Diana

Fun, spicy story, if you can get over the narrator

Reviewed: 09-10-24

This story is a mild dark retelling of known fairytales, however the female narrator is so bright and bubbly she makes the spice sound angry and the anger sound like a high school girl spat even for the male characters. It’s just not the right story for her. The male narrator is good.

The story itself is fun and while there are some inconsistencies but it’s good. I’m definitely going to read the next book.

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It had potential not sure where it went wrong for me

Reviewed: 01-04-24

Spoilers so skip this review if you don’t want them.

I went into this book knowing the MMC is not morally grey but black. I knew the spice was not fully consensual. That is not my problem. I love the storyline about stopping trafficking. I loved the secondary story of the MFCs great grandmother. But about 3/4 of the way through I just wanted it over. I think there were just too many sequences that were the same, non consensual sex, she realizes she likes it, grandmothers story, his job-over and over again. I skipped the last five chapters went to the end and still didn’t care and there’s a two parts to the cliffhanger to suck you in. Nope just didn’t care anymore. The narrators are great although a little slow in reading.

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Get to book 3 in the series

Reviewed: 11-17-23

I struggled through book 1 & 2 but this one picks up halfway through. Ive been trying so hard to like this series. I am going to get the next one now that this has gotten better.

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A why choose story with very little spice

Reviewed: 11-17-23

A lot is happening in this installment but all rather expected. We have one female with four males and not one actual sex scene. A little touching and a lot of flirting but jeez there’s more spice in a YA book and we’re on book 2 of a series. Not what I was expecting at all. Don’t follow the author on IG, she shares spice as if that’s what you’re getting from the whole series. Absolutely not.

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More of a romance the spicy

Reviewed: 11-17-23

Madison is a sweet, rather sheltered and full of a desire to be a bad ass but is not. Her men are not complicated. And knowing it’s a why choose story I was ok with that. I was looking for spice and fun and an easy read. It’s def an easy read I left it on in the background while I worked and if I lost some pieces it was easy to figure out what happened. It was fun, not exciting but fun. What it was not is spicy. There’s more hot scenes in a standard romance novel. What’s the point of a why choose book without spice. The narrator is good and tried her best to make things more sensual. Give it a try but don’t expect an epic tale.

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Converted sceptic-no spoilers

Reviewed: 11-22-21

First, get the books-all of them, it’s a great story! If you’re able to get the audiobooks, do it! Stina Nielsen did a fantastic job narrating all of these characters.

I was a sceptic when book 1 started, I loved the storyline instantly, Poppy was what you’d expect from an abused 19 yo, she has a tough streak but also unsure/doesn’t trust those around her and her own feelings. Loved Hawk immediately. What I didn’t love was how long it took to get anywhere in the story. The book could have been cut by an hour or more and still gotten the same story across.

Book 2 was torture of the best kind. Poppy was learning her inner strength, Hawk showed his true self and they found away to be together and share the love they had for one another. However, a lot of needless stuff and rehashing was done it’s unnecessary and I considered jumping chapters. Again a couple hours could have been cut.

Book 3 is the best so far. The story was more succinct and there was more character growth and it’s noticeable. I only got hung up with the repetition towards the beginning. Poppy and Cass are a great couple and great as individuals.

Overall, the story itself is intriguing. It’s a different telling of an old paranormal troupe. I highly recommend.

I have read some reviews about the amount of sex in the books-there is sex and it’s well written and not over the top. These are two people in the honeymoon period of their relationship, it’s expected. I hope everyone shares the passion these two do.

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Meh…expectations unmet

Reviewed: 06-20-21

Let me start by saying I’m a huge fan of K.F. Breene and Shannon Mayer. Then I read the review by Jaymin Eve, another favorite author, and thought this is going to be the best book I’ve listened to in a long time. Maybe my expectations were just too high, because it sort of fell flat. There were long sections I zoned out on. The premise is good, so I’ve bought book 2 with hopes I can get into it. Also, I’m wondering if it’s the narrator. She’s not bad, different voices for different characters are spot on, but she lacks any kind of excitement at all - even in high emotion moments she leans into them but the cadence is just the same, no speed up or slow down. GUH.

Fingers crossed for book 2.

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Pretty good

Reviewed: 06-19-21

You definitely need to read the series to get the whole plot. That said the story is good. Going in knowing it was A F/F/M romance I was expecting some sexy times - ummm - that was a miss. It’s a sweet romance, it’s good and not raunchy at all it’s sweet. There is one scene that you think something may happen between this thruple but the phone rings waking them up satisfied and that’s it. So if you’re looking for a new series where each book is about 2 1/2-3 hours long that has potential with sweetness this may be for you.

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I’m so torn on how I feel, but it’s goooood!

Reviewed: 06-04-21

On the surface this is a prep school for the ridiculous rich. There are three a$$bags that do things that would never fly in real life but it’s a book right so.... In comes the girl, normal rich, down to earth, owns her mind, body, self. Also, there is a very young, hot, relatively new teacher with an axe to grind against the a$$bags. Somewhat normal “for college” shenanigans ensue. Then the girls dad is blamed for a pandemic, this pandemic has a 60% death rate within one week and is viscous. This makes her life at new school awful! She pledges herself to the three a$$bags for reasons you have to read cause I hate giving away plot spoilers. There is a very creepy two-day lockdown with the teacher that has me borderline ready to call the cops. Then the end of the book happens and I HAVE to have book 2. The book is well written and I’m loving the slow build of all the characters back stories. The characters are also growing already, which I love.

Here’s my two problems, as someone who loves paranormal books when I read “normal” books they have to be somewhat plausible, I get that it’s fiction but I wrote plausible. The way these kids act in high school is not plausible at all. Nest, as an adult, I know high school kids are having sex but is it appropriate for this to be a series for adults? I kept trying to trick myself into trading their high school for a really small college. Because 18 at HS and 18 at college are two different things. This is why I’m torn.

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Story is great but I have one tiny nit

Reviewed: 05-23-21

A few small spoilers so if that’s not your thing skip this review.

The premise - A 45 yo recently divorced woman finds out she has powers. Ok cool you got me, I bought the book, I’m a 50 yo divorced woman who is waiting for her secret powers to emerge. Next - her long lost (she was adopted by two supportive dads) recently deceased Gigi finds a very ingenious way of telling her “before you do anything else you have to put a protective spell on yourself and the fabulous house I left you otherwise ALL The bad things are coming for you.” Now, she has to catch up to,” I have power, what!” “I need to figure out the basics of using these powers,” ok. But the first thing my-self-preservation-ass is doing is protecting me and mine. Nope, not this one. She stops to ask questions that have no relevance to training, to getting this task done. It has relevance to the story, yes! But every time she said I wont do anything to protect myself or those with me until you explain this I seriously thought, you are not my people.

However, the story, outside of that bit of annoyance is really good!!! I love the humor! The supporting characters are great. There is a living house aka granddad, Gigi, best friend, journey man, police chief, married neighbors who live in separate houses on each side of the house, and Salem, MA.

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