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Cinderella and the Billionaire Boss by Serenity Woods
5.0
*modern cinderella retelling* This was so adorable and perfect insta love, sweet with bit of fragile due to messed up childhood romance! Catie (with a C
Bound by Vengeance by Cora Reilly
3.0
3.5⭐️I really like the two characters; I think I was just a bit let down because I saw a lot of other people say this was one of their favorite books of these interconnected series by Reilly. I didn’t really feel that way unfortunately. I will say I have read these books so out of order lol but I do like how it’s possible to do that and not really be lost.
Growl (annoyed we call him that until like the very end) was interesting character because I wanted to dislike him for showing no emotions, but I couldn’t because it wasn’t done in a mean way really; just who he is due to his childhood. There were sometimes I was rolling my eyes because if he simply asked the question that was in his head, he would have got the answers he was so annoyed about being confused over when it came to Cara’s emotions.
Cara was a good MFC in my eyes, but I did feel like author stayed a bit surface level on the character insight and development with her and then with her connection to Growl. There were a lot of comments made that could have been built upon between the two if story and connection was developed deeper.
I did like how the internal monologue for Growl showed how much he thought Cara was the most special thing in the world and it did make me feel for him how he kept think he was undeserving of her but couldn’t let her go because he finally had light in his life through her. But it very much took me out of the “he’s the big bad monster the capo owns” mindset I think we were supposed to have. There was no monster when it came to how he was with Cara and that was definitely a shift from how he was portrayed in other books he was mentioned in and from even the beginning of the book. So, kind of a let down there as I enjoy an antihero who acts as an antihero to the heroine at first before falling.
Overall was good for what it was but definitely could have used a deeper connection. Also wish there would have been that admitting of connection before what was basically the last chapter.
Safety notes (spoilers)
*Forced proximity
*Virgin FMC
*Emotionless/Emotionally stunted MMC
*Innocent/Naive FMC
*Mafia
*OW (MMC goes to strip club as he isn’t interested forcing himself on FMC)
*HEA
Growl (annoyed we call him that until like the very end) was interesting character because I wanted to dislike him for showing no emotions, but I couldn’t because it wasn’t done in a mean way really; just who he is due to his childhood. There were sometimes I was rolling my eyes because if he simply asked the question that was in his head, he would have got the answers he was so annoyed about being confused over when it came to Cara’s emotions.
Cara was a good MFC in my eyes, but I did feel like author stayed a bit surface level on the character insight and development with her and then with her connection to Growl. There were a lot of comments made that could have been built upon between the two if story and connection was developed deeper.
I did like how the internal monologue for Growl showed how much he thought Cara was the most special thing in the world and it did make me feel for him how he kept think he was undeserving of her but couldn’t let her go because he finally had light in his life through her. But it very much took me out of the “he’s the big bad monster the capo owns” mindset I think we were supposed to have. There was no monster when it came to how he was with Cara and that was definitely a shift from how he was portrayed in other books he was mentioned in and from even the beginning of the book. So, kind of a let down there as I enjoy an antihero who acts as an antihero to the heroine at first before falling.
Overall was good for what it was but definitely could have used a deeper connection. Also wish there would have been that admitting of connection before what was basically the last chapter.
Safety notes (spoilers)
*Forced proximity
*Virgin FMC
*Emotionless/Emotionally stunted MMC
*Innocent/Naive FMC
*Mafia
*OW (MMC goes to strip club as he isn’t interested forcing himself on FMC)
*HEA
Hans by S.J. Tilly
5.0
If you love dark-lite romance ft a morally grey, possessive MMC & a sunshine, curvy FMC and you haven’t read the Alliance series, where the hell you been loca!?
Ok ok so I’m going to try and review Hans but just know that no matter what I say it won’t even come close to how much I loved this book!!!! As I read the each Alliance book, I kept thinking the next one can’t be better & then Tilly goes and ends it with “Hans” which was a 100/10!!!
We briefly met Hans in book 2, with King and Savannah, where it was implied he was a dangerous enemy and involved in the human trafficking business. He appeared again towards the end book 3, showing up in a completely unexpected way for Dom and Val and made us realize that like the Alliance men, we might be wrong about who he is and who’s side he’s really on.
I went into this read expecting a cold emotionless assassin and was all for that. But honestly, as an MMC, Hans was so much more than I expected! His emotional backstory that turned him into a crazy assassin broke my heart. And I really really like that this is the direction Tilly wrote him in as it made him a more complex character and someone I truly was happy to root for. I don’t want to have to flag this review as spoiler so I’ll try to stay vague, but I was more than ok with loving an mmc who happened to be an assassin and someone who could definitely be categorized as psychotic. Let’s not fully unpack what that says about me though, ok? :)
Moving on! I liked that we didn’t start the timeline at the point of when Hans and Cassie met. It was more entertaining to me to get the necessary pieces of the past 13 months of them being neighbors from Hans and Cassie’s inner monologue as it allowed for some humor with their ways of thinking and reflecting on moments.
Hans was obsessed with his bubbly neighbor from the second he laid eyes on her and she started babbling! He even called her the “bane of my existence”!!!! LIKE OMG I WAS IN LOVE !!!!
Ok ok so I’m going to try and review Hans but just know that no matter what I say it won’t even come close to how much I loved this book!!!! As I read the each Alliance book, I kept thinking the next one can’t be better & then Tilly goes and ends it with “Hans” which was a 100/10!!!
We briefly met Hans in book 2, with King and Savannah, where it was implied he was a dangerous enemy and involved in the human trafficking business. He appeared again towards the end book 3, showing up in a completely unexpected way for Dom and Val and made us realize that like the Alliance men, we might be wrong about who he is and who’s side he’s really on.
I went into this read expecting a cold emotionless assassin and was all for that. But honestly, as an MMC, Hans was so much more than I expected! His emotional backstory that turned him into a crazy assassin broke my heart. And I really really like that this is the direction Tilly wrote him in as it made him a more complex character and someone I truly was happy to root for. I don’t want to have to flag this review as spoiler so I’ll try to stay vague, but I was more than ok with loving an mmc who happened to be an assassin and someone who could definitely be categorized as psychotic. Let’s not fully unpack what that says about me though, ok? :)
Moving on! I liked that we didn’t start the timeline at the point of when Hans and Cassie met. It was more entertaining to me to get the necessary pieces of the past 13 months of them being neighbors from Hans and Cassie’s inner monologue as it allowed for some humor with their ways of thinking and reflecting on moments.
Hans was obsessed with his bubbly neighbor from the second he laid eyes on her and she started babbling! He even called her the “bane of my existence”!!!! LIKE OMG I WAS IN LOVE !!!!