Type of read: Commuter read.

What made me pick it up: Peter Pan is one of my all-time favorite stories so when you turn that into a dark romance, you've immediately hooked me. I found 'The Never King' through my available Spotify Premium books and it was short enough that I could get through a couple of the books in the series without going over my 20-hour mark. I'm hoping that reading it as an audiobook helps me avoid (or at least maybe ignore?) some of the horrible writing other readers have experienced.

Overall rating: If I hear the word 'darling' one more time, I'm going to chuck my phone out a window, run downstairs, run it over with my vehicle, get out, jump on top of it, and drop-kick it across the parking lot. 'The Never King' is so comically bad it's almost good. Like, it's not really actually good but so much chaos and randomness that it's laughable. I probably would have rated it one star, but the fact that I cackled so damn hard at parts of the book Crowe clearly meant to be serious or broody counts for something. Also, if you're writing a book that includes erotic scenes, it shouldn't be the erotic scenes that make your reader laugh the most.

Reader's Note: 'The Never King' includes these of sex, assault, kidnapping, and death.