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DNF @33%
I'm sorry, but I just wasn't feeling it.
This is so over-the-top angsty and drags so much, that it genuinely gave me a bit of a headache.
The characters are extremely annoying and the big bad hitman was honestly more like a 14 year old schoolgirl having an angst-fest over something as mundane as walking through the supermarket or having to look into his crush's eyes. I'm sorry, but come on now.
The romance was extremely underdeveloped and was complete insta-love, which wouldn't be that terrible if it weren't for the fact that the hitman dude had supposedly let no one in for the past 10 years, shutting all of his emotions completely off, but then he looks into this random dude's eyes and he's basically in love? Riiiiiiiight.
All Jack and D did was fight. The tenderness was absent and there was nothing sweet about them together. They were always bickering and I couldn't see why either one of them would care about the other so much, let alone be head-over-heels in love with them.
The suspense was dumb. The action was dumb. The mystery was dumb. I didn't care.
This is also far too long. I feel like half of the time they were just making coffee or something, doing absolutely nothing interesting.
Maybe this could have been somewhat enjoyable if it was a lot shorter, but now it just became annoying to have to spend so much time with these tiresome characters and this dragged-out plotline.
I'm sorry, but I just wasn't feeling it.
This is so over-the-top angsty and drags so much, that it genuinely gave me a bit of a headache.
The characters are extremely annoying and the big bad hitman was honestly more like a 14 year old schoolgirl having an angst-fest over something as mundane as walking through the supermarket or having to look into his crush's eyes. I'm sorry, but come on now.
The romance was extremely underdeveloped and was complete insta-love, which wouldn't be that terrible if it weren't for the fact that the hitman dude had supposedly let no one in for the past 10 years, shutting all of his emotions completely off, but then he looks into this random dude's eyes and he's basically in love? Riiiiiiiight.
All Jack and D did was fight. The tenderness was absent and there was nothing sweet about them together. They were always bickering and I couldn't see why either one of them would care about the other so much, let alone be head-over-heels in love with them.
The suspense was dumb. The action was dumb. The mystery was dumb. I didn't care.
This is also far too long. I feel like half of the time they were just making coffee or something, doing absolutely nothing interesting.
Maybe this could have been somewhat enjoyable if it was a lot shorter, but now it just became annoying to have to spend so much time with these tiresome characters and this dragged-out plotline.
DNF @18%
This whole book could have been wrapped up without all the drama, and within like a few days, if they’d just done something like:
“Yo, I know you, you want to know how?”
“Yes, of course.”
“We were lovers, but obviously you forgot about me due to your accident, so… you want to reconnect and maybe, possibly try to also get your memory of me back that way?”
“Sure! I constantly felt like something was missing anyway! Now I know it was you!”
Instead we got… the opposite of that.
Bishop did everything in his power to make his own life as miserable as possible.
Eddie obviously recognized him every time they met, yet Bishop is over here whining that he got rejected by Eddie’s amnesia and that if their love had been great enough, he wouldn’t have forgotten?
Like, first of all, that reasoning is obviously utter bullshit, and secondly, HE LITERALLY RECOGNIZES YOU. You just walk away every single time he tries to talk to you and simply don’t give the guy the opportunity to remember you. Ugh.
And even if he didn’t recognize you, why not just let him get to know you again instead of stalking him and wallowing in sadness? Get a grip, dude.
(And yes, I am aware he obviously has mental health issues, so it’s not that easy in general to be happy, but in this particular case he is bringing the bad stuff all on himself)
Anyway, then, to my horror, this random scene happened where Bishop ended up having one of his many mental breaks, and this other dude started singing over the phone to “get him back from the brink”, and I was just like ?????? SINGING???? Really?
So this is where I threw in the towel, because I simply can’t be bothered.
I don’t care if the book gets better later on, because I find the whole thing annoying and I can’t muster up any form of investment for the story or characters. Maybe it’s me, but.. well.
Honestly, I can’t imagine the kind of headache this book would give me if I finished it. It’s so frustrating and so boring. Literally nothing seems to happen, and everything just drags along. There’s so much inner monologue, and so much melodrama, and actually… I think I already have that headache from just the first 18%.
This whole book could have been wrapped up without all the drama, and within like a few days, if they’d just done something like:
“Yo, I know you, you want to know how?”
“Yes, of course.”
“We were lovers, but obviously you forgot about me due to your accident, so… you want to reconnect and maybe, possibly try to also get your memory of me back that way?”
“Sure! I constantly felt like something was missing anyway! Now I know it was you!”
Instead we got… the opposite of that.
Bishop did everything in his power to make his own life as miserable as possible.
Eddie obviously recognized him every time they met, yet Bishop is over here whining that he got rejected by Eddie’s amnesia and that if their love had been great enough, he wouldn’t have forgotten?
Like, first of all, that reasoning is obviously utter bullshit, and secondly, HE LITERALLY RECOGNIZES YOU. You just walk away every single time he tries to talk to you and simply don’t give the guy the opportunity to remember you. Ugh.
And even if he didn’t recognize you, why not just let him get to know you again instead of stalking him and wallowing in sadness? Get a grip, dude.
(And yes, I am aware he obviously has mental health issues, so it’s not that easy in general to be happy, but in this particular case he is bringing the bad stuff all on himself)
Anyway, then, to my horror, this random scene happened where Bishop ended up having one of his many mental breaks, and this other dude started singing over the phone to “get him back from the brink”, and I was just like ?????? SINGING???? Really?
So this is where I threw in the towel, because I simply can’t be bothered.
I don’t care if the book gets better later on, because I find the whole thing annoying and I can’t muster up any form of investment for the story or characters. Maybe it’s me, but.. well.
Honestly, I can’t imagine the kind of headache this book would give me if I finished it. It’s so frustrating and so boring. Literally nothing seems to happen, and everything just drags along. There’s so much inner monologue, and so much melodrama, and actually… I think I already have that headache from just the first 18%.
DNF @58%
I honestly think I might be cursed. I'm having one bad read after another. What on earth is happening??
Anyway. This was.. cheesy. So god damn cheesy. And not even in a heart-warming or cutesy way, but in a "my god, why is this so bad" kind of way. The writing was not good. There was zero depth. The characters were so flat. The jokes were uncomfortably cringe. The feelings were incredibly over-the-top. And the insta-love drove me up the goddamned wall: they were literally talking about being "the one" for each other after one fucking day together. Come onnn.
Honestly, I was just bored and annoyed. I needed this book to end almost immediately.
The only thing I kind of liked was when Alex fucked up and in came the begging and the grovelling. I loved the chase where he tried to win Christian back. It was honestly the only thing I enjoyed in this entire book, and once all that was over, I knew the best part was behind me, and it was only going to get worse again. So, I decided to throw in the towel and spare myself the misery. BYE.
I honestly think I might be cursed. I'm having one bad read after another. What on earth is happening??
Anyway. This was.. cheesy. So god damn cheesy. And not even in a heart-warming or cutesy way, but in a "my god, why is this so bad" kind of way. The writing was not good. There was zero depth. The characters were so flat. The jokes were uncomfortably cringe. The feelings were incredibly over-the-top. And the insta-love drove me up the goddamned wall: they were literally talking about being "the one" for each other after one fucking day together. Come onnn.
Honestly, I was just bored and annoyed. I needed this book to end almost immediately.
The only thing I kind of liked was when Alex fucked up and in came the begging and the grovelling. I loved the chase where he tried to win Christian back. It was honestly the only thing I enjoyed in this entire book, and once all that was over, I knew the best part was behind me, and it was only going to get worse again. So, I decided to throw in the towel and spare myself the misery. BYE.
DNF @30%
Oh my god, this might possibly be the worst book I have tried to read in ages.
I honestly felt myself physically cringe at this.
The characters are completely over-the-top, ridiculous and unlikable. I despised it every time they did anything. They were so annoying.
The romance is insta-love to the highest degree and it was simply awful. Demetri was psychopathic and delusional, while Lucas was 100% unbearable. Yet somehow it was love at first sight for the two. Right.
The dialogue is also something that could genuinely make me weep because it was just so bad and awkward. The writing was TERRIBLE.
I swear, if I read the word “sassy” or “bitch” one more time, I’m going to scream.
Between a Daddy/Little kink, a drag-queen workshop, and a Russian killer family, I didn’t even know what I was supposed to be thinking anymore.
All of it was terribly executed and gave me a headache.
God, what a mess.
Oh my god, this might possibly be the worst book I have tried to read in ages.
I honestly felt myself physically cringe at this.
The characters are completely over-the-top, ridiculous and unlikable. I despised it every time they did anything. They were so annoying.
The romance is insta-love to the highest degree and it was simply awful. Demetri was psychopathic and delusional, while Lucas was 100% unbearable. Yet somehow it was love at first sight for the two. Right.
“I need to pretend that I have a sensitive side so that Lucas will fall for me. Then I can show him the beast within.”
The dialogue is also something that could genuinely make me weep because it was just so bad and awkward. The writing was TERRIBLE.
I swear, if I read the word “sassy” or “bitch” one more time, I’m going to scream.
Between a Daddy/Little kink, a drag-queen workshop, and a Russian killer family, I didn’t even know what I was supposed to be thinking anymore.
All of it was terribly executed and gave me a headache.
Oh sweetheart.
I am most definitely a drug lord, a criminal, and a cold-blooded stalker, in no particular order.
And tonight, my prey is you.
But you’re not going to know that.
Yet.
God, what a mess.
DNF @77%
This really wasn’t for me.
The writing was too flowery and felt too dragged out. There were lots of descriptions of things that simply weren’t important, and ended up really boring me. Meanwhile, the dialogue also seemed odd and appeared stilted.
I couldn’t bond with the characters at all. I felt nothing for them, even though they are both very lonely, sad and depressed, which should have invoked lots of emotion and sympathy from me, but did neither.
Both characters honestly just did not feel like real people to me and I also didn’t really like them, thus it was hard to care about them.
Their relationship itself did not hold my interest either.
I just wasn’t vibing with their dynamic or their interactions, and it was very much an insta-love development. I felt absolutely zero investment in them and I wasn’t able to see the love between them at all.
There were just a lot of weird and questionable things going on in the relationship, and I really didn’t like it.
This whole book felt weirdly empty to me, and I was just so over it. The book wasn’t getting any better, and I would even go so far as to say it was steadily becoming worse, so I figured I’d quit.
This really wasn’t for me.
The writing was too flowery and felt too dragged out. There were lots of descriptions of things that simply weren’t important, and ended up really boring me. Meanwhile, the dialogue also seemed odd and appeared stilted.
I couldn’t bond with the characters at all. I felt nothing for them, even though they are both very lonely, sad and depressed, which should have invoked lots of emotion and sympathy from me, but did neither.
Both characters honestly just did not feel like real people to me and I also didn’t really like them, thus it was hard to care about them.
Their relationship itself did not hold my interest either.
I just wasn’t vibing with their dynamic or their interactions, and it was very much an insta-love development. I felt absolutely zero investment in them and I wasn’t able to see the love between them at all.
There were just a lot of weird and questionable things going on in the relationship, and I really didn’t like it.
This whole book felt weirdly empty to me, and I was just so over it. The book wasn’t getting any better, and I would even go so far as to say it was steadily becoming worse, so I figured I’d quit.
DNF @43%
Holy shit, this was so boring. And so annoying. I do not understand why so many people seem to love this one.
This entire book is just a bunch of snow, snow, snow and even more snow, with the occasional animal attack or some hunting.
And meanwhile, one of the characters was constantly sick and hurt, unable to really move or do anything. So you have an adventure-type book with a person who is pretty much completely immobile. Fun, right?
*sigh* I guess it’s what you get with a book about surviving in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash, but I simply just couldn’t be bothered. I definitely skimmed a lot, yet it still felt like way too much.
And seriously, August was so rude to the person who was literally trying to save him, and somehow I’m still supposed to like him? I think not. He was also incredibly dumb and very very selfish.
August and Keegan did not ever really talk or do anything other than sit in silence, so how that is supposed to become a loving relationship, I don’t even know. The chemistry is definitely non-existent so far.
Actually, I kinda feel like Keegan was completely creeping on August. I mean, he was literally lusting after a nearly dying man who’s constantly either unconscious or damn near hacking up a lung. Like.. um. Okay. Kinda weird to jack off to that, dude.
And later on, he 100% took sexual advantage of August needing him. It genuinely disgusted me. But then again, Keegan was also just really really pathetic.. So I don’t even know what I’m feeling about it all at this point.
Anyway, I’m mostly just so freaking bored. Nothing is keeping my interest, so I’m tapping out.
Holy shit, this was so boring. And so annoying. I do not understand why so many people seem to love this one.
This entire book is just a bunch of snow, snow, snow and even more snow, with the occasional animal attack or some hunting.
And meanwhile, one of the characters was constantly sick and hurt, unable to really move or do anything. So you have an adventure-type book with a person who is pretty much completely immobile. Fun, right?
*sigh* I guess it’s what you get with a book about surviving in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash, but I simply just couldn’t be bothered. I definitely skimmed a lot, yet it still felt like way too much.
And seriously, August was so rude to the person who was literally trying to save him, and somehow I’m still supposed to like him? I think not. He was also incredibly dumb and very very selfish.
August and Keegan did not ever really talk or do anything other than sit in silence, so how that is supposed to become a loving relationship, I don’t even know. The chemistry is definitely non-existent so far.
Actually, I kinda feel like Keegan was completely creeping on August. I mean, he was literally lusting after a nearly dying man who’s constantly either unconscious or damn near hacking up a lung. Like.. um. Okay. Kinda weird to jack off to that, dude.
And later on, he 100% took sexual advantage of August needing him. It genuinely disgusted me. But then again, Keegan was also just really really pathetic.. So I don’t even know what I’m feeling about it all at this point.
Anyway, I’m mostly just so freaking bored. Nothing is keeping my interest, so I’m tapping out.
This book wasn’t necessarily bad at what it was trying to do, it’s just that none of it was really a good fit with my preferences.
I’ve noticed before that this author’s writing style just does not work for me all that well. It has this certain empty quality to it that almost makes it impossible for me to connect with either the characters or the story.
The fact that sex seems to completely dominate the romance and overall plot is a big no for me as well. It was all rather repetitive and kind of bored me most of the time.
Gabe was generally a likable character with his sunshiny confidence, while Marcus was very classically broody and grumpy. It was a nice dynamic in theory, but the execution was nothing to write home about. I didn’t much care for it.
The only thing I can truly say I loved in this book was whenever Marcus was being obsessed with Gabe’s gorgeousness and infectious charm: I always love it when the grump is being adoring. Gabe was also completely smitten with Marcus, though, so it wasn’t one-sided. Gabe was actually much more assertive in making Marcus his, which I would have preferred to be the other way around.
Anyway, all in all, this book wasn’t anything special and it didn’t hold my interest all that much. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t really enjoy it either.
Also, can we talk about this guy on the cover? Because he is so fucking hot, I literally can’t. He kind of reminds me of Matthew Daddario, but is somehow even more handsome. If this is what Gabe is supposed to look like in the book then I can see why Marcus was obsessed with him after only one single glance, because um.. Same.
I’ve noticed before that this author’s writing style just does not work for me all that well. It has this certain empty quality to it that almost makes it impossible for me to connect with either the characters or the story.
The fact that sex seems to completely dominate the romance and overall plot is a big no for me as well. It was all rather repetitive and kind of bored me most of the time.
Gabe was generally a likable character with his sunshiny confidence, while Marcus was very classically broody and grumpy. It was a nice dynamic in theory, but the execution was nothing to write home about. I didn’t much care for it.
The only thing I can truly say I loved in this book was whenever Marcus was being obsessed with Gabe’s gorgeousness and infectious charm: I always love it when the grump is being adoring. Gabe was also completely smitten with Marcus, though, so it wasn’t one-sided. Gabe was actually much more assertive in making Marcus his, which I would have preferred to be the other way around.
Anyway, all in all, this book wasn’t anything special and it didn’t hold my interest all that much. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t really enjoy it either.
Also, can we talk about this guy on the cover? Because he is so fucking hot, I literally can’t. He kind of reminds me of Matthew Daddario, but is somehow even more handsome. If this is what Gabe is supposed to look like in the book then I can see why Marcus was obsessed with him after only one single glance, because um.. Same.
DNF @17%
I’m sorry, but no. I’m not doing this. I remember I used to love these, but whatever charm they used to have is absolutely gone for me.
All I could do while reading this was cringe. It’s so sexist and so uncomfortable. The way these men talk makes me want to puke.
Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure the entire premise of every single one of these books has been this:
An arsehole hockey player disrespects, objectifies and uses women all around him, but then he meets the one (whom, by the way, he treats like trash at the beginning as well), which results in the hot dude-bro getting doggie trained or something. And then at the end the lucky girl should somehow be ecstatic to have him only want her now and even have him as a boyfriend! Wow, amazing, right!?
Then also mix in some “playful” banter and we’ve reached the end of our journey.
Um, noooo thank you. I think not. Pass.
I honestly feel slightly embarrassed for the love I used to have for the first few of these books. My only hope is thinking that they didn’t used to be so bad, and maybe this one was exceptionally dreadful, but I fear that that might be lying to myself.
I’m sorry, but no. I’m not doing this. I remember I used to love these, but whatever charm they used to have is absolutely gone for me.
All I could do while reading this was cringe. It’s so sexist and so uncomfortable. The way these men talk makes me want to puke.
Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure the entire premise of every single one of these books has been this:
An arsehole hockey player disrespects, objectifies and uses women all around him, but then he meets the one (whom, by the way, he treats like trash at the beginning as well), which results in the hot dude-bro getting doggie trained or something. And then at the end the lucky girl should somehow be ecstatic to have him only want her now and even have him as a boyfriend! Wow, amazing, right!?
Then also mix in some “playful” banter and we’ve reached the end of our journey.
Um, noooo thank you. I think not. Pass.
I honestly feel slightly embarrassed for the love I used to have for the first few of these books. My only hope is thinking that they didn’t used to be so bad, and maybe this one was exceptionally dreadful, but I fear that that might be lying to myself.
DNF @57%
Besides the fact that this whole thing is terribly cringe-worthy, there is an unsolvable problem I have with this series: I hate Jimmy. And I hate Cold. I hate them both.
Their relationship itself is also very unhealthy. Neither man is right for the other, and they can’t accept their differences since they instead choose to ignore it all by pretending these differences don’t exist.
Besides the fact that this whole thing is terribly cringe-worthy, there is an unsolvable problem I have with this series: I hate Jimmy. And I hate Cold. I hate them both.
Their relationship itself is also very unhealthy. Neither man is right for the other, and they can’t accept their differences since they instead choose to ignore it all by pretending these differences don’t exist.
“You love the man that I am, but the monster... you can’t.”
They lie. They fight. They don’t communicate. All they do is have sex, while Cold constantly barks orders which Jimmy follows blindly...
Sometimes Jimmy stands up for himself in every-day life, but then he quickly falls right into Cold’s arms and they have sex once more. And then they do it all over again. *eye roll*
They do have a few swoon-worthy love declarations, but those are always followed up with annoying statements or actions that show how bad they are for each other.
“I want you more than I’ve ever wanted anything. When I thought you actually wanted to leave me, it felt like dying. I meant it when I told you that you were the love of my life. You are the most valuable thing in the world to me.
You need to understand that I will never be the kind of man that deserves you. I hurt people, I kill them, and yes, I lie. Anything more than that I will never tell you because if I did, I know with absolute certainty that you would leave me and never look back.”
And seriously, I need more than what we got. It’s not enough. Their relationship simply means nothing to me.
I can see why some people enjoyed this, though. But I just wasn’t feeling it.
DNF @51%
I’m sorry, but I’m so incredibly bored. For a book about human trafficking, this is surprisingly uneventful.
Obviously there’s a lot of sadistic stuff going on within the organization, but we don’t get to see any of it. All we’re doing is just sitting in a room with Gray and Darius, talking about how they’re going to escape.
The horrific stuff seems to happen to the side characters, while our mains are just looking on from the sidelines.
They’re both very emotionless, especially Darius. They don’t feel like real people at all.
There’s also absolutely no romance between them whatsoever, not even a hint of affection or anything like that.
Honestly, I just can’t be bothered. It’s boring.
I’m sorry, but I’m so incredibly bored. For a book about human trafficking, this is surprisingly uneventful.
Obviously there’s a lot of sadistic stuff going on within the organization, but we don’t get to see any of it. All we’re doing is just sitting in a room with Gray and Darius, talking about how they’re going to escape.
The horrific stuff seems to happen to the side characters, while our mains are just looking on from the sidelines.
They’re both very emotionless, especially Darius. They don’t feel like real people at all.
There’s also absolutely no romance between them whatsoever, not even a hint of affection or anything like that.
Honestly, I just can’t be bothered. It’s boring.