Solar Simone’s Reviews > Sweet Heat > Status Update

This book is a bit all of the place and the romance doesn’t feel as front and center as it should be

This book is deflating a lot of the tension I was exciting to see build up through the book :/

I’m not happy with the direction this book is heading :/

This book will interrupt dialogue with a prolonged memory to the point where I will forget the last part of the conversation and then have to flip back to understand the continuity which is annoying and it’s hard to keep track of. I feel like I have to put 110% of my focus into the book and I still have to flip back to understand what I missed

This book is really dense though like why am I able to flip a chunk of pages and still be in the same chapter!??

“Truly incredible, parts of the article whirring around my Black-girl media group chats with various iterations of ‘Is this bitch serious?’, ‘Excuse me, just got passed over for a job by my underqualified white colleague “lemme go find my Pearly King and fix this rn,’ and, ‘Séance at 8 guys? We gotta wake MLK up!!!’ plus, ‘He’s already awake sis, in the body of Kitty St James ’.”
LMAOOOO😂

Although I find the story intriguing I do feel like Babalola’s writing is too wordy. I had this problem with her last book and I feel like it’s gotten worse. Love the pinpoint descriptions but it takes awhile to get used to and can be hard to follow along with when listening to the audiobook. I have to read while listening to keep track of what’s going on.

Kinda bored with these first couple of pages. Where’s Malakai???

Let’s see if this sequel is better than the first!