Elithanathile’s Reviews > A Summer of Smoke and Sin > Status Update

// Authors, for fuck’s sake, learn how to properly honour your endings! You invest in the whole book, invest in the fucking ending, it’s not something to be half assed or rushed or bullshitted! This is how you lose a reader and gain a really shitty rating!!

// In finding out how this book ends and how abrupt and rushed the ending is and how much the author basically half assed a proper ending, this author just lost a reader for this book, which is a shame because this book so far is a good one! But if the author couldn’t be bothered to write a proper great ending, I cannot be bothered to read this book!! I will not waste my time AT ALL and don’t want to be pissed!!!

After some pondering I believe I’m going to sacrifice reading the rest of this book in favour of not getting pissed off! So many authors really really really fail and suck at writing proper, wonderful, satisfactory, hard earned HEAs, and this is one of those authors! It does a book a huge disservice to put so much effort into it only to fuck around and cheat the book out of a wonderful ending! Pass on being pissed!

// As well written as this book as I skipped ahead just to see what one of the reviewers was talking about when she said that the author didn’t bother to really invest in the relationship between Jericho and Nathaniel and that their relationship and storyline in terms of the romance was very poorly fleshed out and that the ending was very rushed and abrupt! I have to say that in that sense I absolutely agree!!

// Wow I hope they kill Amberton off in someway!!

// “There once was a place no gentlemen goes
Unless he is inclined to debaucheries woes
Many carnal delights,
Male flesh in full flight
All wanting a taste of the Jericho Rose”.

// Very impressed with this author so far! The writing is great and the imagination even more so!

// So far this is quite well written and very erotic … though I do have to wonder, why is it that Eulalia want to be free and find a new host, and why is it that if Jericho lets her go, he would lose everything?!? Why does Jericho need Eulalia as much as he does!?

// “Nathanial was the worst cop on the force.”

~ No you are NOT, but you are probably the most HONEST one!!