I have lots of thoughts about this series but I can't put it into words properly.

The reverse harem setup was done in a unique and interesting way that allows the author to believably pass by lots of the issues most RH struggles with like how the woman can believably develop feelings for all of them without looking like a bitch.
This is a prime example that you indeed can do RH in a really believable and enjoyable way and that it is worth holding the RH flood in general to a higher standard than it currently is.

Sadly, the final L-word acceptance seemed very forced and out of place to me despite not being insta-lovey at all. The series fell short at the final hurdle in this. The author stretches the whole antagonistic back and forth for so long that when she finally tries to resolve it, it just feels wrong.

Something similar happens with the worldbuilding. The more we know, the more it limps and in the end, it all feels much more clichée than I think it deserves because there is so much original stuff in here.
It's tragic really. Great mind with great ideas but she is just not able to properly finish any of them.

There are so many interesting and (at least to me) new ideas in this book especially at first that I very much enjoyed it but it really struggles to get them all under the same hat towards the end of the series.
Things start to fray at the edges and more and more obvious intervention by the author is necessary to keep it all together.
There is a lot of long term planning with a great payoff in some cases but at the same time, there are lots of plotholes between all these interesting and/or new things.

As a reader, you need to be willing to suspend disbelief in a big way especially towards the later books to properly enjoy it and I always struggle with that. I rarely was completely booted out of the story flow by contradictions but there was always one thing or another nagging at me.


Despite these shortcomings and all my complaining, I think this is a must-read for everyone that enjoys and want's to read this because of the RH aspect.
It is so different and unique that I think everyone should give it at least a try just to get a taste again of how much can be done in seemingly stale genres. ( )

Something about the story seems oddly familiar. But I'm not sure what it is. I don't think I've ever read it before. Well on to the next book. ( )

I love this series. Yes, this is the first book, but you absolutly have to read this entire series!

Lots of snark, love, laughs, action, adventure, sex, intrigue and even heart with a bit of sniffles!

I haven't said this anywhere but everytime I read this series I imagine the character Krysten Ritter played in that tv series "Don't Trust the B--- in Apartment 24A". I just kept seeing and hearing her in my head.

If you have seen this series, am I the only one who thinks this? ( )

Finished Reading August 15, 2021

2.75 Stars
This series is not for me.
I finished it because it was a BR in my group and I had the entire series.
The author wrote in many different pen names and I loved one of those series.
This one I didn't.
Very YA, very disjointed.
It's reverse harem.

April 2, 2020 Amz ( )

This one had elements I love and a few I don't so much hence it got 4 stars instead of 5.

So the stuff I don't like so much. This is full of supernatural beings mostly having to do with Hell. How do you win at anything when the actual devil is driving things? And also the heroes are some sort grim reapers but they are not sure themselves what they are. But they're trying to win some sort of competition so they can come and go in Hell and figure some stuff out. I guess the whole Hell angle is not a favored milieu for me so that tamps down a bit of my enjoyment.

BUT and it's a big but, I loved the heroine and the rest of the set up. She is an incorporeal being who knows nothing about herself except she is stuck haunting these 4 guys. She can't talk to them or appear to them or make them aware of her in anyway. She has spent those years building fantasies in her mind about how they would all be such friends (and lovers) if they could actually meet that when she finally does become apparent to them, although still incorporeal, and they turn out to not want her around she is devastated. There is a lovely bit of pathos here and her characterization is well done. She can't leave though because if she is not around them, she winks out. When they start getting attacked she feels compelled to protect them even when she's mad at them and disappointed.

So I will go on with the series and hope all the god/devil stuff begins to make sense. Although I will no doubt continue to wish the set up had been something other. ( )