Julia

This series is growing on me? I can't tell if I'm desensitized or it was slightly less gore-y, but that part felt more tolerable. Spicy was also spicier in some fun and creative ways. I still really don't buy the premise that vigilante murders are different than "regular" murders, but overall, I'll finish the series.

My star rating here is ambivalent, not average. This moved at a really nice clip, was very funny, and I liked the romance! The parts I didn't like were that it really was just shy of too gory for me, and even if they're motivated by vigilante justice, I'm still not on board with serial killers. I'll still finish this series, though, so I wasn't excessively bothered.

I basically underlined this whole book, therefore defeating the purpose of underlining. Wong just transmits so much wisdom that hit me at the perfect time. The trick will be being brave enough to keep jumping into the slipstream, as she puts it. What a gift this book is to the world.

Okay, I am stating in writing for perpetuity that I need to focus my energy on COMPLETE D series. It's not that I can't stand a cliffhanger, but it's gotta be a GOOD cliffhanger, and my primary beef with Onyx Storm (other than it's hard to maintain same spice intensity when the protagonists are in a committed long-term relationship hah) is I can't tell if there were lots of loose ends that we're going to get AMAZING plot cohesion on in the next books, or if there are loose ends because the editing should be tighter.

Oh, interesting. This is by far Hazelwood's kinkiest, and I liked the collegiate/Olympic athletic subplot. It's not as explicitly feminist as her STEMinist ones, but that's just an observation, not a criticism.

WOW. Read this for book club, and was gobsmacked. Benally's writing is more poetry than prose, and he is idealistic, uncompromising, visionary, and incendiary. This was so powerful and I'll return to it frequently.

Good, but not my favorite Tibbert. Should have seen that coming - I'm not a monarchist! Neither is she, but it's obviously central to the plot in a way that irked me more than I anticipated. Still, it's sexy like Tibbert always is, and her most adventurous in terms of dynamics (e.g., power exchange).

Cute! I think you can tell reading this that this is early Hazelwood - not as many sex scenes as she writes in later books! Still, great banter, good politics. I think I'm always going to want to read what she writes.

Liked this better than the first in the series so am now definitely game for the final in the trilogy, with less of a delay! This was again fast-paced, but less gory, which I appreciated, and I can now see the longer arc of character development. This ended on QUITE a cliffhanger, but one I'm not mad about? Felt appropriately propulsive and in keeping with the series? Two books in, I'll also say that the whole premise feels quite original.