One Night in Garoureve
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Average rating3.3
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Ratings2
Average rating3.3
It was only supposed to be for one night...
Ariana wasn't expecting much when she pulled into the small town of Garoureve. Just a place to sleep for the night, a quick meal, and maybe a drink. What she found instead was a man with a smile who spent the night worshiping her body like it was his religion.
When morning came, she left with unexpected regret and a mark to remember him by. A mark that meant a lot more than she realized. A mark that meant her one-night stand wasn't going to be her only night with him.
But when his secrets start to impact their new life together, it no longer matters that his touch feels like magic and he feels like her soulmate. Sometimes, the problem isn’t the actual secret being kept. It’s the power that a secret can hold.
The first book in a series of paranormal romances featuring plus-size heroines, wolf shifters, fated mates, and a town that magically appears when it’s needed.
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2 primary booksThe Shifters of Garoureve is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Elle M. Drew.
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Wasn't for me. Didn't really care about the characters and their relationship the way they were written.
When an author touts her own book as “fat girl getting railed” it's a massive disappointment when that fat girl spends the whole book being so unhappy with herself. She's every fat protagonist of every fat girl romance: she has no friends, the people in her life keep her around so she can be the one who stands there being fat so they feel better that they aren't as fat as she is... it's nice to see endo rep but when it doesn't really affect anything about the plot it feels shallow. This man had his pick of women to choose as a mate and her endo should have had some weight there, because it can and does have an effect on fertility, but the author whiffed it.
The smut scenes are honestly overlong and uninteresting. I love a good smut scene, and I love a protracted one if it feels earned. But I found myself skimming the smut, which to me is the death knell on a supposedly erotic story. There was a distinct whiff of “this person came from fanfiction and wasn't interested in learning how to polish their smut for publication” to it. I read a ton of both fic and romance, there IS a difference-namely that the published authors who are good at this have learned to evoke intense sexuality and emotion with an economy of words. That's not to say you can't have a long smut scene, but if it's going to be long, it had better be phenomenal.
This is evidently the beginning of a series... but based on this, I won't be bothering with Elle M. Drew again.
