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I can't believe it, but the fun setup, in the hands of an author who can do really well the steamy parts and it is all, uh, incredibly boring? Very very boring?

Her style has changed, to be more and more obvious, all tell and no show, we keep being told and told the same things again, and there is no tension, no suspense, nothing to root for...

The change in tone (souls so to speak) is so total, it is giving me whiplash. And I get it, I get it, Dawson deserves all the sweetness and courting possible, but him being so passive and so open to it all WHEN HE DOES NOT KNOW it is is a different soul is not relatable and I am not sure if I will finish this book...

OMG a Disney princess MC and he is adorable to me too, stony heart and all...

It feels a bit omegaverse/biological imperative camouflaged as a straight contemporary, but it is kind of vibing with me...

Those message chat bits are totally realistic and because of that, omg so mind numbing boring... Literary license to neat them, make them wittier, punctuation, skip them would have been so welcome.

If this is ever an audiobook, poor narrator.

The writing is really not working for me.

This is fantastic so far. Why had nobody told me about it (oh wait, you did, that is why I picked it up).

Wannabe Severus Snape with a heart of marshmallow goes on a quest with his love interest, twin sister, a sentient stone and assorted animals who hate him. The sarkiest main character to have ever sniped...

Well, this has never happened to me with a book by this author, but I am finding it boring. Choppy and overdramatic, playing coy with a reveal (if it does not happen I will eat my boots). Just get on with it.

Seriously this book is like an uno game, with lots of reverse and +4 cards being played. It's emotional and all, but seriously it's like reverse cards being played all the time.

I like the feels, but it's not consistent at all.

It's not *THAT* cynical, grumpy smart ass no commitment bisexual russian MC but there are some definite vibes of him, but I also love this one. (No hockey at all, and that is more than fine with me...)

I love this amnesia and forget a loved one thing. And it's a non fluff book and I should respect it, but honestly I just do not like Sean at all and it is all his POV. I keep putting this down.

As an aside I have absolutely no idea what sport exactly this is, since I know Australia has several, but I honestly do not care !

Unfortunately, it was a meh. Half assed and seriously, so many people in acknowledgements and nobody can keep track of some details?

But the hinted next book in the series sounds oh so fantastic and likely with tennis... (I do not learn, maybe, I was so eager for this, it sucked, now I am all eagerly waiting the one after...)

Not as expected. Relationship just waffling around, stupid third act conflict. And so inconsistent in small details.

I need to mourn my expectations for a bit. Maybe I am a jinx of just released books ending up meh...

Just a warning, I am not getting any comment notifications. The box in reviews to tick to get notifications seems to be not working.

So great for tear duct exercising!

(Loving it, so far yeah... It IS soppy though it just is working for me)

800+ pages, I would nor normally do this, but, yes, I am weak and had to check for myself and also the first chapters did hook me. It's a really powerful scenario!

Supposedly a black cat golden retriever thing. The grumpy character seems, unlike his thoughts to make friends so easily.

And I got a really hard time keeping track of which character PoV it is, even if they are supposedly so different.

Odd book.

Well, there is a kind of joke about who cleans the sex club. It's the thing I always think about when I read about sex clubs (how do you hire a cleaner for it??) and a book finally goes there for the joke.

But other than the joke meh. Angst without much reason, evil contriving women as antagonists, and no chemistry actually.

Rome is a plus though..

I could not get into Hamartia at all, but this was a try-the-sample thing and before I knew it it was way way too late. Fantastic so far.

Wait, there is a scene missing? When Orin and Tiiran have sex on their own and it just fades to black and it is confirmed they did have sex?

WTF? This book is 511 pages and it cuts something like that? Tiiran's feelings during it are important.

Seriously?

I am not normally the market for adorable free spirited talks-too-much (totally ADHD) MCs but OMG Nick is adorable, even for me. My stony heart melted. And Evan is good enough for him and likes him as much as I do, so I am charmed.

And it is totally Pretty Woman remade, though Nick is absolutely not having sex for money.

I should know better, by now, than to believe ARC team hype. But apparently I do not.

Not sure if it was the raised expectations but this is being very underwhelming...

And seriously, Jelly's financial situation is totally unrelatable. Enviable yeah, but unrelatable...

Enough toxic-sweet co-dependency to fuel 3 Alessandra Hazard books (or 30 regular books). Mind you it is about 3 times as long and as dense as a AH book.

Definitely a voice and talent, and it is working for me despite the adopted brothers thing. But the first book was stronger...

That feeling when you star a book with little expectations and OMG it is so good in so many many ways! So good!

(the title and even cover, was not immediately appealing though, but so glad I ignored that!)

2020 feels like a different century already.

And things which looked cool in 2020 which now are just looking dubious to me : people wanting to be social media influencers to the point of faking same sex relationships for it. And the whole concept .

The fake relationship and Nine's acceptance is also seems a bit instaneous...

Hockey cottage core! And somehow it works.

Change my mind: Matt needs an intervention and a move to a different book, with a different MC.

Also Matt's brother hates Aiden with good reason. His wife, supposedly a smart woman, meeting Aiden decides she knows best and is going to be oh so welcoming and explain her husband dislike and so on. Seriously, it's so disloyal and stupid...

Nobody does golden retriever black cat better than Jesse H. Reign. Nobody ever.

(mind you an important thing to remember about golden retrievers is that they are very smart and very stubborn...The black cat does not have a chance)

Plots I never thought I would want to read - a romance with a headless guy who carries his head around. But here we are just the same.

Lily Mayne might be able to pull it off, because so far it is fun...

Halfway through and I just got all the books. This is adorable and just right. Walking green flags! They love spending time together..

Black cat golden retriever situation, not generic hockey romance and Ari Baran's writing seems to have it its stride, it's pretty good..

But I am not sure if I will finish it - I just can not get, like grumpy character and I am not sure what the not-yet-bisexual other MC even sees on him!

Help, I am having such bad luck with new releases I really wanted.