crispycritter's Reviews (516)

It's The Love Hypothesis meets the Omegaverse. I'm convinced Allie Hazlewood is only capable of writing one book - and I continue to love reading that one book. Over and over. With slight variations. Bonus points here for making it a Paranormal Romance. 

If you don't already know what knotting is . . . uh . . . don't google it on your work computer.

I read Butcher & Blackbird, with probably the most extensive list of trigger warnings I've seen (yet), and essentially giggled by way through it. Not so much in this one. The spicy scenes in this one were . . . rough. I implore you to think about how cool you really are about

somnophilia

cause woof. Some of this made me uncomfortable. The book overall was gorey and violent, but 'tis to be expected when we're following dual serial killers.

I've also read Black Sheep, which Brynne Weaver wrote with Alexa Harlowe. Gotta say the writing quality in Marrow was significantly lower than Butcher & Blackbird and Black Sheep. I haven't read any Trisha Wolfe stuff so - perhaps this is her influence? (sorry to throw you under the bus, Trisha) I felt like Jack was incredibly flat. The most interesting thing about him was his

kinda insane amount of nether region piercings?

The "villain" kinda came out of nowhere and I was unclear on his motivation and endgame. The enemies could have enemied a bit more before getting together.

And now I cry.

I very much disliked The Dead Romantics. I was devastated by how much I disliked The Dead Romantics - because if ever a book sounded like it would be for me, it was that book. However, I loved this book. This was a totally different reading experience - Poston did such a better job of building tension between our main characters. She did a decent job of handling grief in The Dead Romantics but Clementine's grief for her Aunt Analea just came alive in this book - beautiful, heartbreaking. 

This book is soooooo corny. If you're highly sensitive to characters whispering sweet nothings, this book is not for you. 

It's about two dads in their 40s who meet at their sons' football practice and fall in luurrrve. The whole book is surprisingly drama-free, low stakes and sweet - despite it revolving around Texas high school football season.

An arranged marriage between a living candy skull and a recovering anorexic human. Minus one star for them both being virgins and the dude monster mansplaining sex to his human bride 'cause he did his research.'

It’s a slow-burn spider romance with a shocking amount of world building. Somehow this is a trilogy. 

Rosie Danan is approaching auto-buy status, and I’m always shocked her books get mixed reviews. I loved this. 

Not bad, not great. I wasn’t a fan of the cartoon villain coworker as the primary driver of conflict. 

Totally a style issue for me - Third person present tense, at least for this book, did not work for me. Also I do not have the attention span for chapters that are so long and jump from POV to POV every couple pages.