gia
3.25 stars
oh she COOKED.
ngl book was a fucking snoozefest until 60% in. started to ramp up after that and honestly the last 10% saved this book. if not for that ending, this would've been 2 stars. and even now i'm being generous with the 3.5 bc the book is so fresh. writing was garbage but i had fun halfway through.
CONFLICTED BETWEEN GRIM AND ORO. I NEED GRIM TO GROVEL IN BOOK 2 PLEASE.
3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
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3.5 stars
i loved vivian and dante but this book wasn't particularly memorable. nothing really HIT for me the way i wanted it to. i wish she let him grovel a bit more before accepting a date with him :/
3.5 STARS
the book isn't well written by any means, but it is interesting and that alone will keep me reading the series. it has clumsy exposition, violet is a mary sue, and xaden is a much more interesting character than she is. i just don't care for violet. tairn has to be my favorite character. all the other side characters felt flat.
idk. writing this review literally 2 minutes after i finished but it just didn't live up to the hype. this book was marketed to me as a fantasy with a romantic subplot. what i got instead was romance in a fantasy setting with a fantasy subplot. the fantasy aspect comes from the dragons, the world around them, and the powers but the dragons read like humans due to their personalities, the magic isn't at the forefront of anything, and the world building... i'm sorry but the reason this didn't read as fantasy for me is the lack of world building. this comes across as low fantasy and it just wasn't what i was expecting. i started liking the book more when i adjusted by expectations.
this book feels like 2023's version of FBAA.
If you're looking for a book similar to C.W. Farnsworth's Kiss Now, Lie Later, look elsewhere. It has the trope brother's rival but that's about as similar as these two books get.
DNF'd so I won't rate but if I forced myself to push through it would probably be 1 star.
I should've known this book was gonna be bad based on the prologue where Eli is talking about how hot he finds a 14-year old Ava.
“She's young. A baby. A cutie who's probably completely sheltered and thinks dicks are ugly and sex is gross. Meaning, she won't be interested in me. But she's adorable. I bet when she's older, she'll be stunning. Maybe when she's older, I'll get my chance. And make her mine.”
“I remember seeing her in the stands when I was a sophomore, thinking she was a hottie. And she was. Cute as can be. But now? Now she's like a walking wet dream. Okay, that was crass as f-ck, but it's true. She's pure fantasy material. Last time I saw her, she was a baby. a Freshman. She's a year younger than me. Daddy probably never lets that beauty out of the house - can you blame him? - so I'd peg her as completely inexperienced.”
gasp
“Ava was just a name. She meant nothing to me. Until I saw her that night. She's identical to her mom. Long blonde hair and green eyes. Bright smile. Taller than her mama. Doesn't have Autumn's big ol' titties either, which is a shame.”
2 stars, maybe 2.5.
this would've been an easy 3.5 star read for me if the third act breakup didn't include unknown pregnancy, accidental miscarriage, and amnesia. fuck off. this was such a fun read until that happened. the amnesia part alone could've been it's own separate book, but instead we're dealing with it in the last 25%? i just. UGH. i won't lie, i considered DNFing at 80% but just skimmed until the end.
tiktok got my ass
1.5 stars
20% in and so far... welp. there's fake OW drama, she looked out her window and saw him talking to another woman and he was smiling! craaaazy i know.
book started off pretty meh. it's my first book back in the werewolves genre (everything else has been from my wattpad days lmao) and this into wasn't giving what i wanted it to. MMC so far hasn't been anything attractive which kinda sucks bc i know at some point the hormones (is that what you'd call it?) kick in and she's gonna find him sooo attractive she'll basically throw herself at him and as a reader i'm just not gonna see anything worth liking. he's just so... boring? which is odd for a werewolf story. he feels more like a background piece than an active character.
it's not stated why they're together yet, he's pretty fucking rude, bordering mean, with the way he dismisses her. doesn't even concern himself with her. idk usually i love assholes in books but so far he's not even giving hot asshole, just asshole.
i don't plan on reading the next one.
2.5
enjoyable to a point. usually a book like this should take me 1 sitting to finish but my godddd i had to walk away and come back with this one. i'd say the book stays interesting until 65% in, then it changes pace and moves too fast.
also sorry but they were TOO in love. it's been maybe 2 weeks. three tops. relax. a romance like theirs should've been more of a slow burn, especially because this is book one of a series.
i really wanted to like this, and maybe i'll read the next two just because there was enough sprinkles of zsadist that i'm curious now. but god i hate their names.
edit 1/23/23 changed from 2 to 2.5
the start was jarring like we're thrown smack into it with her getting abducted and we learn she's been taken for what's basically sex trafficking and then we're shown someone getting raped. ok. not really glossed over but just weird were tone-wise considering the rest of the book feels fluffy :/
she gets captured in a trap by our alien MMC and wakes up to him eating her out and she's like ok he's fucking shit up purrrr! and let's him continue. idk this was a weird read. like it was kinda sweet and definitely insta-love but sorta with a reason? like it's insta-love on his end because he knows she's essentially his soulmate and so he's just so trusting of that fact and throws himself headfirst. she's a bit more reserved but can see that he hasn't done anything to hurt her and is protective so she's like why not!
overall i'd give this a 2.5/5, it's like not at all a serious read, was short, and was cute enough to keep me going. maybe even 3 stars?
2.75
thoughts while reading:
- the amount of times gracie says “did I do something in another lifetime” LIKE OK WE GET IT RELAX (mind you this is only like 25% into the book)
- her inner monologue is fucking annoying
- 30% so far it's been repetitive and boring
- cartel storyline is actually SO dumb how is this even a major plot point
- gracie's constantly apologizing and saying thank you but like... the story hasn't progressed enough for her to be saying it this much
- imagine being imprisoned with someone and every time you speak she apologizes. just kill me already
- girl does not stop crying omg she's just like me!
- hate the butthole banter. please just say asshole instead, gracie curses anyway
- 60% I'm living for this angst
- some of his family is just trash, and i kinda wish there was a bigger focus on his siblings (or at least the ones that like her) befriending her more for a found family vibe. maybe that's just me but her going out with selene just isn't enough. gracie's been through a lot and i want better for her.
- this book is definitely he falls first, but girl could've a lot reciprocated the feelings and given us more than just her constantly noticing he's hot. BUT i will cut gracie some slack because she did often mention she's not well socialized.
- i like slow burn (how could you not if you read MZ?) but please give me better payout than that wtf i went through all that for crumbs.
and after that i just don't care. book is pretty forgettable. wish MZ did better because this could've been so good.
ALSO i'm sorry but i just can't imagine a hot MMC named alexander. sorry to all the alexander's out there but it just isn't for me.
5/5
10/10
I LOVE AIDEN GRAVES. I LOVE VANESSA MAZUR. I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE I'D RATHER DATE.
I am a binge reader, most books I read are done so in one day, sometimes even one sitting if it's that good. That is the case for me today. I couldn't put this book down. It was so easy to read, and so difficult to put down.
I understand why some people don't like MZ books - the inner monologue can go on for so long but when your main character is Vanessa Mazur, it's hard to dislike that style of writing. Vanessa is such a likable character, and I can see myself and most of my friends relating to her.
I can't finish this review I'm still screaming over how much I love them together KSHGJKSD
