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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Was there even a real story line here?! I must have missed it behind all the crazy sex. Did I mention there was lots of sex? Wait, what was the story line again?! I think this was too much for me....
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Spice with some romance and a touch of suspense.
Some mild romance-induced emotional hand-wringing by the 2 lead characters, but not too much so that page skipping or stopping the read was required.
Spice:BDSM introduction, threesome. Though a number of the kinks are not my cup of tea, it was well written and enjoyable throughout.
Ebook via Libby
Some mild romance-induced emotional hand-wringing by the 2 lead characters, but not too much so that page skipping or stopping the read was required.
Spice:
Ebook via Libby
Good but long.
I liked the story line, lots of fire, and did not see the twist coming. However it took forever for me to finish.
I liked the story line, lots of fire, and did not see the twist coming. However it took forever for me to finish.
The back and forth in the FMC wants/needs versus her internal conflict was a bit annoying tbh.
I go into Shayla Black's books fully aware that I am going to get lots of sexytimes at the expense of a severe drought of believable characters and plot. Okay, whatevs. Win some, lose some. The obvious tooliness of the premise (Morgan gets a *gasppp* dangerous stalker and Jack whisks her off to three days of hot hot sexytimes in a swamp in the middle of nowhere, where this stalker, despite his previous lack of hesitance at getting uncomfortably close to Morgan--he SHOOTS BULLETS at her on a busy street in the middle of the day--does not manage to find them) and the more-than-occasional fantastical nature of the characters' thoughts or dialogue (e.g. Jack: "I love her more than I ever realized I could love a person in my life. The sun and the moon don't shine half so bright without her lustrous hair beside my face on the pillow") are things that must be born for the sexytimes. Fortunately, the book gets right into the SUPERSEXE, thank God, meaning that you don't have to wait to long to get to what you're obviously reading this book for.
The funny thing is, I blazed through three-quarters of this book in one night, feverishly reading on to get to the good parts (I fully admit to skimming over the non-sexytime scenes because, yawn, who's reading for plot here? and also, where's the plot?). I wanted to finish the book in one sitting, but it was 4am and I had to wake up for work the next morning and I could barely keep my eyes open. And yet I practically had to force myself to finish the book when I had the chance to pick it up again 2 nights later. I don't know what left me in those 48 hours. But suddenly Jack's ultra-cheesy man-in-love-for-the-first-time monologues got lame and he lost his appeal for me, and even though by that point in the book Morgan had gotten over her INCREDIBLY ANNOYING self-punitive internal monologue regarding her inability to come to terms with her sexual desires (I get it, I get it, people are self-loathing, but I just was totally not feeling it in a character I didn't really care for), in the end I was just like... meh. So you guys are together now. Good for you. I think I'm going to go toast some waffles or something.
Still, 3 stars for the fun sexytimes in the first three-quarters of the book.
The funny thing is, I blazed through three-quarters of this book in one night, feverishly reading on to get to the good parts (I fully admit to skimming over the non-sexytime scenes because, yawn, who's reading for plot here? and also, where's the plot?). I wanted to finish the book in one sitting, but it was 4am and I had to wake up for work the next morning and I could barely keep my eyes open. And yet I practically had to force myself to finish the book when I had the chance to pick it up again 2 nights later. I don't know what left me in those 48 hours. But suddenly Jack's ultra-cheesy man-in-love-for-the-first-time monologues got lame and he lost his appeal for me, and even though by that point in the book Morgan had gotten over her INCREDIBLY ANNOYING self-punitive internal monologue regarding her inability to come to terms with her sexual desires (I get it, I get it, people are self-loathing, but I just was totally not feeling it in a character I didn't really care for), in the end I was just like... meh. So you guys are together now. Good for you. I think I'm going to go toast some waffles or something.
Still, 3 stars for the fun sexytimes in the first three-quarters of the book.