charliauthor's Reviews (531)

Not me getting teary at the smut book Lordt!?
Nah, this was beautiful in the best way! The emotion, the feels, the smut, the age gap, the dialogue, the epilogue...it was perfect!!
This is a 35 year age gap and while that is wild, it was handled so well!!! Ronan is E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G and I just want the best for him always.
this was all about fighting love again and feeling needed/wanted in a way that made sense and i just absolute adored it. wonderful wonderful stuff for the genre! 

I liked this one but struggled to really connect with it Maggie and Beau as i had the others because we didnt know much about them before this book. Maggie was really aloof and even though she was cute, i wasnt able to really relate/connect in the best way. i did love that she was the domme though which we dont have enough of, at least in my recent reading. Beau was sweet enough and i loved how being a sub helped him get over his issues but overall, there was just no connection since I disliked him from how he treated Charlie in book one.

So this was the poly taboo with a - let me get this right - MMF i believe as a man wants his male bestie to sleep with his wife but also to join in with the bestie. It all gets a bit sexy from there but where i didnt love it as much was that we spent a bit too much time on the husband - Hunter - not being open about what he wanted and basically made his friend and wife feel like shit while he sorted through his mess. the smut was good as ever and i enjoyed that some was through the wife's eyes as it allowed me to be less removed from the sexual content. outside of that though, i did love how much Drake cared for Hunter and his expression of this. It was also super sad that Drake had had to hide his feelings for Isabel for so long which added the emotional element of the story. My main issue was that this one dragged a bit but ultimately it was a happy ending so thats always good

I never knew the voyeur thing could be up there with my book kinks lol but here we are.
The taboo in this is step siblings which id not read before and i was here for it as well, i cant lie. i loved loved loved the cam girl stuff at the start and when he was talking to her as both guys in the same room i was FERAL for that content! ha! the spice was spicy as im learning from Sara. It was super touchy with the Mental Health stuff which i liked. It was handled well. This series is just top tier for smut and plot and im here for it

World building was flat. Characters werent very smart/believable. Plot/rationale/reasoning was weak. Smut wasnt great. It felt amateurish. Someone trying to be dark who isnt really a dark writer

Thoroughly enjoyed this. The meet cute was great lol even though the taboo was the first of its kind for me. Really, your exes dad? Well, when he's richer and hotter and more mature than fuck yeah, your exes dad! LOL
I enjoyed Emerson as the MMC and of course the FMC is called Charlotte so I was able to self insert which was fabulous. I liked the battle that Emerson had over choosing his son over his own happiness which felt real. The smut of course was great and was a fabulous first book from the author for me. Im set to devour the rest of them haha

This one i didnt love as much. Pros are that it was once again unapologetically dark and the MMC really gave no fucks which i like in these kind of books. Not too sugary if youre gonna be penetrating your girl with a hunting knife 

The MMC is called Ryat and with a name like that he really had to be doing a lot and i loved that he did.
There was a much better of the understanding of the LORDS set up as id mistakenly read book 3 before this one and was super confused.
But once I got my head around it I did like the idea of a secret society of men that literally run the world, simply because this is not so far-fetched.
I did like the unapologetic darkness of this book. It did not pull any punches and the MMC didn’t hold back so it was dark as dark could be and I really appreciated that. I could’ve dealt with less aggressive lovemaking on occasion to break it up but then completely understand why this was in relation to the genre.
The FMC wasnt annoying and more forthright than most which i liked and which helped their relationship have more depth. Defo one for the super dark girlies

This was decent. I had a great time at the start as i found MMC Sean absolutely hilarious. I was pleasantly surprised by this being an IR couple without the description of the woman made to feel like some kind of fetish. I would have preferred there to be no racial element in this whatsoever but the part that did include this was handled well which i appreciated. 
Ive rounded up because i enjoyed more of it then i didnt but considering its called Sinner, i did expect Sean to be a little bit more depraved then he was. Being hedonistic didnt really make him bad in my eyes so i wouldve like the book to have leaned into that a bit more. I also wasnt a fine of the teacher element of their coupling. I didnt need him explaining everything he was doing which made it really clinical rather than sexy. 
This was also the case for FMC Zenny. Not a huge fan of a Black girl named Zenobia lol but aside from that she didnt have that much personality. Where Sean had it in spades, Zenny felt rigid with her intelligence and faith so i didnt really know her as much as i did Sean. 
It actually gets quite emotional at times but overall i did enjoy just wouldve liked it darker i think

I really enjoyed the start, i struggled a bit with the middle but loved the end. This was super cute and to read about such a vulnerable time in a young boys life and all the moments that built up to it was really sweet. I struggled mostly with the speech because even though i knew it was indicative of the characters and the culture, i found myself having to re read things because my brain kept telling me id read it wrong when really thats just how they speak lol i did get a little frustrated with the time jumps at the start because when they got to a significant part, it would rewind which got a little frustrating. But as i said, it all comes together in the end and is super cute and sweet and heartfelt and i ended up really enjoying it