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JFC this author seems to have some internalized misogyny to work through. I’ll finish this book but after that she can miss me.

Story 5: B-

Story 4: B- (these grades are just for the story themselves. If I was taking off for grammar/spelling/editing mistakes, none of them would’ve been above a D 😆)

Story 3: B

Story 2: B

Low self worth is one thing but to blindly accept the word of a man who you know doesn’t like you instead of finding a way to talk to your lover of 6+ years and clarify the truth makes Tal seem dumb AF.

It’s cute how Carrie and Pax both essentially wrote off the women he had speed dates with as desperate bimbos unworthy of his time, and see Carrie’s as NLOG but then it’s Carrie who lets him- a virtual stranger- raw dog her on the floor after a smidgen of conversation and not so much as a last name exchange. And by cute I mean fucked up. Sigh this is my fault for trying het romances again huh? 🤡

Who almost quits a book at 97%?? Me. Without checking, I’m still sure this book is one of the ten worst things I’ve read this year. The Mary Sue/super SPESHUL-ness is too much. River’s personality that’s supposed to be quirky and funny (I guess) is just annoying AF. Glad this is almost over. Book 2 is a no.

What’s worse than a Mary Sue/Gary Stu? One who won’t STFU. 👏🏾 River’s incessant and usually inappropriate babbling makes me wanna gag him with a cactus.
Also the endless pop culture sci-fi references are annoying. WE GET IT; HE’S A NERD. Sheesh. Rn Kai and Benji are this book’s saving graces. Too bad they aren’t the couple. 💁🏾‍♀️

River might be too much for me… OTT and extra

So far, so trite and run-of-the-mill.

Fighting the urge to skim.

This has been…something. Neither MC is particularly likable (Ray especially); I don’t buy their romance; and what’s supposed to be funny banter is often just cringe.

The problem with turning classic horror stories into romances is that you now have utterly despicable characters who I’d happily see disemboweled, in the gutter, or in prison that I’m supposed to root for to have happy endings.🫠 nahhh 🤦🏾‍♀️ the world would be better without these two in it. That’s the happy ending I need. 🤗👏🏾

LOL if you need MCs who aren’t total horrible humans and who you root for, this isn’t the book for you 😆 I thought I needed those things but I’m oddly enjoying this.

LOL at these woke moments. I don’t see a cop referring to someone they’ve spoken with as “they” just like Ari called a group of women women without them having to announce their pronouns. 💁🏾‍♀️if anything the officer would have said he or she and Ari would’ve had to follow up with the nb ish. Just a peeve of mine.

GRRRR I hate contrivances and lack of communication. This moment is the equivalent of Laurie Strode seeing Michael Myers all day long on Halloween 1978 but blowing Tommy off when he says HE sees someone. Dumb AF. I continue not liking Ari. 😒

This thing is dragging like the muffler on a hooptie. Sex, brief haunting, nothing, rinse repeat is how it feels. And the sex is good but there’s also one MC I don’t really know and the other I don’t really like so 💁🏾‍♀️

As a reader I like not having to guess about something basic like the sex of a character. 🙃🙄

Wyn gives exponential black Air Force, FAFO energy and I LIVE for it. 💗🤣

““My sweet.” He attempted to make his ghoulish voice calm. “Do you remember how you were convinced I was going to kill you when we first met? I’m not saying I would ever do it, but we are getting very close to me taking out my anger on everyone else in the vicinity.” ~ Wyn.
🤣🥰 a Wyn is also a huge win 🤗

Aury and Edin 😍my freaking heart 🥰🥰 I want one of each. 😆 Ghost is straight up the safest person on the planet. 👏🏾 Score.🤗

This is much more enjoyable than the first one.

There’s no chemistry here, no steam, and an eyeroll worthy and quickly resolved (even for something this short) climax. Series goes 2, 1, 3 in terms of enjoyment. May read the 4th just bc I don’t feel like looking for anything else rn, but none have been recommendedable 😆

The level of insta in the last one legit made me reread the blurb to check if they were werewolves 🤦🏾‍♀️😆thankfully this one isn’t as bad, nor is the MC the poster boy for abuse red flags 🚩 so that’s good 🤗😅 now if the other MC could just stop working my nerves with his hot and cold nonsense …

This has been a color-by-number, super predictable, borderline soapy read, but not horrible. Though, gotta say, I hate it so much when authors drag out revealing what I guess they think is a big secret/mystery when it’s actually obvious pretty early on- in this case, at around 27% and we’re only now getting to the big reveal.

Levi’s a soap queen. Just excessively dramatic. I half expect somebody to bring him a fainting couch. And there’s a difference between slow burn and dragging things out. This is more the latter.