📖 Story: 4/5
❤️🔥 Characters: 4/5
🌶️ Spice Level: 4.5/5
🔁 Re-read?: yes
⏭️ Next book?: yes
Loving the covers!!! Even though the book has nothing to do with chess 😝
This series was really good! Dear did not disappoint. I enjoyed the plot, even if certain parts were predictable. I'm honestly sad it's over, which is somewhat unusual for me, since not all the books I read make me attached to the characters. I will say, I am most attached to Frankie from this series. Yeah the guys are hot and all but...FRANKIE MY LOVEEEEE
As usual, my reviews tend to focus on the negative things. I don't think I've ever explained that...Basically, I find it easier to write about all the negative parts of the book, because my logic is that if I write about all the bad stuff, then everything else was (really) good! And, like in this case, the bad stuff isn't really horrible! Some of it is pet peeves, some of it is repetition, but, in general, there isn't anything straight up horrible.
So, small review = the book is great! Long review = book needs work.. Because the length of the review is dependant on the amount of bad stuff.
Okay! Let's get into it. Keep in mind this will defo be a reread.
- The men: Typical personalities
- Bennett: business and tough guy, under daddy's thumb, good boy but reluctant --> also last to give in (though arguably first)
- Noah: nerdish and kind/sensitive, kinda hidden dom
- Zach: rebel-like, charismatic and flirt, does what mommy tells him to, but with a little pushback
- Overuse of "baby girl" by Zach --> I swear he barely used her name in the second book 😤
- Bennett was really an asshole. I swear I would have junk punched him sooner rather than later.
- Bennett has a big dick. we get it. can we move on? holy cringeeeee (when its repeated like 50x times)
"His dick is going to break me apart."
They're all psychopaths. all of them, even max and frankie. But hey, I'm not complaining. It adds personality 😈
"Why are we always fucking in front of the bodies of people we’ve killed, Bennett?"
- "Cooed" in sex scenes. whyyyyyyyy?? noooooooo!!!!
- I like dark romance, okay? i do! but i didn't need this reminder
"I lost myself to him in that shitty office for several blissful minutes, the smell of blood and piss permeating the air around us, which only made me harder because it was the result of Frankie Fingers in action."
- Did the bonus scenes ever meet an editor?... just a question...
- Not sure if its just me or a plot hole but i spent the entire book thinking they were in the same year, only finding out they were the year above her during the epilogue
- weird how chapter 10 of book 3.5 ( and i never really found it a problem in other chapters/books) starts off with summarizing the events of the previous chapter (frankie's pov) from max's pov.
- hate this from Book 3.5: Breed me -- in mm (and mf) --> what are you? a cow? nuh-uh you're a badass.
OKAY - almost done!!
I wanted to highlight this:
You expect me to believe these 3 loved her - forever and always- but barely did jack when she was nearly raped, assalted and killed --- like they only cared when they found out her true identity??? BASTARDS!! LIKE HOLY RED FLAG!! I chose to ignore this completely. BUT WHAT THE ACTUAL SHIT? because, more than their actions, I'm pissed that she didn't actually call them out on that. Like she should have stood up and told them where to stick it, once she revealed her identity.
ONE LAST QUOTE
"Depravity ran in our family." - frankie
amen frankie amen -- in the sweetest and most lovable way possible the whole lot of you are psychos ❤
yes yes i know i said the longer the review the worse the book, but I used quotes this time!! AND I wanted to specify my review style and the good shit from this book! Also the image just takes up so much space....
besides - the bad stuff is mostly nit-picky!