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nicolewhopickedthisbook's review against another edition
Really just not feeling this one. Doesn’t have the same vibe as the other Cambric Creek books and the MMC is just a sleeze ball
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Classism
Minor: Abortion
mspilesofpaper's review against another edition
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
Run, Run Rabbit is the first instalment in a new, darker, series that plays in the Cambric Creek universe that the author had developed in previous novels like Morning Glory Milking Farm (which run under the series Cambric Creek). It can be read as a standalone but benefits from reading at least Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic as the other Hemmings make appearances and the clinic is mentioned as well.
PLOT
The book follows Vanessa and her developing relationship with Grayson Hemming as well her development in her career as she joins the law office (where Grayson is one of the partners). The plot starts in the present, at the year's Lupercalia festival, before it does a time jump into the past (six years prior and then from there to the present again), so the reader learns more about her and Grayson's relationship. Don't expect too much plot as sex plays the major factor in their relationship.
WORLD-BUILDING & MAGIC
As previously said, it plays in the Cambric Creek universe but mostly outside of Cambric Creek in Bridgeton as the law office is situated there. Cambric Creek starts to become the setting from the halfway point onwards when they go on dates or have lunch with Grayson's family after a full moon. Of course, the coffee shop, that plays a role in Morning Glory Milking Farm as well as in Sweet Berries is the setting for one scene as well. As the majority happens either at the law office, Grayson's house or at the Lupercalia festival, the entire world-building is rather shallow.
My personal issue with the Lupercalia festival: it's basically a sex party that is excused with "ancient rites". I wouldn't mind it much but the author mentions something along the lines of "if you are wolf, you will participate because it is in your nature" and Trapp appears shortly afterwards who is - as far as the reader knows - at the point in a committed relationship with a human woman. And it is known that Trapp participates because Vanessa thinks about how it would be if he would catch and fuck her at the festival.
CHARACTERS
Vanessa and Grayson are the main characters of the book but the reader meets the rest of his family as well (or again if they already read another book of the Cambric Creek universe as the Hemming family is a major player). Both characters are highly unsympathetic as they are manipulative assholes (mostly with each other but Vanessa also uses Grayson's family to get back at him when he left her).
In general, Vanessa is a horrible character. She is constantly scheming and planning to keep him interested ("the chase") but also to advance her career (and how she could use her new relationships with Grayson's family to her advantage). Especially icky in my opinion: the change of her political stance. She grew up in a mostly human neighbourhood, so her parents taught her to be "proud but quiet" about being a werewolf, which she never questioned. While she favoured the shifter community (highlighted by her career aspirations), she never had active issues with humans. As soon as she meets Jack (Grayson's father), she starts to change her view on the human/shifter situation and starts openly sharing Jack's opinion that shifters "are better than humans". It's a massive case of racism. In addition, I found her change especially problematic (and also Jack's opinion in general) because Jackson's wife is a human and Trapp is dating a human at the time. Vanessa even mentions that she can't understand why Trapp is wasting his time with a human woman when he could have a nice wolf instead.
Grayson, on the other hand, is a cold-hearted asshole. He's extremely arrogant, whines about his father's plans for him (e.g., "being a judge can't finance this lifestyle"), and gives generally major "rich privileged white cis man" vibes. I think of him as a buff, dark-haired Christian Grey as they both share the "I fuck, I don't love" view. Just like Vanessa, he's also manipulative and plays massive mind games with her (which borderline on emotional abuse at the workplace in my opinion). In my opinion, he isn't even just an "alphahole", he's just an abusive, mean asshole. And while he's a cold-hearted asshole mostly with Vanessa, and at work, he's rather open and warm with his family, which gave me whiplash.
(So far, the only Hemming werewolf that doesn't annoy me is Trapp but it might change after reading his book that comes out in summer 2024.)
ROMANCE
It's a toxic workplace romance that functions mostly on the forbidden aspect of it and feels very obsessive. While they aren't officially committed to each other, and occasionally fuck other men/women, they both react very jealously whenever one of them fucked someone else. Especially Grayson as soon as Vanessa had been with another werewolf between the full moon phases. Neither of them can communicate with the other (out of stubbornness/fear/... - there's no official mention of it but they have massive miscommunication issues), which results in problems in the last third of the book. If either of them had actually said "Hey, I want to be in a serious relationship with you" (which is something that Vanessa had been chasing pretty early on and Grayson had the possessive behaviour to match), they would have been a lot happier with each other.
I would rate the sex scenes with 4 🌶️ on the spice scale as they are rather graphic and explicit.
TW & CW
For general trigger warnings, head the author's warnings at the beginning of the book.
inappropriate workplace romance, power imbalance between main characters (boss/semi-direct employee), general sexual content, toxic relationship, abortion & unwanted pregnancy, emotional abuse, classism/racism, sexual assault/harassment (at the Lupercalia festival), gossiping at the workplace, non-monogamic relationship, discussions of trafficking
For the sexual content warnings:
primal play, knotting, breeding kink, power play, public sex & voyeurism, off-page sex with multiple partners, beastality (shifted shifter with unshifted shifter sex), soft BDSM vibes, choking/breathplay
TL;DR
A toxic and inappropriate workplace romance with highly unlikeable two wolf shifters as main characters who manipulate each other all the time. Plays in an established universe but can be read on its own. A darker, spicy paranormal romance without an actual HEA.
PLOT
The book follows Vanessa and her developing relationship with Grayson Hemming as well her development in her career as she joins the law office (where Grayson is one of the partners). The plot starts in the present, at the year's Lupercalia festival, before it does a time jump into the past (six years prior and then from there to the present again), so the reader learns more about her and Grayson's relationship. Don't expect too much plot as sex plays the major factor in their relationship.
WORLD-BUILDING & MAGIC
As previously said, it plays in the Cambric Creek universe but mostly outside of Cambric Creek in Bridgeton as the law office is situated there. Cambric Creek starts to become the setting from the halfway point onwards when they go on dates or have lunch with Grayson's family after a full moon. Of course, the coffee shop, that plays a role in Morning Glory Milking Farm as well as in Sweet Berries is the setting for one scene as well. As the majority happens either at the law office, Grayson's house or at the Lupercalia festival, the entire world-building is rather shallow.
My personal issue with the Lupercalia festival: it's basically a sex party that is excused with "ancient rites". I wouldn't mind it much but the author mentions something along the lines of "if you are wolf, you will participate because it is in your nature" and Trapp appears shortly afterwards who is - as far as the reader knows - at the point in a committed relationship with a human woman. And it is known that Trapp participates because Vanessa thinks about how it would be if he would catch and fuck her at the festival.
CHARACTERS
Vanessa and Grayson are the main characters of the book but the reader meets the rest of his family as well (or again if they already read another book of the Cambric Creek universe as the Hemming family is a major player). Both characters are highly unsympathetic as they are manipulative assholes (mostly with each other but Vanessa also uses Grayson's family to get back at him when he left her).
In general, Vanessa is a horrible character. She is constantly scheming and planning to keep him interested ("the chase") but also to advance her career (and how she could use her new relationships with Grayson's family to her advantage). Especially icky in my opinion: the change of her political stance. She grew up in a mostly human neighbourhood, so her parents taught her to be "proud but quiet" about being a werewolf, which she never questioned. While she favoured the shifter community (highlighted by her career aspirations), she never had active issues with humans. As soon as she meets Jack (Grayson's father), she starts to change her view on the human/shifter situation and starts openly sharing Jack's opinion that shifters "are better than humans". It's a massive case of racism. In addition, I found her change especially problematic (and also Jack's opinion in general) because Jackson's wife is a human and Trapp is dating a human at the time. Vanessa even mentions that she can't understand why Trapp is wasting his time with a human woman when he could have a nice wolf instead.
Grayson, on the other hand, is a cold-hearted asshole. He's extremely arrogant, whines about his father's plans for him (e.g., "being a judge can't finance this lifestyle"), and gives generally major "rich privileged white cis man" vibes. I think of him as a buff, dark-haired Christian Grey as they both share the "I fuck, I don't love" view. Just like Vanessa, he's also manipulative and plays massive mind games with her (which borderline on emotional abuse at the workplace in my opinion). In my opinion, he isn't even just an "alphahole", he's just an abusive, mean asshole. And while he's a cold-hearted asshole mostly with Vanessa, and at work, he's rather open and warm with his family, which gave me whiplash.
(So far, the only Hemming werewolf that doesn't annoy me is Trapp but it might change after reading his book that comes out in summer 2024.)
ROMANCE
It's a toxic workplace romance that functions mostly on the forbidden aspect of it and feels very obsessive. While they aren't officially committed to each other, and occasionally fuck other men/women, they both react very jealously whenever one of them fucked someone else. Especially Grayson as soon as Vanessa had been with another werewolf between the full moon phases. Neither of them can communicate with the other (out of stubbornness/fear/... - there's no official mention of it but they have massive miscommunication issues), which results in problems in the last third of the book. If either of them had actually said "Hey, I want to be in a serious relationship with you" (which is something that Vanessa had been chasing pretty early on and Grayson had the possessive behaviour to match), they would have been a lot happier with each other.
I would rate the sex scenes with 4 🌶️ on the spice scale as they are rather graphic and explicit.
TW & CW
For general trigger warnings, head the author's warnings at the beginning of the book.
inappropriate workplace romance, power imbalance between main characters (boss/semi-direct employee), general sexual content, toxic relationship, abortion & unwanted pregnancy, emotional abuse, classism/racism, sexual assault/harassment (at the Lupercalia festival), gossiping at the workplace, non-monogamic relationship, discussions of trafficking
For the sexual content warnings:
primal play, knotting, breeding kink, power play, public sex & voyeurism, off-page sex with multiple partners, beastality (shifted shifter with unshifted shifter sex), soft BDSM vibes, choking/breathplay
TL;DR
A toxic and inappropriate workplace romance with highly unlikeable two wolf shifters as main characters who manipulate each other all the time. Plays in an established universe but can be read on its own. A darker, spicy paranormal romance without an actual HEA.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Classism
Minor: Trafficking
kittym0nster's review against another edition
emotional
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Abortion
litwitchbitch's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content
Minor: Abortion
zarakoconnor's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Eh. Not my favourite by the author, wish their dynamic was fleshed out more than thinly veiled office sex. Smutty, if that is your thing. But not a great romance plot.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Blood, Abortion, and Alcohol
Minor: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment/assault is alluded to, not between the MC’s. Sexual assault is referenced in the final chapter.spellbookspines's review against another edition
3.0
Unexpected migraine rep!!
Content Warnings
Minor: Abortion
rainycraze's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Abortion
mizmanderz's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abortion
inkdrinkers's review against another edition
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book is NOT for everyone. But it was for me.
Vanessa is a fangs-to-your-jugular civil litigator turned private attorney, her eyes on the prize of rising up in the ranks of career and ultimately making partner at a private law firm. That is, until she meets Greyson Hemming, who just happens to make her a little insane. But she refuses to let him derail her life and her work. Told in snippets of their relationship over the span of six years, Run, Run Rabbit lets the two wolves run circles around each other and somehow both come out on top.
I'm going to preface this review with this is NOT the Cambric Creek you know from the softer tales. This is dark, it has a "happy for now" ending (that's solidified with cuteness in Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic) and it features two assholes who hate each other just as much as they love each other. If that isn't your cup of tea, this entire book won't be your cup of tea. In fact, if you don't like Nascosta's non-linear writing, you're going to loathe this. Which is fine, but shuffle along little buffalo, because I ADORED IT.
I feel like I rarely get to read a main character who is so unabashedly feral. Vanessa is just that. Her ferality is just a part of her character - yes, she has a sincere drive to get what she wants, and no one is going to stop it, even herself. There is a bluntness to her character that I really adore. She only takes shit from Greyson when she knows it's what needs to happen, but she also refuses to let him hold her on a leash. She knows she's smart, she knows she's competent, and she addresses the very real fear that her casual relationship with Greyson will end up imploding her career. She just felt like a character that very much made her decisions, stuck with them, and moved the hell on with her life even when they were the wrong ones in the moment. It was so freaking refreshing.
People are going to loathe Greyson in this book. And, honestly, good? Vanessa is no angel, Greyson is so far from one - but that didn't stop me from developing a soft spot in my heart for him. In all of his barking brashness, I found myself really enjoying the way Nascosta portrayed his incessant need to stay on top - until the end when he realizes that to do that, it doesn't mean he has to be miserable the entire time. I also LOVE the migraine rep with him. I feel like I never, ever get to see migraine representation in novels but Greyson is just 100% the best one I've read. From his need for ice cold rooms, black-out curtains, and the on-page discussion of forcing his ass to the ER if it doesn't quit - I loved it. He had a very hot and cold demeanor on page, but I felt like I could really feel him grow to love Vanessa in his actions, even as misguided and infuriating as they were.
I would call this a true enemies to lovers. There are more than a few moments that Greyson and Vanessa are awful to each other in the ways only two people who love each other can be awful. It cuts to the quick, but I really did find myself rooting for them by the end. I support all of Vanessa's conniving wrongs and fully diabolical plots to get Greyson to realize he can't exist without her.
Also, congratulations, this is my first Nascosta getting a five star. I loved it that much.
Content warnings: DARK romance, sexual content (lots of scenes, omegaverse centric with werewolves, non-exclusive relationship**), workplace romance, abortion, mild emotional abuse (Vanessa and Greyson fight a lot, they aren't a very happy couple and they're emotionally constipated about it), third act breakup (because they're stupid okay, we've established this)
**Vanessa and Greyson are NON-EXCLUSIVE for a majority of this book, they are not labeled, and sleep together casually during the full moon. And while they have feelings for each other, they both continue to sleep around. If this bothers you, don't read this book.
Vanessa is a fangs-to-your-jugular civil litigator turned private attorney, her eyes on the prize of rising up in the ranks of career and ultimately making partner at a private law firm. That is, until she meets Greyson Hemming, who just happens to make her a little insane. But she refuses to let him derail her life and her work. Told in snippets of their relationship over the span of six years, Run, Run Rabbit lets the two wolves run circles around each other and somehow both come out on top.
I'm going to preface this review with this is NOT the Cambric Creek you know from the softer tales. This is dark, it has a "happy for now" ending (that's solidified with cuteness in Moon Blooded Breeding Clinic) and it features two assholes who hate each other just as much as they love each other. If that isn't your cup of tea, this entire book won't be your cup of tea. In fact, if you don't like Nascosta's non-linear writing, you're going to loathe this. Which is fine, but shuffle along little buffalo, because I ADORED IT.
I feel like I rarely get to read a main character who is so unabashedly feral. Vanessa is just that. Her ferality is just a part of her character - yes, she has a sincere drive to get what she wants, and no one is going to stop it, even herself. There is a bluntness to her character that I really adore. She only takes shit from Greyson when she knows it's what needs to happen, but she also refuses to let him hold her on a leash. She knows she's smart, she knows she's competent, and she addresses the very real fear that her casual relationship with Greyson will end up imploding her career. She just felt like a character that very much made her decisions, stuck with them, and moved the hell on with her life even when they were the wrong ones in the moment. It was so freaking refreshing.
People are going to loathe Greyson in this book. And, honestly, good? Vanessa is no angel, Greyson is so far from one - but that didn't stop me from developing a soft spot in my heart for him. In all of his barking brashness, I found myself really enjoying the way Nascosta portrayed his incessant need to stay on top - until the end when he realizes that to do that, it doesn't mean he has to be miserable the entire time. I also LOVE the migraine rep with him. I feel like I never, ever get to see migraine representation in novels but Greyson is just 100% the best one I've read. From his need for ice cold rooms, black-out curtains, and the on-page discussion of forcing his ass to the ER if it doesn't quit - I loved it. He had a very hot and cold demeanor on page, but I felt like I could really feel him grow to love Vanessa in his actions, even as misguided and infuriating as they were.
I would call this a true enemies to lovers. There are more than a few moments that Greyson and Vanessa are awful to each other in the ways only two people who love each other can be awful. It cuts to the quick, but I really did find myself rooting for them by the end. I support all of Vanessa's conniving wrongs and fully diabolical plots to get Greyson to realize he can't exist without her.
Also, congratulations, this is my first Nascosta getting a five star. I loved it that much.
Content warnings: DARK romance, sexual content (lots of scenes, omegaverse centric with werewolves, non-exclusive relationship**), workplace romance, abortion, mild emotional abuse (Vanessa and Greyson fight a lot, they aren't a very happy couple and they're emotionally constipated about it), third act breakup (because they're stupid okay, we've established this)
**Vanessa and Greyson are NON-EXCLUSIVE for a majority of this book, they are not labeled, and sleep together casually during the full moon. And while they have feelings for each other, they both continue to sleep around. If this bothers you, don't read this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Abortion
ladysadiereads's review against another edition
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.0
Not going to lie this one took me a minute to get into! I adore CMN’s work and have been lucky enough to be a Patreon of theirs for over a year. (It is a blast!) But while I adored Vanessa and how feisty she is - Grayson really is a piece of work! Pure alphahole on every page. I struggled with that - as I don’t get hate banging or enemies to lovers very often - but in the end I once again adored it and was left going… wait am I in to this?
It is interesting that Grayson never has a POV and it speaks to Nascosta’s talent that even without his explicit explanation of what is happening - the reader can feel his frustration and and his own push/ pull of his own feelings for Vanessa. And those Hemmings… well they are the werewolf Kennedys and their family dynamics are intense and I can’t wait to see more of it!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Abortion