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What the fuck is up with the food in this book? First the dude was putting ketchup on some kind of cold sandwich and now he is eating peas in mayonnaise??! What? Are you trying to gross me out? 🤣

One of the things I love about Becca Steele’s books, is that she actually shows you what the characters like about each other. This seems like something that should be standard in romance, but it’s really not.

This book is trying to do a weird thing where it’s going fast and slow at the same time. It’s like being in a car when the driver has one foot on the gas and the other on the brakes and keeps mashing them hard in quick succession. Unfortunately, it’s an equally unenjoyable experience. I hope we get past this soon because the story has so much potential.

I am loving how smoking hot the first 100 pages have been, but it’s driving me crazy that these guys moving from the AHL to the NHL seem to be spending zero time practicing, skating, or even seriously working out. My guys, you are all getting sent back down real quick.

It’s taking these two way too long to figure out that they are attracted to each other.

I never noticed how much this “omega” stuff has in common with the menstrual cycle. I feel a little slow for not noticing before but I have read little of it and most of what I read seemed to be worded to make me think of it in animalistic terms. Skye’s father’s discomfort really brought the connection home.

Grey’s writing frustrates me.
“Practice finally ended and I dragged myself off the pool deck, barely able to walk…. but now I ached”
2 sentences later,
“I could barely walk, and every part of me ached.”
This type of repetition is already common at 39 pages in.

I really hate that Atlas thinks his mom would want him to “make it work” with his father. She might have wanted him to be a family with the man she thought he was, but she wouldn’t want him to keep subjecting himself to emotional abuse. I am going to be real pissed if this book ends with him becoming close with his dad.

Good writing. The enemies thing feels forced, though.

Really enjoying the first part of this book. Good character development, some sexual tension, nice use of backstory to illuminate the characters’ behavior. I like that while there is low level hostility and sniping at each other, it’s never cruel and you can see they care about each other underneath it all.

This book is so frustrating! There is a dire circumstance, my child could be endangered! I think I will go have a pout. Huge revelation that is a threat to us and Balty’s family! We should definitely have sex rather than responding to it or telling anyone. We need to have a serious conversation! But first, dinner.

Wow Blair’s family are assholes. They just ignore how he isn’t taking care of his own life and ask for more and more and more from him. The fact that he keeps playing the martyr is really getting on my nerves. Also, do we actually need a cast of dozens for a romance? This might be another DNF.

I am not sure I can continue with this. Just having someone interrupt every single time they come close to having a much needed conversation is weak writing.

This author seems to believe that “utter” is spelled “usher”. The first time a character ushered a statement I assumed it was a typo, but no, characters have continued to usher words.

I am halfway through this book and Zion is treating Baltazar like shit. I am not okay with it. Bating him into sexual acts by pretending you are going to get a blowie from someone else in front of him is no okay and it makes your careful to always have consent’ act look weak as fuck.

I am loving many things about this book but the constant back and forth, hot and cold, yes but no, is driving me crazy. I am starting to suspect this should have been a novella.

This audiobook is quickly becoming a comfort read for me. The narration is so good and I love spending time with these characters.

So this is supposed to be a life or death situation and everyone is sitting around teasing Levi about his sex life? Levi is so worried about Shiloh’s safety but he hasn’t given the new information he has to the people who could use it to find him? I think this author is sacrificing quality storytelling to fan service with their books now.

I love Cole and Huxley but the nonsense about their parents treating them like 8 year olds is ridiculous. All they have to do is say “stop treating us like children” and the problem is solved. It really bothers me that a story that is so good in every other way has this rubbish as a major plot point.

The tension in this book, building towards an inevitable crisis that will be epic and force the HEA, is killing me in the best possible way. I have a vague idea what is coming now but there are so many variables and I am dying to see how it’s going to play out.

Oh no! Why do you have to go and ruin all this deliciousness with an obnoxious and intrusive side character? I need the whole CONCEPT of the loud, meddling, no boundary having, friend, sibling, aunt, (etc.) to die and never be seen again.

Even as someone who can 100% relate to feeling stupid and awkward around people, I can’t give Ryan a pass for being so incredibly self-centered and mean. It’s only the fact that Miller sees it for what it is, and loves that someone isn’t just blithely giving him what he wants, that is letting me enjoy the story. Still, I have to stop every few chapters because Ryan is a dick.

I feel like I am missing something here. Ryan is a complete asshole. He’s rude and defensive to everyone, no matter how nice they are to him. Even from his own perspective, hell, especially from his own perspective because he thinks even more unpleasant thoughts than he says out loud. Why am I supposed to want an HEA for him?

I am ridiculously happy to be seeing Preston and Kian in this story.

I don’t understand the barrier these two are putting up to stay apart. The “brothers” part made sense, but the company part doesn’t. If they tell that Darcy isn’t the heir, the company goes to Ren, who can then name Darcy the CEO. Why are they acting like Darcy would have to leave the company entirely? Smooth transition? Maybe not, but doable.

Okay I thought this was a little slow to get started but now it has picked up and daaaayum it’s good. The bloody horror side has gotten fun, the sexy side has heated up, and the characters have wormed their way into my heart.