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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Story itself is fun and I liked the dynamic between the two main characters.
HOWEVER.
Both Lucy Lennox and Michael Dean failed to put in the bare minimum effort to write and pronounce the foreign words and names used during the story correctly. As a native Hungarian speaker I found it frankly offensive how much Dean — a professional audiobook narrator — didn't even try to look up how to pronounce not only the Hungarian, but the French words too. I do not judge people for having an accent or struggling with a sound they didn't have a lifetime to get used to; put he didn't even bother to google the alphabet and figure out basic pronunciation rules. I googled the words and names he fumbled and it took me a minute each to find a site that provides recordings of native speakers.
My issue isn't only with how disrespectful this is towards both cultures; these mistakes also break the immersion completely. Both Falcon and King used to live in France, and King is a notorious art thief, so there's no fxcking way this guy didn't put an ungodly amount of work into sounding as close to native as possible (which we know he does because that's literally how he cons Falcon into releasing him in the first scene).
Not only that, but you mean to tell me that King — a supposed master of blending in — dated Elek Kemény [ˈɛlɛk ˈkɛmeːɲ] FOR TWO WHOLE YEARS and he speaks his native language that poorly?! Yeah, not buying it, completely threw me off.
I also have no idea how Lennox managed to fumble King's nickname during the translation process. You see King's criminal name is Le Chaton (which Dean btw pronounced La Chaton every single time) meaning kitten in French. The (supposed) Hungarian translation of this is also what Elek uses as a term of endearment for King.
Now I have no idea by what Lennox's process was here but she somehow arrived at macska [ˈmɒt͡ʃkɒ] (which Dean pronounced [ˈmɒʃkɒ] while narrating the native speaker, lmao) which just means cat. So somehow she found the French word for kitten, but not Hungarian. I have no idea how one manages that. Once again, just to make sure the information truly is easily accessible I googled "kitten in Hungarian", and Google Translate itself immediately gave me cica [ˈt͡sit͡sɒ], the correct translation AND the only one we use as a term of endearment. No one calls their partner cat in English either, so this was especially perplexing to me, lol.
Conclusion: don't be sloppy when incorporating foreign cultures and their languages into your story, because it's disrespectful and embarassing.
HOWEVER.
Both Lucy Lennox and Michael Dean failed to put in the bare minimum effort to write and pronounce the foreign words and names used during the story correctly. As a native Hungarian speaker I found it frankly offensive how much Dean — a professional audiobook narrator — didn't even try to look up how to pronounce not only the Hungarian, but the French words too. I do not judge people for having an accent or struggling with a sound they didn't have a lifetime to get used to; put he didn't even bother to google the alphabet and figure out basic pronunciation rules. I googled the words and names he fumbled and it took me a minute each to find a site that provides recordings of native speakers.
My issue isn't only with how disrespectful this is towards both cultures; these mistakes also break the immersion completely. Both Falcon and King used to live in France, and King is a notorious art thief, so there's no fxcking way this guy didn't put an ungodly amount of work into sounding as close to native as possible (which we know he does because that's literally how he cons Falcon into releasing him in the first scene).
Not only that, but you mean to tell me that King — a supposed master of blending in — dated Elek Kemény [ˈɛlɛk ˈkɛmeːɲ] FOR TWO WHOLE YEARS and he speaks his native language that poorly?! Yeah, not buying it, completely threw me off.
I also have no idea how Lennox managed to fumble King's nickname during the translation process. You see King's criminal name is Le Chaton (which Dean btw pronounced La Chaton every single time) meaning kitten in French. The (supposed) Hungarian translation of this is also what Elek uses as a term of endearment for King.
Now I have no idea by what Lennox's process was here but she somehow arrived at macska [ˈmɒt͡ʃkɒ] (which Dean pronounced [ˈmɒʃkɒ] while narrating the native speaker, lmao) which just means cat. So somehow she found the French word for kitten, but not Hungarian. I have no idea how one manages that. Once again, just to make sure the information truly is easily accessible I googled "kitten in Hungarian", and Google Translate itself immediately gave me cica [ˈt͡sit͡sɒ], the correct translation AND the only one we use as a term of endearment. No one calls their partner cat in English either, so this was especially perplexing to me, lol.
Conclusion: don't be sloppy when incorporating foreign cultures and their languages into your story, because it's disrespectful and embarassing.
"It was like he put me into some kind of trance, one I couldn’t admit to my team may have come from how beautiful and vulnerable he looked whenever I was around him."
This about some dude he just met ?
HahahaHAHAHAHA no.
This about some dude he just met ?
HahahaHAHAHAHA no.
Definitely one of my favorites in the series! Probably because, like the previous book, there is very little of the family/town in this one, so there weren't 5000 background characters butting in and pulling the plot in random-ass directions.
Kind of a classic heist story, which was a lot of fun, and the tension here between King and Falcon was great. Super hot, and a good balance of feels. A couple of things that didn't work for me, but overall I enjoyed it a lot.
Kind of a classic heist story, which was a lot of fun, and the tension here between King and Falcon was great. Super hot, and a good balance of feels. A couple of things that didn't work for me, but overall I enjoyed it a lot.
Okay so I do not f it's my fault or the book fault. The last few weeks, I have been struggling to enjoy any book. Either I don't finish it or I force myself to read until the end. *sigh*
So why did I not like the book? I didn't like the romance between the main characters at all. (Book summary): Falcon has been hunting King for more than 4 years after he escaped him, and ever since, Falcon has been obsessed with King making it his sole mission on arresting him. King, the cocky art thief steals more art pieces and keeps taunting poor Falcon. And then Kalcon finds him and ask him for his help. I know this is enemy to lover romance, and believe me it's my favourite genre. But with this book? I didn't enjoy it.
The thing I hate the most is love-at-first-sight and of course lust-at-first-sight. and in this book, the two characters are all over each other?? Doesn't make sense. You can't convince me that after hating the guy and hunting him, you can't wait to sleep with him. Nope, not for me.
There are other issues I had with the book, but the above was my biggest problem.
So why did I not like the book? I didn't like the romance between the main characters at all. (Book summary): Falcon has been hunting King for more than 4 years after he escaped him, and ever since, Falcon has been obsessed with King making it his sole mission on arresting him. King, the cocky art thief steals more art pieces and keeps taunting poor Falcon. And then Kalcon finds him and ask him for his help. I know this is enemy to lover romance, and believe me it's my favourite genre. But with this book? I didn't enjoy it.
The thing I hate the most is love-at-first-sight and of course lust-at-first-sight. and in this book, the two characters are all over each other?? Doesn't make sense. You can't convince me that after hating the guy and hunting him, you can't wait to sleep with him. Nope, not for me.
There are other issues I had with the book, but the above was my biggest problem.
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Ohh a heist love story! Art theif “la chacon” King and fbi agent Falcon fall for each other while trying to recover a stolen crown
4 estrellas porque la pasé bombaa y King me robó completamente el coeur!!! No tengo ni idea de que va el resto de la serie, pero acá hay amorcito poliladron y un poco de humor picante.
this is one of my faves from this series! Reminded me of Felix and the Prince, but with more action and suspense (which I love!)
one book to go now:)
one book to go now:)
I loved this book, the suspense of the art heisting and how King got into heisting in the first place was so well written! I love how even though King and Falcon are total opposites when it comes to their jobs in the beginning they learned they are not so opposite. I also love that we saw more of MJ, especially since we don’t see a lot of the female siblings. I love this family and every book make me fall in love with them more.