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Ugh. This was so BORING. This literally had the most simple plot imaginable. It’s uneventful, silly and induced more than one unimpressed sigh from me.
It’s an insta-love romance with one-dimensional characters and a superficial kind of love. *yawn*
I genuinely couldn’t have possibly cared any less about these people or their relationship. None of them had even an ounce of depth and their love story was based on absolutely nothing. There was also no chemistry whatsoever.
The writing was so dry and emotionless. It truly wasn’t good and it truly wasn’t impressive.
This somehow felt anticlimactic even though it didn’t even feel like we were building towards a climax. Does that make sense? I don’t know. Probably not, but oh well.
I honestly don’t think I enjoyed this at all; not even a little. I wasn’t entertained, I wasn’t intrigued, I wasn’t even remotely interested. I was just bored.
It’s an insta-love romance with one-dimensional characters and a superficial kind of love. *yawn*
I genuinely couldn’t have possibly cared any less about these people or their relationship. None of them had even an ounce of depth and their love story was based on absolutely nothing. There was also no chemistry whatsoever.
The writing was so dry and emotionless. It truly wasn’t good and it truly wasn’t impressive.
This somehow felt anticlimactic even though it didn’t even feel like we were building towards a climax. Does that make sense? I don’t know. Probably not, but oh well.
I honestly don’t think I enjoyed this at all; not even a little. I wasn’t entertained, I wasn’t intrigued, I wasn’t even remotely interested. I was just bored.
Well, then.. This really didn’t add much to the story. Nothing happened and it was kind of boring. There hasn’t been any development in the plot, characterization or romance yet. I also feel like this has been missing emotional depth so far.
I’ll try to remain patient, but I have to admit that this was disappointing.
When it comes to the characters, I like Patrick’s snarky attitude, but he can veer into annoying territory quite quickly too. Luckily, it is easy to see he secretly has a heart of gold.
I’m still a bit ambivalent towards Will, especially since he doesn’t have much of a distinct personality yet and he is just so incredibly pathetic when it comes to his ex, Ryan.
Speaking of, Ryan is genuinely making me so mad. He is such an arsehole and I need Will and everyone else to see and acknowledge that. I am desperately awaiting his fall from Grace; I honestly can’t wait for that.
All in all, I just really have to wonder: when will we finally get to see some kind of love blossom between Will and Patrick? Because so far it’s been awfully quiet on that front.
And I mean, don’t get me wrong; I absolutely adore a good slow-burn, but it’s honestly starting to look like a no-burn at this point. A mere bit of lingering sexual tension doesn’t count as all that much to me, especially if there aren’t even feelings involved.
I’ll try to remain patient, but I have to admit that this was disappointing.
When it comes to the characters, I like Patrick’s snarky attitude, but he can veer into annoying territory quite quickly too. Luckily, it is easy to see he secretly has a heart of gold.
I’m still a bit ambivalent towards Will, especially since he doesn’t have much of a distinct personality yet and he is just so incredibly pathetic when it comes to his ex, Ryan.
Speaking of, Ryan is genuinely making me so mad. He is such an arsehole and I need Will and everyone else to see and acknowledge that. I am desperately awaiting his fall from Grace; I honestly can’t wait for that.
All in all, I just really have to wonder: when will we finally get to see some kind of love blossom between Will and Patrick? Because so far it’s been awfully quiet on that front.
And I mean, don’t get me wrong; I absolutely adore a good slow-burn, but it’s honestly starting to look like a no-burn at this point. A mere bit of lingering sexual tension doesn’t count as all that much to me, especially if there aren’t even feelings involved.
This was quite a promising beginning to the series. It genuinely has hints of humour going for it, and the relationship has started in an interesting way. I’m not really feeling the love between them so far, but I kind of like that: it suggests we might be able to expect a little bit of a slow-burn. I do like that Patrick is already reluctantly admiring Will, though. He might be annoyed, but you can tell that he already has a slight soft spot for Will.
The characters are more unique than I thought they would be: they’re not written in an overly simple or superficial manner. So far I’ve truly quite liked reading about them, even if they aren’t exactly super likeable. I mean, Will has a very pathetic vibe around him, and Patrick is cold-ish and dick-ish. Nonetheless, I quite enjoy them and I especially appreciated Patrick’s sarcasm and pessimism. I just really hope we’ll get some great character development for them. There’s definitely potential for it.
The characters are more unique than I thought they would be: they’re not written in an overly simple or superficial manner. So far I’ve truly quite liked reading about them, even if they aren’t exactly super likeable. I mean, Will has a very pathetic vibe around him, and Patrick is cold-ish and dick-ish. Nonetheless, I quite enjoy them and I especially appreciated Patrick’s sarcasm and pessimism. I just really hope we’ll get some great character development for them. There’s definitely potential for it.
I’m sorry, but this was super bland and honestly just plain boring.
I especially got very annoyed at Winston’s reluctance to come out. It didn’t really make any kind of sense, and worst of all, it seemed like Winston didn’t even care about how much them hiding their relationship was hurting Rhys.
But honestly, not only was Winston a bit of a selfish prick, their relationship also lacked any chemistry or depth in general.
This just wasn’t it for me.
I especially got very annoyed at Winston’s reluctance to come out. It didn’t really make any kind of sense, and worst of all, it seemed like Winston didn’t even care about how much them hiding their relationship was hurting Rhys.
But honestly, not only was Winston a bit of a selfish prick, their relationship also lacked any chemistry or depth in general.
This just wasn’t it for me.
This was yet another boring and bland read: It had absolutely nothing interesting going on.
Even worse, it was extremely superficial and super awkward. Their relationship made me roll my eyes more than anything, and they didn’t even get a single swoon out of me.
The premise of this entire book doesn’t even come to fruition either, because the dad is not the best friend at all. They hadn’t talked in over a decade, and they hardly even talk during this book either. They’re not remotely friends anymore. It’s silly.
The online aspect was a lie as well, because these two have a conversation on a Grindr type of app that lasts a whole of three sentences and then they meet up, reveal their identities, and that’s that.
This was insta-love to the maximum degree; their love had absolutely no foundation at all, and their entire relationship consisted of either Daddy kink or just sex.
Also, if I never encounter the word “brat” again, then it will honestly still be too soon.
Even worse, it was extremely superficial and super awkward. Their relationship made me roll my eyes more than anything, and they didn’t even get a single swoon out of me.
The premise of this entire book doesn’t even come to fruition either, because the dad is not the best friend at all. They hadn’t talked in over a decade, and they hardly even talk during this book either. They’re not remotely friends anymore. It’s silly.
The online aspect was a lie as well, because these two have a conversation on a Grindr type of app that lasts a whole of three sentences and then they meet up, reveal their identities, and that’s that.
This was insta-love to the maximum degree; their love had absolutely no foundation at all, and their entire relationship consisted of either Daddy kink or just sex.
Also, if I never encounter the word “brat” again, then it will honestly still be too soon.
This was a truly lovely second-chance romance story. It managed to exude warmth while also serving an expected dose of heartbreak.
The writing was charming and heartfelt, and the characters continually pulled on multiple of my heartstrings. Something about this just felt so pure and authentic.
The writing was charming and heartfelt, and the characters continually pulled on multiple of my heartstrings. Something about this just felt so pure and authentic.
“I love you.”
Everett reached across the table and took Tommy’s hand. “I love you too.”
And then, God fucking damn it, Tommy’s eyes started to water. “Sorry,” he said.
“There’s nothing to apologize for.” With his thumb, Everett swept a tear off Tommy’s cheekbone. “I think it’s sweet.”
Tommy wrinkled his nose. “Fuck you.”
“I think you’re sweet. You’re adorable.”
“Oh my God.” Tommy tried to cover his face with the hand Everett wasn’t holding, but Everett grabbed that wrist too and used it to haul Tommy to his feet.
“When did you get so cute? I could eat you up.”
“I’m going to sink into the earth,” Tommy lamented.
“I just like you so much, Tommy Cabot.” He put a knuckle under Tommy’s chin, tilting his face up. “I’m really smitten with the person you turned into, even with the crying and the blushing.”
“I’m blushing? Oh, fuck me.”
“I mean, I could. I would. I think I’d do whatever you wanted at this point.”
Tommy groaned. “Wait until you see me sobbing over old picture albums. You’ll be overcome with lust.”
This might have been a moderately short read, but it still got me rooting for and swooning over the relationship. It was sweet.
Nope. Definitely not. This was bloody awful. I’m not quite sure where to even start when it comes to this one, because I honestly don’t think there was a single thing I liked here.
Most importantly, I absolutely despised the romance. I’m not even sure if I can call it such, since there wasn’t a shred of love to be found between these two.
The horror of it already began at the very beginning. Priest is taken prisoner by his rival motorcycle club and they also kill his best friend in the whole wide world. Obviously he’s all angry and ragey about it, but fear not! Because while he is being strung up and beaten within an inch of his life, Priest still finds the time to admire one of his enemy’s good looks. The lust he feels for Nico is instant, so they start hooking up pretty much immediately. This, of course, all happens while Priest is still being tortured. Sure. Okay. Lovely.
Then, after a little while, Nico helps him escape because they’re apparently in love somehow, so he doesn’t want Priest to die and he hates his own club anyway. Alright, fine, I’ll roll with it.
However, what do you think happens after that? Nico delivers Priest to his friends and as a thanks he is beaten to a pulp, treated like an animal, and that’s that. Eventually Priest puts a stop to the torture, but he still treats Nico like absolute trash. You’d think the guy would be grateful, but noooo way. He’s not. He acts as if Nico is no more than the dirt beneath his shoe and Nico just stands there and takes it.
The worst of it is that this all goes on for the entire rest of the book. It doesn’t even get better in any way. It sucked and I hated it so much. This relationship was absolutely terrible.
The plot was dreadfully boring as well, because it couldn’t possibly be any more repetitive.
And then that ending scene where Nico killed his ENTIRE clubhouse while armed only with a freaking knife? Please. I could hardly contain my laughter. It was ridiculous. All of it was.
Most importantly, I absolutely despised the romance. I’m not even sure if I can call it such, since there wasn’t a shred of love to be found between these two.
The horror of it already began at the very beginning. Priest is taken prisoner by his rival motorcycle club and they also kill his best friend in the whole wide world. Obviously he’s all angry and ragey about it, but fear not! Because while he is being strung up and beaten within an inch of his life, Priest still finds the time to admire one of his enemy’s good looks. The lust he feels for Nico is instant, so they start hooking up pretty much immediately. This, of course, all happens while Priest is still being tortured. Sure. Okay. Lovely.
Then, after a little while, Nico helps him escape because they’re apparently in love somehow, so he doesn’t want Priest to die and he hates his own club anyway. Alright, fine, I’ll roll with it.
However, what do you think happens after that? Nico delivers Priest to his friends and as a thanks he is beaten to a pulp, treated like an animal, and that’s that. Eventually Priest puts a stop to the torture, but he still treats Nico like absolute trash. You’d think the guy would be grateful, but noooo way. He’s not. He acts as if Nico is no more than the dirt beneath his shoe and Nico just stands there and takes it.
The worst of it is that this all goes on for the entire rest of the book. It doesn’t even get better in any way. It sucked and I hated it so much. This relationship was absolutely terrible.
The plot was dreadfully boring as well, because it couldn’t possibly be any more repetitive.
And then that ending scene where Nico killed his ENTIRE clubhouse while armed only with a freaking knife? Please. I could hardly contain my laughter. It was ridiculous. All of it was.
I have mixed feelings on this one, and even now, I’m still not really sure what to think of it. There was something about this that just worked for me, despite the execution of the story being quite lacklustre and superficial. The writing itself also wasn’t very good. So, really, why did I like this? I don’t know, but I did somehow enjoy it. So… That’s that.
The story itself is about Tyler, a sarcastic and moody biology major, who was shunned by his family for being gay, and is now working 24/7 to pay for college and housing. One night, at work, he meets a pretty athlete, who he has a rather unpleasant encounter with. Turns out, this athlete, Carson, is the most famous football player on campus and has secretly been obsessing over Tyler from afar for over a year. From there on out, everything goes super-fast: Carson confesses his feelings, and Tyler is immediately wary but also recipient of his feelings.
It’s very insta-love, and does not make a ton of sense. Maybe it would have been easier to understand if we had gotten Carson's POV as well, but I guess we’ll never know. The writing was also a bit clunky and could at times be quite hard to follow.
Then again, I found most of it to be very entertaining and seeing someone be adored and get completely obsessed over has always been a secret weakness of mine. So yea, make of all that what you will.
The story itself is about Tyler, a sarcastic and moody biology major, who was shunned by his family for being gay, and is now working 24/7 to pay for college and housing. One night, at work, he meets a pretty athlete, who he has a rather unpleasant encounter with. Turns out, this athlete, Carson, is the most famous football player on campus and has secretly been obsessing over Tyler from afar for over a year. From there on out, everything goes super-fast: Carson confesses his feelings, and Tyler is immediately wary but also recipient of his feelings.
It’s very insta-love, and does not make a ton of sense. Maybe it would have been easier to understand if we had gotten Carson's POV as well, but I guess we’ll never know. The writing was also a bit clunky and could at times be quite hard to follow.
Then again, I found most of it to be very entertaining and seeing someone be adored and get completely obsessed over has always been a secret weakness of mine. So yea, make of all that what you will.
This isn’t really a book I would normally choose to pick up, but I read Iman's review and they made it sound so sweet and adorable, I just had to give it a try. And, luckily, it turned out that they were right; this really was very cute, even if some of it is still not necessarily my thing.
This was an insta-love romance with an extremely heavy dose of the age-play kink.
The story is about Holden, a nurturing Daddy who desperately wants to take care of a little boy, and Oliver, who is a little kid inside a young-adult’s body and who also suffers from narcolepsy. When these two meet in a toy store, they have an instant connection and it was basically love at first sight. Their relationship progresses incredibly fast, and it does not take them more than a day to profess their undying love for each other.
The dynamic between these two men was definitely loving and gentle, and they take the age-play kink to the next level. I wouldn’t even really call it ‘play’ anymore, since Ollie is not a grown-man who sometimes recedes into little space; instead, he is a man with an incredibly childish personality and the mindset of a kid. He isn’t acting to be a young boy, he just is. And Holden truly treats him like a child as well; he takes the ‘Daddy’ thing to the point of him genuinely acting like a literal father to Ollie.
I can imagine some people getting a little uncomfortable about this, and I’m personally not sure how to feel about it either. Obviously it can be a little icky if you think about it too hard, especially from Holden’s perspective, but I also think it’s actually kind of nice that this is all so real to Ollie and that he’s not pretending to be anything. It doesn’t feel like he’s two different people; sometimes playing to be big Ollie and sometimes little Ollie. No, instead he’s just always little Ollie.
What made their relationship so wholesome was the complete and utter understanding and acceptance both of these men had for each other. It was like they were made for each other. Whether it was Holden tucking Ollie into bed and singing him to sleep, or them playing together with Ollie’s toys: they were both so incredibly happy and content. They adored each other and the life they could have, which was honestly really very nice.
This was an insta-love romance with an extremely heavy dose of the age-play kink.
The story is about Holden, a nurturing Daddy who desperately wants to take care of a little boy, and Oliver, who is a little kid inside a young-adult’s body and who also suffers from narcolepsy. When these two meet in a toy store, they have an instant connection and it was basically love at first sight. Their relationship progresses incredibly fast, and it does not take them more than a day to profess their undying love for each other.
The dynamic between these two men was definitely loving and gentle, and they take the age-play kink to the next level. I wouldn’t even really call it ‘play’ anymore, since Ollie is not a grown-man who sometimes recedes into little space; instead, he is a man with an incredibly childish personality and the mindset of a kid. He isn’t acting to be a young boy, he just is. And Holden truly treats him like a child as well; he takes the ‘Daddy’ thing to the point of him genuinely acting like a literal father to Ollie.
I can imagine some people getting a little uncomfortable about this, and I’m personally not sure how to feel about it either. Obviously it can be a little icky if you think about it too hard, especially from Holden’s perspective, but I also think it’s actually kind of nice that this is all so real to Ollie and that he’s not pretending to be anything. It doesn’t feel like he’s two different people; sometimes playing to be big Ollie and sometimes little Ollie. No, instead he’s just always little Ollie.
What made their relationship so wholesome was the complete and utter understanding and acceptance both of these men had for each other. It was like they were made for each other. Whether it was Holden tucking Ollie into bed and singing him to sleep, or them playing together with Ollie’s toys: they were both so incredibly happy and content. They adored each other and the life they could have, which was honestly really very nice.
The premise of this one was right up my alley, but something was missing in the execution for it to truly be great.
It’s about an undercover cop who pretends to be a prostitute in order to catch a serial killer, but instead he is found by a ridiculously rich man who wants to take care of him. At first, neither man knows the other’s true profession: one of them being a cop, while the other is a mafia don. And thus, they quickly fall for each other while having a ‘Pretty Woman’ type of situation going on. But what will happen when one of them finds out the truth about the other? Will everything fall apart?
The whole mistaken identity trope as well as the rich man wanting to take care of and spoil the poor man dynamic were things that enticed me, and I also genuinely thought Micah and Damon had great chemistry together. Still, I never really felt the depth of their relationship and I wish we could have gotten more scenes of them actually interacting with each other. I was also really missing Damon’s POV as I am certain the book would have been so much better if we had been able to properly see the devotion, adoration and protectiveness Damon had for Micah from up close.
Unfortunately, I also have to admit that this story dragged a little at times. It did not need to be as long as it was, and there was often focus on certain scenes that simply weren’t important.
However, the side-plot was quite interesting, even when it dragged, and I can’t say I ever felt particularly bored. My simple solution was just to skim a bit whenever the author decided to go on an uninteresting tangent, so all was still good.
I enjoyed reading this for sure, but I didn’t really feel very connected to it.
It’s about an undercover cop who pretends to be a prostitute in order to catch a serial killer, but instead he is found by a ridiculously rich man who wants to take care of him. At first, neither man knows the other’s true profession: one of them being a cop, while the other is a mafia don. And thus, they quickly fall for each other while having a ‘Pretty Woman’ type of situation going on. But what will happen when one of them finds out the truth about the other? Will everything fall apart?
The whole mistaken identity trope as well as the rich man wanting to take care of and spoil the poor man dynamic were things that enticed me, and I also genuinely thought Micah and Damon had great chemistry together. Still, I never really felt the depth of their relationship and I wish we could have gotten more scenes of them actually interacting with each other. I was also really missing Damon’s POV as I am certain the book would have been so much better if we had been able to properly see the devotion, adoration and protectiveness Damon had for Micah from up close.
Unfortunately, I also have to admit that this story dragged a little at times. It did not need to be as long as it was, and there was often focus on certain scenes that simply weren’t important.
However, the side-plot was quite interesting, even when it dragged, and I can’t say I ever felt particularly bored. My simple solution was just to skim a bit whenever the author decided to go on an uninteresting tangent, so all was still good.
I enjoyed reading this for sure, but I didn’t really feel very connected to it.