Doora
I will first start this book of with TWs: mild non-con and dub-con, old look on women.
Based on the TWs above it's obvious this book was written in the early '00s where consent was vaguely swept under the carpet. So if this is not something you want to read with the whole dark-romance craze (this is NOT dark romance) then have fun.
The plot is simple: Planet lacks women and a woman crashes on said planet, woman ends up as kings consort - surprise!
The planet is named Valhalla and guess what? The male characters has Nordic names!
*insert Nordic ramblings here*
I think my favourite character in this whole book was Sven, despite his introduction. He didn't care that Douglass (female lead) went out on her own tangent, while everyone else tried to hold her back, and he was just super cool.
If you love romances featuring women in STEM, go no further! It's no Love on the Brain, but it's got aliens and a biochemist.
Due to unforeseen and unknown circumstances, Adele wakes up in an unknown field on an unknown planet.
I really enjoyed Adele as a character, in the few 100 pages that this book is, she doesn't seem flat and she's stubborn as hell. She burns for the field she works within and has a tough time letting go of her research that she's worked so hard on.
The male love interests are your typical humanoid alien alpha males and matches the whole tick-box for Sci-Fi romance MMCs.
The story itself, aside from the romance, is really interesting and Adele uses her experience as a biochemist to figure out the problem. The spice is great.
Contains spoilers
Phew, okay what an end to a trilogy. This book follows Hyt and Eve while they try to navigate their affections for each other and the problems that follows. There's a short period of the fake dating troupe but it's quickly ignored and they say "fuck it!"
There was a stale point in the middle of the book while we wait for the peak, which unfortunately was a bit of a drag, but so worth it for the reunion between Eve, Rurik and Abraxas.
The final battle with Ruriks parents were... a bit of a let down?? I get his father is trapped to a literal chair but there could've been thrown some guards in or something. It's over within the span of.. a few pages?
Final battle aside the ending was the perfect way to tie a knot on this trilogy.
What an end to the trilogy!
There's a lot of back and forth between Tobias and Cee, but to be fair, with how Tobias ended up treating her, it's justified. Crawl on your knees and beg forgiveness! The end of the book had me sitting on the edge of my chair waiting to see what was next.
Imo it was the ending they all deserved - except you Tyler, you deserved more </3
Okay, this book was as good as I remembered - which also made me notice that my English has gotten significantly better since the first time reading this lmao.
Now to the book itself - it pains me to do it, but back in 2016 my teenage brain thought it was so good (could also be because I watched the movie first and Nicholas Hoult had me in a choke-hold) that it deserved 5 stars, but now years later after a reread it might be a 4.5 star. Marion can be very descriptive in some of his scenes, but his writing is spectacular. Unfortunately it gives me mild LOTR flashbacks and for a book that's advertised as YA (pretty sure it's not YA), it should not be that deep (in my opinion). But despite that little fact the characters are likeable.
I was super excited going into this book, mainly because it was set in my country. Unfortunately it did not live up to the excitement. I anticipated this being very heavy on the history, which it lacked. It was mainly a romance novel - I did find the romance cute, but I originally anticipated a story where the main focus was on the history behind the rebels helping the jews across Øresund to Sweden.
The book was a mixture of dual POVs switching back between 1943 and 2018 and I honestly liked the 2018 characters the most.
It got bland around the 70% marker, where I just wanted it to end but it picked up again around 88%.. The narrator was fantastic!
I read the first book (Warm Bodies) in the series many years ago and was too young to appreciate Marions writing. He manages to set up the world of the apocalypse as if you're walking along with the characters and can feel hopelessness, yet there's a slight undertone of hope.
The book follows Nora, Julie and Tall Man as they navigate the new world of the apocalypse. From being chased by zombies, defending themselves against other survivors, finding shelter for the night - we're right there along with them. The characters are likeable, and despite one of them being a zombie it feels like he's too smart to be one.
Super excited to read the whole series this time around!
This book suffers from middle book syndrome: Not as good as the first and plain. What I liked about Eve in the first book pissed me off in the second. It was constantly the same back and forth and it got old very quickly. The only peak this book had was the single scene Eve and Abraxas had together, my pookies <3
Despite it being a “why choose”-book she only really has high chemistry with Abraxas and a middle-tier with Hoyt and not really anything with Rurik.. And it was lowkey somewhat of a snooze fest? The whole marriage plot didn't do it for me and the side characters, except for Zero, annoyed me.
Hopefully the last book is on tier with the first.
WE GOT THE ENDING WE DESERVED WITH THIS DUOLOGY!
It was chaotic, it was fun, it was exhilarating, Cole still had his red flags, Mara had AWESOME character development. So did Cole tbh.
The plot was interesting and had me on the edge of my seat, especially the last part of it. I thoroughly enjoyed myself with this book as much as I did with the first.
Despite the red flags it's another instance where Mr. Red-flag galore is good for the FMC lmao
This book was everywhere, I couldn't really see the Snow White retelling when I read it, but now that I think back on it, I can piece the puzzles together.
Unfortunately the MMCs are giving college boys energy and not adult energy. And only one of them seemed to give a rats arse about the FMC in the end. It was also only written in 3 povs despite so many people involved, so you only really make a connection to those characters, which is a shame. It's also felt in how they react to the FMC disappearing, only the two mens pov we read, somewhat worried about her, one more than the other.
The premise of the book started out so good, but the end was very lacklustre. It could've been a mic drop but it was a mic drop with that ear shattering noise, that makes you go deaf. Shame. I do get it sets the premise of the next book but it was disappointing and I want my time back.
Despite the ending, the book was interesting enough. The FMC was working her way up in the Russian mafia with her ability to hack, to find out who murdered her parents and brothers. There are some very minor Den of Vipers vibes.
The series itself is called Possessive Monsters but it only sometimes came out in Grayson.
It's set in the real world, after the Wall hiding the supernatural has gone down and they're now out in the open. After crashing a wedding, Shelby is accidentally thrown into a world she didn't know existed until recently, she also discovers something about herself and takes it like a champ. There is chemistry between Grayson and Shelby and the plot is interesting enough.
Fast paced book that is basically smut. Ellie gets her heart broken by her boyfriend Gerrid (with a name like that, it was a red flag from the start, babes) then contacts Mademe Eve of 1Night Stand to set her up with a night of fun. And a night of fun she gets. Her date is the mysterious Bryce. He can somewhat read souls (not really explained), and Ellie is one of the souls he mentions as a “Shadowed soul” which seems to mean that they've lost a part of themselves. He prides himself on trying to get that lost part of them back through.. Sex.
This is the second series I read of Stunichs and it lives up to what they wrote in the Havoc series.
Honestly, I would also be mad if one moment I was doing my job, despite it being my day off, and the next moment I'm kidnapped by aliens, just to be bought and then hauled across a new planet. Just to be kidnapped AGAIN by a hot dragon-like alien.
The chemistry between Eve and Abraxas is just chefs kiss and I lowkey wish the series was about them and their little dragon/human hybrid family lol.
This was such a cute read! I really love Lemmings work, despite only having read two books of theirs. It's very fast paced and very short, but both Kain and Daisy are very likeable despite not really knowing anything about them. Kain is very sassy, Daisy just wants to make muffins, man. Imagine being so bad at cooking that you accidentally summon a demon
ETHAN HAS MY HEART, charming motherfucker.
I am always very thin ice-ish with shifter romances, as 90% of them I've read are so mediocre, but this was sooo good! It didn't give me the normal icks I get when reading shifter romances. The characters are likeable and there's chemistry between all of them. All the men in the relationship have a form of role for the FMC, one being the main lover, the other being the best friend and so on.
The story is interesting enough and it seems that it's only the surface the story is swimming in for now.
