Treasured

3stars

As far as insta-love goes, I rather enjoyed this one. It actually travels from meeting, to attempted murder, to connection, then the insta-love finally happens. It was the fact that there were other things going on that stopped the insta-love from being it's typical boring eye-rolling nonsense. That being said it's not fleshed out enough for a short story. Like it's trying to be more than what it is, although that helps balance out the insta-love it ultimately takes away from the plot because there isn't enough of it.

Theory Unproven

2stars

I went into this one with high hopes. The premise of it was interesting but it just didn't live up to my expectations. As far as slow burns go this was agonisingly slow. There was talk of clever flirtatious banter in the first half of the book but I never got that with Tyann's more than obvious rebuffs to Eric's advances. Also, the idea of the strong silent type being compared to rude bugged me. Almost like Eric had zero concept of personal space, this whole dynamic of him talking too much versus the other guy not really responding didn't come off as clever and witty flirtations. He seemed a bit pushy. However once we got passed this and there was some real evidence of flirtation, it was fun. Entertaining, engaging, basically it was just good. That was when I started to enjoy the novel, once the main characters really began to be fleshed out I guess. Unfortunately, I was thirty percent or so into the novel when this happened. But it was definitely good enough to get me more than invested in the novel. Steamy flirtation awesome, that lead up to a delightfully fun steamy scene. Unfortunately, this was also shortlived.

The Ranger's Boyfriend

2stars

This book was supposed to have that lonely older ranger meets younger guy feel. I didn't get much of that though. For an adult book, something about the writing style felt juvenile. Like the story is written in the first person but instead of it feeling like that the first time the characters are introduced it attempts to break the third wall by directly addressing the reader. It doesn't quite work. It should've just stuck in normal first person because it almost reads like it will happen again. Much like how the Lemony Snicket stories work where the narrator addresses the reader throughout the story and not just as an introduction. Since it's only an introduction just going with the flow like every other first-person story reveals backstory would've fit better and not seemed as if it wasn't an attempt at something.

His Christmas Crush

3stars

This book was okay. Nothing great but nothing so glaring it earns a bad review. It's you're typical first-time romance. Boy meets boy everything's happy. Fluffy kind of tale. It's a bit of a slow burn but it unveils fast enough for me to not be completely annoyed by it. It just didn't lift from the page. Even the adult scene didn't scream steam. It felt very niche and the only niche I came into this expecting was the age gap. I'm not sure it hit twenty years either so it wasn't age gapy enough. Maybe I"m weird but if you're still young enough for people not to be surprised you have a much younger sibling you're still not quite old enough to be age gape worthy. I honestly start at eighteen. You have to be out of high school before I start elementary for me to take an age gap seriously. Also, I found it odd for a college-age boy like Carter to say someone is grown and living on his own. Living on his own maybe but Grown? He's college age. Surely he's at a maturity level enough to consider himself at least New Adult if not a fully-fledged one.

His Accidental Christmas Omega: Ava Beringer

3stars

I couldn't really get into this book. It read like I should know things that I just didn't already know. The title lead me to believe it was a part of a world but not a next in series if that makes sense. Basically, a stand-alone set in the same town or place as previous books. But I spent a good bit of time wondering if one character had died in a fire and the importance of the agents going to this house full of so many characters who only pop up again at the end of the story whos names I don't remember. I read that entire scene like what is the importance of this?

Operation Gay freedom, Noah Harris

3stars

So initially I was hyped for this story. A nice action pact story with a splash of paranormal and sprinkled with a side plot of romance. Honestly what's not to love. On a technical level at the beginning of the novel transitions were awkward. We'd be at one scene and then some sentence like 'now they were..." and I'd be like when did they start moving, weren't they just... how did... and so on. As the novel went on the transitions got much smoother so this turned into a fleeting issue but it stood out because it was at the beginning of the book.

How To Vex A Vampire

This was an okay book. It started off well but as I kept on reading it became more about just finding out what was going on then actually digging deep into the characters. 

Finn starts out alright. I'm here for the snark. I only picked this book up because I liked 'happy endings' so much. The problem here was that it wasn't always funny. Sometimes it just seemed unnecessary. And the secret that Finn was keeping about why he wanted to join the vampire unit never set well with me. I couldn't help agreeing with everyone that he could get killed.