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A carregar... American Prince (2017)por Sierra Simone
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Ugh, this was kinda of a disappointment! I went into the really expecting, and hoping, to love this one. I almost gave the first book five stars and I was excited to see how the relationship established in that book would develop in this one. Unfortunately, that isn't really the plot I got. I'm going to try to write a review without any spoilers for book one but a lot of my problems from this book stems from the fact that I felt like the plot of this book didn't follow well from book one. The first book ended on a cliff hanger that seemed like it would be a very interesting plot. However, the main part of that conflict is resolved relatively quickly and there were so many flashbacks that I kept getting taken out of the plot. In book one, I would be so sucked in that I could read a hundred pages at the time and not realize it. Because I didn't really care for the flashbacks, anytime one came up, I would want to stop reading. There also were some huge character issues for me in this book. Embry came off as so self-loathing which made this whole book so hard to read. It used a plot device that I really hate that made me hate his perspective even more. Also I should say that there is some stuff that I would describe as consensual non-consent The last chapters of this book also got a bit ridiculous. This series isn't exactly rooted in realism but the end of this book took it even farther and I thought it got a bit silly. I can't describe the events without spoiling but I'll put them after the spoiler tag. I went into this really wanting to continue to like this series and I'm really sad that I didn't like this one as much. I'm hoping that the third book will bring me back around but I guess we'll have to wait and see. This is all about the psychology of the Ash/Embry relationship touched on in American Princess, and a furtherance of this modern rendering of Morte d'Arthur begun in that book. There is sex. There is, once again, super smutty sex. What there is not, is hot sex. This is fraught sex. It is sex that is happening for REASONS. The fraught nature of the sex creates a weird paradox. The underlying story in this book is wildly absurd. Really. And also absurd is the concept that there are one or two people in the universe you are irretrievably drawn to and you are powerless to deny the "love. But then there is an undeniable verisimilitude in the motivations of these characters, all of them, to act the way they act (until the end, which is ridiculous even if you are trying to create a modern Lancelot) and to beg people to hurt them, to scar them, to cause them real pain. The first Embry/Greer sex scene is freaking sick and horrifying, and triggering, but it also makes sense. I have seen a lot of pat answers in BDSM romances about why people need, or at least crave debasement and physical harm (giving or receiving) and some of them are so ridiculously Psych 101 (50 Shades comes immediately to mind, but there are many others) that all one can do is roll their eyes and move on. This series, and especially this book, comes closer to Tiffany Reisz than EL James. It is fascinating climbing inside the skin of these people. Another plus for me - the author is smart, has a nuanced knowledge and understanding of English lit and mythology. (I enjoyed the lit exposition at least as much as the clit exposition in these books.) Petroclus rarely makes appearances in books with good 3-ways. Its too bad really. He is an intriguing character, as are most characters damned to hell. All in all worth a read, but not nearly so fun as American Princess, nor as sexy -- IMHO not much hot happens in this book despite the frequent pulsing, pushing, gripping, dripping, shooting and clenching. Yes, I did check out the final book in this trilogy and its next on the playlist so let's see where we end up. **** Note that I got these on audio through Hoopla, and the male reader of this book is really bad. He is supposed to be Embry, and there are two major issues. The first, his "Ash voice" is laughable, its so affected, like a child imitating a teacher -- a not very smart teacher. The second, Embry is supposed to be cultured and old-money. The reader does not properly enunciate, which would not be typical in Embry's circles. Servants would be expected to speak more precisely, and certainly favored sons would not get away with such sloppy articulation. The biggest issue is all the dropped "t" sounds. So "little" is "liddle" "important" is "impordand" "persistent" is "persisdand." Its not a few times, it is consistent, and it is off-putting. Educated people, especially Harvard grads who spent time at Oxford, speak properly. 5 stars Sweet holy hell. Taboo. Twisted. Epic. Unbelievable... I could go on and on with single adjectives and A LOT of swear words. This series. My heart. My world is rocked. This is a love story for the ages. Definitely, going to my all time favorites list. This is a whopper of a cliffhanger. I'm not seeing how this is going to end well for anyone. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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I've been many things. I've been a son and a stepbrother. An Army captain and a Vice President. But only with him am I a prince. His little prince. Only with Maxen and Greer does my world make sense, only between them can I find peace from the demons that haunt me. But men like me aren't made to be happy. We don't deserve it. And I should have known a love as sharp as ours could cut both ways. My name is Embry Moore and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States . . . for now. This is the story of an American Prince. Contains mature themes. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Loved it. Some areas that felt slow to me.
The areas of 'Withholding the truth/lack of Communication' bothered me even though I realize it was necessary for the story and Embry had good reasons. It felt unfair to me for both of them.
Super steamy and great flow. ( )