The Hunted Heir by Holly Renee 

*sigh* 

By all metrics Dacre should fit right in with all my favorite book boyfriends; he's just the right amount of damaged. However, something about him gives me a major ick.

The first 60% of book two was pretty promising and I kept waiting for something to happen. Verena was still a delicate damsel in distress, which isn't my favorite FMC type, but the set up for interesting plot lines was there. But, by the time we reach 70% we're back to throwing all story out the window for the cringiest intimacy. When the end finally arrived we're left with a cliffhanger and 200 pages of not a damn thing actually happening.

It feels like the author couldn't decide what the story was supposed to be. There were so many fantasy elements that could have been explored to make it a worthwhile fantasy book. Or, the fantasy themes could have been dropped completely to make it a romance story with light fantasy touches. But the introduction of potential with no follow up just puts the book in a weird genre limbo. I feel c0ck blocked...

No different from book one, the intimacy really, REALLY wasn't my thing. Not yucking anyone's yum, but I personally do not enjoy being commanded to beg for EVERY scrap of intimacy. Especially, since Dacre owed Verena some serious groveling. This ties into the soft girl FMC type that I just cannot relate to at all.  

I wanted to like this series. I kept holding on to the hope that ANY of the potential would get fleshed out. Alas, I was thoroughly and completely disappointed.

The repetitive phrases stuck around as well. With the "pressing" and "clamping" of thighs being repeated numerous times. There seemed to be a little acknowledgement of the repetition, because she started adding "legs" into the mix. My girl has a leg/thigh kink, I'd bet money on it.