KandJ

Selfish characters and bad history ‘facts’

Revisado: 04-23-25

The first book in this series was a delightful little read, so I immediately picked up the second. I was disappointed. Than and secondary characters were all pretty selfish and sometime downright mean. The male lead was really rude to multiple people on multiple occasions with no awareness of his impact. I was waiting for a redemption arc, and I guess there was one, but when the he used officiating a wedding to talk about how he was a jerk, well, that’s just inappropriate. That bad enough, but the female lead constantly whining about not getting to plan a wedding her friend didn’t want, and then to use the party at the end to talk about how grateful she was to be able to throw a party, it’s just like they learned nothing and were supposed to be all ‘yay, love’. I guess the couple deserves each other. Also, the ‘fact’ at the end that queen Victoria had a happy marriage is just wrong, her husband was a know cheated and their marriage was turbulent at best.

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Just, ugh - don’t bother with this one

Revisado: 01-02-25

I was very excited to read this book. I love books about books, magic, time travel, etc.. Turns out this is that and also horror, badly written women, sexism, and underdeveloped characters. The three separate times there is a scene where two women share a meal they talk about being worried about their weight- which just seems unnecessary and like the author doesn’t get women. The villains are pure evil with no sympathetic parts. One of them just makes racist and sexist remarks- if is supposedly super sharp? Smart villains give better insults. It just goes down from there.

The book needed a better edit- it has potential but never gets there for me. Also, the many death scenes are gratuitous and overdone.

Will be returning this one!

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Cozy and heartfelt

Revisado: 12-08-24

The characters are engaging, the story is both unpredictable and predictable in the best ways, and the narrator pulls you in. Lovely book.

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She did it again

Revisado: 10-07-24

I love Molly Harper, I’ve bought all her paranormal series. She always makes me laugh, her characters feel like friends, and the romance is steamy but not to the level where I’m embarrassed to recommend the series to coworkers. This book had me engrossed all weekend, and I can’t wait to go re-listen.

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Great narrators, meh on story

Revisado: 09-29-24

Narration was excellent. The story itself just struck me as mediocre. Selfish characters, passionless romance, and too little reality to it. You can’t have a true romance without honesty, and both main characters lied to each other constantly. Not for me.

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Spineless sisters and mean side characters

Revisado: 09-09-24

Unbelievable main characters with very little depth and absolutely no spine in love with jerks who use them, and they just ‘go along’ with it. This was bad. The one sister is ‘so sheltered’ that when her husband gets a nude photo from an anonymous number she ‘thinks it must be a photo of sick tree’. Are you kidding me. The way these women just put up with terrible men in their lives and ‘keep up appearances’ like 1950’s tv shows, it’s utterly unbelievable. Don’t bother downloading, it’s been as a free ‘plus’ catalog book it’s not worth it,

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Trite and boring

Revisado: 09-07-24

I tried to listen but the story was just so, trite. Narrator did a good job with a bad script.

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Disappointing and depressing

Revisado: 05-20-24

I have devoured everything written by this author and this is the first time I’ve felt let down. The characters are caricatures until the end of the book, especially the vegetarian farmer lesbians (as a queer woman, it was irritatingly stereotypical- at least they weren’t living in Iowa). I would have liked a little more self work and a little less flailing around till a great aha moment, followed by (spoiler) dropping everything for love. I mean, come on: at least give her a few months to figure out of maybe she wants to be a general practitioner instead of a brain surgeon.

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terrible narrator, racist language

Revisado: 01-21-24

The narrator is incredibly annoying, with the faux 1930's movie voice and strange intensity. The story is meh, but I was looking for something light and figured I'd push through. Unfortunately the author chose to repeatedly use offensive and racist language. It's bad enough that the main character makes constant jokes about her cheating ex-husband's penis size (aren't we past making fun of physical traits, there was so many better thing about hat jerk to be made fun of), and yells 'weather hooker' repeatedly about the women he cheated with - and really it's too much- but then she uses an extremely offensive term for being cheated (one used against the Romani people). At that point I just said 'nope, done' and walked away.

This could have been an amusing story, there was a lot of potential, but the immature and offensive language was too much- it was written in 2021. Offensive and worng.

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Unlikeable main characters

Revisado: 01-07-24

Storyline was ridiculous and the idea that the woman lead would be so self sacrificing to the point of hurting herself for some selfish dude was just painful. I’m so tired of these types of stories where the heroine is 100% selfless - grow a spine lady, and the grossness of her best friend being like ‘here’s my sloppy seconds, enjoy, I’m off the the tropics’. Just. No.

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