This is some OTT shiznet of epic proportions. Imagine every plot device strung together like an accordion being played by Sonic the Hedgehog. Insta everything. Outlandish, possessive, nutso personalities. MC club. Adoption. Bloody messes. Built-in family. Saving kids. The whole nine yards of 🌺🌈🍭… but in darker shades vs the usual pastels and neons of cutsie romances. I mean the FMC does glue her stalker’s dick to a table, okay. So, this isn’t a Sparks book… it’s what a Sparks book would be as a porn script, perhaps 🤔
Anyhoo.
This is quick, short, and easy reading with a juvenile feel to smut topics.
Some of it made me just stop and laugh my ass off at the absurdity.
It’s kinda like an Ace Ventura ambiance…. OTT for the theatrical impact. If big is good, then gigantic is better.
It will work well if you enjoy both the smutty and swoony troupes but don’t like an angsty plot …or really any plot at all other than the entertainment value of a scene.
For me, this is like ice cream with every topping in the book. The first couple of bites leave you in wild wonder, but those few bites is kinda all you can stomach before it gets nauseating.
Three comments for the author:
The prologue was completely 180 to the main book. From writing tone to subject matter. It sets the reader up to for some suspense or more mature tone when the main book isn’t that at all. The timeframe is also confusing since it’s “15 years earlier ,” but includes at least two different timeframes within the scenes. It’s long, too. Just my HO, but it’s unnecessary… actually hurtful if someone is buying/reading based on a sample only. Everything in that could’ve been condensed to a paragraph history reveal within the main book.
2. When impact words are used over and over and over, they lose their desired impact. Bitch, for example, in the bar fight scene. It’s said every other word to the point it becomes fucking annoying, and this is a comment from someone who drops fucks like a ho drops her thongs.
3. The reading stalls around the 60% mark. Without something of actual substance to anchor the story, it just feels like tits on Fat Tue - shock and awe dies after a dozen 👀.
Overall
It puts insta on crack. It puts overprotective and wild on steroids.
Note that I do not think you will get any sort of feel for the nature of this book by simply viewing the sample.
Creative glue job on OTT traits that many romance readers swoon over.
While this is like that overtopped ice cream for my personal tastes, I think this author has a lot of potential and raw talent that’s waiting for the right editing team to slow her down a bit, polish the writing up a smidge, and force an injection of PACING and plot arc into the crazy she builds very well. I could see this author hitting rom com gold if she continues to develop.