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A review by shelbanuadh
Love Him Steady by E.M. Lindsey
3.0
I enjoyed this. It was nice having just a partial chapter for both Wilder and Lorenzo to deal with the backstory.... 2 chapters vs the 9 chapters of Book 3. I enjoyed the pacing of this one. I enjoyed the relationships with the side characters. I liked this book, I just didn't love it as much as the first two.
The editing is a little sloppy in this one. One thing that really stood out was the age of both Wilder and Lorenzo. Lorenzo refers to himself as 42, but a few chapters later as 43. Which isn't as bad as Wilder, who in the second chapter states he is 22 at the time of his attack, but later, it said the last time his ex touched him was at 25. Seven years passed since then, so depending on whether he was 22 or 25 at the time of his attack (which 25 makes more sense as he was with his ex for years, but only met him in college), he is now either 29 or 32.
One thing I am not crazy about, is that it is becoming more and more apparent that I'm going to have to read Kate Hawthorne's Room to Love series. The Motel brothers have made quite a few appearances in this series, but the characters in the Room to Love series seem to be making more and more appearances. I don't even know who Leonidas is (other than he is in Book 5 of Room to Love). Kate Hawthorne is not an author who's writing I enjoy, but I'd rather not feel like half the recurring characters are strangers.
I also don't recall the incident Dimitri, Gwen and James hinted at with Owen. I know Owen was going through some stuff in On the Market #2, but it was background and not resolved. But Dimitri and Raphael are in the next book, so I suppose this is like Parker and Ronan, who were prominently featured in Book 2, but we didn't get their story until Book 3. I just feel like I'm supposed to know more about the two of them than I do, which is annoying, especially since that's not the case.
I do feel like E.M. Lindsey, Kate Hawthorne and on a lesser note, E.M. Denning need to sit down and make a character map, because trying to keep track of all these characters and all their series from multiple authors is getting confusing.
You have On the Market, with Antoine of Book #2 being the brother of Marcel, who is of Book #2 of Breaking the Rules series, which has many appearances from the cast of Iron and Works series. You have the "standalone" Just Say When, which features Enzo and Tristan, who pop up from time to time in On the Market. You have Cloudy with a Chance of Love from E.M. Lindsey,Kate Hawthorne and E.M. Denning, featuring Colin, Spencer and Max, who make many appearacnes in On the Market. You have the Motel brothers and their million partners from Kate Hawthorne's Room to Love series, who are featured rather prominently in On the Market.
I'm really not a fan of when authors have series that are all kind of spin-offs from each other, that in theory you can read separately, but you end up being a little clueless on a bunch of little things that adds up to one large annoyance.... but when you throw a few more authors into the mix and have this web of series all connected, it does make me question how attached to this series I actually am.
The editing is a little sloppy in this one. One thing that really stood out was the age of both Wilder and Lorenzo. Lorenzo refers to himself as 42, but a few chapters later as 43. Which isn't as bad as Wilder, who in the second chapter states he is 22 at the time of his attack, but later, it said the last time his ex touched him was at 25. Seven years passed since then, so depending on whether he was 22 or 25 at the time of his attack (which 25 makes more sense as he was with his ex for years, but only met him in college), he is now either 29 or 32.
One thing I am not crazy about, is that it is becoming more and more apparent that I'm going to have to read Kate Hawthorne's Room to Love series. The Motel brothers have made quite a few appearances in this series, but the characters in the Room to Love series seem to be making more and more appearances. I don't even know who Leonidas is (other than he is in Book 5 of Room to Love). Kate Hawthorne is not an author who's writing I enjoy, but I'd rather not feel like half the recurring characters are strangers.
I also don't recall the incident Dimitri, Gwen and James hinted at with Owen. I know Owen was going through some stuff in On the Market #2, but it was background and not resolved. But Dimitri and Raphael are in the next book, so I suppose this is like Parker and Ronan, who were prominently featured in Book 2, but we didn't get their story until Book 3. I just feel like I'm supposed to know more about the two of them than I do, which is annoying, especially since that's not the case.
I do feel like E.M. Lindsey, Kate Hawthorne and on a lesser note, E.M. Denning need to sit down and make a character map, because trying to keep track of all these characters and all their series from multiple authors is getting confusing.
You have On the Market, with Antoine of Book #2 being the brother of Marcel, who is of Book #2 of Breaking the Rules series, which has many appearances from the cast of Iron and Works series. You have the "standalone" Just Say When, which features Enzo and Tristan, who pop up from time to time in On the Market. You have Cloudy with a Chance of Love from E.M. Lindsey,Kate Hawthorne and E.M. Denning, featuring Colin, Spencer and Max, who make many appearacnes in On the Market. You have the Motel brothers and their million partners from Kate Hawthorne's Room to Love series, who are featured rather prominently in On the Market.
I'm really not a fan of when authors have series that are all kind of spin-offs from each other, that in theory you can read separately, but you end up being a little clueless on a bunch of little things that adds up to one large annoyance.... but when you throw a few more authors into the mix and have this web of series all connected, it does make me question how attached to this series I actually am.