Anne's Reviews > Pack Challenge

Buddy read with o0Sarah0o!
Check out her review HERE.

K. I read Go Fetch! a little while ago, and sort of thought it was decent, except for some of the squicky sex scenes. But I kept wondering if I should have started with the first book...first, you know?
So, here we are.

The good?
I finished it quickly, which means I thought it was a very readable book. Laurenston is a talented writer, in that she can keep my eyes moving along the page.
I also like the way scars or 'handicaps' are treated in this author's books. You routinely run into characters (like Sara) who have visible scars, one eyeball, maybe missing an ear... And yet, it's not something that their lover ever has to learn how to see past. Usually they (like in this book) don't think anything about it, or find it sexy that they got injured in battle, or are so used to one-eyed people running around that it's just par for the course.
It's cliché, but beauty really does start on the inside and work it's way out.
I just farted out a glitter rainbow with that one, didn't I?

Muahahahaha!


The...not good?
Awful sex. Awful.


I guess Laurenston's idea of true love means he has a constant hard-on for her, and her vaginal walls drip with juices every time she sees him.
Of course, having sex for hoursandhoursandhoursandhours?
That means they're truly meant for one another!



*sigh* (view spoiler)[Fucking OUCH! Am I right, ladies?
Look, I've been doing the sex thing for decades now, and I can honestly say that the idea of 'hours and hours' of sex is frightening to me. I'd have to have vaginal calluses (or something!) to want to participate in that.
But for some reason, romance writers all want to make us feel like we need to have Sex-A-Thons with our guy or else... What?
We aren't having a good time? We aren't sexually compatible? It ain't lurve?
Fuck that. (hide spoiler)]
You young gals go right on ahead, but when smoke starts pouring out of your clam, you'll wish you'd listened to me!

Occasionally, (but not as much as in Go Fetch!) the author had descriptions of things that made me sit up and laugh.
Such as:
He could practically hear her clit twitching from where he stood.
Really? What the hell is wrong with it?! I think she may have confused it with something else, because I've got one of those things, and it has yet to start randomly twitching.
Just sayin'.

My other big problem with this was the idiotic bitchiness.
Sara and her two best friends acted like they were 12 years old, and not just normal 12 year girls...the (even more) annoying kind that are trying to look cool by loudly talking about their need for tampons.
You remember those girls?
They called each other sluts and bitches, but only to prove that they knew what the fuck those words meant. In their minds, they were badass chicks who pushed the envelope! They were rad!
Everyone else avoided them like the plague, because they were jackasses who bragged (always during lunch!) about getting fingered by the weird high school boy who worked at the gas station.
Yeah. You remember those girls.
Well, lucky for us, there appears to be a series of books written about them.
They call each other names and slap each other (for hours) to show their love. It's like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Cunts.



Cute!
For about 10 seconds.
Apparently, they also have no idea how to interact with other people without hitting or insulting them, either.
Soooooo.
How are any of them even alive at this point?
Oh, well naturally, it's because the entire world finds these qualities adorable in other human beings...right?



I don't think I'll continue with this series, unless Sarah cons me into another Squicky Buddy Read.