Tyler’s Reviews > Impromptu Match > Status Update

During their 'because you'll be memory wiped after this, let's awkwardly share all of our secrets' thing. Holt fantasizes having all his wrestlers pass him around the ring for sexy times. Taylor mentions, multiple times, being interested in the orgies his ex goes to. But once they're together suddenly Holt jealously protective and Taylor's not thinking of orgies. Missed opportunity. The wrestlers seemed into the idea

Larkin keeps swinging wildly between 'adorable scamp' and 'insufferable HR nightmare' for me. Though honestly the wrestling outfit is an HR nightmare. Do monsters just not care/worry sexual harassment? Maybe if the monster world got anymore development besides being a secret for...some undisclosed reason.

But Larkin at least seems more interesting than Taylor or Holt.

Meeeeh. Too much sexy times not enough actual character or relationship development. And very thin world building. Judging by other reviews it's not going to improve.

Honestly Taylor mostly feels like a sad sack nothing character to be fawned over by Holt, who mostly exists to fulfill the role 'Perfect Fantasy Lover Who Automatically Knows All Your Needs' And has an obsession with testicles.

We get it. It's been 4 years since you've felt the touch of a man Taylor. We geeeeeet it.

Also. Again with Holt's lop-sided balls? It's perfectly normal for one to hang lower than the other my dude.

And there's way more toilet humor here than I'm used to in a romance novel.

I'm bouncing back and forth on this one. The characters, or at least Taylor, are meant to be in their late 30s. But they feel more like early 20s with how they talk and act. Buuuut...then I remember age is not an indicator of maturity and I myself am mid-30s and I'm not sure I'm much more mature than I was in my 20s.

But then Holt has a bodyguard explicitly because he thought it made him look cool.

Hmm. Not necessarily a strong start when the first ten minutes is the main character info dumping how shitty his last boyfriend was and how repetitive his life has gotten because of that past relationship. That could have sprinkled out and done more through showing rather than telling.