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A review by bookish_kristina
Possession by Brynne Asher
2.0
Outstandingly Meh
2.5 stars, but I was too bored to round up. This was not great. It was too long and felt very New Adult. The last few books from this author have not hit with me; the heroines are too young and helpless and the heroes too perfectly perfect and unbelievable. Give me another Asa and Keelie from Gifts please.
Though it had moments, overall it was a super boring read. There was very little action for a mafia story and neither character was very deep or captivating.
**The following may have some spoilers (I don’t think so but the review was flagged so…)**
This hero needed to be at least 36 for me to believe he’d accomplished what they say he did. He’s 29 and the head of a drug cartel (that he wasn’t born into) and he’s been deep cover for the DEA for two years, not to mention time at the academy and working before going undercover, add to that two years spent on Wall Street proceeding a four year finance degree. Is he the Dougie Howser of dark mafia?
Pair him with a college drop out, spoiled cartel princess who barely had a job and biggest selling feature was her beach waves, blue eyes and ability to rock a thong bikini and we have another imbalanced couple by Asher (see previous reviews of mine that complain about this very thing). She called him Hubbalicious…. Just… I don’t… *sigh*
I need more from my heroines, Brynne has just not brought the strong women to her stories recently. This is very much not what I want in my suspense. I can’t really call this dark mafia because anyone who reads actual dark mafia would laugh this book out of existence.
So this is a damsel in distress suspense romance, a contemporary cop rom and not the dark mafia it’s pretending to be with its cover and blurb (which btw is entirely misleading).
The beginning was intriguing but then it just lagged and limped its way to the end with a fizzle.
The lack of care for birth control was also annoying to me, but I’m chalking that to her attempting to do breeding kink and not to creating completely irresponsible characters who didn’t care about bringing a child into a drug cartel situation where they were both afraid for their lives and everything hung in the balance for them. Ya, that’s a great time to be reckless and screw bareback with no bc. Why not?
So I didn’t like this, and that’s unfortunate because I was excited about a new series from this author. I did enjoy her previous series, minus two books, and hoped we would be getting another fun action filled alpha romp… ugh. This was beyond boring, badly executed and I forced myself to finish it - skimming from 70% onward- and it didn’t get better.
2.5 stars, but I was too bored to round up. This was not great. It was too long and felt very New Adult. The last few books from this author have not hit with me; the heroines are too young and helpless and the heroes too perfectly perfect and unbelievable. Give me another Asa and Keelie from Gifts please.
Though it had moments, overall it was a super boring read. There was very little action for a mafia story and neither character was very deep or captivating.
**The following may have some spoilers (I don’t think so but the review was flagged so…)**
This hero needed to be at least 36 for me to believe he’d accomplished what they say he did. He’s 29 and the head of a drug cartel (that he wasn’t born into) and he’s been deep cover for the DEA for two years, not to mention time at the academy and working before going undercover, add to that two years spent on Wall Street proceeding a four year finance degree. Is he the Dougie Howser of dark mafia?
Pair him with a college drop out, spoiled cartel princess who barely had a job and biggest selling feature was her beach waves, blue eyes and ability to rock a thong bikini and we have another imbalanced couple by Asher (see previous reviews of mine that complain about this very thing). She called him Hubbalicious…. Just… I don’t… *sigh*
I need more from my heroines, Brynne has just not brought the strong women to her stories recently. This is very much not what I want in my suspense. I can’t really call this dark mafia because anyone who reads actual dark mafia would laugh this book out of existence.
So this is a damsel in distress suspense romance, a contemporary cop rom and not the dark mafia it’s pretending to be with its cover and blurb (which btw is entirely misleading).
The beginning was intriguing but then it just lagged and limped its way to the end with a fizzle.
The lack of care for birth control was also annoying to me, but I’m chalking that to her attempting to do breeding kink and not to creating completely irresponsible characters who didn’t care about bringing a child into a drug cartel situation where they were both afraid for their lives and everything hung in the balance for them. Ya, that’s a great time to be reckless and screw bareback with no bc. Why not?
So I didn’t like this, and that’s unfortunate because I was excited about a new series from this author. I did enjoy her previous series, minus two books, and hoped we would be getting another fun action filled alpha romp… ugh. This was beyond boring, badly executed and I forced myself to finish it - skimming from 70% onward- and it didn’t get better.