Will our dashing heroine save herself, her love(s) and the whole world or will she in a completely unexpected turn of events perish in the attempt and thus turn against herself the whole reading community? Find out cause it's totally unclear what will happen!
Modern marketing, right? *sigh* Making your reading experience as consumerist, repetitive and machine-manufactured as possible. And since saying this at the end one of the book was just not obvious enough - let's put the same question at the end of each blurb! It'll make them so much more enticing and original!
All right, sarcasm over.
Let's talk about why I am still reading this series. Like, really, why?
Well, I always say what a tough-cooking-cookie I am,. Like, so ready to strike with a scalding remark and uncompromisingly reject books I don't like. Sometimes a bad cover is all it takes. Or it can be a badly written blurb. Sometimes it's the right review at the right time. Or it can be the first chapter. A chapter? I can reject a book based on the first page. And no kidding, I have rejected books based on their first sentence. Yes. Judge if you can and want. I am a tough cookie. Not some moist, fluffy muffin.
But then... then there are the moods. Because yes, I can be so picky I'd just stop reading because nothing's doing it for me. But for all those times, there are also times I open a book, conclude it's... well, not the brightest tool in the shed or even on that particular wall and yet... I don't stop reading.
I have low tolerance for bs. Except when I don't. This, yeah... this is one of those cases.
I actually read a book before from this author. Must be the reason I had book in my kindle in the first place. Was checking out the offers and just told myself: free book? Well, no harm in trying, right?
I explained what the other book felt like to me already in my other review. It was also RH and they were also shifters except she was way younger. This one is, thankfully, different. Well, for the most part. There is another version of this.
It's the whole wish-fulfillment fantasy trope. Which might be made up term but wtr. It uses some basic psychological principles to make the readers like it, like the book - so it's shallow, maybe... but also effective.
It works like this. Remember that annoying guy in your class? You have controlling parents? Or just a professor that harasses you? Well, imagine him somewhere else. Imagine yourself being just a little bit different... a slightly, maybe really better version of yourself. And write about it. And change it. Take control of the situation - take revenge - take the lead - take what you want and don't have in real life. It'll feel good. You'll feel good about it. And you won't be the only one. We people like our justice and, well, pettiness? We want to see the bad guys punished and the good guys win. Seeing a person getting hold of her environment and come up on top of her issues? Conquer her tormentors? It makes us happy. It satisfies that small but significant part of us that knows how it is to be on the wrong side of that equation and how good it would feel to fight back and win.
It's not necessarily even a bad thing. It's just... telling me something about this book. Not that I had many illusions - my mood is dependent on ignoring and acceptance, not blindness =D.
As I said, some elements are pretty cool, it's just the execution that makes me all "duh" about it. Even our, ehm, dashing ass-kicker is pretty good stuff. Not top shelf but she was made with some care. She can say no, she can say yes and she can say them in the right places, for the most part. That's not something you can always say about a girl surrounded by that many guys and that many bad situations.
Another positive thing I can say is that I already finished the third book and, spoiler, there was only one sex scene. And this is RH. So, go girl! Girl power! You're more than your body! *whistles*
I still can't get myself to really like it but maybe because of my mood, I am still reading. Even if she's turning out to be a way too special unique Snowflake Princess with capital S And P. So the part when I recommend the book will be missing. Is this a good book? It's decent enough. Should you read it? Only if you have different tastes =D.