A review by andreathereader
Perfection of Suffering by M. Sinclair

2.0

This series reads like a 15-year old wrote her own fantasy novel. It's about 80% exposition and description versus 20% dialogue. You know the old saying, "show, don't tell?" Nobody told M. Sinclair that. This series is chock full of telling.

These five guys and one girl have lived in the same cul-de-sac all their lives. She's starting to realize she may like them as more than friends, they of course have been in love with her since they were little. The guys have already discussed their situation and agreed they will all marry her and live together in a house in the same little cul-de-sac. Then one of the guys brings home his cousin and he of course falls instantly in love with her as well, and they easily slide him into their reverse harem.

Some of the situations are so silly as to be unbelievable. For example,
Spoilerthe FBI contacted these 5 high school seniors and asked them to work for them. The kids have all of this information on people in the town, and the FBI asked the kids to review the information for who they think might be a drug dealer. Instead of taking the documents and reviewing them in the FBI, the federally-trained agents ask kids to do the legwork.
Also, five of the guys are virgins (they're saving themselves for her, natch) and they are magically amazing in bed right out of the gate, giving her multiple orgasms every time. And the idea that six guys would be willing and ready to settle down with one woman at 18 defies belief.

Basically, here's the series, in summary:
SpoilerBook 1 - girl likes six guys, they all love her and want to be together forever. She gets put in a dangerous situation, they rescue her, she has sex with one of the guys, then another one. Book 2 - she gets put in another dangerous situation, the guys rescue her and get real mad that she was in danger. She has sex with a few of the guys, one at a time. She gets in another dangerous situation. Cliffhanger. Book 3 - the guys rescue her, she has sex with a few of them, one at a time. She gets put in, you guessed it, another dangerous situation. Luckily, she gets rescued. Sex ensues.


The characters are one-dimensional and I didn't care about them in the least. The parents are mostly absent, until needed to explain something. There were several instances of misused words. The girl kept saying "am I crazy for wanting all six of these guys?" over and over again in different ways. It was repetitive and annoying. This is just a poorly written story that went nowhere and did nothing.