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Overall: Disappointed ☹️

Lowered my expectations for the book about a few pages in as I realised it was going to be a good ol’ smutty book - this meant I was okay if the author ‘told me’ instead of ‘showed me’ the characters, their backstory and the setting, I would have been okay with insta love/lust etc. Even then, I was disappointed and DNF at 85%.

• 🐢 Pacing - I thought it overly descriptive and found myself skipping a few paragraphs at time. Story was draggy at times, especially towards the end. I gave up at 85% because it felt like the author dragged things out for too long.

• 👫🏻 Characters - Auriela was alright; Weston is okay but didn’t particularly make me swoon; Hadriel was my favourite because he seemed the most complex of all the characters and had his own personality. Shame this wasn’t the same with the leads.

• 🌶️ Sex scenes - steamy ♨️, but I wished there was more attention spent on the story instead of them making out. They also had sex within the first two or three chapters of the book which I thought was too soon (I get they’re true mates, but still 🫤). There was quite a bit of angry/hate sex, which isn’t my thing, but that’s just my preference.

• 📖 Story USP - meh. Reference to little red riding hood, but mainly an alpha werewolf/true mates story. I thought the premise of Auriela being a drug maker was interesting and Weston ‘the police’. There was potential, but execution fell short.

reyjay77's review against another edition

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adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

kamato94's review against another edition

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2.5

Didn't love it but everything seems set up for a very eventful sequel

rorey's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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1.0

This was atrocious. No character development, the same repetitive thoughts and actions over and over and over again. Aurelia is supposed to be 27!!!!! Yet the amount of immaturity and ignorance she exhibits are the same of a pre-teen. I mean, sure trauma, it sets you back, but after discovering everything that’s been done to you, besides the obvious, for sure you’d reconsider your outlook, right?

Nah, bruh, she’s ready to throw it away at the first opportunity. She never listens to reason, has no analytical or self-preservation skills. The dialogue is the same as the fan-fics I tried to write when I was 11. Even the smut was yucky.

Not to mention that the story, character-driven as it is, did not move forward the whole time. The plot began at around 50% while I’d thought I was in the first 40 pages. Then it’s bad kindergarten humour and bullshit until the end of the book.

I cannot fathom the high reviews this book got.

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3.0

I waffled on my rating for this one, but ultimately landed on 3 stars because

1. It was much longer than it needed to be. Some things were too repetitive (e.g., the arguments about how addictive the product was). We also didn’t need to read about so many days of traveling when many didn’t add anything to the story.

2. Aurelia could be bullish and naive and stubborn to the point of annoyance. I think it contributed to the first point I made. There were times when it felt like the story couldn’t progress because of Aurelia’s rampant denial of the circumstances.

3. The last chapter was abrupt and felt different from the rest of the story. What was revealed and how Aurelia processed it didn’t align with the growth her character had been making.

But Weston and Hadriel were pros to this book and I’m going to give the second book a try!

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