This is like a cozy blanket on a cold winter night. It is sweet and cute, but it is not exceptionally great. Lucy Darlings stories repeat the same pattern, if you have read one or two her stories, you pretty much know every twist and turn before reading. But that's ok, sometimes we need comfy safe readings. Something that is familiar, sweet, safe and comforting. But even though I like her stories for those reasons, I won't give more stars because stories ARE so predictable, characters are too similiar and I wish there would be a little more complex plot (not much, but a little). Also characters personalities could have a little more variations, now they are like cloned from each others. Sometimes quirky and sharp-tongued sidecaharacters transformes to lamed version without own personality when they got their own story and become maincharacters.
One thing I appreciate is that in her stories men are not whoring aroung when women are saint Marys. There is double standards and hypocrisy in the books of so many other authors, where good women are supposed to be saintly virgins and men are allowed to be anything else. I really like that in Lucy Darling's stories there is no such doublestandards that smells like internalized misogyny.
Anyway, I do enjoy authors stories and I will read them in future too, when I am too exhausted to read anything too serious or challenging. Her stories are so sweet IF you like stories with obsessive insta love. There are always themes: insta love, obsessed maincharacters, she/he is the one and only, no other men or women, braking boundaries right away, inexperienced maincharacters, insta lust.