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text 2015-06-08 08:15
7 hours in — What . . . just, what?
Rock Addiction (Rock Kiss) (Volume 1) - Nalini Singh

Heroine: I don't want to be like my mother! Pathetic and unable to be a person separate from my father. I don't want to be like my mother!
Hero: If you're going to be with me you need to give up everything to come with me.
Heroine: Okay!
Me: *deep eye roll* Idiot.

 

They've been together all of two and a half weeks and haven't done anything but fuck constantly. Nothing to indicate that they have the sort of long-lasting relationship that makes sense for her to give up her entire life and move halfway around the world. Not even the unbelievable I love yous.

 

Not to mention his "you are mine, I'll do what I want" and physically restraining her when she's mad borderline if not actually abusive bullshit. And they have one fight and she's throwing stuff in a suitcase, what even?

 

This book is freaking stupid.

 

And somehow there are four hours left. 

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text 2015-06-05 13:43
Chapter 3/43 minutes: To flounce or not to flounce, that is the question.
Rock Addiction (Rock Kiss) (Volume 1) - Nalini Singh

How many things do I hate about this story already, let me count the ways:

 

1. So far it has mostly been sex talk. (Only some ~the heroine's traumatic past~ vagueness.) 

2. The hero and heroine seriously said pretty much no words to each other before they were off to her place to screw. (Frigging ew.)

3. The idea indiscriminately screwing randos is somehow "sophisticated".

4. The heroine is a virgin and is jumping into bed with this stranger (third book in a row with this trope, I hate it. I love stories with virgins, but not doing that. The only difference that makes this slightly better than the others is that this is a famous dude she'd been fantasizing about. Only slightly.).

5. Where the hell is the plot? (Will there be a plot?)

6. No, but seriously, there has been no plot (yet?) but we're already in an extremely explicit sex scene.

7. The heroine apologizes for being a virgin. Just, no. (At least the hero didn't get mad about it, that reaction really pisses me off.)

 

That's a lot in 43 minutes and they're not even that far into the actual having gross stranger sex. You know what would have been a more compelling story and an actual romance? Rock star used to getting any woman any time he wants finds girl intriguing, is made to wait, to his surprise falls for her, building of an actual relationship and delicious sexual tension. Why don't romance authors care about the latter two elements any more?

 

I don't know why I want to give the book a chance to hook me. That may be a mistake. Anyone read this who can advise me? 

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text 2015-05-03 22:50
53% — Erm
Her Favorite Rival (Harlequin LP Superromance) - Sarah Mayberry

She has a horrible time with her parents and decides to run off and do something she considers impulsive and reckless. So, she's the same idiot she was at 16? Even though she keeps lamenting her dumbass actions back then.

 

Also, I don't get why they've made anything happening between them so high stakes. They sound more like they're cheating on spouses rather than just work colleagues.

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text 2014-01-09 05:45
24% — Oh, for fuck's sake . . .
Flesh - Kylie Scott
THIS IS AN EROTICA. WHY ARE YOU USING THAT TERRIBLE EFFING EUPHEMISM IN AN EROTICA?! YOU WERE USING THE BETTER TERM BEFORE. WHY DID YOU SUDDENLY SWITCH NOW THAT IT'S SEXYTIMES??? SO NOT SEXY. HATE. HATE. HATE. 
 
I figure the one benefit to this genre is that I'm safe from that damn term. APPARENTLY NOT.  
 
AUTHORS STOP THIS. MY GOD.

 

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