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This review is NSFA (Not Safe For Author)

Maybe this bombed so badly for me because I had too many expectations going in, but come on. This was unfortunately brutal. I’ll try to be a little nice about it, but it boils down to zero relationship focus or development, followed by a ‘suspenseful’ case I didn’t care one bit about. We didn’t get any backstory or any context that would make the case, the main focus of the story, interesting. I ended up zoning out whenever it was talked about, which was often. The first times the MCs met was great, as they immediately felt the mate pull, but after the first time someone orgasmed it all fell away.

I love romantic suspense books *so* much and have read a fuckton of them, so maybe that’s why badly written action gets on my nerves, but you mean to tell me you forcefully kick in a rusted old door to an abondoned factory with bad guys inside without any repercussions, but on the next page, a door creaking open can be heard echoing throughout the building?





That’s only a small part of my issues with the mystery case, but anything else would spoil the plot.

Also, I’m about to project a general annoyance with the genre on this book, which is unfortunate for the book but no less true. What the actual fricking frick is the point of shifter books, especially with tiny, adorable shifters, if they aren’t gonna hang around shifted for half the book? Why isn’t the cute sea otter being carried around and cuddled the shit out of by his big-ass fated mate? Huh? That’s why we read this genre! Sure they shifted *twice*, but it was so short and felt like an afterthought to the main plot, which I have already forgotten.

So, turns out that wasn’t very nice. In my defense I read this during 8 days of exams so maybe I would’ve disliked whatever I ended up reading.

My first by this author and although the writing itself was decent, it wasn’t the right story for me, obviously.


⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Romantic suspense
Fated mates
Shifters
Orca shifter
Sea otter shifter
Bounty hunter MC
Hacker MC
Age gap
Size difference
BIPOC MC
Interracial relationship
Morally gray MCs

⚠️ Content warning ⚠️
Mention of the death of parents (past, off page)
Break-in and destruction of property (MC’s home)
MC drugged and abducted
MC held captive and beaten
Injured MC
Explicit sexual content
Death of bad guys

⚠️Book safety ⚠️
Cheating: No
Other person drama: No
Breakup: No
POV: 1st person, dual
Genre: Shifter romance
Pairing: M/M
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles
Main characters’ age: 23 and 38
Series: Interconnected standalone
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Pages: 244
Happy ending: Yes





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