Donna
I liked the idea of this book, and picked it up after hearing an ad on the Fated Mates podcast. There’s so much missed opportunity to fully describe the world that Kyleigh and Rowan inhabit that would make things feel more real and help readers feel invested in the story. Kyleigh is a talented wedding dress designer but we hear so little about that I ended up not really caring whether she got to keep doing it. Most of the detail is in the sex scenes, which is fine, but do we really need to hear about every single time Rowan throws a condom in the trash when they’re done? Every Uber they call when they’re on the way to brunch or his apartment? Product placement is not a replacement for world building, which feels like a harsh critique, but I could see the book this could have been in what I was reading, and I wanted that: rich in detail, full of context, asking me to care about the characters because the story made them fully alive, not just because they were barreling toward the inevitable conclusion.
I liked the idea of this book, and picked it up after hearing an ad on the Fated Mates podcast. There’s so much missed opportunity to fully describe the world that Kyleigh and Rowan inhabit that would make things feel more real and help readers feel invested in the story. Kyleigh is a talented wedding dress designer but we hear so little about that I ended up not really caring whether she got to keep doing it. Most of the detail is in the sex scenes, which is fine, but do we really need to hear about every single time Rowan throws a condom in the trash when they’re done? Every Uber they call when they’re on the way to brunch or his apartment? Product placement is not a replacement for world building, which feels like a harsh critique, but I could see the book this could have been in what I was reading, and I wanted that: rich in detail, full of context, asking me to care about the characters because the story made them fully alive, not just because they were barreling toward the inevitable conclusion.
