Bridget Taylor

This was nonstop bad shit happening to the same person over and over and over again.

The books are short and focus on a single bad thing happening to the FMC, Leslie. She owns a dog rescue/shelter in Long Beach, CA and hopes to buy the space next to her shop to expand. Well, a hunky man named Kane swoops in and buys it out from under her. She’s livid and goes to give this too hot man a piece of her mind but he turns the tables on her and begins a sizzling on-off will they won’t they relationship.

Leslie seems like a pretty with-it character and it’s sad that the author felt she had to put her through bad scenario after bad scenario. Things went to shit fast and just got worse; almost as if the author had a roulette wheel of “Bad Stuff to Regular People” and she spun it every time she wanted to write. There’s a recurring bad guy throughout the series and then of course there’s the relationship itself which has its own issues.

Kane is a secret billionaire (duh) who owns and runs a tattoo shop. It’s explained how he became a billionaire and I appreciate that it had something to do with his trade and actually made sense for his character. There’s an okay amount of development for his character. The reader learns why he’s closed off (more bad shit to good people) and doesn’t want a relationship with Leslie. It’s hard to find one of these KU romances that actually has character development in them so this was nice.

Leslie is a badass. She’s got herself together, owns a business, is educated, has an awareness about herself and how she wants to be perceived in the world. She isn’t this teenybopper virgin who’s so shy that the MMC has to devour her innocence. Leslie is a powerful female and I like that shit. She knows she is sexually attracted to Kane but she knows he’s hiding something; while she isn’t wrong, it is also some pretty heavy stuff.

For the most part, this series goes through at a decent speed, what a real relationship between adults would look like - for the most part. It is a work of fiction so there’s a few suspend beliefs here and there but not too many. Surprisingly, there weren’t too many grammatical/editorial errors in this digital version.

This is a bundle offered through my Kindle Unlimited subscription and is combined with The Broken Innocence Series by the same author. All thoughts and opinions are my own.… (mais)

DNF’d

It really bothered me that the FMC was basically told that she had to allow the CEO to sexually harass her or her job and her teams could be in jeopardy at the beginning of the story. I’ve read some pretty gross “plot adds” in the last few romances lately and I’m wondering why they’re necessary.

Having a character being told to accept sexual harassment under threat of job loss and to compound that with guilt for the potential backlash to reflect on others is not a great plot point; even if the FMC and the CEO will end up really getting together later.

Dominant male characters are one thing, sexual harassment is another. Let’s stop making romance/erotica creepy and gross.

**All thoughts and opinions are my own.**… (mais)