Review: Croc's Return

Croc's Return by Eve Langlais
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I find myself not as enchanted with Bitten Point as I was with other places. While Kodiak Point exuded warmth and unity no matter the story, Bitten Point gave me the impression of coldness and disregard. More like a coincidence shifters lived there together. No close-knit community here. Maybe because there was no pack? But that doesn't really make sense either because bears have no pack either. I don't really know. Maybe because we were talking about cold-blooded shifters? The fact is that I didn't feel it this time and so my enjoyment suffered a little. I also couldn't connect much with Caleb. That being said...I didn't connect with Renny either. Everything kinda passed me by this time around. Even the overreaching arc felt...boring. The only character I'm actually curious about is Wes and that's not happening anytime soon so...yeah. Bummer. This was not for me.

2.5 ★

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Review: Big Furry Deal

Big Furry Deal by Celia Kyle
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

You know there are too many sex scenes in a book when you start skimming them and actually look forward to the rest of the story. Huh. I sure as hell resented them 'cause I wanted to find out more about the a*hole attacking her and all they seemed to care about was more sex. A balance would've been nice. I mean, a couple pages from the end and they barely have an idea of who is attacking her but, by all means, anal sex. Anal sex fixes everything. And then..then it was such a f*cked ending I'm not even commenting because I have nothing nice to say. At all.

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Review: Wicked Shift

Wicked Shift by Celia Kyle
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

One of her first books I'm sure and it shows. Very short but complicated story. All the action happens in maybe 48h and it's completely ridiculous. The female MC meets her other half, they have sex, she becomes pregnant, learns he's a werejaguar, they mate and she gets turned into a werejaguar too. Oh and they're having twins. Magical twins. Like..No.

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Review: Jarek

Jarek by Celia Kyle
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I know. Starting in the middle of a series again. Or so it seems even tho this is supposedly the first volume. Apparently there is a series or a book somewhere about the Ujal. I have not read said book or series and have no idea what actually happened there, however, there's so much info floating around this book, I don't feel like I missed much. Either way, I'm not concerned. This story was good and entertaining and I liked both my MCs. Jarek's attitude was way too possessive for me at first but I guess the Knowing (weird alien memory thing that happens when you meet your fated mate) was mostly responsible for that. After finding out what would happen if they didn't mate (namely madness and death)...yeah. I get it. Not to say I particularly liked that clichéd way of assuring they got it on in mere days of meeting each other but okay, I rolled with it and it wasn't so bad. I certainly ended up cheering for them anyway.

3.5 ★

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Review: Polar Bared

Polar Bared by Eve Langlais
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Ah! - That was my reaction throughout most of this story. Not exactly bad but not that good either. Mostly just incredulous and bewildered. I was entertained though so I can't really complain.

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Review: A Tiger's Bride

A Tiger's Bride by Eve Langlais
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I liked this. I'm not saying I even remotely agree with most of Dmitri's reasonings and actions but this was laugh-out-loud funny.

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Review: The Dark Path

The Dark Path by Luke Romyn
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

After entering Nick's mind in Ricochet, The Dark Man/Vain was an enormous let down from the get go.

Just in the first few pages:

"The force of his emotions shook him to his very foundations".
Does this look like a contracted killer to you? Someone cold?

And a couple lines later:

"Voices shot like arrows through Vain's memory...The assassin crumpled into oblivion." - meaning he fainted. Fainted! From his memories! Seriously? I present to you the most feared man in New York's underworld ladies and gentlemen.

So...yeah. Me and this book? Not happening.

Maybe if I'd read this before meeting Nick? I don't know. But this definitely does not sound as something I'll enjoy in the long run so I'm backing out now. For me a good assassin has to be cold-blooded. Unfeeling. Callous. Frightening. This Vain Guy? Everyone seems to be afraid of him in the book but I honestly do not get it.

**Not rating this book since I only read about 4/5 chapters.


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Review: Rising Fury

Rising Fury by Jen Rasmussen
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

DNF´ed at 15% so I'm not even going to rate it-not exactly fair-but I gotta say I wasn't impressed. The little I read was, for lack of a better word, disappointing. I didn't like the writing style. The world-building was none-existent (you get dropped literally in the middle of a scene and get no clues to help you) and the main character, Thea, simply couldn't make me care for her or her situation. Perhaps it would get better along the way, however, the story does not pull at me. I am not even a little bit curious about what happens. I'm just glad I didn't pay for it.

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Review: Ricochet

Ricochet by Keri Lake
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

F*ck. This book was pain. All the dark hidden things in that shadowy corner of your soul. You know the one. The one you ignore all your life and pretend not to have. Where nightmares tread. Where hope is that b*tch taunting you from afar and you can't reach her no matter how hard you try.

Nick is not your typical hero. What was done to his family will honestly haunt me for a while and give me some very bad dreams because it was done to his beautiful family, his gorgeous and innocent son and his lovable wife. Not out of revenge or retribution but simply because it could be done and there was no one to stop them. I hated it. And you'd think I'd have some semblance of pity for the guys he kills and tortures throughout this book but I really don't. There are things in this world I can forgive. This was not one of them and I was completely on board with Nick in his revenge. I cheered for him. The depth of his callousness regarding those people was frightening and left me cold but they also deserved it so badly I simply couldn't fault Nick one bit. I felt his pain. His anguish. His promise.

Aubree was kind of a loose cannon destroying all of Nick's carefully laid plans. She's easy to love and understand. Her past is almost as black as Nick's and they clash beautifully. The ragged pieces of their souls complete each other. I loved it. How raw and vulnerable they were together. How intense. How chaos suddenly made sense in each others presence. It was good.

A couple chapters from the end though...the pace changed and I didn't much care for it. Aubree's sudden proficiency with a gun came out of nowhere and her actions at the end weren't really believable. It was hard to mesh that woman with the one tortured by Michael for 5 years. However, this does not ruin this novel in any way. Everything else was perfect. Highly recommended.

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Review: Vacation Hell

Vacation Hell by Eve Langlais
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I liked it but the addiction of more men is kind of pissing me off. More men mean more sex and more sex, while normally I'm all up for it, means distraction from the main arc and that's what actually pulled me to this series in the first place. Sex is meant as a bonus feature and not the focus and I want that back. Badly. So, while I liked Tristan well enough, I don't want to see them have sex all the damn time. I want development and bad guys and blood and gore. I want to see Muriel kick ass and kill things. There's only so much you can do in a menage sex scene until it all bleeds together and just becomes annoying and repetitive. This book came very close. Also, while I wondered how Muriel came to meet her new beau when I read Hell's Kitty (she shows up at the end), I didn't exactly expect to go so far back in the story arc in order to find out. I expected to be shown how they were all doing post engagement party and Ursula. How Muriel was dealing with Lucifer 2.0. How Hell was doing with Muriel in charge. Unfortunately, that's not what I got. Most of the book was lost meeting Tristan, having sex and...all before Lucifer's curse thingy. So basically this was just a new perspective of what I'd already read. So...I'm kind of bummed about it. Still reading the next but yeah. Not the same.

3.5 ★

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