fangirljeanne's reviews
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CW: flashbacks of childhood bullying and social humiliation, anti-fatness, mentions of stalking, discussion of past child abuse, and manipulative/toxic family dynamics. 

I never thought I’d like a Bully Romance and yet here we are. The set up of the story was a little contrived, but the characters were so compelling and flawed in a realistic and fascinating way. I loved watching them work through their complicated past. The sexual tension was electric, and the pay off is worth the wait. This author is quickly becoming a personal fave.

I highly recommend this to fans of contemporary romance with fat heroines and vulnerable men striving to redeem themselves. 

I think this cements my feeling that f/m multi-partner erotica romance (also known as “reverse harem”) isn’t for me. This world is interesting, but under explored. Though I get why. The set isn’t the appeal. The monsters and sex scenes are, which sadly were equally under explored and perfunctory in execution. The sex scenes were mostly vanilla, and unimaginative at that. Which isn’t necessarily a death sentence if the characters have depth and are at least compelling, sadly that’s not the case. I’m was just bored. 

Again, I don’t think this is the fault of the book so much as proof I’m not compatible with this trope and book. 

This was slow and boring. I couldn’t be bothered to care about the characters, which might be caused by the writing style. It’s 1st person (which I don’t have and issue with) but it reads like 3rd person. I never felt like I was actually in the story, which made it difficult to feel any kind of sense of the stakes. It doesn’t help that the character choices made little to no sense beyond driving the story forward. Meh