Serena Akeroyd
Autor(a) de Filthy
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Obras por Serena Akeroyd
Filthy Richer 8 exemplares
The Ascended: A PNR, Academy, Why Choose Romance (The Eight Wings Collection Book 1) (2020) 5 exemplares
Long Live Queen Perry (Kingdom of Veronia, #3) 4 exemplares
Frustrated Instincts (Naughty Nookie, #7) 4 exemplares
All Sinner No Saint: A Why Choose, Dark, MC Romance (The Hell's Rebel's Collection Book 1) (2020) 3 exemplares
Dare You To Keep Me (Hawkridge High #2) 3 exemplares
Filthy Rich Romance: 2023 Collection — Autor — 3 exemplares
The Strength of Love (The Luck of Love, #3) 2 exemplares
Unwritten 2 exemplares
Filthy Rich Romance: 2022 Initial Collection — Autor — 2 exemplares
North (Dark and Dirty Sinners' MC, #11) 2 exemplares
Quintessence: The Boxset 4-6 1 exemplar
Finally Faeling (Eight Wings Academy #3) 1 exemplar
TBD (Satan's Sinners' MC: Ohio Chapter, #2) 1 exemplar
Quintessence: The Boxset 7-9 1 exemplar
Waiting Game: New York Stars 1 exemplar
Quintessence: The Boxset: Books 1-3 1 exemplar
A Taste of Magic 1 exemplar
Salsang Chronicles; Boxset 1 exemplar
Faeling Hard (Eight Wings Academy #2) 1 exemplar
Edwina (Naughty Nookie #3) 1 exemplar
The Depth of Love (The Luck of Love #4) 1 exemplar
Yanked (The Yank Effect #1) 1 exemplar
Yank Me (The Yank Effect #2) 1 exemplar
Rain (Dark and Dirty Sinners' MC, #12) 1 exemplar
A Menage Made on Madison (The Federation #1) 1 exemplar
Âmes sœurs: L'année du loup, T1 1 exemplar
Secrets and Lies 1 exemplar
Bratva: Five Points' Mob Universe: One 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Hell Hath No Fury: A Romance Anthology for Reproductive Rights (2022) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
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- Obras
- 140
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- 962
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- #26,760
- Avaliação
- 4.0
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- 48
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Everything is very much made up on the spot and developed on the fly.
This is particularly true for the world-building/magic system.
The main problem with this is that the author changes the rules just as freely if necessary.
Beyond that, I don't really have big issues with the first book, partly because it really is just setup.
There isn't any actual plot yet. I've seen others complain about this in their reviews. But, maybe because I had already been warned, it didn't bother me at all.
The series really started to sink with the second book.
This series very much requires to be read in sequence but the author still does the whole newcomer thing and explains everything again in very crude and artless info-dumps.
Immediately after, we continue with a lot of incredibly frustrating dialogue.
A few of the protagonists talk about the whole mate thing and explain it to the MC. But they do it in this incredibly roundabout and awkward way. That leads to a back and forth in which they repeatedly throw insults at her for every painfully bad explanation she doesn't understand. It really comes across like the whole point of the conversation is to humiliate her, even though that obviously wasn't the author's intention.
Something else very frustrating that starts to appear in the second book.
The revelations, while predictable to a versed reader, take ages for the protagonists to uncover. And sometimes, when they finally manage it, the author time-skips over the actual scene and continues with an unrelated POV and a whole bunch of dry exposition followed by plain filler.
Why the hell do you interrupt a high tension situation and go on an arduous tangent from a different POV?
Throughout a typical story, there are high tension sections interweaved with relaxing interludes. The latter is the place for info-dumpy world-building and stuff like that. If your exposition/info-dumping is so boring and dry that you fear people might actually drop the book without holding the plot progression hostage, you should consider improving on it or delivering it in smaller chunks instead.
I could never appreciate it when stories so obviously drag out revelations. In Manga/Comic/TV series this is called filler, and none of the reasons why it is done in those applies to a book series like this. It's annoying and doesn't even serve a purpose.
I actually read through the second book and even started the third before abandoning the series, mainly because I already had them lined up in a playlist and hadn't yet found another interesting book that was available to me.
Verdict, I do NOT recommend even to RH fans.… (mais)