I really, really tried. I did.

I thought perhaps Van Dalen's poor writing in his Prince's Loving Guards series was simply because they were plotless, airheaded erotica. Unfortunately – for me, more specifically – Van Dalen's writing is of Wattpad quality regardless of publishing length.

Usually I try and finish books I dislike so I can accurately & cohesively critique why I didn't like them; I think it's imperative to giving negative critique & necessary to properly deconstruct why a media does or doesn't work. However, I got to the 160-page mark, suffering the entire time, and asked myself, "does a poorly-written smut book really deserve this much effort to critique it?"

The answer is no. It doesn't.

Again, as I said for my review of Van Dalen's previous novellas: if you're looking for well-written erotica, go to AO3 instead. I am being 100% serious when I say there's far better written and significantly more interesting erotica on there than in these books.