Falling for My Enemy

dnf, skipped to end

I have so many negative things to say about this book, it's ridiculous.

The premise was good. The execution though? Nope. The characters started out good but the further in the book, the less I liked them. I love Sophie and Nora, sure, it was nice to see Everly too, but Hazel and Corban? NOPE.

Every sex scene is written from the perspective of a man. His desires, his thoughts and feelings are front and centre. I would really like to read it from the woman's perspective and to focus on her pleasure. Her feelings. Not shade to the author, but I really read better written smut scenes in fanfictions. And having 3 or 4 smut scenes in total (not in passing) doesn't make the book ‘hot'.

And all of the sex scenes (except the one oral scene I was surprised to see here) were very similar to the previous book, even if the setting was different, they followed the same structure: out of nowhere, doggy style, feral man having to own a woman and making her his, and god forbid of they look into each other's eyes, that would be the end of the world. Rough and fast, with no intimacy and tenderness that I like. Really, nothing against the author but all of these scenes are what I really dislike so no points from me here.

so (SPOILER) i HATE public proposals. Public declarations of love, if done right, are cool, but proposals? Hell no. And I dislike that every pair at the end needs to end up getting married and having kids. What if they decided children werwn't in their future? Also, I hate the fact that you need to download ‘bonus epilogues' if you want to see what's going on. In the first book at least, the bonus epilogue hinted at Hazel's story happening next, while this bonue epilogue focused on the domesticity of Hazel, Corban, and their 4 (hes, FOUR) children. And a smut scene at the end, because of course.

I didn't have high expectations about thias book and yet, none was met. Disappointed. The book is not bad per se, and some tropes are interesting, but that book's not for me. I hope the next one is better, though the words ‘the guy who bullied Sophie' don't inspire confidence.

2024 re-read
I just was not into this like at all. Almost DNF'd a few times. I did like 60% to 91-ish% but just a lot of skimming. Mostly because it felt like most the book was them thinking about the other and their conflicting feelings. I would have rather had an additional plot or more interactions between the two of them.
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Love Claire Kingsley, Love this series.
The leads are dorky nerds and I love it. Hilarious and entertaining – I'm so excited that more books in this series are planned ^_^