Nicole
What a nice light summer romance!
This is not my normal genre, I chose this book for a square on my book club bingo board, otherwise, I'd never finish! I'm so glad I chose this book, it made me think of those Christmas time small town Hallmark/lifetime movies but make it summer time. I really thought Hallie would end up with Gavin, but I'm so glad I was wrong. ‘Summer at Firefly Beach' is such a light lovely summer romance. Definitely give this a read if you need a good feel good book.
What a plot twist of an ending!
Overall this book was okay, the plot twist at the end is what saved it. There is a TON of back story and build up to the good part. The Ella character really grated at me, I really did not like her. I hated the character so much she made me put the book down several times. I also want to know if Freddie is Jamie or Dans kid, that's the only thing missing. For a while I honestly thought the mother (Joy) was behind it all as the master manipulator, once it was revealed who really was blew my mind.
I was not expecting this to be so good!
Slow read, a lot of character and relationship development. I really like how the author does chapters of other characters view points like Crew & Viper it isn't just Kyah & Reid, I feel like this gives the story more depth. At about the half way point I'm dying to know who the stalker is at this point it's driving me mad, when I think I have it all figured out it changes on me.
HOLY MACARONI! What a fricking whirlwind. This book literally has it all, it had me hooked. I did figure out the stalker early on in the book and was so hype to know I was right. I definitely would recommend this book if you like a little bit of mind fucking.
I'm pretty sure I got this rec from TikTok. This book had so much potential to be better. The writing was rather elementary and felt thrown together like the author was thinking “Booktok will eat this up” I'm sure they did.
I wanted more character development and exploration. Why were they adopted? What happened before they were adopted? Why was Olivia's mom such a cunt? Why did Malachi become a mute?
If I could give this 0 stars I would. I made it almost half way through the book before I DNF. In my honest opinion, this was absolute garbage. This is the last time I take a book recommendation from a facebook ad.
- Slow read
- no build up
- incest-ish reverse harem trope
- boring
Where was the actual story?
And yet again....This book is TERRIBLE. Yes, I finished it. Am I going to read the rest of the series also yes. Do I have hopes the rest of the books will be better? No. I'm not sure the author understands what a plot is or what a climax is, as there is neither in this book. It is just rich kid bullying poor girl with zero substance. The only remotely interesting part in this book is the DNA test, however, I think Royal's dad faked it to get his focus off of Harper.... on to book 3 I supposed. I Hope I am not disappointed again, but based on the reviews I have read, I will be.
This book is TERRIBLE. Yes, I finished it. Am I going to read the rest of the series also yes. Do I have hopes the rest of the books will be better? No. I'm not sure the author understands what a plot is or what a climax is, as there is neither in this book. It is just rich kid bullying poor girl with zero substance. I came across this series on booktok and they are ranting and raving over it...I'm over here just like WHY. I wish I could give this 0 stars.
I DNF @ 56%....
For being a novella.... this is one boring ass book. This was recommended to me by a friend who gave it a raving review. I knew I wasn't going to like it immediately as reverse harems aren't my jam. The only thing I did like was that they included faux screen shots of texts instead of just including those in the text of the book. To me it took a while to get to the point and then it just drags out.
If I could I would give this 0 stars.
I wanted to love this book... I really did. Some parts were great maybe 20% the other 80% just felt like fluff. The ending was not great at all for the book to be that long for. A book this size I should have finished in a day or so, it took well over 3 weeks to finish it because I kept putting it down. I hope that the rest of the authors books are not like this.
meh... lacks depth
This book had potential to be a great story. It felt rushed and lacked depth. The initial relationship went from 3-5 days then jumped to a year in. There is minimal character development, I didn't get to know the characters at all. The spicy scenes were just ok some were unrealistic and ridiculous. I doubt I'll read the second book in this series or any other book by this author.
WOW. Just WOW! This was nothing like I expected it to be. I fell so in love with all the characters. I was completely blown away by the ending it was not what I was thinking at all. I'm so glad I decided to read this, at first I was apprehensive because of others reviews but they're wrong. I read this in less than 24 hours it was so hard to put down, even to go to sleep!
So I can burn through a good novel in a day, I've been trying to finish this book for three days. I have to force myself to finish it.
The first 70% of the book is so uninteresting, then BAM chapter like 30 hits and you are like WTF did I just read.
It is a very slow, painful read. I was excited because it is set in DC/MD/VA which I am from MD so I was excited, I very quickly lost interest due to the slowness of this novel. I will finish it.
