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Wild Heart
by Spencer Spears
DID NOT FINISH
Rating this book one star just seems cruel. I feel like I'm beating up a fourth grader. I feel like I bought a toy from the dollar store and then was surprised when it broke. This rating is equivalent to finding a kitten and dunking it in a puddle. Abandoning this book leaves me vaguely morose.
I wanted it to be good. I really wanted to like it. I tried.
I didn't finish it at 35%.
I wish there were something really terrible about it, something unforgivable so I could happily toss it out the door and wash my hands of it with a sense of righteousness. Instead, my will to read Wild Heart slowly trickled away with every page I turned.
I think I had two major problems with the book: the style of writing and the everything else. The prose reads like Spencer Spears is chatting with me in person. I don't care for it. It's very, very informal and feels...lazy? I feel shortchanged. It definitely makes writing a book easier when you write the entire book like you talk. The "everything else" I had a problem with is the utter blandness of the characters and the story. Both were completely unremarkable in every way: nice single dad and lithe waif with a bad ex. It didn't work for me. There wasn't one special moment that made this book stand out from other Spencer Spears works, let alone the glut of m/m romance novels circulating through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited library.
I've previously read Hunter's Heart by Spencer Spears and rated it three stars. Looking back at the blurb, the scenario sounds familiar, but I can't remember any book details. It could be that I've become a tad more disappointed, critical, and disillusioned with m/m romance novels since that rating and Wild Heart, perhaps a three-star rating in the past, has now been binned as a DNF. It could be that I've changed and not Spencer Spears's writing. Or it could be that this book is bad. I don't know if it really matters.
I'm off to read something else and I probably won't pick up a Spears book again.
I wanted it to be good. I really wanted to like it. I tried.
I didn't finish it at 35%.
I wish there were something really terrible about it, something unforgivable so I could happily toss it out the door and wash my hands of it with a sense of righteousness. Instead, my will to read Wild Heart slowly trickled away with every page I turned.
I think I had two major problems with the book: the style of writing and the everything else. The prose reads like Spencer Spears is chatting with me in person. I don't care for it. It's very, very informal and feels...lazy? I feel shortchanged. It definitely makes writing a book easier when you write the entire book like you talk. The "everything else" I had a problem with is the utter blandness of the characters and the story. Both were completely unremarkable in every way: nice single dad and lithe waif with a bad ex. It didn't work for me. There wasn't one special moment that made this book stand out from other Spencer Spears works, let alone the glut of m/m romance novels circulating through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited library.
I've previously read Hunter's Heart by Spencer Spears and rated it three stars. Looking back at the blurb, the scenario sounds familiar, but I can't remember any book details. It could be that I've become a tad more disappointed, critical, and disillusioned with m/m romance novels since that rating and Wild Heart, perhaps a three-star rating in the past, has now been binned as a DNF. It could be that I've changed and not Spencer Spears's writing. Or it could be that this book is bad. I don't know if it really matters.
I'm off to read something else and I probably won't pick up a Spears book again.