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. 

Safe In His Arms

This was a safe read. Very low angst, easy to get into. No real problems. It losses a star though for one big technical issue from me. Rome vs Roman. The book starts off in the first paragraph saying "Roman was". The very next paragraph says "Rome looked". I thought there were two different people. It didn't end there. It goes on to introduce the pack members, cousins brothers and even his twin with whom he is only ten minutes older. With all these names and the consistent changing from Rome to Roman, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't lost, confused, and a bit annoyed.

In all fairness, I've seen this done before. Hell, I've done it. So it isn't the fact that both names are interchanged in the narrative it's the placement. Something about it jarred me. Maybe it was that I wasn't set up for this. It happened so fast. First word first paragraph, which was really short, had one name. The second had another name as the first word but I wasn't told his name was Roman but his friends call him Rome. There wasn't a dialogue section where they called him Rome after setting the reader up with the name Roman. Can't really place it but I was confused by it in this novel for some reason.

Corruption: A Bureau Story Book 1

This was a short sweet story. But for something that I was expecting to be a romance, even possibly with a little BDSM. It didn't deliver. Unfortunately, the book wasn't tight enough to read like a short story. It actually gave me the feeling of the beginning of a full-length novel. I knew this wasn't going to be happening having read the blurb for the next two novels before buying this one.

Jumping between marks and audience really threw me off in the first chapter. Especially when marks is more commonly used for say a hit in assassination stories or the person one is following in an espionage type novel. In this case, they were audience members at a carnival. What they most accurately were was customers. Marks was odd and the inability to stick to audience or marks added to the oddity of it.

Loving Luke

As a whole, this book seemed like I'd love it. A nice hokey romance that starts in the midst of a problem instead of dragging you through the problem. It didn't quite lift off the page for me though.

Firstly I'd like to point out I had zero problems with the book starting after a major event. Luke made a bet. Harley found out about it and now he needs to fix the mess he made. My problem with it was how long it took to mention the parameters of the bet. Like the full details didn't drop until his apology which is way down past 70percent. Secondly, most importantly, how the hell did Harley find out? Not detailing the scene fine, but not expressing the specifics of the bet and how Harley found out was what made it hard to get into. 

Going Down

I enjoyed reading this. Glad to finally say that considering my last couple of reviews. This book did have a few errors but I didn't pause while reading it which is good. There was the use of the word bowels that took me out of the story a bit. But beyond that, I enjoyed reading this.

The technical thing that stood out the most was after a night of being too drunk to immediately remember a party it takes a few days to remember the party and another few to remember the guy who saved him from the morning hangover that same night with a hangover remedy. I assumed just over a week might have gone by so a week is doable but the author says they were talking more. They hadn't talked in a week so the saying when they next met they were talking more seems like they had been talking already. 

Driven To Love

This was a light sweet read. This could've been a five-star book. It had the makings of a nice steamy low angst fast love story. But there were some things plot-wise and character-wise that just didn't do it for me. There's a strong chance this is all personal preference so if you read this review and think 'he hated on that' and roll your eyes you will probably love this book.

Right from the first chapter, there's this scene where Ben has a text exchange with his best friend. It was a good chance to develop Ben's relationship with his friend and his own character but instead of receiving this text exchange in dialogue we are just told this happens.  It happens again when he finally calls him to tell him about his budding relationship. We are told what transpires in a paragraph or two but not shown. Incidents like this happen a few times, where characters meet or are in a situation where stuff happens but the stuff doesn't happen beyond being told it happens. Makes it hard to connect with the characters.

The Kinsey Scale

This story was too slow for me. I couldn't finish it. I pushed to about halfway but then gave up. My problem was the whole slow burn and used tropes. It started to lose me when Eric decided he needed a fake boyfriend to seem unavailable or not a loser to a straight guy. I dunno I guess I'm over the whole fake boyfriend/girlfriend thing when it's used this way. It's been done so many times before and this one was not only with an ex but an ex who was seeing someone if I recall. Next it was the girlfriend back home. The girl these 'not so straight guys' always have so the gay love interest can validate why he could never have him because you know, girlfriend back home. In this instance it seemed like Eric was the only one talking about said girlfriend and not Will. This made it even harder to get into this plotline.