A review by ali23
Playing with Monsters by Amelia Hutchins
3.0
*3.5
I took a day to get my thoughts together on this book. I wanted to be fair and not compare this book to my all time favorite paranormal series, Fae Chronicles.
Lena - I found her likeable and a firecracker but also a pushover. Her twin sister betrays her; shows no anger and takes it. Her mother never sticks up for her; shows no anger and takes it. She lets Cassidy and her mother treat her like crap; and takes it. I wished she showed more of a backbone and put people in their place.
Lucien - I found him to be very alpha and a mystery. I want to know what the heck he is. I tried to piece together the clues and still nothing, but I feel that the answer is so obvious that when its revealed I'll feel stupid.
What I liked:
The premise of the story
The main H/h
The dialogue
My favorite characters from the Fae Chronicles appearances
The slow burn between H/h
What I didn't like:
The supporting characters
How careless the H/h were about public sex
How the h was a pushover
The reason for my rating was due to a few issues. One, Lena's twin sister, Kendra, was just horrible and unlikable. She sleeps with Lena ex-fiancé - for 3 years- hangs out with Cassidy (the girl who her fiancé cheated on her with), never told Lena about the affair (someone else did), is in love with the ex, and had this jealousy vibe going on. With all of this Lena just takes it. I get that she's family and your ex would never make Lena happy but she never put Kendra in her place nor told her how can she hangout with someone who contributed to her leaving. Kendra was selfish on so many levels. Lena's mother never had Lena's back and let the community basically bully her. Lena's father is just a pathetic excuse to be called a father. Overall, the secondary characters sucked and took away from the book. I literally had to stop reading at times because I was so annoyed.
The sex scenes where hot like fire, but their first sex act started out and ended as a turnoff. I am hate when the H has no regards to the h's body. To me, no alpha male wants anyone to see his women but Lucien just didn't care and that was a turn off. Then Lena just didn't care and pranced around naked and screwing him. Some of the sex scenes was just out of place. I'm all for sex but these were just out of place, but super hot.
The premise of this book was really good and a mystery. I have my own theory regarding Katarina. I believe she's somehow in both Lena and Kendra. I feel Lena got her powers and pure soul while Kendra got everything else. I also found it odd that Lena's mother had two sets of twins...... Hmmmmmm. I also think Katerina and Lucian had a misunderstanding and the coven played a big role with this miscommunication, which started this neverending circle of death and heartache. Maybe just maybe someone tried to correct this mistake by creating twins..... I can't wait until book 2 because the cliffhanger was sooooo annoying (good annoying) I get why Lucien did what he did, but it will blow up in his face and it's pretty obvious Lena is carrying his baby.
I took a day to get my thoughts together on this book. I wanted to be fair and not compare this book to my all time favorite paranormal series, Fae Chronicles.
Lena - I found her likeable and a firecracker but also a pushover. Her twin sister betrays her; shows no anger and takes it. Her mother never sticks up for her; shows no anger and takes it. She lets Cassidy and her mother treat her like crap; and takes it. I wished she showed more of a backbone and put people in their place.
Lucien - I found him to be very alpha and a mystery. I want to know what the heck he is. I tried to piece together the clues and still nothing, but I feel that the answer is so obvious that when its revealed I'll feel stupid.
What I liked:
The premise of the story
The main H/h
The dialogue
My favorite characters from the Fae Chronicles appearances
The slow burn between H/h
What I didn't like:
The supporting characters
How careless the H/h were about public sex
How the h was a pushover
The reason for my rating was due to a few issues. One, Lena's twin sister, Kendra, was just horrible and unlikable. She sleeps with Lena ex-fiancé - for 3 years- hangs out with Cassidy (the girl who her fiancé cheated on her with), never told Lena about the affair (someone else did), is in love with the ex, and had this jealousy vibe going on. With all of this Lena just takes it. I get that she's family and your ex would never make Lena happy but she never put Kendra in her place nor told her how can she hangout with someone who contributed to her leaving. Kendra was selfish on so many levels. Lena's mother never had Lena's back and let the community basically bully her. Lena's father is just a pathetic excuse to be called a father. Overall, the secondary characters sucked and took away from the book. I literally had to stop reading at times because I was so annoyed.
The sex scenes where hot like fire, but their first sex act started out and ended as a turnoff. I am hate when the H has no regards to the h's body. To me, no alpha male wants anyone to see his women but Lucien just didn't care and that was a turn off. Then Lena just didn't care and pranced around naked and screwing him. Some of the sex scenes was just out of place. I'm all for sex but these were just out of place, but super hot.
The premise of this book was really good and a mystery. I have my own theory regarding Katarina. I believe she's somehow in both Lena and Kendra. I feel Lena got her powers and pure soul while Kendra got everything else. I also found it odd that Lena's mother had two sets of twins...... Hmmmmmm. I also think Katerina and Lucian had a misunderstanding and the coven played a big role with this miscommunication, which started this neverending circle of death and heartache. Maybe just maybe someone tried to correct this mistake by creating twins..... I can't wait until book 2 because the cliffhanger was sooooo annoying (good annoying) I get why Lucien did what he did, but it will blow up in his face and it's pretty obvious Lena is carrying his baby.