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Covet
by Tracy Wolff
⭐️⭐️ (1.5 stars/5.. rounded up)
Dear. God.
WHAT HAPPENED.
I mean. No. Seriously.What the fuck just happened???
So.. heres the deal. I was super super super looking forward to this book series to come out last year. So much so that I preordered it, and then when it didnt get to my house on release day, my husband did an in store pick up at Barnes and Noble for me so that I could read it that day, so I actually now own 2 copies.
I was... incredibly disappointed by the first book. It was like a 3.5 for me. Which is fine. Its a YA vampire romance. Academy setting. It makes sense that the characters would be slightly immature and annoying and on top of it it was the author’s first book. So, fine. I was willing to give the next book a chance.
I did. Again- it was just ok. I thought there was a fuck ton of manufactured drama but it was still like a 3 star read, and the cliffhanger (and Hudson in general) were descent enough that I was somewhat excited for this third book. There were a lot of new releases this week, so I started it on Thursday night and finished it just now, on Saturday morning. It was like 680 pages and that was about 380 pages too long.
I feel like I just lost all of my brain cells.
I apparently go fucking *off* when I find a book I absolutely hate, and I also tend to make lists in my reviews, and that’s worked well for me thus far so why fix a good thing? (I’m looking at you, Grace, you fucking moron.)
Shall we begin?
1. The Age of the Vampires
Something that has bothered me for a few books now and continued to bother me badly while reading this book is the fact that these vampires- Hudson, Jaxon and The Order- are all like 200+ year old vampires, right? Why are they at a school filled with 15-18 year old kids? Why do they act like 15-18 year old children? Why is it so god damned skeavy that they're dating and hooking up with humans/wolves/witches that are 180+ years younger than them?
Also, sorry to say but there is no fucking way an immortal vampire over 200 years old is going to wait 8 months for a 17 year old girl to kiss him. There's also no way they would put up with her incessant whining and crying and bitching and drama but that’s a whole separate point of its own that we'll get to later.
So how do these vampires age? Are they born and age like normal people until they hit a certain age and then they stop aging/aging so quickly? If thats the case how god damned terrible to be stuck in the body of a 17 year old boy for hundreds of years. Do they just age slowly from the start? Because the way the author makes it sound, Hudson has been all over and done tons of things and read thousands of books so it cant be that- no one with the emotional and mental maturity of, say, a 13 year old boy, is going to do the academic bullshit that Hudson has.
It. Makes. No. Sense.
(*you can also file this point under "plot holes."*)
2. This is not a NA book. Nor is it a YA book. And it's certainly not a good book.
I’m not quite sure why the author thinks what throwing around the word “fuck” does for this series. Frankly it comes off as immature and trying too hard to be edgy and its just so weird. Why write a YA series then having every page include the word "fuck?" All that does is scream “this is YA but its trying really hard to be cool.” There arent any sex scenes, but they do take their pants off
Dear. God.
WHAT HAPPENED.
I mean. No. Seriously.What the fuck just happened???
So.. heres the deal. I was super super super looking forward to this book series to come out last year. So much so that I preordered it, and then when it didnt get to my house on release day, my husband did an in store pick up at Barnes and Noble for me so that I could read it that day, so I actually now own 2 copies.
I was... incredibly disappointed by the first book. It was like a 3.5 for me. Which is fine. Its a YA vampire romance. Academy setting. It makes sense that the characters would be slightly immature and annoying and on top of it it was the author’s first book. So, fine. I was willing to give the next book a chance.
I did. Again- it was just ok. I thought there was a fuck ton of manufactured drama but it was still like a 3 star read, and the cliffhanger (and Hudson in general) were descent enough that I was somewhat excited for this third book. There were a lot of new releases this week, so I started it on Thursday night and finished it just now, on Saturday morning. It was like 680 pages and that was about 380 pages too long.
I feel like I just lost all of my brain cells.
I apparently go fucking *off* when I find a book I absolutely hate, and I also tend to make lists in my reviews, and that’s worked well for me thus far so why fix a good thing? (I’m looking at you, Grace, you fucking moron.)
Shall we begin?
1. The Age of the Vampires
Something that has bothered me for a few books now and continued to bother me badly while reading this book is the fact that these vampires- Hudson, Jaxon and The Order- are all like 200+ year old vampires, right? Why are they at a school filled with 15-18 year old kids? Why do they act like 15-18 year old children? Why is it so god damned skeavy that they're dating and hooking up with humans/wolves/witches that are 180+ years younger than them?
Also, sorry to say but there is no fucking way an immortal vampire over 200 years old is going to wait 8 months for a 17 year old girl to kiss him. There's also no way they would put up with her incessant whining and crying and bitching and drama but that’s a whole separate point of its own that we'll get to later.
So how do these vampires age? Are they born and age like normal people until they hit a certain age and then they stop aging/aging so quickly? If thats the case how god damned terrible to be stuck in the body of a 17 year old boy for hundreds of years. Do they just age slowly from the start? Because the way the author makes it sound, Hudson has been all over and done tons of things and read thousands of books so it cant be that- no one with the emotional and mental maturity of, say, a 13 year old boy, is going to do the academic bullshit that Hudson has.
It. Makes. No. Sense.
(*you can also file this point under "plot holes."*)
2. This is not a NA book. Nor is it a YA book. And it's certainly not a good book.
I’m not quite sure why the author thinks what throwing around the word “fuck” does for this series. Frankly it comes off as immature and trying too hard to be edgy and its just so weird. Why write a YA series then having every page include the word "fuck?" All that does is scream “this is YA but its trying really hard to be cool.” There arent any sex scenes, but they do take their pants off