karinciksok's review
I think I didn't like the last sentence.
myzanm's review against another edition
3.0
Some parts were quite funny.
Sad thing I never really warmed up to Angie.
Sad thing I never really warmed up to Angie.
yeriwithaj_'s review against another edition
4.0
4.5 stars
This book was a funny, sexy, sweet, loving and fast paced read.
I laughed a lot while reading it and finished it in a few hours. I loved Eoin and Angie so much. I hope to read about the rest of these characters in future books. I love the authors take on the shifter world and her originality in describing and creating this amazing world. This book is definitely unique and I highly recommend it.
This book was a funny, sexy, sweet, loving and fast paced read.
I laughed a lot while reading it and finished it in a few hours. I loved Eoin and Angie so much. I hope to read about the rest of these characters in future books. I love the authors take on the shifter world and her originality in describing and creating this amazing world. This book is definitely unique and I highly recommend it.
maria_elisabeth's review against another edition
3.0
3⭐ - It was good
Actually not too bad, I was not having high expectations
Actually not too bad, I was not having high expectations
manuthebooknerd's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
jlkopp's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
elenajohansen's review against another edition
1.0
To keep myself from writing a 2,000-word essay about how bad this book is, I'm going to do bullet points instead.
The Good Things:
*Cute concepts despite their disappointingly unfulfilled potential
*Whatever other issues I have with the heroine, she is not a pushover to be bullied by the many, many "alphas" in this book
The Bad Things:
*World-building so thin and scattershot that for a while I assumed I'd mistakenly picked a book in the middle of the series, not the first one, and earlier books would have explained the concepts better
*A startling lack of realism, not in the world-building (which is obviously fantastical) but in simple, mundane character moments, where no one acts like a real person with even the slightest hint of common sense
*Rampant examples of poor grammar, typos, and Random Things Being Capitalized Sometimes For No Obvious Reason (eg, "First Aid kit." Really? Why is that capitalized?)
*Shallow, underdeveloped characters with explicitly stated motivations (repeatedly, ugh) but no depth
*Choppy narrative that details some things I didn't feel were necessary to explain while hopping straight past stuff I might have been interested in. Notably, tell me more about Eoin's artistic process if his art career is his central personal conflict, rather than hand-waving "he got angry and set a bunch of metal on fire and OOPS now it's a sculpture."
*Insta-love based on mating attraction, which okay, fine, is common to this subgenre and for some readers might even be part of the specific appeal, but I didn't feel they had any real chemistry, so even this trope fell flat
*Characters who appear for ten seconds and are never important again (related sub-complaint: why is the only witch in the story named Sabrina? A little on the nose, don't you think?)
*Poorly integrated subplots that don't really further the romance
*Underwhelming sex scenes
Basically, the only reason I finished it was that it was on the short side for a full novel, and a fast read because the writing style was amateur. Part of me did want to know how the curse was broken, and that took the whole book, so I had to keep going. But I wasn't all that invested, and about halfway through I did consider dropping it because I was not impressed by anything about it. I still like the idea of it, but it was badly executed.
The Good Things:
*Cute concepts despite their disappointingly unfulfilled potential
*Whatever other issues I have with the heroine, she is not a pushover to be bullied by the many, many "alphas" in this book
The Bad Things:
*World-building so thin and scattershot that for a while I assumed I'd mistakenly picked a book in the middle of the series, not the first one, and earlier books would have explained the concepts better
*A startling lack of realism, not in the world-building (which is obviously fantastical) but in simple, mundane character moments, where no one acts like a real person with even the slightest hint of common sense
*Rampant examples of poor grammar, typos, and Random Things Being Capitalized Sometimes For No Obvious Reason (eg, "First Aid kit." Really? Why is that capitalized?)
*Shallow, underdeveloped characters with explicitly stated motivations (repeatedly, ugh) but no depth
*Choppy narrative that details some things I didn't feel were necessary to explain while hopping straight past stuff I might have been interested in. Notably, tell me more about Eoin's artistic process if his art career is his central personal conflict, rather than hand-waving "he got angry and set a bunch of metal on fire and OOPS now it's a sculpture."
*Insta-love based on mating attraction, which okay, fine, is common to this subgenre and for some readers might even be part of the specific appeal, but I didn't feel they had any real chemistry, so even this trope fell flat
*Characters who appear for ten seconds and are never important again (related sub-complaint: why is the only witch in the story named Sabrina? A little on the nose, don't you think?)
*Poorly integrated subplots that don't really further the romance
*Underwhelming sex scenes
Basically, the only reason I finished it was that it was on the short side for a full novel, and a fast read because the writing style was amateur. Part of me did want to know how the curse was broken, and that took the whole book, so I had to keep going. But I wasn't all that invested, and about halfway through I did consider dropping it because I was not impressed by anything about it. I still like the idea of it, but it was badly executed.
heather_warby's review
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
darktwistedreads's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75