Found family with a mix of defy your destiny. The latter not focused upon as much as it might seem it should be. Mauja loses her kids and gains a new Found family with a mix of defy your destiny. The latter not focused upon as much as it might seem it should be. Mauja loses her kids and gains a new kid in the form of a cheetah. The start and middle are strong, but the end feels saccharine and just there as a closer. It works, but it feels like it's full of what ifs and maybes.
I don't hate this book but I feel like it was a struggle and it really does show within the writing. The characters are solid, very animalistic. They don't shed tears nor emote a terrible lot, instead they move and breathe like animals do.
The start is the strongest part and I enjoy rereading it the most.
No no no goes to calmly announcing she's pregnant at twenty-one. The mood is extremely whiplash-inducing. She's horrified to be pregnant, then announcNo no no goes to calmly announcing she's pregnant at twenty-one. The mood is extremely whiplash-inducing. She's horrified to be pregnant, then announces it calmly, her Mom is so excited she's pregnant "at twenty-one" and then lashes out and might kick her out when she finds out it's not the guy's kid she thinks it is. Like a baby can get the relationship back together with a man she likes who cheated on her daughter. Priorities, I guess.
"That's it, you dare disrespect me in my house?" Nobody talks like that, fam.
"I don't want to be seen with someone who opens her legs for just anyone." That's your daughter, ma'am.
'I sat down on the cheap couch, the cushion barely sinking as I sat down.' Why do so many of these books have an echo?
"How did all this happen then?" "Let's go back seven weeks." You mean back to seven weeks ago? You mean it happened seven weeks ago? It's not clear but then a flashback happens and that's supposed to clear it up, but it really doesn't feel like it clears anything up.
"I unconsciously ran my hand over the muscles under the damp shirt." And sexual assault groping in public after spilling a drink on a man who has dark curls and dark eyes. No man is gonna be going after someone who spills a drink upon them then gropes them.
"You like being praised?" You two are in a public place. That's not normal talk. The background of a busy restaurant where a guy flirts with a chef or waitress and nobody at all is stopping him or her from their flirty talk and sexual groping makes no sense. Then he puts her on the counter and spreads her legs. Then he kisses her and has sex with her. How the fuck is this happening even in the back room of the place? People walk through there! Co-workers are going in and out of the doors.
"He is the best guy I've had, I know there's only been three." Uh-huh. "It wasn't me but I wanted revenge." Rad. Just petty bullshit revenge for shiggles in a place with clients and people eating there.
Time skip happens then from nowhere, the child is named Sebastian Stylus Reid(I'm not going to bother spelling it right), which is somehow named after her Dad but also pretentious energy giving her name is Amara. Sebastian is obsessed with his velcro shoes which is the most believable part of the book.
She gets to a penthouse and quickly hopes there are no cartel members involved. Well then. Odd. Of course this rich billionaire cannot remember a woman he slept with three years ago but she seems to relish this and want to ruin it as well. Every goddamn time in audiobook, a new chapter starts, it goes "Tilda, Tilda, Tilda" Because tilde is pronounced funny in this.
2 stars. Someone please get this author a beta reader and editor....more
Honestly the audiobook helps but why is everything repeated? She'll say a very simple word like "Bambino" or "amigo" which we can sus out the meaning Honestly the audiobook helps but why is everything repeated? She'll say a very simple word like "Bambino" or "amigo" which we can sus out the meaning of and follow it with "baby" and "friend". While this is helpful for sentences sometimes, it is done every time.
"I sighed in defeat when he played the Genevieve's Mom is dead card." Bruh. That's not a card. It's a fact. She's lost her mother and needs help for her wedding.
Klawde's parts are the best part of this book the human half of the chapters are just boring kid teenager drama. With a mixture of unrealisticness. I Klawde's parts are the best part of this book the human half of the chapters are just boring kid teenager drama. With a mixture of unrealisticness. I know saying that when there's an evil alien warlord cat sounds a little bit harsh but nobody cares about drones and fart noises why does much as a vicious cat who wants to do wars and battles to the death. The twist ending was pretty obvious but I really enjoyed the cats in the kittens and just how dynamic they were and how obvious it is they're actually cats. A cat's loyalty varies here and there and these cats definitely varied. I do find the comic book character in the comic book interest to be boring this book was lackluster and a lot of areas but mostly in the topics the teenagers talked about. I love the idea of the water robot but I didn't care about the rest of it.
3.5 stars, very floofee and flawde but fun....more
Horror erotica always confuses me by not ever matching up to those two words.
"To anyone who has ever questioned your sexuality, this book is for you."Horror erotica always confuses me by not ever matching up to those two words.
"To anyone who has ever questioned your sexuality, this book is for you." Perry, no thank you. I don't want incest and homophobia and rapist serial killers. That doesn't help anyone.
"This book is not for those under the legal age" what wack attempt at 18+ content wording is this?
This guy can see in the dark and he's so good at it he's able to see his prey's nail polish in the dark woods. Then he catches his prey and licks her tears up. Then Susan gets Susan's.
Homophobia follows the prologue. It's very stereotyped and basic bitch stuff. Nothing creative. She storms out from her dad's homophobic rhetoric to go out to a party and then do drugs. Cool. Good idea.
"I'm tempted to lick her finger." Don't know why that line made me giggle.
Fingerbanging in the public bathroom is ew. I can't stop imagining how gross that is. I'm not focused on the chloroform but instead those nasty toilets.
"Sharp pain shoots through my rectum." She's on an anal hook. Interesting choice, Alex.
Oh hey, another tear licked up.
"My nipples peddle." What??? Peddle. Peddle. You mean pebble?
He scoops up his jizz and her oozng vagina blood from inside her hole and draws a butterfly on her belly button because sexy? I'm not sure. I don't even dare call him by his name because why bother with that. He's just SK for serial killer now. Because he reduces her to Butterfly. SK keeps talking to his likely dead brother and that repeats twice.
"I'm holding in my breath so hard I can't breathe." Who fucking edited this tripe? Fire them. "Money was tight but not tighter than the grip of lunacy."
Alex is lusting over Victorious' main character when his Mom jerks him off. What? Writer did you just Grande this shit then follow up with incest?
"Tell me your dirty little pussy wants me to eat it." Ew. That's not hot.
"Alex is beautifully broken." Girl, he's a serial killer.
While eaten out and fingered, Alex somehow uses his free hand to brand an A onto her stomach. His head is below a hot knife and his fingers inside her. How does that line up?
Forced title drop which feels so roughly inserted it might as well be the anal hook. She gets mad SK is an sk. He's a serial killer my dude.
Definitely not an LGBT book. Nothing was LGBT positive in this. It was extremely LGBT negative in fact.
The parents commit suicide because the Dad has cancer and decided it wasn't getting better and to go out on his Man this book is a slope into madness.
The parents commit suicide because the Dad has cancer and decided it wasn't getting better and to go out on his own terms and the wife went with him because she had nothing to live for. Certainly not her child. The child had no idea about the cancer over the many years of treatment. Somehow they hid all of that treatment from her.
The father also hated his brother, Jake and yet leaves his daughter to Jake in the inheritance.
Tiernan sees her uncle and immediately thinks he's hot. He flirts with her then goes "just kidding, unless". My dude that's your niece!
He buys her a bag of candy in a candy store. Ah yes, candy from your creepy Uncle, good.
That's the first twenty-seven pages and we're off to a great start. The incest is not bothering me as much as her not being eighteen and this book focusing on her in highschool and such. It really wants us to remember she's a young teenage girl. Maybe she could have been twenty years old and this would read better.
Uncle Jake repeatedly can't decide if he wants to fuck her or throw her away. Nor his kids. Totally a healthy family. Most of them belong in prison and the ones who don't are still trying to get with their cousin/niece while she's still underage!
If she was in her twenties this would be so much more stomachable.
There's sexual assault and consent is thrown out of the window straight into hell. So Tieran trapped with these men gets violated and raped and blames herself and then emphasizes with the incest while partly encouraging it. Ew.
"They're my family. I was trapped with them, shit happened." Incest grooming shit ain't supposed to happen!
2 stars. Honestly it was so unrealistic I just laughed more than I got angry....more
B. I wish it didn't end on another cliffhanger. This is the second time, Crowe!
Seriously, stop torturing your audience. A. I wish there was less smut.
B. I wish it didn't end on another cliffhanger. This is the second time, Crowe!
Seriously, stop torturing your audience. The abuse of cliffhangers cannot save how bad these books are. It's exactly what readers don't want in books. A book should wrap up instead of reading like one book split into multiple parts. Anyone reading this, take my words to heart.
Everyone in this book series is young, dumb, and full of cum. Squicky. Thanks, I hate it. I don't like the use of "freshly eighteen" either but that's the book.
I'm not sure if my brain can stop thinking about how Peter dicks down each member in this family so he's had an indirect sexual situation where his dick has been in their mom's and grandmother's vaginas and that's just weird. Really fucking weird.
One of the Lost Boys mentions fish having anal fins and they all get excessively horny over it.
A fairy gets hurt and might die of blood loss and the only cure is believing in fairies... Winnie you're surrounded by babyfaced idiots.
"I could use that sweet wrapped around my meat." Charming. "Now I'm not so sure any wet cunt will do." Man oh man. I love all of these misogynistic boys. Truly they respect their women.
"She'll checkmate your ass before you even realize you're sitting on the board." She's a powerless woman, since when has Winnie had that power?
"The rage that burbles up my throat enveloped by rage short and sharp." That's not what burbles means. You mean bubbles or boils.
"My stomach is full of wings and my pussy is throbbing."
"Yes, Pan." "Yes what?" "Yes, King." Then he spits on her.
"Peter Pan dripping down my thighs."
I'm aware this review is devolving into mostly quotes at times but I have to share some of this content with everyone. It's hard to believe it's real.
"I'm cold inside, I want to feel warm."
The Dark One's island is called... Darkland. Ugh. Exhaustingly clever. That lagoon with spirits in it is more interesting. Also the shadow is a rapist and that's foreshadowing for the shadow. Yes, I hated typing this.
"Wendy Darling never went home." "Shut the fuck up." Vane snapped. The most valid interaction so far.
Wendy instead went to Everland.
Vane when he's overwhelmed by his shadow has his hair turn white and his eye turn black. Which I don't like. This book is already so much edge and we're teetering over that edge.
"His phantom limb aches with the memory." Hook has BID now? Ghost limb issues? Since when? Please elaborate on since when. Smee is a girl named Samera. Uh. Hm. I don't know about that.
This book has only boners, no plots, no concept of plots. It blew it's load every other chapter and took away the safe word.
1 star. Vane is vain and Winnie is a dumbass called a whore who proves she's not a whore by having sex with all of the Lost Boys....more
Warning for mentioning mental illness making someone a villain, necrophilia, and antisemitism which I will be mentioning in my review. If that turns yWarning for mentioning mental illness making someone a villain, necrophilia, and antisemitism which I will be mentioning in my review. If that turns you off from this book than I have saved you from that disgusting surprise.
The synopsis was everything I could want. A horror carnival kind of energy, coming every Halloween. So perfect and titillating. I was hooked on that idea.
So how did it let me down?
I don't like the women all being childlike and getting fucked with such focus on how childlike they are. I like my woman as adults and there's a lot of content that needed to be written more maturely.
Especially since the main girl, Sibby, who //thinks// she might be twenty but doesn't know. Um. She could be a child! She definitely talks like one. Sibby is either underaged or she's mentally handicapped and incapable of consent. Yikes on trikes. Not that she's like an alt-right Harley Quinn who has sex with corpses. She talks like a child always saying oopsy and whoopsy and ouchy. Always saying cock and meat and giggling. She's clearly mentally unstable and unwell. A normal killer is not this childish or horny.
She also over explains and repeats herself like we can't keep track from one chapter to another.
I also didn't enjoy the Nightmare on Elm Street song being sung in a book makes me roll my eyes. Or maybe it's a Five Nights at Freddy's reference. It's stupid and repeated too often.
Then there's loads of referenced child abuse and CSA as a reason certain people there are so "quirky" which is the last thing I need for a freak show. A bunch of victims and disfigured people are oddball freaks. How lovely.
How many times they say "he's a mute" and disregard people who can't talk or see is brutal. Nonverbal and mute are separate things but author doesn't understand that or anything else.
One of them was used as a child for fellatio and is mocked for hating things put in his mouth. Except Sibby's parts because she's inconsiderate and a rapist.
Sibby is revealed to have seventeen siblings. How the f-
Romanians with hooked noses are insulated and I'm not sure why. Like the particular one attacked is her Dad who she's got features of. This isn't the first time though so it feels like a reoccurring trash fire of antisemitism.
Good people smell like flowers and bad people smell like rot in this book. Except Zade. Zade doesn't smell like rot so he's not a bad person but he does smell like brimstone which smells of sulfur. Sulfur smells like rotten eggs and rot. How the hell?! Please authors check your scents out. Learn the smells you are describing because this isn't an isolated incident.
Sibby gets sex to the point her "tummy bloats from the fullness". S T O P. Infantilizing her is gross and having her say words like tummy during sex is not hard. During this she's covered in necrophilia corpse remains and getting fucked. Ew.
Strumming is used during her crotch rubbed.
A bunch of rich, white, Republicans decide to enter the fair because I don't know. Creepypasta Jeff the Killer reasons. So Sibby needs to go kill all of these pedophiles who just so happened to wander into her lair.
Sibby says death is the best thing that could happen to an abuse victim who dealt with extreme SA. Thanks, Carlton.
Senator man spotted, I hope Sibby doesn't necro this one.
0.5 stars, Satan himself wants his name removed from this book....more
The author definitely knows their ages of consent in all states and what age gaps are legal. That's a yikes. People who have the Romeo and Juliet lawsThe author definitely knows their ages of consent in all states and what age gaps are legal. That's a yikes. People who have the Romeo and Juliet laws memorized are scary to me.
I now realize this is labeled as #1 meaning there's going to be more books in this series and I don't know why I keep on seeing things through when it can only get worse than this.
Gives me Jacob on Renesme energy and I don't remember asking for that. That one werewolf in Twilight who is having a tea party with a toddler that's his mate once she reaches eighteen is the exact energy of this book.
Now knowing that, I'm not about to stop where I am which is partway through. So I kept going. Maybe this is a horror and she'll escape her godfather and Uncle Torren who has been enamored with her since she was little.
No.
They're not related but it doesn't change the fact that he's imagining her as a kid while touching himself and remembering her birth. The fuck? Ew. It would be a little less quick if he didn't keep remembering her as a BABY.
He preordered his bride in simple words.
This book is an exercise in not gagging or feeling threatened. He's pining for a child and admits when she is fifteen, he's been pining for years! What was she, eight? Seven? Five? When it started? Fifteen is extremely young!
On top of that we get flashbacks of her when she's eight or seven which makes me think he was after that child and is pretending to be surprised by it. Faking surprise but secretly planning this all along.
He's written like he's not in the wrong. At least Lolita can make the predator obviously in the wrong and readers don't side with the nonce in it. Torn wants us to side with the nonce and see it as romantic.
They don't even have chemistry beyond the obvious EW.
1.5 stars. Could have been a great horror instead of a ""romance""....more
This book goes from "I'm glad to have someone to share my pain with" to "I want to keep you as my property" withI had so much hope this would be good.
This book goes from "I'm glad to have someone to share my pain with" to "I want to keep you as my property" with too many steps skipped over. A little less zero to a hundred and more twenty-five to a hundred. It almost works if you squint.
Agnes tells her mother she's gay in a funny way while a fruit peeler is passed around.
I don't really care about the big part of the book dedicated to "what have you done today to deserve your eyes" where Agnes focuses on her eyes and not her other senses or maybe a working tongue, teeth that are healthy, hands, ears, a nose, any of that? Just her eyes. It's a really fucked up mentality but okay.
In so many words. 'My Mom found out I'm gay and this apple peeler is a family heirloom to remind me of her disowning me' is such a wild plot.
Now after that we find out the objective of girl who doesn't matter, Zoey, is to dominate someone else and treat them like a sex puppy. Ew. Then she says like a mother with a child. EW. Stop making it worse.
This devolves into Zoey controlling when she can bathe, eat, what she can do. It's a devolving mess of shock and horror because why not do that? It's a disappointing unraveling of a book.
It could be horror if things were better paced but here it's certainly not. It's a bit of shock content but not the right amount.
Her name is Poppy and this is about bursting balloons and looners fetishes.
I can see right through that name and how bad of a pun it is. Moral of the Her name is Poppy and this is about bursting balloons and looners fetishes.
I can see right through that name and how bad of a pun it is. Moral of the introduction and early chapters is put water fountains by the tortoise exhibit. Those are tortoises not turtles author.
Balloon squeaking is a thing I didn't expect to have to imagine this early in the morning.
Sebastian and the other guy, Kean, who doesn't matter are balloons turned humans and their dicks need blown into to erect. Poppy is a tulpa master who can harness beings like Sebastian. And she's an omega in charge because I don't know. Alcohol abuse is required for this book.
Omegaverse and alpha talk bs wasn't needed.
2 stars. Would have been rated lower if I hadn't laughed and gotten invested....more
An overbloated cast and a world which is interesting but the story drags. No idea how, with a thousand pages, almost like sBeen there since the start.
An overbloated cast and a world which is interesting but the story drags. No idea how, with a thousand pages, almost like some of it could have been cut and nothing would be lost at all.
A disappointing ride and Lucy couldn't even save this massive book....more
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