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Book 4 was not as good as books 2 and 3, because I didn't enjoy their idiocy. Not remembering that a human can't withstand dragon food. Refusing to inform about their illness until they fainted and got hospitalized. While the author did a good job making these idiocy characteristics understandable, I still didn't enjoy it.

Book 3 was really nice. I love a reformed rake, particularly when the rake can get pregnant. The pregnancy phobia was an interesting twist, but I wish my phobias could resolve that easily. I would have preferred a groveling MIL over an easily-resolved phobia, but I'm not the author and this book did not give me my preference. It was nonetheless a nice romance.

Book 2 was superior to book 1. I really liked that there was a failed fated pair to SHOW that being fated was no guarantee of HEA. The only disappointment was insufficient groveling....

First book was very much a debut-author book. The beginning made me want to smack the main characters and the end was formulaic, but there were bits in the story that shone and you could see where these authors' later books came from.

Zane birthday fics are violently sweet. LoL

More smut. Rimming a USD50k ass and whining about how to explain the expense to the Mulvaney accountant. Rich people problems indeed.

Of course they can't even have a discussion about whether to be parents or not without getting smutty.

I don't understand why the title is Conference Calls when there was only one conference call. But it was a very smutty minific.

Are You Drunk, Baby? is a ridiculous title for a wonderfully, smutty and sweet poly minific.

Omg, Jake the snake, second Maniac minific was my favourite so far! I'm a little sad there were no minifics involving Aiden under the Maniac chapter, though.

The first Maniac minific is the first minific in the book without smut! It's melancholic and eye-rolling, though, from Thomas's POV before he finally gave in to Aiden.

The final Moonstruck minific is yet more smut while the kids were being babysat by Noah and Adam.

Honey, I'm Home is yet another smut Moonstruck minific, with a slight advertisement for Paladin.

Jericho v Kendra, the first Moonstruck minific was just smut with no plot, but a little romantic sweetness.

Snitches Get Stitches was a bit more disturbing, showing how the Mulvaneys are influencing the next generation to be vigilantes too. But I guess, better vigilantes than world dictators...

Family Life, first Psycho mini-fic, is not as good as Bridezilla, but it's sweet enough. Along with sexy times, we get a glimpse of Cricket, August and Lucas as co-parents to the twins.

Bridezilla, the Unhinged mini-fic, was very sweet. With a title of Bridezilla, you'd think it was about horrible behaviour, but instead James addresses an underlying issue for possible bridezilla behaviour: wanting to belong and be accepted.

Book 4 is amazing. The fae is this world are super capricious. It's fascinating.

But err why do characters always have to level up to ridiculous levels?

Book 3 is an easy 4 stars. It's only not 5 stars because even though I read this book in the heat of a country 1 degree off the equator, I could imagine those freezing temperatures of this book way too realistically. Also, I have difficulty believing that people would go out in that kind of cold without a coat. Something's wrong with Kelly.

Finished book 2. I cannot rate book 2 because it turned out to be a horror/suspense novel, not action/adventure. I do not like being scared. My emotional masochism prefers humiliation, not fear, thanks.

Despite that, this book was gripping. Couldn't stop reading until I reached the end of book 2, even though it's past 3 in the morning.

Just finished book 1 and wow. The POV character started out a little too uncomfortable for me because err, I felt called out. My tinted glasses were never as blackly tinted as Sei's, but PAINFUL. But the book ended with an awesome end, so it was good.

Finally a 5-star tale in Touching Ink! The Middle/Little sibling dynamic with Daddy struggling to balance boundaries and autonomy is heart-warming and sexy. Funniest quote:

I hand him the condom, and he eagerly tears off the wrapping and rolls the rubber down his cock. "You're not so concerned about her pain now, are you?"
Dylan purses his lips, thinking. "I'll care a lot when I'm done, I swear."

I love bondage and so I was excited to read Comforting Touch because Chelsea started out in the story submitting in a rope bondage scene. But most of the story involved jumping to conclusions, which is NOT my cup of tea. Then, it was primal and TPE and no bondage. So. While it wasn't a bad tale in itself, my early excitement contrasted with the actual story and made my disappointment bigger.

Just finished Touch of Trouble, which stars Nick and Kayla again. I liked seeing Nick and Kayla facing up to Amanda, but her shenanigans at Switch were a little tedious to me. Maybe I'm just in the wrong mood.

Touch to Surrender was sweet and low-angst for a story about overcoming internalized homophobia.

"Limits are meant to be pushed." The HELL they are. Soft limits are okay to be pushed. There are never any limits that are meant to be pushed!

I was enjoying Twice the Touch until that point. Now I'm so annoyed.

I didn't really like Look but Don't Touch because there was a kind of cheating. Some may say it's not really cheating, some may say it's absolutely cheating. Don't care. Personally didn't like it.

Book 2 was just as good as Book 1. I love complicated relationships. Too many found-family books have everybody magically getting along despite cutesy, adorable squabbling or sassy sniping, but the difficulties between the "parents" and their adoptees in this book ground so much in a world of ridiculous magic.

Such a fascinating protagonist in a fascinating world-build. I'm so happy I found this book!

Third book feels like a low-angst omegaverse version of Heidi Cullinan's Special Delivery. The Daddy-ness was very low-level too; though there were at least two sex scenes where they knew they were very audible to other people.