A review by savantthinker
The Kinsmen Universe by Ilona Andrews

  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The first novella is okay but the male love interest is very creepy and I don't think the woman should have kept childhood feeling for this guy that she didn't even talk to much.
She gets groomed as a child  to be his wife and she develops feeling for him through his notes he takes on the media he watch and his school work that her family got for her to read. He then dumps her because he didn't want to get married to her and then she stays enough in love with him that she still has feelings 15 years later. He meets her once in a bakery doesn't recognized her and then decided to track hero down and let him self into her house.
 

The second novella is good. I bought that romance. It felt more organic but the main character jumped into felling way to quickly. I think it could do with some fleshing out. I would have appreciates some more scenes of the couple interacting. 

The first short is very weird and I don't think that that romance is at all believable. The don't even have enough a single conversion where they talk about anything significantly personal. I get a good giggle out of a part of this story but the relationship is fucked 
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