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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
Second time reading this series. Good book. Maya has had a craptastic life thus far but meeting the guys gives her new hope and a chance for things to change. Things are fairly fast paced so there’s not much time for character development in the first book. But the plot clips along.
There is a brief instance of RH kidnapping trope. But I’d give it a 0.5 on that scale
Good book/series. I love M. Sinclair’s work
There is a brief instance of RH kidnapping trope. But I’d give it a 0.5 on that scale
Good book/series. I love M. Sinclair’s work
2.5 rounding up
oh boy so Maya is SUPER naïve (she was raised in a church basement and only knew about the world from looking out a window, hearing people talk, and reading textbooks) so if you like completely naïve main girls then you'll love Maya. This is one of her lines: "knowing once they realized what a freak I was, they wouldn’t want to spend time with me anymore." I just rolled my eyes a lot. Her mates loveeeee her "fresh innocence" barfff.
So Maya is an unknown shifter for most of the book and her mates are 6 dragons and 1 wolf. Turns out she is a Phoenix (quote from book: “In terms of dragon lore, phoenixes are said to be the only true mates to dragons.”) so there's that. color me intrigued. And then we get hit with this: "Phoenixes can produce pure blood dragon sons, and daughters who are phoenixes.”
I am debating reading on because I want to know who fucks her first. Book 1 was just oral fyi. Its mi
oh boy so Maya is SUPER naïve (she was raised in a church basement and only knew about the world from looking out a window, hearing people talk, and reading textbooks) so if you like completely naïve main girls then you'll love Maya. This is one of her lines: "knowing once they realized what a freak I was, they wouldn’t want to spend time with me anymore." I just rolled my eyes a lot. Her mates loveeeee her "fresh innocence" barfff.
So Maya is an unknown shifter for most of the book and her mates are 6 dragons and 1 wolf. Turns out she is a Phoenix (quote from book: “In terms of dragon lore, phoenixes are said to be the only true mates to dragons.”) so there's that. color me intrigued. And then we get hit with this: "Phoenixes can produce pure blood dragon sons, and daughters who are phoenixes.”
I am debating reading on because I want to know who fucks her first. Book 1 was just oral fyi. Its mi
I'm on the fence about this one. 2.75 or 3 stars? I might flip through the next book to decide if I'll continue with the series.
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is basically 'Born of Embers' by Quinn Arthurs, but with the MC's background changed. Badly. This MC is supposed to know *nothing* about the world, but then doesn't act like it except as an afterthought, with random explanations like 'I managed to read a Cosmo magazine'
I enjoyed this. I had so many questions and the suspension of disbelief was holding on by a thread. Still.
Sure, I’ve read this story before, but this is far from the worse version of it.
That’s not to say it was good, but at least it wasn’t offensively bad. It mostly feels… weirdly disjointed and at times laughably ridiculous. Henry graduated as a doctor but still goes to high school to ‘keep an eye’ on the twins, what? This despite being followed-by-the-paparazzi famous in another state?
Why in heaven’s name did her abusive mother just… let her go to school after a literal lifetime of abuse? Did she not think someone could notice the bruises and do something about it? Or that Maya would even tell anyone about the abuse? What about Standard Female Bully Character #9839, who somehow acquires photo evidence of said abuse? What did she think she would accomplish by plastering it around the school? For Henry to go “Oh wow you’re being horribly abused, I don’t want anything to do with you anymore, bye”?
I could go on like this for whole paragraphs, since the book is filled to the brim with this sort of nonsense. But just as I can’t bring myself to hate it, I can’t bring myself to care enough to enumerate its many faults. It feels just too… Harmless, I suppose. Too ridiculous to sincerely like, but not enough to hate.
In any case, dumb though it may be, the ending got me curious enough to check out the second book. That has to count for something.
That’s not to say it was good, but at least it wasn’t offensively bad. It mostly feels… weirdly disjointed and at times laughably ridiculous. Henry graduated as a doctor but still goes to high school to ‘keep an eye’ on the twins, what? This despite being followed-by-the-paparazzi famous in another state?
Why in heaven’s name did her abusive mother just… let her go to school after a literal lifetime of abuse? Did she not think someone could notice the bruises and do something about it? Or that Maya would even tell anyone about the abuse? What about Standard Female Bully Character #9839, who somehow acquires photo evidence of said abuse? What did she think she would accomplish by plastering it around the school? For Henry to go “Oh wow you’re being horribly abused, I don’t want anything to do with you anymore, bye”?
I could go on like this for whole paragraphs, since the book is filled to the brim with this sort of nonsense. But just as I can’t bring myself to hate it, I can’t bring myself to care enough to enumerate its many faults. It feels just too… Harmless, I suppose. Too ridiculous to sincerely like, but not enough to hate.
In any case, dumb though it may be, the ending got me curious enough to check out the second book. That has to count for something.