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Generational Payment: Couples & Crime Book One
It seems fate brought them together for a reason when Scarlette Langella and Tyler O’Brien meet again after their one-night stand and discover they’re connected by more than just burning-hot both their families are part of a generations-old blackmail threat.
While exploring their fiery romance, they uncover long-buried family secrets and the origins of the blackmail scheme dating back to the Roaring Twenties.
But the clock is ticking and the blackmailers will stop at nothing – not even murder – to prevent the couple from revealing the truth.
Amidst all this, Scarlette’s stalker shows himself, and everyone asks themselves the same what's his part in the recent events?
Will Scarlette and Tyler succeed in putting an end to the threats to their families? Or will they become the next victims of this web of deceit and danger?
Debut author Lyv Lamere’s Generational Payment kicks off the new steamy instalove trilogy Couples & Crime , where mystery mingles with romance to create stories full of passion and intrigue – in more ways than one.
While exploring their fiery romance, they uncover long-buried family secrets and the origins of the blackmail scheme dating back to the Roaring Twenties.
But the clock is ticking and the blackmailers will stop at nothing – not even murder – to prevent the couple from revealing the truth.
Amidst all this, Scarlette’s stalker shows himself, and everyone asks themselves the same what's his part in the recent events?
Will Scarlette and Tyler succeed in putting an end to the threats to their families? Or will they become the next victims of this web of deceit and danger?
Debut author Lyv Lamere’s Generational Payment kicks off the new steamy instalove trilogy Couples & Crime , where mystery mingles with romance to create stories full of passion and intrigue – in more ways than one.
324 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 8, 2023
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Lyv Lamere
3 books1 followerLyv Lamere grew up in Germany and still lives there with her husband and her snake, even though they might relocate in the future.
Lyv successfully studied veterinary medicine and worked at a laboratory before following her other interest, which had her working as a contractor in the tech industry for several years.
One day she found she had developed yet another passion – writing – and her first novel was completed sooner than expected.
Today she continues writing and hopes to bring a smile to people’s faces with her stories.
Preferring to write in English, she's signed with the American publisher Tuxtails Publishing in March 2023 and her first novel Generational Payment hit the shelves in August 2023.
Lyv successfully studied veterinary medicine and worked at a laboratory before following her other interest, which had her working as a contractor in the tech industry for several years.
One day she found she had developed yet another passion – writing – and her first novel was completed sooner than expected.
Today she continues writing and hopes to bring a smile to people’s faces with her stories.
Preferring to write in English, she's signed with the American publisher Tuxtails Publishing in March 2023 and her first novel Generational Payment hit the shelves in August 2023.
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August 8, 2023I’ll start this off with an apology, this was sent as an ARC which I always feel guilty to critique, I want to love them all, but that’s not always possible. For this one as well, I’m genuinely not sure how much of this is a me problem, and not with the book.
If I’d known more what to expect I would have already known I wouldn’t enjoy this book, but it surprised me and very much was not what I imagined. I also don’t want to say too much on it as I couldn’t actually read it properly, I read the first 40% and then skim read or skipped bits until the end. So this may get better at some point and I just missed it.
The writing is good but it just didn’t seem to have any spark of life or personality in it for me, I didn’t like or care for the characters at all. I also just didn’t feel like there was any chemistry or suspense to their relationship, it felt like an old married couple right from their first meeting, or probably more accurately just like long time friends.
It was not what I expected at all, I hadn’t reread the synopsis when I picked up this book, and I ended up so confused.
From the cover it looks like the silhouettes of 2 women so I expected an LGBT relationship. The plot and characters are also not explained at all, so without going back to the blurb or the letters they receive, I wouldn’t have known what the point of the book was.
The cover is just so gorgeous, but I think it gives very different assumptions compared to what the book actually is.
There’s just not enough plot, action or twists for me personally, no complications or grit, I didn’t get on with it at all and found it boring. I didn’t really care about the characters or mystery. The letters and mystery also just seemed strange, not very realistic or interesting. Perspective is also all over the place, which I don’t like, it all comes on very strong to start with, throws you in at the deep end with their insta-relationship and instant spice… but then for me just fizzled out.
I found it difficult to get into, the pacing feels off and confusing, very much like I just opened up the second book without reading the first.
It wasn’t for me.
If I’d known more what to expect I would have already known I wouldn’t enjoy this book, but it surprised me and very much was not what I imagined. I also don’t want to say too much on it as I couldn’t actually read it properly, I read the first 40% and then skim read or skipped bits until the end. So this may get better at some point and I just missed it.
The writing is good but it just didn’t seem to have any spark of life or personality in it for me, I didn’t like or care for the characters at all. I also just didn’t feel like there was any chemistry or suspense to their relationship, it felt like an old married couple right from their first meeting, or probably more accurately just like long time friends.
It was not what I expected at all, I hadn’t reread the synopsis when I picked up this book, and I ended up so confused.
From the cover it looks like the silhouettes of 2 women so I expected an LGBT relationship. The plot and characters are also not explained at all, so without going back to the blurb or the letters they receive, I wouldn’t have known what the point of the book was.
The cover is just so gorgeous, but I think it gives very different assumptions compared to what the book actually is.
There’s just not enough plot, action or twists for me personally, no complications or grit, I didn’t get on with it at all and found it boring. I didn’t really care about the characters or mystery. The letters and mystery also just seemed strange, not very realistic or interesting. Perspective is also all over the place, which I don’t like, it all comes on very strong to start with, throws you in at the deep end with their insta-relationship and instant spice… but then for me just fizzled out.
I found it difficult to get into, the pacing feels off and confusing, very much like I just opened up the second book without reading the first.
It wasn’t for me.
July 31, 2023
2 ⭐️
This is one of the first arcs I’ve ever reviewed and I was super excited to do so.
I want to start off by saying that if this book was just the mystery it would have been a 3 star at least for me. I really enjoyed the aspects of the book that followed the blackmail scheme and was deeply invested in how that unfolded.
This book is told in 3rd person omniscient which is never my favourite, but that’s a personal preference.
I also know this book was advertised as instalove but this book was too instalove for me. What I mean is this couple had no conflicts within the actual relationship, they never really got a test in the strength of their relationship it was just a given from the beginning and it never really expanded from there. I’m a huge fan of romance and in the right context I do love an instalove story but this book seemed long enough that they could’ve explored some conflict that would’ve made the relationship more three-dimensional.
All that being said I did really enjoy the actual mystery aspect of it. I will try not to give anything away but my favourite chapters were the ones from the perspective of the perpetrator.
All in all, personally, this book as a whole isn’t for me.
This is one of the first arcs I’ve ever reviewed and I was super excited to do so.
I want to start off by saying that if this book was just the mystery it would have been a 3 star at least for me. I really enjoyed the aspects of the book that followed the blackmail scheme and was deeply invested in how that unfolded.
This book is told in 3rd person omniscient which is never my favourite, but that’s a personal preference.
I also know this book was advertised as instalove but this book was too instalove for me. What I mean is this couple had no conflicts within the actual relationship, they never really got a test in the strength of their relationship it was just a given from the beginning and it never really expanded from there. I’m a huge fan of romance and in the right context I do love an instalove story but this book seemed long enough that they could’ve explored some conflict that would’ve made the relationship more three-dimensional.
All that being said I did really enjoy the actual mystery aspect of it. I will try not to give anything away but my favourite chapters were the ones from the perspective of the perpetrator.
All in all, personally, this book as a whole isn’t for me.
August 14, 2023
This is Instalove and Mystery in one book. While Instalove is not usually my thing, it leaves a lot more room for the mystery and I love it. I am so happy there is no relationship drama. The two main characters are a great couple and I love their humor. And if you found nothing LGBTQIA+ in this book, I guess you didn’t read it. 😉
The book is well written, I don’t see any logic errors, typos or grammatical errors. It is written from third person point of view, but it switches from whose point of view it is. I feel like the author is letting us in on all the character's thoughts exactly when we are supposed to, but you always know which character's thoughts you are currently reading about.
The drama free relationship and the new reading perspective makes this different to me and I love it!
I read this book in go and I really hope the second book in this series will be published soon.
The book is well written, I don’t see any logic errors, typos or grammatical errors. It is written from third person point of view, but it switches from whose point of view it is. I feel like the author is letting us in on all the character's thoughts exactly when we are supposed to, but you always know which character's thoughts you are currently reading about.
The drama free relationship and the new reading perspective makes this different to me and I love it!
I read this book in go and I really hope the second book in this series will be published soon.
July 2, 2024
Interesting meet cute!
Romance and mystery are the main themes of Generational Payment and an inventive meet cute sets the stage. Like spice? There’s plenty. Enjoy exercising your inner sleuth? You’ll get quite the workout! Lamere balances it all out with meaningful characters you can’t help but root for.
Romance and mystery are the main themes of Generational Payment and an inventive meet cute sets the stage. Like spice? There’s plenty. Enjoy exercising your inner sleuth? You’ll get quite the workout! Lamere balances it all out with meaningful characters you can’t help but root for.
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