I am so tired of monster romances that are churned out like an assembly line. No character development, no depth or genuine emotion, no world building. Just insert an immature, somewhat dumb, self-absorbed fmc, with multiple men who are obsessed with her for no apparent reason. Toss in some unique male anatomy, and publish!
Below is a slightly spoilerish random thoughts review…
It starts off promising. Ava, her mother and aunt are the ancestors of powerful witches.
As the saying goes, we were the daughters of the witches they couldn’t burn.
But Ava is terrified of everything. She squeaks, she shakes, she sobs, she runs into the dark woods alone, she leans on Caspian to be her rock. She must cling to his belly button since she is 5 foot 2 and he is 6 foot 5.
Speaking of Caspian, he is an up-and-coming, sexy beast of a rockstar. In fact, the only reason he became a rockstar is because he wants Ava to notice him. Whaaaaat?
Ava was everything. She was the reason I was in the band at all. I’d wanted her to see me. I wanted more of her attention.
He is her ex stepbrother, so I’m pretty sure he had her attention already. All those years as a teenager, when she was afraid of the dark and would crawl into his bed to snuggle.
This book starts off with Ava at one of Caspian’s concerts. A woman standing right next to Ava, takes her own life. The lack of empathy towards this person instantly colors what kind of character Ava is.
A great mystery that left devotees clinging to every potential scrap of information. (About his love life) So much so that no one was even talking about the girl who killed herself at his concert.
The media had also found out we were ex step siblings. The stupid picture of us was a huge deal. A talk show even argued about it.
Wow. Really? No one is talking about the woman whose blood covered both of you? The cell phone recordings aren’t plastered all over the internet? There is no police report, you weren’t questioned? Nothing more on this life-changing moment?
-Soooooo, that little impromptu concert in the woods? How did they get power to all their amps in the woods?
-Sex that feels like you’re at an obgyn appointment does not sound pleasurable. At. All. Buuuut the fmc likes painful sex so it’s ok. Her belly puffing up because of all the cum, reads like a Horvat book.
Ok, fine, I did like the praise kink.
-The two men/monsters are fighting about Ava, while his bandmates are being murdered?
-Now she’s letting this moth guy use his long feeler on her, because he thinks her genitalia looks like a flower?
I can’t believe I managed to finish this book.