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A review by hufsatee
The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter
3.0
Kind of let down by this one. I wish it didn't feel like a copy-paste of the romance and sex from the previous books. I also expected the leading lady to be a little more...restrained and mature considering who she was.
I've always liked Torin most out of the Lords, just because of the complexity of his character shown through clever cameos in other books. He has been elusive and yet ubiquitous, thoughtful and yet humorous, snarky and yet kind when people needed him to be. I wish I'd not read this book, because now that spell is broken. He just reads like a carbon copy of every other whipped Lord before him. Also, Keely started to become less funny and more immature real fast, like a watered down version of Anya. There can only be one Anya, and she and Lucien remain my absolute faves.
Ofc, William the Randy and Anya were the best part. I'm not really a fan of him/Gilly though. Why does her being 18 suddenly make it fine? He's still so much more mature and she's kind of still a teenager. It's just weird to me.
And can we talk about this thing the Lords do where they inexplicably put some woman they've known like three days above the needs of their fellow Lords whom they've known for CENTURIES?? Like, what happened to bros before hoes? Family?? I wish they didn't all immediately throw down their loyalty the moment a woman caught their eye. And yet they do it, every single one of them.
I've come all this way so I'm going to finish this series if it kills me, but I've lost steam.
Review also at my blog: Bad Geek Reads.
I've always liked Torin most out of the Lords, just because of the complexity of his character shown through clever cameos in other books. He has been elusive and yet ubiquitous, thoughtful and yet humorous, snarky and yet kind when people needed him to be. I wish I'd not read this book, because now that spell is broken. He just reads like a carbon copy of every other whipped Lord before him. Also, Keely started to become less funny and more immature real fast, like a watered down version of Anya. There can only be one Anya, and she and Lucien remain my absolute faves.
Ofc, William the Randy and Anya were the best part. I'm not really a fan of him/Gilly though. Why does her being 18 suddenly make it fine? He's still so much more mature and she's kind of still a teenager. It's just weird to me.
And can we talk about this thing the Lords do where they inexplicably put some woman they've known like three days above the needs of their fellow Lords whom they've known for CENTURIES?? Like, what happened to bros before hoes? Family?? I wish they didn't all immediately throw down their loyalty the moment a woman caught their eye. And yet they do it, every single one of them.
I've come all this way so I'm going to finish this series if it kills me, but I've lost steam.
Review also at my blog: Bad Geek Reads.