A review by goliathfrog
Ambushing Ariel by S.E. Smith

1.0

DNF around 60%. Take in my biggest pet peeves from the prior books (especially the internal dragon baby talk that sounds like it’s a Muppet for comic relief) and add to them a FMC who is weaponizing her emotions to get what she wants. Like, okay, to an extent I can understand that they’re in a new situation beyond their control, but Ariel is the WORST. She is all about saving the animals and is on a crusade despite the comfort, desires, or feelings of any other people. She brings what is considered food to everyone on this planet into their home and parades them around, allows them to destroy personal property, and then gets mad at everyone else for trying to eat these things. She cries every time she doesn’t get her way. She wanted animals sleeping in the bed and then got so hyper emotional and upset when the guy was like ‘can we please not’ and she turned pretty vicious with her comments back to him. She claims she was emotionally abused, but she’s weaponizing it and being emotionally abusive herself as a result. She knows that this guy would do basically anything to make her happy and she uses that against him in every fricken argument.

Awful.