Other reviews were right
It was not great. Not even a remix of the Goldie book, though it tried. It was just a less interesting quad.
So anticlimactic and lacking in any real character. It was boring. Doc was so interesting in the other books, and who was this completely blah woman? Would have liked it much better as a KU read. It’s not worth the $5. No character development at all. A lot of telling to get out of it. A LOT OF TELLING. Whole sections where the plot is skipped through with a few quick summary summary sentences, ( eg “And then over the next three years I blah blah blah. I finally finish school, blah blah blah. Then meet a guy and now we’re pretty serious, blah blah.”) So parts that could have fleshed out the story aren’t there. We never see the main characters interact with their secret baby (which isn’t really a spoiler if you read the ones before), which just makes something that’s supposed to be a major plot point (or one would think), an aside. That kid could not have existed at all. Didn’t matter to the story one bit. Their makeup is insulting. As a reader I’m insulted that this author basically was like “give me five bucks and take this half- developed crap.” Also, there is no point in these dudes being presented as ruthless. None of these heroes have been ruthless. Waylon, Griff, “Vengeance” (eye roll). Having a scene where they lame, cliche torture one guy and typing the word “punishment” does not a ruthless character make. They are so boring and without character, I can’t say it enough. Their little MC names, wasted. It’s not even a good reread like some others by this author lately that are weaker in story but still kinda cute or whatever. I’m pretty disappointed, but this whole series has been a wash. And jokes on me, I keep hoping that the next book will have that flare I found with her other novels. It’s not there, and it’s too bad.
I actually stalled in buying this book for weeks because the ones before were so bad, but this author did have a nice way of storytelling before, (if at times problematic with the whole #hashtagswirllove theme she sometimes has in a way that always sees the Black woman subjugating herself to her blue-eyed tormentor) and I wanted to give it a shot. I thought it’s five bucks. It has to be worth at least five bucks.
It’s not!
This story was just beyond rushed. Read the description, and you have all you need. The book will give you no feels and no resolution no nothing.
My thing is this, sometimes a story can’t be what it should. Cool. Make it a .99 read because that’s what this was. Don’t butcher quality and then present it as if that’s not the case.