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Keeping Karma by Tory Temple

aligroen's review

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3.0

A Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words Review An Alisa Review:

This was an enjoyable story. Alex has learned to keep his ability a secret so others don’t think he’s crazy. It is a benefit sometimes when helping injured animals.

This story is told from Alex’s point of view. You can see how both characters feel about each other through his eyes and as their relationship develops. When Dylan learns about him “hearing” animals Alex is sure that their relationship will be over.

This was not a very deep story, you could tell the characters’ feelings, but they didn’t do too much to delve into the feelings. This story was nice, but my only thing is they didn’t really resolve their issue just glossed over it with everything been fine in the end.

Cover art by Anna Sikorska is cute and I wouldn’t do anything different.

ktomp17's review

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3.0

Alex is a vet tech in school who is able to hear basic snippets of thoughts of animals. He works overnights in the emergency animal clinic. Dylan is an animal control officer who brings an animal in one night. They talk, flirt, and eventually start dating. Overall, they are a cute couple.

There is a lot of sex in the book, and while I appreciate good sex in a book, sometimes it felt that there was no other major plot or reason for the sex other than just to add more pages. There were a ton of things that could've been written to make the story have a little more beef, and that opportunity was unfortunately missed.

I didn't like the end, and that made me chose 3 stars instead of rounding up to 4. There was some good story with Dylan finding out about his gift, but the ending was really glossed over. They didn't deal with anything as a couple. We were just told things were off and then all of a sudden everything is great. We didn't get to see any true resolution happen. It was not fulfilling at all.
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