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Miles is a National Treasure

I'm hooked!
The writing has beautifully settled itself, with the simules and metaphors adding to the story vs feeling a bit forced.

Sigh....every third sentence being a simile, especially the repetitive ones 🤦🏼‍♀️🙄🙄🙄

Ok...I'll admit only starting this book because of the reviews...and...well I'm not sure that I can pinpoint one reason persay, but I am so hooked. I went from a somewhat mighty to-list today to "nope," I'm apparently just reading this.😂

Time for the audiobook WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

I absolutely love "I'm only soft for you"...if you can call Alder "soft"-
Cade is breaking my heart but Alder is a gem❤️

I forgot just how much I lived this book- The narration is perfect, and I feel like I'm in the book with Daniel and Rex. ❤️

I don't particularly care for where we're headed...my irritation with Jackie brought me to read reviews and find myself contemplating a DNF.

Going on hold for now- very intended well written, but my head just isn't in the space for this right now.

This looks like it might end up a dnf. I feel ZERO connection between Bailey and Harlow. I've read more about their physical reactions and fantasies about one another than any actual connection building. They're supposedly spending time together "as friends" to get to know one another, but other than conversation synopsis, there's more description of the moments they're turned on and Bailey's insecurities...

OMG I am so glad to be back! Yes ART everything needs more versimilitude!

What an engaging, well written, and fascinating memoir. I am listening to the audiobook (Author's note read by Rachel, but another narrator for the book).

I know it's me, but not doing real-life research is a huge pwt peeve🫤 The needle doesn't stay in your arm after an IV is inserted...

Since when do driver side windows not have tempered glass? 🤦🏼‍♀️🤔

Dnf 30%
Cliché and cheesy- Everything is telling me how "dark, blackened and stormy" these characters are without any actual descriptives to show it. "Storming into rooms" and describing things as "evil" while a 23 year old man (albeit homeless) can't manage to wash dishes? He uses half of a bottle of dish soap and continues to let the sink run even though it is overflowing? Super disappointing.

I hate it when a character has barely/uncontrolled rage🙄 Why are we slamming doors that rattle the hinges? Constantly making fists? Stalking across rooms and choking people out? It doesn't make an MC seem tough, just slightly unhinged and unreliable.

DNF- Too cliche and cheesy. What a disappointment. There is not depth to the characters or the plot, just some criminals who have bad tempers- they manage to break glass doors with a kick, smash keyboards in half with their fists and shoot up stores with no regard for who's inside. The sex reads like a dudebro giving a play by play.

So this is my second book by this author and unfortunately, probably my last. It's definitely a "me" thing, but I can't stand when characters are written to have known each other forever, when it has only been days or weeks- "how long have you wanted to do that?" "Since the moment I laid eyes on you." They met like days ago. I'm also hoping this book stays more in line with the crime plot than the other one did.

Dnf- I really wanted to love this, but I started skimming at 25%. The lack of world building and their feelings and connection. I feel like I'm reading a first draft. Plots and character outlines being hashed out, not a complete story.

Dnf- I hate when attraction and a connection are established immediately based on "dicks twitching" and an mc who "trusts no one" but "feels an undeniable connection and trust but don't understand why."

DNF 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ So you're the king, but assume this other random shifter in the mountains...your mountains is benign. So you check him out (and make sure to mention you want his cock), and within minutes your cock is "throbbing and tenting your track pants" and his heat is undeniable. Super dissapointing.

Dnf- too much "heaven" and "hell." The verbiage has declined to where it feels like I'm reading a high school essay written with the help of chat gtp. Oh well...the first few books were entertaining but between the aforementioned issues and listening to the full cast? Nope.

Ok...hooked😂 But it took a solid 43% before I was ready to continue

Honestly I'm bored....I've already put this down 3 times and I'm about to start skimming a bit to see if it picks up. For all of the great reviews I read, I was expecting to be more engaged.

Nope. I just can't, I am so disappointed. I really enjoyed the previous book, but this one has every description written as a simile or metaphor mixed alternating with one liners amd clichés.
I was excited for these two to get together, but I can't even skim without cringing and rolling my eyes.

So...we're in the thick of a rescue (fire and paramedic, woman in the ambulance) and Reece decides that now is the time to ask if they're ever going to be more than just f*cking???? REALLY??? And the one liners? This may be too cheesy for me🤦🏼‍♀️

Dnf- I am genuinely surprised and disappointed in the lack of relationship building between these two. How have we gone from "I can't stand him, he's the worst roommate ever" to having penetrative sex days later??? Sure, Gus has been sober, but only for a few DAYS and they have barely touched on why and how he's doing. They have had one real conversation about their families/background and so now it's all good??

SPOILER- I'm annoyed. 5 pages ago Cam asks Shelby to move in with him when the house projects are further along. They both agree that people usually date before they get married....but now Cam is lamenting what his life will look like after they get divorced? FFS- I understand building tension, but this is ridiculous.The "I don't know if I can trust my feelings or his feelings" feels like just adding to word count.

Nope- DNF at 4%. I can't do more than sit here shaking my head while trying to leave notes for myself. Too much imagry- the psuedo description of the beating, the broken vase, escaping, the overwhelming heat, the daisies again, the bridge, deciding to jump off to join the daisy petals but a high school sweetheart saves them? In less than 1 chapter? No.