Review by novanother - The Vixen's Lead

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novanother 's review for:

The Vixen's Lead by Tate James

4.25

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Reverse Harem (no MM)
Medium sized harem (5 MMCs)
Thief x Law Enforcement/Private Investigators
Small Age Gap (FMC is 18, MMCs range from 20 to 25)

Plot Summary
"Kit" is a notorious thief, stealing from select targets with the help of her best friend. One careless mistake of forgetting a tracker on a stolen ring leads to everything she was used to coming crashing down.

Especially when she finds out the mysterious hot guys that have been popping up around town belong to "Omega Group", a firm of spies/private investigators/law enforcement type things. They are here to find her, the notorious thief.

After a botched kidnapping they rescue her and agree to team up with her, in order to discover who wanted to have her kidnapped in the first place.

In the end they make the discovery, that Kit descends from an ellusive supernatural species, and was supposed to be captured for human experimentation. Since she lost a bet with her adoptive father she now has to join Omega Group after graduation.

Kit

Kit is an orphan, who has certain powers. She is stronger and faster than it would be normal for someone her size, and when she gets an adrenaline rush she has very fast healing
Very traumatic childhood
A fierce lil thing. Not a huge fan of how she kept repeating that she is no damsel in distress when lowkey she does have to be rescued A LOT in this book. I wouldn't have an issue with it if she wouldn't keep going on about how she isn't a damsel when... she kinda is. She is still a fierce one, who doen't take shit, especially not from her harem members, and isn't afraid to get violent

Caleb

Austin's twin
Generic funny, lighthearted rh mmc
A fun guy, lacking a bit of depth for me? Maybe we'll see more of that in later books

Austin

Caleb's twin
The only source of OWD (he has a girlfriend for a bit who is a rude bitch, we never rlly get into depth about it tho)
Generic rh mmc who hates her, does't understand the infatuation, is annoyed by the other's love to her, yap, yap, yap
I was kinda bored with him, because characters like that just aren't my thing, but I gotta admit
that I really liked that he kept his personality even after falling for Kit. Often types the 'bully' archetype loses all their personality after falling for the FMC. How he acted while they were captured, while making me want to punch him, made total sense to me

Cole

Former MMA fighter (I think?)
Gentle Giant (but only for her) vibes
Lowkey my fave, I admit
Suuuuper protective. Even shortly after meeting he is pissed when she wants to meet with Simon, and later the scene in the
fightclub thingy, when she walks away from her spot and he thinks something happened
? I was meltinggggg

River

British leader of the group
Wants to be adressed as Sir
Very in control and stuff... Idk what to say about him, the british accent honestly mostly took me out of it while listening to the audiobook, he was a solid guy ig

Wesley

The youngest of the group (20), taking care of tech support and overall being the "baby"
He had very little to do this book and honestly I'm not even sure if he is supposed to be part of the harem... If it wasn't explicitly said that Lucy is a lesbian I honestly would've assumed a romance is being set up between those two

Conclusion
While I still don't understand why character like Kit who is supposed to have been stealing for years can't just be college aged and has to be 18 for some reason, I liked this book.
A good balance of plot and romance, some good spice scenes without being overpowering or dragging, solid and (most of all) distinguishable MMCs... I liked it!

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