to scare her off at first which was great character development.
The Duke of Ravensthorpe is Violet's father's best friend and a family friend and Violet's crushed on him from afar since girlhood. He's a widower who enjoys single life after his marriage was a disappointing disaster after his wife died during child birth. He's a rake through and through who loves naughty times in the bedroom and honestly I found him so sexy and delicious. He's so intimidating, commanding, intelligent, earthy, sensual and masculine but also kind and a gentleman. I can't blame Violet for wanting him. A silver fox Duke with a filthy mouth. I wanted to climb him like a jungle gym so I get it. lol He steals the scenes and then some. Violet for her part I thought could have been developed a little more in comparison. The fact that I don't know what she looks like beyond having blonde hair and a curvy body for example did bug me. Her face is a hazy blur in comparison to the Duke who we get every little detailed description on. I liked that Violet's passion was in photography (I didn't even know Kodak camera boxes were a thing in 1895?) and studying photography (were classes available for women back then?). The sex scene involving her taking pictures of him naked was insanely hot and erotic. I thought that was nicely done. (ETA: I just realized the model on the cover is holding a camera. Very clever.) This is a very hot spicy novella and I loved every minute of it. I honestly wish this was a full length book given how quickly these two acted on their attraction and I wish that was dragged out a bit more given the forbidden aspect of it and Max's hang ups over their age difference and his friendship with her father. The hero caves a little too soon for my liking but since this is a novella you kind of just go along with it. I thought the emotions, the connection and tension was nicely done. If this was a full length book I probably would have given this a 5 star TBH. I could not put this down. Maximilian Thomas William Bradley III could absolutely GET IT. ...more
“Alessione,” he breathed into my throat. My heart turned over at the pet version of my name, one Italians used in fondness. I swallo
4.75 stars
“Alessione,” he breathed into my throat. My heart turned over at the pet version of my name, one Italians used in fondness. I swallowed hard, suddenly unable to speak. I kept perfectly still, soaking in his attention like a plant starved of rain.
Didn't really love this one unfortunately. Everything about this felt mechanical. Honestly? I was bored. I struggled to connect with the sto2.75 stars
Didn't really love this one unfortunately. Everything about this felt mechanical. Honestly? I was bored. I struggled to connect with the story and the couple, the heroine Sloane especially. I felt she had no agency or identity outside of having her Daddy tell her what to do her whole life as a prima ballerina up to the very point of almost marrying a sleazy douchebag to make her father happy. I mean, really? I didn't understand how she had such blinders on about her father being such an awful human being when he was quite loud about it. It took a whole forced engagement and wedding to a douchebag she doesn't even like for her to open her eyes? I didn’t get it. She said it herself how for years she saw how he talked to his employees and servers, how he treated her own mother and it didn't faze her until now? It doesn't sink in until the hero literally tells you your father threatened him to stay away? *gasp* Omg, you mean my Daddy IS an asshole?! No way!...more
A strong and enjoyable story just wish the last 60 or so pages lived up to the rest of the book. Starchy Duke vs American scandalous hellion 4.5 stars
A strong and enjoyable story just wish the last 60 or so pages lived up to the rest of the book. Starchy Duke vs American scandalous hellion was very fun to see. This reminded me a lot of Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart which is one of my favorite books with this exact trope. I think Shupe did a pretty good job in showing her MC's differences but connecting emotionally and showing that layer of vulnerability underneath. That vulnerability chip is what usually makes it or breaks it for me especially when it comes to hate to love dynamics. I can't stand when characters are just sniping at each other and nothing more and it's used as sexual foreplay. What surprised me the most is that the hero the Duke of Lockwood is actually very sweet and a gentleman. Which also surprises our jaded heroine too who believes he's nothing but an arrogant prig at first. I wasn't expecting our starchy Duke to fall so fast but that he did. I normally hate insta-love but here it was believable for the most part considering the time lapse and it's endearing how crazy he is for her and wouldn't change a thing about her.
Andrew has come to America in search of an heiress to marry to help save his crumbling ducal estate and huge debt no thanks to his irresponsible father. He's had very little luck in America (3 rejections to be exact) until he accidentally meets infamous party girl heiress Nellie Young. Nellie is the "love'em and lose them" type of woman, she has no use for men beyond a good time in the sheets and loves her freedom and life in NY until she meets a Duke who pushes her buttons and gets underneath her skin and heart. I love this type of shit. While she's very set in her ways and guarded she's also pragmatic and looking out for others even when they don't deserve it (looking at you Maddie dear). I loved seeing our independent hellion heroine falling in love for the first time and worrying about the hero and trying to fight it. Like I said, it's that underlying sweetness that really worked. From their accidental meet cute during a swim in the ocean to their time bonding in a swimming pool was the highlight for me. And yes this did that thing that I love where the heroine is the only one who calls the Duke by his first name Andrew and he calls her Eleanor instead of Nellie. Ugh loved that. I loved seeing her fuss over his heart condition and pushing him to get second opinions about his heart. The fact that you have a virile Duke who was diagnosed with a poor heart condition believing he's going to die young added a layer of urgency to the love story and him finding a wife. Joanna Shupe's world building when it came to economy, politics and science during 1890s felt very well rounded and handled with care. Maybe parts were anachronistic even for late 1800s America, I'm not an expert but it worked for me either way.
I was expecting a lot more butting heads from both hero and heroine given their extremely varying lifestyles and backgrounds but it was a great combination of bickering and flirting and real feelings peaking out that made it cute. The one who does the most bucking and denying is the heroine. Which did get a little frustrating the longer it went on. I felt like the whole town of New York had to talk this girl into taking a chance on love and willing to take a risk on the man she loves. I can deal with obstincancy but up to a certain point. It gets annoying when the same conversations happen over and over again until the very end to push someone into taking action. That and the suffrage theme just played a little too heavily for me in the last part with the heroine making some reckless questionable choices that kind of made me roll my eyes. It felt like this plot came out of nowhere? It doesn't play into the book until a good 70% in so it threw me off guard a little. I like the topic of women's suffrage just fine but not in my romance books. ...more
Too lazy to do a full review. Here are just some scattered thoughts while reading of what worked and what didn't for me.
-Nash and Lina made3.75 stars
Too lazy to do a full review. Here are just some scattered thoughts while reading of what worked and what didn't for me.
-Nash and Lina made a cute couple. Did they excite me? No, not really but they were cute. To be honest I started to mentally check out at the 40% mark which is pretty early on. This is not a bad book and I would still recommend it but compared to Book 1 this didn't really hold up in comparison as far as high stakes. I needed more from the plot and the couple. The secrecy surrounding Lina's occupation and why she showed up in town felt kind of overblown for what it was. (view spoiler)[ All that secrecy and hush hush over looking for a stolen car? Really?? Snooze. (hide spoiler)] I did like her backstory about her heart condition and how she connected with Nash through his struggle with severe panic attacks. And yes that bonus epilogue was touching and insanely sweet. Probably my favorite epilogue that Score has written so far because I'll be honest I don't love when books flash forward so far into the future in epilogues.
-Knox and Naomi stole the spotlight for me still. I was cracking up in his scenes. He's so ridiculous and unintentionally hilarious. And their wedding with that moment between Knox and Waylay? Ugh my heart. ...more
This was a mixed bag. What do you do when you start really enjoying the book 70% in? lol
My very first time traveling romance and it was inter3.5 stars
This was a mixed bag. What do you do when you start really enjoying the book 70% in? lol
My very first time traveling romance and it was interesting. I'm not a fan of this trope and generally avoid it so to have the heroine herself put into words exactly why I’m not a fan I thought was funny and rather ironic:
I didn’t want to be in a place where he didn’t exist. I couldn’t go back knowing he was long dead and buried, while I still had decades of life left to live, and I couldn’t chance going back for even a short time because I didn’t know if I’d ever be able to return.
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It's so morbid and exactly why I generally avoid this particular trope. And it's brought home even harder near the end. I've been trying to spread my wings and try new things this year with my reading choices and the cover and the blurb of this intrigued me so I took a chance. This started off strong but this had serious pacing issues that ruined whatever intrigue I initially had. The first 30 pages is the heroine Meggie moving from NY to Scotland to lick her wounds after an ugly break up with her fiance and helping her Nan do chores on her farm and describing the landscape, the weather, tea drinking, market shopping and how lonely she is in navel gazing detail. Only for her to fall through a cave portal and end up in 1658 Scotland with barefoot, bare chested, kilt wearing brawny Highlanders (why do these guys go hunting barefoot and bare chested…?) with a hero Colin who is all smiles and easy charm. My first immediate red flag and complete surprise was when we have the hero spitting out sweet nothings not even 5 minutes after meeting the heroine in the woods:
"Ask me for the stars, and I’ll pluck them out o’ the sky for ye."
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Whiplash anyone? Instant-lust is an instant mood killer for me. The pacing is odd because the author is so meticulous in setting up the plot and world building and building up scenes and yet the romance for more than half the book is rushed as hell and underdeveloped. You can give me lengthly detail of Colin going on hunts in flashbacks (I didn't understand why this was so important?) and how the heroine describes all the ingredients to put in her macaroons and figure out how to make ice cream using a barrel but you can't do the same with the romance? The heroine is a baker and she loves her sweet tooth. We get it. But if you are gonna give me a time traveling romance I'd rather more page time spent on the hero and heroine together than her love for cooking and her bond with the castle's ornery cook. Honestly it almost felt at times like Meggie and Cook's love story than Meggie and Colin's. lol There was just so much talk about her baking and what ingredients were used and descriptions of food that it got a little absurd. Like I said this didn't really grab my attention until 70% in and that was in large part because of the action and kidnapping and the adrenaline suspense of the heroine trying to escape a hellish dungeon and nearly getting raped by her captor. This author is very talented in involving all your senses and descriptive prose but she really needs to work on her pacing. She takes her time with scenes but you need patience. I won't lie I skimmed parts because of this. The endless expositions and meandering long winded monologues are a lot. I finally managed to feel something for our couple when things got really dire near the end. Which comes to my next issue and why I struggled to rate this.
This did that thing in the end that I hate which was disappointing. Yes there is a HEA but (view spoiler)[ at the expense of the hero's history. (hide spoiler)] This is the other reason why I don't like time traveling in my romances because there's always the difficult choice of one half of the pairing having to give up literally their whole life just to be with the person they love in a different century. I can overlook it if the compromise/sacrifice feels fair, for me it didn't here. (view spoiler)[ I felt Colin had more to lose than Meggie considering he will never see his brother, his family or his clan ever again. Meggie literally has no one but her Nan and nothing to go back to, not even a job. She had no ties left in the present day and we see her build relationships and connections with the entire clan in Colin's time for the majority of the book so to have all that be for nothing in the end felt wrong and dissatisfying. This is also where I point out that Meggie always had that option to go back to her time, every solstice the cave opens up that portal. Colin does not have that option to ever return and that just breaks my heart to pieces. The fact that Colin and Malcolm will never get to see each other again really guts me. (hide spoiler)] It's just depressing as hell and just puts a cast over the happy ending for me. Like oh sorry boo your whole family and friends are long dead and compost but welcome to the future! Now lemme show you how to drive!
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Anywho, first half was a long winded boring mess, second half was better. I want to give Malcolm's book a go. Arranged marriage to a witch sounds super intriguing. The main reason I dug my heels in and kept going was because I wanted to see how the end would play out but also because I was intrigued by the hero's older brother the Laird of the keep, Malcolm. I loved this dear sweet man and how lonely but selfless he was. I've never seen a sibling go to such lengths to save his brother like this character does. (view spoiler)[ This is the first time I've seen a male sibling showing zero hesitation in trying to nurse his ill hypothermic brother by giving him body heat. That was well done by the author IMO. (hide spoiler)] It was so touching and bittersweet. ...more
A blue blooded heroine of 1813 just randomly revealing near the end of the book that she got a tattoo on her butt while she was in boarding school wasA blue blooded heroine of 1813 just randomly revealing near the end of the book that she got a tattoo on her butt while she was in boarding school was probably the most surprising/ridiculous/bonkers thing out of this entire book. :/ lol Also, having the hero discover he has a surprise love child from his long lost dead lover is probably the least palatable plot twist to spring on a reader. Like... ew no....more
(This review has been sitting in my drafts for a month. Excuse the excessive word vomit.)
4.75 stars [image] This was a rollercoaster of emotions, highs (This review has been sitting in my drafts for a month. Excuse the excessive word vomit.)
4.75 stars [image] This was a rollercoaster of emotions, highs and lows and everything in between. I'm a little conflicted on the rating. This was almost perfect but the constant up and down and the last leg of it annoyed me a little too much and another example of why some books absolutely do not need to be nearly 600 pages. Lucy Score's writing is insanely good and so addictive and this is probably one of the best enemies to lovers office romance CR books I've read. "Maleficent" Ally and "Charming" Dominic butting heads was the absolute highlight for me (seriously points to Score for the clever snarky nicknames that morph into endearments ...more
-Brodan and Monroe were fine as a couple but not memorable unfortunately. I felt the same way about thi[image]
Bittersweet ending to the Adair series.
-Brodan and Monroe were fine as a couple but not memorable unfortunately. I felt the same way about this book as I did about Arran's book. It was just ok. Given the established sordid history between our hero and heroine here, I didn't love all the jumping back and forth from present day to past in the first 30%. I felt too much time was wasted on flashbacks just to kick start the story and seeing these two duck and dodge each other for quite some time after that. Time is wasted where we should have seen our couple start to slowly reconnect instead. Because of this the pacing wasn't great and it hurt the emotional connection and reconciliation for me. This should have been slow burn but it felt clunky instead.
-Brodan was an immature dick for much too long. He was such an unlikable prick in this. I usually don't mind asshole heroes but I need self awareness behind it or agency to balance it out. Here it did the hero no favors especially considering how his behavior affected his little nephew Lewis in the process. The heroine Monroe is Lewis's grade school teacher and Lewis worships his Uncle Brodan so when circumstances have Brodan in Monroe's orbit again, Lewis sees his Uncle being openly hostile and rude to his favorite teacher and he reacts to that. That part bothered me and made me uncomfortable. To be honest Brodan lost that edge that he had in the previous books for me. He was technically the wronged party yes but I needed him to get his shit together and grow up especially when he saw how it was affecting his nephew. He knew he was being mean and going too far but does nothing about it for a while. It just made him look unattractive and childish. I mean ignoring and being openly rude to the heroine is one thing but humiliating her at her place of work in front of her students and colleagues? [image] You wanna write your hero as an asshole, fine but when it involves kids that's when I have issues. Brodan Adair was my favorite Adair sibling next to Thane and I was anticipating his book for awhile now but he underwhelmed me and let me down in this I'm sorry to say. He definitely works his way back to earning Monroe's trust and there is some groveling but even so I just wasn't really feeling him. Like once I lose interest in you my eyes glaze over and I'm no longer invested. That's how I felt here. And the fact that his family was aware of how he was treating Roe but didn't confront him except for Arran I thought was kind of lame and asinine. Monroe grew up with the Adair siblings and friends with all of them. His own bodyguard had to set him straight for fucks sake. He obviously had his own demons to face but I didn't love how it took a while for him to actually do something.
-Monroe & Arran. We finally get to see the how and what that lead to the hero and heroine's estrangement and it's exactly what I expected and I'm kind of...underwhelmed? (view spoiler)[ Brodan and Monroe were best friends since they were five years old. The friendship turned into love as they grew up but they stayed best friends because Brodan was scared of losing Roe and their friendship even though they love each other. At 19, Monroe doesn't hear from Brodan for two weeks and suddenly thinks he's pulling away from her since he's off in Uni and finds out he has a new girlfriend. She's hanging out with Brodan's brother Arran when she finds this out and they end up getting shit faced drunk and sleep together and Brodan walks in on them. I guess I was just hoping for a better reasoning than just "I was upset and blacked out". (hide spoiler)]...more
This supposedly takes place in 1817 but doorbells that don't exist yet are being rung, the hero is wearing a plaid shirt, modern words like "cute" areThis supposedly takes place in 1817 but doorbells that don't exist yet are being rung, the hero is wearing a plaid shirt, modern words like "cute" are used and the author completely flouts rules of the peerage for nonsensical scenarios that made no sense. How does a sheltered rich daughter of an Earl know her way around a kitchen much less how to magically cook meals and bake biscuits? Why on earth would someone invite an unmarried gentleman and unmarried young woman to his house for dinner? Together? And did I mention the heroine's chaperone is named Mrs. Goatsocks? ...more
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