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A review by kkrs28
Imposter by Tate James
Ok so I'm going to try something new and write my thoughts as I think them vs. try to rethink things at the end of a book and neglecting extremely relevant info. I'm not gonna restate the description because if you're on the site I'm assuming you can read, and if you can read this... you can read the description :)
I first tried reading this book maybe a month ago, didn't work out, I forgot why, and forgot the book. Now even though I'm in uni I have always been skilled at doing literally ANYTHING but studying. That's the short story of how after combing my whole library decided to give this book a go again.
So after reading the description and seeing the high rating I deduced I MUST be the problem because all the other 3,000 people who read this book seem to love it. Then I went in with fresh eyes. I realized pretty quickly that I was reading the book wrong. You see I was reading this book like it was a high quality immersive fantasy... when in reality it was more like a trashy filler book that you can get through quickly. You guys know the type of romantic fantasy books I'm talking about. Books where there's a dragon male who has to viciously claim his mate... Or in this case a reverse harem (which never bodes well for the chances of the book being a well thought out wholesome read.) romance with tons of dominant princes who after literally nothing are in love with our protagonist.
Now that ain't no problem, that ain't no problem. I adjusted, and I adapted to the reading style and trudged on (I have in my time read some good filler books.) The first thing that annoyed me was this quote
"Seriously? You forgot to take off your ring? I'm never letting you sneak out with me again, big brother."
._.
If you have a sibling... riddle me this when have you ever casually used the title of them being your sibling so casually. If you were truly siblings you probably wouldn't point out their immediate relation to you (for a multitude of reasons depending on the siblings.) but in this case because A) you're under cover. B) it sounds awkward C) YOU. ARE. UNDER. COVER.
Next thing that bothered me is our lovely protagonist has a birthmark that tingles in the presence of danger...
maybe this will evolve to be less nonsensical as the story goes on... but of ALL the quirky traits you could give your protagonist you looked at tingling birthmark and instead of scrapping that idea and cringing, you nodded confidently and called it a day?
Tate James we have got to do better.
I'm less than 100 pages in the iBooks version at the point I wrote all that and I already know I need to hold TIGHT.
updates will come when (IF) I finish reading further chapters. Also the second I learn how to put gifs in these reviews IT's OVER FOR YOU OTHER GOODREADS REVIEWERS.
I first tried reading this book maybe a month ago, didn't work out, I forgot why, and forgot the book. Now even though I'm in uni I have always been skilled at doing literally ANYTHING but studying. That's the short story of how after combing my whole library decided to give this book a go again.
So after reading the description and seeing the high rating I deduced I MUST be the problem because all the other 3,000 people who read this book seem to love it. Then I went in with fresh eyes. I realized pretty quickly that I was reading the book wrong. You see I was reading this book like it was a high quality immersive fantasy... when in reality it was more like a trashy filler book that you can get through quickly. You guys know the type of romantic fantasy books I'm talking about. Books where there's a dragon male who has to viciously claim his mate... Or in this case a reverse harem (which never bodes well for the chances of the book being a well thought out wholesome read.) romance with tons of dominant princes who after literally nothing are in love with our protagonist.
Now that ain't no problem, that ain't no problem. I adjusted, and I adapted to the reading style and trudged on (I have in my time read some good filler books.) The first thing that annoyed me was this quote
"Seriously? You forgot to take off your ring? I'm never letting you sneak out with me again, big brother."
._.
If you have a sibling... riddle me this when have you ever casually used the title of them being your sibling so casually. If you were truly siblings you probably wouldn't point out their immediate relation to you (for a multitude of reasons depending on the siblings.) but in this case because A) you're under cover. B) it sounds awkward C) YOU. ARE. UNDER. COVER.
Next thing that bothered me is our lovely protagonist has a birthmark that tingles in the presence of danger...
maybe this will evolve to be less nonsensical as the story goes on... but of ALL the quirky traits you could give your protagonist you looked at tingling birthmark and instead of scrapping that idea and cringing, you nodded confidently and called it a day?
Tate James we have got to do better.
I'm less than 100 pages in the iBooks version at the point I wrote all that and I already know I need to hold TIGHT.
updates will come when (IF) I finish reading further chapters. Also the second I learn how to put gifs in these reviews IT's OVER FOR YOU OTHER GOODREADS REVIEWERS.