romancejunkie 's review for:

Sticks and Stone by Grace McGinty
2.75
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: Complicated

Better than I thought it’d be but not as good as I’d hoped. 

I liked all three guys. They were easy to tell apart, but I was missing my OTT growly alpha. Instead, I got a simpering beta with a praise kink. 

Word of warning: you’re going to want to suspend all reality before reading otherwise you’ll tap out in chapter one. 

While I enjoyed the guys doting on Huey, I wish I’d seen more of it. I wish I’d seen more of everything, tbh. Either this was too short, the drama took up too much of the page time, the pacing was off, or all three. We saw the four of them meet each other and be tentative for a while. And then suddenly they were fucking and in love and I had no idea why/how. I wasn’t shown how they fell in love. 

The amount of OW drama was OTT and ridiculous. What even was the point of that situation with Devon in his office?? I think this author just likes winning imaginary arguments and laying into people. Literally can’t count how many times that happened. And that ending. Egads. Not just the manufactured drama in the end (this heroine is the answer to why the hot girls in horror movies are murdered first) but the way and reason she left them. This heroine cried for, like, 30% of this book, and I got real tired of it. 

Couple individual sex scene and only one group scene with all four. It was an okayish to good read, but I expect more from my Why Choose.