cappiethorn 's review for:

A Bloom in Winter by J.R. Ward

2.0

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I don’t know what happened to BDB. Honestly it’s felt like her heart hasn’t been in writing these for a while. It’s almost all insta love now, and when it’s not, where there used to be beautiful angst and emotion, is just dullness. And I don’t understand how these used to have several full sex scenes in each book, and now we get one typically, and it’s short and phoned in. Like, is this not a romance series? As soon as these books started getting to about two thirds the length, the quality dropped. What happened to romances that spanned several books? We finally get a couple with history and it falls flat. The time jump didn’t help. Her efforts for a clean new start are wasted when she’s not giving these books the meat and attention to detail they deserve.