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The Touch of a Villain
by Holly Renee
Why are you the way that you are
I have, yet again, stumbled upon a book where every single secondary character was more intriguing and/or lovable than our “hero and heroine”. Before I get into the reasons, I loved the premise of this book, it sounded like all my catnip. Which is also probably why it read like it was made up of fragments of books I’ve read before. Or maybe I’ve just read too many of this type of books.
I wouldn’t necessarily label this as bully romance because Josie doesn’t just happily let Beck treat her awfully, but she runs to him faster the worse he treats her, even so far as making excuses for his atrocious behavior. And girl has absolutely no self respect or self control when it comes to him. I mean I know hormones, but I haven’t seen someone go from fuck off to fuck me faster than in this book. I know strength comes in all forms and is overrated sometimes, but girl is so weak for dick I wanted to smack some sense into her. Don’t even get me started on the whining. Oh lord, I know she has issues and damage and what not, but I hate it when people whine about their privilege and then abuse said privilege for everything including getting jobs and keeping them, canoodling the boss’s kid on the job, and in broad daylight too, while other poorer employees look on helplessly. That aspect is just workplace romance done extremely poorly. And she still whines non stop.
Moving on to the boss’s son, yes yes he’s the godly alpha that everyone wants, but his personality just wasn’t magnetic enough to make up for my disappointment when he inevitably effed up and showed the extent of his prickitude. Not that he didn’t make it plenty clear that he was out to destroy her right from the start, but girl was too shrouded in dick fog to pay attention. For a supposedly intuitive person, she had a crap understanding of people.
Other things that drove me crazy, apart from these two fools; the REPETITION! I thought I’d start a drinking game for when certain phrases appeared on page, but then my liver would wither and die before the second book is out. Why do authors do this, is all that just filler so that the they can justify making the story a duet? Harsh, but I’m losing faith in humanity.
I reiterate some of this wouldn’t typically bother me, but it depends on an author if they can convince you to be so absorbed that you forgive the little things. Alas I could not, or may be I just wasn’t in the right place for this particular story. However, positives. It was an engaging, very hot slow burn and I believed in their gravitational pull toward each other, and definitely want to see how Beck grovels to pull out of the shameful hole he’s dug for himself. But more-so than anything, I want to see stories for the rest of the group.
I have, yet again, stumbled upon a book where every single secondary character was more intriguing and/or lovable than our “hero and heroine”. Before I get into the reasons, I loved the premise of this book, it sounded like all my catnip. Which is also probably why it read like it was made up of fragments of books I’ve read before. Or maybe I’ve just read too many of this type of books.
I wouldn’t necessarily label this as bully romance because Josie doesn’t just happily let Beck treat her awfully, but she runs to him faster the worse he treats her, even so far as making excuses for his atrocious behavior. And girl has absolutely no self respect or self control when it comes to him. I mean I know hormones, but I haven’t seen someone go from fuck off to fuck me faster than in this book. I know strength comes in all forms and is overrated sometimes, but girl is so weak for dick I wanted to smack some sense into her. Don’t even get me started on the whining. Oh lord, I know she has issues and damage and what not, but I hate it when people whine about their privilege and then abuse said privilege for everything including getting jobs and keeping them, canoodling the boss’s kid on the job, and in broad daylight too, while other poorer employees look on helplessly. That aspect is just workplace romance done extremely poorly. And she still whines non stop.
Moving on to the boss’s son, yes yes he’s the godly alpha that everyone wants, but his personality just wasn’t magnetic enough to make up for my disappointment when he inevitably effed up and showed the extent of his prickitude. Not that he didn’t make it plenty clear that he was out to destroy her right from the start, but girl was too shrouded in dick fog to pay attention. For a supposedly intuitive person, she had a crap understanding of people.
Other things that drove me crazy, apart from these two fools; the REPETITION! I thought I’d start a drinking game for when certain phrases appeared on page, but then my liver would wither and die before the second book is out. Why do authors do this, is all that just filler so that the they can justify making the story a duet? Harsh, but I’m losing faith in humanity.
I reiterate some of this wouldn’t typically bother me, but it depends on an author if they can convince you to be so absorbed that you forgive the little things. Alas I could not, or may be I just wasn’t in the right place for this particular story. However, positives. It was an engaging, very hot slow burn and I believed in their gravitational pull toward each other, and definitely want to see how Beck grovels to pull out of the shameful hole he’s dug for himself. But more-so than anything, I want to see stories for the rest of the group.