A review by tired_cicada
What Hunts Inside the Shadows by Harper L. Woods

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

If you are interested in this book for the “plot” more than the actual plot I bet you could enjoy it. In reality this book was just so many gratuitous, unnecessary, and repetitive smut scenes one after another in an attempt to move the story along. 

Don’t get me wrong, I love my spice but once you’ve read one of them you’ve read all of them. If I’d had the physical book I would have just read the dialogue for those scenes and moved on. 

If you took out all of these repetitive scenes this book honestly would have been a novella. All they do is

retract their steps back the same way they came

. That was it! This book could have been an email. 

Also, these people are so fucking annoying. I only like ONE of the new characters that were introduced, cause he’s the only one that has any sense and the only one the story takes the time to give an actual personality. The main couples issues are so circular and I just stopped caring after they started arguing over the same talking point for the thousandth time

which the always resolve by fucking every single time, did I mention that it was boring and repetitive yet?

, the dual pov did NOTHING to give us better insight into the character minds. And there were times the Writing got down right preachy. It’s like it was trying to be camp and fun, but also took itself way too seriously. When we transition from one scene to another it is so jarring that I often had to rewind to see WHEN or IF the transition took place. If I didn’t already have the next book downloaded I would not continue, but I have a long drive tomorrow so they are getting that long to hook me into the story before I hang my hat on it.

Which is possible, now that they are actually in the fae realm I’m holding out hope for an actual plot!!