Top critical review
1.0 out of 5 starsWhat a disaster this book was -on all levels.
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2018
DNF - stopped at 65%, I just couldn’t take any more. Wish I could get my time back.
Let me start with a positive -for this cover, holy heck -I absolutely love this cover! ❤️
This cover, more than anything else, pulled me in & put it to the top of my TBR list!
Too bad that was all I liked about the book.
The story starts out with an interesting plot. But quickly fell apart. All the hate between the main characters just got to be too much. It was such a repetitive theme (but so much of this book was a repetitive theme) to the 65% point- that alone was enough for me to throw in the towel on this one. I can’t imagine the pair ever working things out at this point. It wasn’t just a “love/hate” thing either. Mentally- they hated each other, physically- they lusted for each other. I just don’t think physical lust can win over mental hate. I couldn’t take any more of these “nearly rape” scenes either, if Ryder doesn’t have to force a woman since he can have anyone anytime without force as he says, why does he seem to take so much pleasure in pushing Synthia with his fae powers into “near miss” sexual situations? It was worse than an actual physical rape in my mind!
I didn’t care for Synthia’s stupidity or the wishy-washy magic abilities. One minute she’s super smart, a super powerful witch, capable of leaping tall buildings (not really, but geesh) & solving crimes, the next minute she’s acting like an argumentative teenager with PMS who can’t seem to shut up enough to keep from sticking her foot in her mouth & causing her own dumb luck. I think she was supposed to come across as snarky, but it was an epic fail. Then there’s Ryder, he’s practically a Neanderthal caveman who happens to have fae abilities. Definitely not my next book boyfriend. Then there’s her so called friends, geesh, I wasn’t buying the friendship thing. Then there’s the name thing, to many similar “A” names used, just got confusing at times.
There were so many points screwed up in this book. Let’s go with needing some sort of index or guide for dummies on the supernatural for this book, since there’s so many varieties of supernaturals, like fairies, brownies, light fae, dark fae, Unseelie, the Dark Horde, and don’t forget vampires (who apparently were fae before they became vampires in this book), & ghosts (the list up to the point I quit I believe)...I just got so confused of what was what (except for the ghosts 😜) since the author seemed to throw things out there randomly, but not in he same context as every other book out there. (I always thought the Unseelie were the dark fae!) & I’d never heard of the Dark Horde before... and the dark fae in the book didn’t have pointy ears, only thing it sounded like they had was incredible good looks, weird eyes, & Magic.
The music, flashy cars & other notable background detail mentions just seemed weird. Seemed like they were stuck in the late 80’s or something. I feel sometimes that it’s better to leave off some of that detail stuff than to pull a book into a time warp. Then there’s all the proof-reading/editing/beta-reader non-catches. My biggest gripe! Stop having friends do this for you. Either hire it done by a professional, or find trust worthy people that are actually good at it! 😡 Just so many things wrong!
What a disaster this book was -on all levels.
