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Wanted Girl by Lexie Winston

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prettymonsters's review against another edition

2.0

I think I'm growing bored with this series.

The structure behind what makes this Poly relationship work seems shakey at best. I think this is why I prefer PRN/Fantasy with Mate Bonds when it comes to reading Why Choose? books, the unlikelihood of one woman ending up with all the hot dateable men makes more sense when you can throw magical mate bombs (I know what I wrote) into the mix.

Picture this... Six adopted brothers have all been burned by people who want to use them for thier money/influence/power making it hard for them to trust anyone enough to date. They're also very busy men and don't have much time to dedicate to a real relationship. In walks thier adopted father's biological daughter whom they all happen to be attracted to. So Grandma Neighpalm (I love this woman but her character is completely ridiculous) tells all her grandsons that if they all dated thier step sister then they wouldn't have to worry about her being a gold digger because she's already a hier to thier empire, and if they shared they wouldn't have to worry about thier girlfriend not getting enough attention from them because thier brothers would be there to pick up the slack (as if all women need round the clock care like some kind of needy puppy when in reality we're more like a house plant, take us someplace nice and sunny and make sure to shower us with attention once a week and we're mostly happy).

All six brothers now having listened to thier Grandma's sage and wise advice decide that sharing thier step-sister/girlfriend amongst all six of them makes a ton of sense and somehow none of them get jealous or petty from insecurity. They have a bit of silly competition for affection but it never gets out of hand and none of them seem to want more in thier lives even though they're all rich attractive young men who could probably start a harem of thier own. This might make more sense to me if they were bi and into each other (2 of them are but not the other 4). Thier story of brotherly bonds forming into a lifelong brother husband ones doesn't make sense to me. The brother's feelings for the FMC/step-sister are nice but not at the "I love you so much that I'll take you any way I can have you even if that means sharing you" level of intense love that I feel would warrant this kind of poly relationship. I'm just not feeling the level of commitment needed to make this work yet.

Also, I've been having trouble telling all six brothers apart. I'm honestly still not sure which one is the twin to the only adopted sister in the Neighpalm family. That problem has more to do with the audio narration than the actual writing, I think? Another narration issue I've had is sometimes not being able to tell inner thoughts from spoken words.

The majority of the women outside of the family's small circle of friends and trusted coworkers all seem to have the same evil, greedy, entitlement gene that turns them into suspects for the crazy 'I can't decide if I want to be a killer' stalker/stalkers that are after the FMC.

Stalker Theory...

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I have a theory on who the original stalker might be, the FMC may not have known about any other biological family besides her mother, but I'm betting she has an uncle or something that thinks she's going to be thier big payday somehow. And there's no shortage of people who hate the FMC and her new Family and are willing to help the original stalker. Just a theory though, I also think it's someone who worked with the family that raised her back on the ranch with the horses

There are a few interesting mysteries thrown into the storyline and as much as I would like to learn about the Old Billionaire Count who lived next door and went missing some 26 years ago, and whoever the stalker is and thier motives, it's not intriguing enough to make me want to continue onto the 5th book right now.

I'm not saying it's all bad and I'll likely pick this series back up at some point. I'll make sure to read it instead of listening if I do. I believe a lot of the charm was lost with the narration. For now, I've hit my limit on the series.

bookwormbetty's review against another edition

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5.0

too good to put down.

Holy mackerel that ending! Not gonna lie when I say I saw part of it coming, but the rest? Naw son, that was like getting hit in the head with a brick. That means this next book is going to be a doozy. The pace as always was perfect. There was always something interesting going on, and no big lulls. With a ton of things happening it seemed not chaotic at all, it very cohesive and easy to follow. I love seeing the character development with one another. Cannot wait to start the next book.