🔥🔥🔥 chemistry, insta-love — needs some info added
Part of a series comprised of stand-alone stories, written by various authors, linked through an auction where virgins voluntarily place themselves up for bid to millionaires and billionaires. The stories feature humans, shifters, and aliens that coexist within the same series thanks to the ringleader of the auction, Coco St. James.
** If you have not read the story, the following may contains spoilers, but hopefully only enough to adequately explain my opinion and/or to support my rating. **
⛔️ Contains subject matter that may be a trigger or offensive to sensitive readers, such as: adult language; derogatory terms; mental health challenges of depression, anxiety, etc.; steamy adult intimate scenes with elements of dominance, submission, etc.; violence with fighting, threats, betrayal, blackmail, death / murder, etc.
Another fast read. I love the dichotomy between the various stories. For instance, in the previous two stories we had basically a goth heroine paired with an alien hero complete with claws and tusks. Followed by a strait-laced good girl and a mountain man. Fast forward to this story with an innocent librarian of ancient tombs and a Kodiak bear shifter. The story needs some additional information and background on Ava. Such as:
— What happened in the four months between the phone call and auction? There is a brief recap, but that could be used to further demonstrate her introverted nature.
— What happened with her family? The mention made of them just reinforced the lack of information, and why something should have been provided.
This is the type of detail that makes a story come to life and the characters more believable. Yes, this is a novelette in a series that has shifters and aliens … but I still want a well-rounded story.
I mention the following for readers such as myself that visualize a story as it is read, because errors interrupt the flow. There are a few grammatical errors with incorrect punctuation with missing commas. I uploaded my notes to goodreads for anyone interested.