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A review by geminienergy
King Me by Lucy Lennox
2.0
1.5 stars, not 2.
basic premise
King is an art thief who gets betrayed by his partner, Elek. He teams up with the agent Falcon who was chasing after King’s thief identity, Le Chaton. King wants to get revenge on Elek, and Falcon needs King’s help to recover an artifact Elek has stolen. In the process of their mutually beneficial mission, they fall in love. Dual POV, 1st person
opinion after story
Even though this was advertised as enemies-to-lovers, that aspect of their relationship felt very contrived. There’s instalust between them with lots of internal dialogue of them eyefucking one another that again didn’t help sell the enemies-to-lovers aspect. It felt like small drama points were being injected for the author to go “see!! they’re enemies-to-lovers!” but then they would quickly resolve those “miscommunications” just as fast and Falcon and King were back to kissing again.
The premise interested me, but by 40%, I found the story to be a slog. It’s an art heist story with FBI agents and moles and backstabbing, but the plot got a little convoluted at times with this thing or that thing /actually/ being forgery or a secret asset, etc.
I liked King’s character as the competent art thief, and was a little disappointed with how weak his character ended up being written at the end. It read less as him being more comfortable being vulnerable and more just writing him to be the sad, crying younger one in the relationship to get all the cuddles. I felt like King lost his bite across the story.
I didn’t like Elek’s character. It seemed like he was dumbed down way too much despite being King’s mentor and a well established art thief himself. I would have preferred a little more conniving from his end.
The steam scenes were fine. If you like breathplay, you will like this dynamic. There’s also some clothes-on-other-naked sex. Falcon as the silver fox dom agent whose ravenous but conflicted about being in love with an art thief was hot.
I was not a big fan of the family NPC characters. There were far too many of them, which I guess was the author’s way of giving fans of the series more opportunities to them, but since I read this story as a standalone, I was overwhelmed by all the names. This was particularly distracting in the epilogue, which I thought was very cloying.
Overall, I did end up surprisingly finishing this story after resisting the urge to DNF it multiple times especially in the middle. The ending was predictable, and I thought the result of Falcon and King’s relationship was too sweet and fluffy that had I known I probably would’ve DNFed it while I was still ahead of myself.
basic premise
King is an art thief who gets betrayed by his partner, Elek. He teams up with the agent Falcon who was chasing after King’s thief identity, Le Chaton. King wants to get revenge on Elek, and Falcon needs King’s help to recover an artifact Elek has stolen. In the process of their mutually beneficial mission, they fall in love. Dual POV, 1st person
opinion after story
Even though this was advertised as enemies-to-lovers, that aspect of their relationship felt very contrived. There’s instalust between them with lots of internal dialogue of them eyefucking one another that again didn’t help sell the enemies-to-lovers aspect. It felt like small drama points were being injected for the author to go “see!! they’re enemies-to-lovers!” but then they would quickly resolve those “miscommunications” just as fast and Falcon and King were back to kissing again.
The premise interested me, but by 40%, I found the story to be a slog. It’s an art heist story with FBI agents and moles and backstabbing, but the plot got a little convoluted at times with this thing or that thing /actually/ being forgery or a secret asset, etc.
I liked King’s character as the competent art thief, and was a little disappointed with how weak his character ended up being written at the end. It read less as him being more comfortable being vulnerable and more just writing him to be the sad, crying younger one in the relationship to get all the cuddles. I felt like King lost his bite across the story.
I didn’t like Elek’s character. It seemed like he was dumbed down way too much despite being King’s mentor and a well established art thief himself. I would have preferred a little more conniving from his end.
The steam scenes were fine. If you like breathplay, you will like this dynamic. There’s also some clothes-on-other-naked sex. Falcon as the silver fox dom agent whose ravenous but conflicted about being in love with an art thief was hot.
I was not a big fan of the family NPC characters. There were far too many of them, which I guess was the author’s way of giving fans of the series more opportunities to them, but since I read this story as a standalone, I was overwhelmed by all the names. This was particularly distracting in the epilogue, which I thought was very cloying.
Overall, I did end up surprisingly finishing this story after resisting the urge to DNF it multiple times especially in the middle. The ending was predictable, and I thought the result of Falcon and King’s relationship was too sweet and fluffy that had I known I probably would’ve DNFed it while I was still ahead of myself.