2★'s = it was ok.
So, I had some thoughts but first things first. I found out at the very end of the book that Angel Knots is also Stella Starling.
I AM SHOCKED BY THIS.
I’m pretty sure I really enjoyed the Stella Starling books I’ve read.
This one…I’m on the fence and kind of falling off on to the wrong side of things.
I don’t want to be too harsh, but I know I’m getting ready to go on a rant. There was a lot about this book that I could have really liked but by the end of the read, there was more of the story that I did not like. God I just want a fantastic Alpha/Omega book noooooooowwwwww!!!! Anyway.
This felt really, really, rrrrrreeeeeeeaaaaalllllyyyyy long to me. I’m a huge fan of long books but this just felt a lot like filler that didn’t benefit the story or move it on all that much.
I never got a good feel for either guy or any of the supporting characters. They all just seemed to have one emotion, they just felt flat.
But more than anything else, why did these guys want to be together? I get that Simon had a crush on his older sisters’ boyfriend, and I say boyfriend very lightly. This should have just been a family friend because really, it later sounded like maybe they had a date? If it was longer than that, gross, right? So yeah, how old was Simon then, underage at least. Now, it is seven years later, they have not even seen each other even once. This isn’t a longing from a far. Seeing each other at events and holidays, this is like I had a crush on this guy and then I never saw him again for SEVEN YEARS and I have no idea what he even is doing with his life. But still, I get more where Simon is coming from then I do Hunter. Underage and then gone, gone, gone. But now he is going to make him his. I really wanted to say mine there but not mine, definitely his. Is this just an Alpha/Omega thing? They don’t have to like anything else about each other? They don’t have to know anything about each other? Weird.
There was no conversation. From the get go if Hunter had just told him, hey, I have to work through a project at work and then I am coming for you it could have saved a lot of ridiculous grief. After that, they didn’t talk about anything and everything was a secret, secret, secret. Why wouldn’t you tell your mate that you had been offered a promotion, even if it wasn’t the one you necessarily wanted, you’d still talk about it. Then all the ridiculous drama of the ruining of lives blah, blah, blah. Ugh. It just was drama.
Sex education. Did these people not have any? Everyone seemed very clueless as to how the birds and the bees worked and if an Alphas job is to care for an Omega, they should know the ins and outs of birth control etc. Ridiculous.
And lastly, probably the biggest thing, my baby. This wasn’t used in a way that came across as sweet or romantic or even as a pet name really. Hunter called Simon his baby instead of using his name every single time he referenced him in the book. There had to have been a million my babies in the story and it read so odd!
Angel Knots can definitely write sex scenes though. These were on fire and done extremely well. Extremely.
I wish I had liked this better. I had high hopes for the story and the fact it was a series but man, I just don’t know if I’ll get to the others and it is a bummer because I definitely want to read Tristan's story. And Emmett's. I am unsure about Nolan.
This was just mostly an all-around bust for me.