Review: Slashes in the Snow by M. Never
SYNOPSIS:
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Three years ago my father walked away. Away from our MC, all his responsibilities, and me. We haven’t spoken since the day he handed me the keys to the kingdom.
Shoved them down my throat was more like it.
I hate him, and the new family he’s playing house with. He left his entire life behind for a woman he barely knows. But I’m strong, resilient, and don’t need a damn soul to survive.
At least, that’s what I thought…until she walked into my bar.
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Someone is watching me. I can feel it. I wake up in the middle of the night freaked out of my mind, paranoid a stranger is there. My skin prickles every time I leave my house, because I know someone is following me.
I’m afraid. Alone. And there’s only one person left to turn to.
The stepbrother I never met. The man my stepfather speaks so highly about, but never sees. He’s the president of a notorious motorcycle club, and exactly the kind of person I need to protect me.
Little did I know, Ky Parish, freakin’ hates my guts.
REVIEW:
So after listening to M. Never on the Read Me Romance podcast, I decided to give her books a go. Enter Slashes in the Snow. Now it wasn’t a bad read but I didn’t fall in love with it…in fact it hit a few of my major book pet peeves that I couldn’t get over. So while the novel was filled with plenty of drama, it was also plagued with several huge problems.
So Ky and Kira are the whole step-siblings troupe with a twist, they never actually met. Okay, this has potential, Ky feels that his father abandoned him for his new family, he loathes Kira…I am here for this drama. Except, I never truly was sucked into the story. There was just something about the writing that prevented me from diving in. There were moments when things were far too descriptive and I found myself wanting to skip head to dialogue. Then, there were moments in which every single problem could be solved with sex.
But once Ky and Kira started getting hot and heavy…there was not a single mention of birth control or protection! WHAT THE HECK…they banged for the majority of the book, we couldn’t slide that into the excessive descriptive text about how he put a condom on because they didn’t want to have babies?! NO, no, ugh…I hate it when the characters are “so needy” for one and other that they can’t be bothered with minor things like a pill or condoms.
And while the book is classified as a romantic suspense, I wasn’t on the edge of my seat. In fact this was the type of read that I could have sat down, and walked away from for months without a second thought. When everything comes to light and the climax of the story happens, I was feeling very meh. It wasn’t this epic twist that had me reeling, in fact I was kind of disappointed by how quickly everything ended and wrapped up. What could have been a hit was definitely a miss for me.
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