A SOLID 3.5 STARS! #myhighexpectations
Am I alone in this...or did anyone feel this wasn't hot and heavy enough? Like the sensual scenes were only a simple brush against the skin....I WANTED MORRRR!!! Anyways, maybe I'm the odd one out but, I felt the lack of kisses in it, at least those that really made my toes curled. THE ENTIRE STORY LACKED REAL INTIMACY that I have come to appreciate in Omegaverse stories. Heck, the knotting and kissing were so vaguely detailed....it didn't feel...PERFECT. Certainly not the panty melting type you'd expect.
QUINN frustrated (annoyed) me to no end in the beginning. She was PARANOIA in the flesh. I could argue for her sake that given the way her parents died and how she's been conditioned to treat everyone as "out to get her" for the big secret she's protecting...it made her rather annoying. The first time she straight out accused KIERAN, I was like WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS COMING FROM? And then okay, I can accept that given her decades in the Bariloche sector where Omegas are abused and her already paranoid mind, no wonder she'd CRY RAPE the moment KIERAN finds her 100 years later. Just in case you're wondering, the book started off great and then plummeted. I was intrigued, and I anticipated the chemistry and yes, the seggs between the MCs, but I was left...wanting. Terribly so. There was overwhelming MISTRUST, JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS and PARANOIA that it didn't leave much room for a natural relationship to form between Quinn and Kieran. One moment she's accusing him of something he hasn't done, and then later he's reciprocating by not trusting her at all. Tell me, where does that leaves us?
Sure, there's always two sides of a coin to a character's persona, and Quinn and Kieran aren't bad in any way but they have their faults - ones I believed dominated the story to the point where I found myself unable to immerse into their love story or lack thereof. ZERO TRUST just slaps me repeatedly in the face.
KIERAN was supposed to be older and wise, and in some ways I really liked that he was IMMENSELY PATIENT (and the mature one) with Quinn even after all the accusations and mistrust she hurled upon him. And let's not forget that she roped him into becoming her mate in the first place. Technically this entire mess started with Quinn prepositioning Kieran 100 years ago, before she fled and he's been hunting her since. For all his "I don't want a mate" behaviour, it didn't take too long for him to develop an attachment to Quinn despite them being strangers. Other than that, he's protective, possessive (I wish it showed more), and he's apparently good in bed, and I believe Quinn's his first real kiss.
OVERALL I've always appreciated Lexi C.Foss's stories, and an Omegaverse? Naturally, I'm not going to pass it up! I'm looking forward to the next few installations to the series, because it seems there are 2 more couples and the setting has been laid out for them over here. Super excited! My thoughts on this book are solely my own. Maybe I'm being too nitpicky but, seriously I was expecting something MORE passionate, and MORE intimacy, basically MORE MORE. Sighss.
PS : Personally I think X-Clan series still tops this first book.