booksandbotanics's Reviews (492)

The book starts with Bear (yes, that’s his name) and Trixie’s meetcute without them realizing. Trixie is trying to catch a chicken on a busy road and Bear helps her. 

Then Trixie hears from her landlord that she can’t keep any animals at her place, so she starts looking around for a new place. Three guesses with whom she’s going to co-house? Yes yes, it’s Bear. 

They are very attracted to eachother (insta-love), but don’t want to act on it as they don’t want to mess up their roommate-situation. But ofcourse, keeping their hands of eachother gets more and more difficult when they get to know eachother better and get to see eachother half-naked (forced proximity). 

The chicken, who gets the name Chick-Chick, also plays a big part in their story. 

This wasn’t by any means a bad book, it was just a little bit underwhelming. 

I really liked the writing-style, as it read really fluently and I finished it quite quickly. I also liked some of the topics that this book handled (commitment issues, toxic parents, toxic masculinity). We read from a dual POV, both from Trixie and Bear, which was also a plus for me. 

But the storyline itself was just a little bit too cliché for me. It was cute at times, but some other scenes felt quite repetitive. 

But if you’re looking for a quick read with a cute romance with not too much depth, than this is the book for you. 

This book tells the story of Lily, who wakes up and realizes she’s a vampire, but has no memory of it. 
The next day (night) she discovers what happened and meets her Maker, Tristan. 
They have one problem: it’s forbidden to make a new vampire without consent of the Grand Master. Now they have to keep eachother safe whilst (not so slowly) falling for eachother. 
Lily has another problem: she has some severe body image issues and now she’ll never be able to lose weight again and she has to come to terms with the way she looks. 

This story was quite entertaining. Lily was really funny in her discovery what it’s like to be a vampire. She’s quite quirky and I laughed out loud with all the Twilight-references. 
The storyline of her body image issues & eating disorder is quite prominent though. It’s definitely not the main part of the book, but as it’s a big part of Lily’s life, it’s also a big part of the book. I didn’t really relate to Lily on that part, but I definitely got a better picture on how body image issues can have a big impact on your life. 

Some of the character growth came a little bit too fast. For example, Lily’s mother is kind of the cause of her eating disorder, and from one day to the other, she has accepted Lily the way she is? 
Lily’s acceptance of her own body came quite suddenly as well, which I didn’t think to be realistic. 
I did really like the relationship between Lily & her best friend Cat. They were very wholesome. I also quite liked Tristan, but I’ve always had a weak spot for broody, self-tortured vampires. 

The writing style was very fluent, what made it a very easy read. There were a few smutty scenes as well. They weren’t the best I’ve ever read, but they weren’t exaggerated or very long, which I appreciated. 

To summarise: it was a fun book about vampires that didn’t take itself too seriously & it read very fluent. Body image issues and eating disorder are very important trigger warnings though!

Thank you @netgalley & @sourcebookscasa for the e-arc! 

Not really sure how I feel about this one. 

I wanted to try the erotica-genre, but I just think it isn’t for me? I mean the premise sounded great; Disney-characters & -villains in a modern world and sexy?
And even though I was quite intrigued by the world, I just missed a more elaborate plot. 
It definitely was a quick read, as this genre of books tends to be on the shorter side, so maybe I’ll read another one someday. 
But I definitely prefer “regular” romance novels with only one or two spicy scenes instead of this. 

I really wanted to like this book. 
This wasn’t by any means a bad book, on the contrary. I found it a quite original story, it was well written and tense at times. 
I just didn’t really enjoy myself while reading it. I didn’t feel drawn into the story, until the very end when everything comes to a climax. 
There were also a lot of names and I didn’t know who was who half of the time. 

I am curious to find out how Paige’s story continues. I don’t know if I’m curious enough to read the other books in the series though.