Bella J

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout in exchange for an honest review.

Here is my opinion about it:

If you look at the dates on which I started and finished it, you can see it took me a pretty long damn time. And this was because I didn't enjoy it, but I was required to review it.

I'll skip the synopsis and go straight to what I did and didn't like.

The book started promising. I'm not going to lie. I liked the writing, and the hot scenes were definitely top level, so I read a hundred pages in less than a day. And then everything went downhill. The next part (till the penultimate chapter) was boring and uneventful, so respectively followed the fact that the book couldn't grab my attention, and I made myself read it. The last two chapters were on the level of the first few, and this is the reason I give this book 2 stars, instead of one.

The characters were bland and annoying, and I wanted to kill each of them at least a dozen times. Sienna was an act-hard girl, but she was actually a weak-ass barbie, and I only liked a few aspects of her personality. Noah, on the other hand, I hated. He seemed abusive at times and too selfish for my preferences. (I like my heroes broken and dark, but there was something off about him). The fact that we didn't get a whole scene of him tasting her is a sin in the romance genre

The only two characters I enjoyed were Sillas and Spencer, and their relationship reminded me of Crash and Eddie from Ice Age. I saw potential in Oakley to be a prominent character with lots of development, or the perfect villain, but the author just threw him in the bin - like she suddenly decided she should get rid of him. In his place came Andrew, who was also a decent character, and I would've loved to see more of him. But I didn't get what I wanted.

There were two things which made me hate the story, and I almost DNFed it. And they are the miscommunication between Noah and Siena, which drove me insane in the second part of the book; and the miraculous unexpected pregnancy. I hate them in my books, and I think people should put them as trigger warnings.

The end was... Well, for one I am glad it ended, cause the entire book was a disaster, but it also ended badly. Like how are we supposed to accept this is HEA when there are numerous people trying to kill him and his family. And I hated the choice they made.

The truth is, I don't see them as a healthy couple. They were always fighting, abusing each other, had no communication, and just were one toxic pair.

I didn't enjoy this book but don't let my OPINION stop you from reading it. I think there were a lot of things to change and lots of improvement needed. I found the recycled scenes (some appeared two times) lazy, and I wished I wasn't forced to read them twice … (altro)