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Cutie and the Beast (Fae Out of Water, #1)
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bookshelves: romance, read-to-review-arc, net-galley, m-m, fantasy, paranormal, fae
Aug 08, 2017
bookshelves: romance, read-to-review-arc, net-galley, m-m, fantasy, paranormal, fae
*2.5 stars*
Okay, I seem to be in the minority here, but this book was a bit hard for me to finish. Don't get me wrong, it's cute, but it wasn't exactly what I thought I was getting.
I thought that the majority of the book was going to be David learning to love "the beast," Dr. Alun Kendrick, despite his looks and surly demeanor. I mean, I expected it to be more or less a play on Beauty and the Beast. However, that isn't really what this story is about.
We didn't get a good sense of what Alun looks like in beast-mode (large head and prominent brow ridges was as much as I gleaned), and the attraction between David and Alun was practically there from the start, despite Alun's looks. The resolution with the whole beauty-vs-beast aspect happened pretty early on, so the rest of the book took me a bit by surprise.
There is a LOT happening in this story, and the story is LONG. I know, I know, it's only 280-some odd pages, but it felt like a 400+ page story. One plot melds into the next and there is a thing with brothers and family and loyalty and jealousy... it was a lot to handle in one story.
I liked David a lot. I thought he was spunky and cute, but I didn't really love Alun, whose personality never really snapped into place for me. They were okay together, I guess, but I just didn't totally feel them as a couple.
I guess I was expected something different and I felt like a got more of a hodgepodge. Not a bad story, but it didn't quite scratch my itch.
*Copy provided in exchange for an honest review*
Okay, I seem to be in the minority here, but this book was a bit hard for me to finish. Don't get me wrong, it's cute, but it wasn't exactly what I thought I was getting.
I thought that the majority of the book was going to be David learning to love "the beast," Dr. Alun Kendrick, despite his looks and surly demeanor. I mean, I expected it to be more or less a play on Beauty and the Beast. However, that isn't really what this story is about.
We didn't get a good sense of what Alun looks like in beast-mode (large head and prominent brow ridges was as much as I gleaned), and the attraction between David and Alun was practically there from the start, despite Alun's looks. The resolution with the whole beauty-vs-beast aspect happened pretty early on, so the rest of the book took me a bit by surprise.
There is a LOT happening in this story, and the story is LONG. I know, I know, it's only 280-some odd pages, but it felt like a 400+ page story. One plot melds into the next and there is a thing with brothers and family and loyalty and jealousy... it was a lot to handle in one story.
I liked David a lot. I thought he was spunky and cute, but I didn't really love Alun, whose personality never really snapped into place for me. They were okay together, I guess, but I just didn't totally feel them as a couple.
I guess I was expected something different and I felt like a got more of a hodgepodge. Not a bad story, but it didn't quite scratch my itch.
*Copy provided in exchange for an honest review*
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August 5, 2017
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August 5, 2017
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August 6, 2017
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August 6, 2017
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60.0%
August 8, 2017
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August 14, 2017
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romance
August 14, 2017
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August 14, 2017
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net-galley
August 14, 2017
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m-m
August 14, 2017
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fantasy
August 14, 2017
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paranormal
August 14, 2017
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fae
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Aug 15, 2017 03:29AM
Good review - yes, this was a very unbalanced book, and the weird structure wasn't compensated for by rounded characters. One of the gripes I have about fantasy books is that too many invent rules or sub-rules that let characters do what they want (e.g. Mal suddenly finding a way of circumventing Alun's banishment, at least temporarily). It lowers the suspense level, because you know that there will be a hidden Get out of Jail card somewhere.
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Georgie wrote: "Good review - yes, this was a very unbalanced book, and the weird structure wasn't compensated for by rounded characters. One of the gripes I have about fantasy books is that too many invent rules ..."Totally! I was like, wouldn't everyone know he was banished and know he was doing some trickery? And why was it so easy?
Book 2, Mal's story, was *much* better, in my opinion. I liked it a lot.
☆ Todd wrote: "Book 2, Mal's story, was *much* better, in my opinion. I liked it a lot."Really? I wasn't going to pick up the second.
Heather K (dentist in my spare time) wrote: "☆ Todd wrote: "Book 2, Mal's story, was *much* better, in my opinion. I liked it a lot."Really? I wasn't going to pick up the second."
Yeah, waaaaaay better, for me, at least. : )
I completely agree..I just finished this and it was hard to get through.
