moved at a snail's pace with an unbelievable romance and all the bad romance tropes with nothing to show for it.... I gave up entirely too bored at armoved at a snail's pace with an unbelievable romance and all the bad romance tropes with nothing to show for it.... I gave up entirely too bored at around 60% mark. I see the author is somehow an "Amazon top 100 author" with this, her debut book ('the start of a planned series') and I find that very fishy. Is Charissa Weaks a real person, or an Amazon plagiarism bot? ...more
I'll be honest, this isn't worth 4stars.... but it's hovering below 3stars on GR and it's definitely better than that! I read this in a string of bookI'll be honest, this isn't worth 4stars.... but it's hovering below 3stars on GR and it's definitely better than that! I read this in a string of books recommended in Romantasy and it's the only one I've been able to finish. I think it might be a standalone which is too bad because I am actually interested in knowing what happens next. The romance side of it was pretty dumb - mostly just vampire kinkiness with a weird side of 'they accept me for my whole self, particularly my compulsive lying self!' --- which was just weird. The compulsive lying was meant to make the main character interesting but was ham-handed and didn't make her interesting or sympathetic/troubled at all - it just made her a clunky unreliable narrator. That being said, she's a badass and a fighter and she manages to team up with a few allies to maybe/hopefully get out of a fatal situation in one piece and it's interesting to see. ...more
maybe I'm not the target audience enough but this just couldn't catch my attention despite what sounds like an interesting premise and the initial shomaybe I'm not the target audience enough but this just couldn't catch my attention despite what sounds like an interesting premise and the initial shock of one sister finding her twin's desecrated body. Even that felt boring. I don't know how there is enough here for a series... so I stopped reading about 1/3 of the way through....more
a well-written spicy regency romance with the usual tropes but better flirting in the front end than most
the byline is stupid cause I read it and didna well-written spicy regency romance with the usual tropes but better flirting in the front end than most
the byline is stupid cause I read it and didn't realize I had already read the book till I picked it up... it should be: husband-hunting gal runs into the most eligible bachelor in town, feels a spark but realizes he's got her pegged and writes him off ---- which intrigues him of course because in this story men definitely want what they can't have. Man is emotionally unavailable because his parents didn't love him (and had a terrible marriage) so it's game of seduction vs the "I'll drop my panties only for a profitable marriage" lady....more
2.75 stars rounding up cause I didn't enjoy it but I stuck it out to 72% thinking it would get better as it hinted. Purchased as an e-book deal during2.75 stars rounding up cause I didn't enjoy it but I stuck it out to 72% thinking it would get better as it hinted. Purchased as an e-book deal during Pride month offerings as it has a great advertising team (beautiful cover and byline e.g.) and I trust some of the existing raves on Goodreads but this was actually fairly dull especially because I did not believe in the chemistry of the two ill-fated enemies-to-lovers(?) at the heart of it. I believed at least in the exploitative professor-protege relationship but that was also dull while somehow still overwrought in prose.
It's a Carmilla retelling in the mid 20th century at a women's university. shoulda checked a lot of boxes but alas!...more
Still doesn’t pass the Bechdel test but there WERE a lot more women in this story at least. Includes Coyote, multiple supernatuone of the better ones
Still doesn’t pass the Bechdel test but there WERE a lot more women in this story at least. Includes Coyote, multiple supernatural beings, and some new ones (elementals) as well as the threat of Ragnarock - in Montana of all places.
I realized I remembered NOTHING of the previous book and so references to it, and big bad Bonarata were increasingly annoying. But the plot and ending of this one were good enough to bring me back to the series....more
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