Nikki

The story didn't age well 

Insta-love / insta-wanting to bang. They were literally pushed off a waterfall and his first thought is about her body, like what? they're handcuffed together but it honestly doesn't seem that way most of the time, only when its convenient to the plot to make them sleep next to each other, naked btw (like how? their hands are cuffed). I don't know if I'm being too harsh but this didn't work for me at all and I wasn't in the mood to be forgiving.  

could not for the life of me tell the difference between characters. 

  It wasn't for me, I don't think it was bad per se, more like I was expecting it to be amazing from all the reviews I saw and I just didn't get in to it. Maybe I should've started from the first book but I didn't enjoy the writing style and some themes in it, so I don't necessarily think that would've helped.

If you enjoy the tropes of MC contemporary romances: close found family, over protectiveness, some dom kink, that kind of feel, then you'd probably enjoy this.
 

I went in expecting a romance and got a monster murder mystery and only a side plot of romance where the ‘romance' has already happened.

just at a 4 star read for me. Was so much better than other books I've been reading so I feel like I might be overestimating just how much I liked it. At least this had a plot and character development so 3 stars just for that honestly.

I'm not in the mood to read about someone with Alex's personality. I don't care about what's happening in the story. It feels so 2000s teen melodrama, it's just not for me.