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// The author is fucking around with these characters [for amusement??] and it’s one contrived thing after another JUST for the sake of drama, and it’s pissing me off like nobody’s business!!
Cheating and intrigue and homophobia and manipulation and WHAT THE FUCK!!!!

// Also ... There are no grey areas, either it’s cheating or it’s not and to make excuses for misunderstandings and whatnot ... it just doesn’t make sense anymore, NOT HERE AND NOT NOW!! To dismiss THIS instance perpetuates it, it perpetuates the pattern of cheating and makes it seem okay and IT IS NOT OKAY!! CHEATING IS NEVER OKAY!!!! It is NEVER fucking okay!!! I’m done!!!!

// HOLY FUCK!!! This is the last straw!! There are no more grey areas here ... to gloss over it is making CHEATING okay, and there’s fucking CHEATING all over this book, in one way or another!!

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This is in direct conflict with what I know of the author’s work and most definitely in conflict with what I know of the 4th (full length) book!! And let me tell you, the 4th book is AMAZING!! Very very VERY different to these novellas; I’m so glad I read that book first, otherwise (based on my experience with these novellas) I might not have discovered it!!!!

// I get the feeling the author is messing around with the HEAs of her MCs ... I skipped to the end, JUST to see what happens and the way it ends and how I know the 4th novella [numbered as 3.5 so I’m thinking it was an afterthought] begins, makes me think the author is jerking them around!!

Continued ...

// Holy moly, so much contrived angst!!!!

// “God, I fucking love him. The urge to grab him and at least hug him nearly overwhelmed me, but I knew I was already late for class. “I’ll be home by five, so I can help you out then.”

~ And a hug takes half an hour?!!? You seriously can’t give him ONE hug?!!? The choices authors make for their MCs/characters when it comes to the most basic of decencies seriously makes me wonder!!

// Okay so you threw Tanner under the bus and then you gave a ridiculously stupid reason as to why you never said anything (not that she deserved anything from you guys)!! Listen, Collin, I really need to start liking you again!!

Also, why the fuck is Wendy even an issue?!!? Why do we need her in this book?!!!!!?

// Okay, Collin, are you ruled ENTIRELY by your dick?!!? Sex is amazing and phenomenal and there’s nothing wrong with wanting A LOT of it ;-), but can you think of anything else?!!?

I don’t like that it seems the author is turning Collin into a hormone soaked college-guy stereotype!! He’s a smart and intellectually mature guy, give him more than that!!

// Oh for fuck’s sake, stop looking around like you did something wrong already!!!!!!

// Hated this novella in the end!! AMAZING sex scenes, but everything else pissed me off!!

// Whaaaaaaaaat the the fuck?!!? What the hell?!!? Also, why the hell does Wendy have such a major role?!!? Why does she matter?!!? Why on earth do we even have to know what’s going on with her and her bullshit?!!? How on earth did things go so fucking wrong with this storyline?!!? I’m pissed ... STILL!!

// “Words wouldn’t come, they were all stuck behind the massive lump in my throat. It didn’t matter. I didn’t need words for what I needed to let him know. Lunging forward, I smashed my mouth against his.”

~ REALLY?! You don’t needs words?! That’s what fucking got you into this mess, you idiot!!
This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard!!!!

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Oh and why drag Jason into this nonsense?!!?
Why fuck around with characters and their relationships?!!? If I didn’t already read book 4 and FUCKING ADORED IT, I probably wouldn’t have read it just because I would have already had a very misconstrued and ill informed opinion of Jason!! UGHHHHHHHHH!! I’m annoyed!! But yeah, book 4 [full length] was AMAZING!! Totally different to this one!!!

// My rating for this book will NOT be high because I cannot overlook or excuse what happened!! I can’t!! There is too much to overlook! I probably wouldn’t have continued with the other novellas, but since I have them, I’ll continue on. I really hope something can be salvaged here for me!!

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// The author’s methods in this specific instance are really pissing me off!! Why is she doing this so far into their story?!!? For what purpose?!!? A plot?!!? There’s so much more to be done here where THAT plot device is fucking unnecessary!! I normally ADORE the author’s writing but I don’t get what she is doing here and it’s pissing me off. More to the point, all this is ruining this story/book for me!!

// Realizing isn’t the problem!! NO!! Saying NO is the issue!! Start doing it!!!!!!

// Though I definitely still want to smack the shit out of Collin!!

I don’t get why the author did this!! You’re making me HATE the MC and if you’re going to give such an unreliable narrator, at least dilute the stupidity with someone else’s POV; like oh, I don’t know, the other MC perhaps?!!? Ugh. Okay rant over!! Moving on!!

// I am going to shrug this off and pretend like I believe NOTHING would have happened and Collin would have put the emergency break on things, regardless of whether Tanner stopped them or not >:-o!!!!!!!
I’m struggling with this and normally I would totally DNF >:-o ... but I am trying to reason and understand and dismiss IN THIS SPECIFIC SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCE!! I’m going to believe NOTHING more would have happened!!

// I am SO PISSED right now!!!!!!!!!

So. Fucking. Pissed!!

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While I agree that because the intent was NOT there, it might seem like a grey-area type of thing, I do not see it as such!! This could have been avoided, 100% ... with a little communication!! It’s because Collin is a fucking idiot that this happened and that grey-area wasn’t so grey. I feel like Collin was just looking for a reason and a way to sabotage their relationship (and subsequently, himself)!!

// I hope that had Tanner not interrupted that Collin would have stopped things, even in his tucked up and drunken stupor!! Still, again, while I get that Collin was drunk and sad and insecure, it does NOT excuse what happened and/or what almost happened!!

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// WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!!!!!!!!!? You know what, while I can argue that this only happened because Collin is a FUCKING IDIOT and that it’s because he’s so fucking lost and locked in his own head that this happened and that he did NOT mean for this to happen, I cannot exempt him from the repercussions!!!! Know why?!!? Because if Tanner didn’t interrupt him, goodness knows what would have happened!!!

// “I woke up to e-mails from the school about how one of my loan forms had gotten lost and if they didn’t have a signed copy on their desk by the end of the day, I could be un-enrolled from my classes.”

~ This scenario seems highly unlikely. If administration claims it was lost, this means they had it and accountability falls on them, NOT the student!! I highly doubt he’d be in any danger of being un-enrolled!!

// STILL?!!?

// But what you need to understand, Collin, is that Tanner being bi does NOT mean he’s waiting for the opportunity to be with anyone else, much less a woman!! It’s the same for any other orientation! Tanner wants to be with you and ONLY you; he is committed to YOU; he is exclusive with YOU!! None of that is about to change. EVER!! Talk to him about your insecurities, Collin. It’s the only way to solve them!!