Needlessly violent and full of plot holes.

A proper lady joins the circus. And surprisingly, it’s boring.

The FMC finds a rat. The rat gets bigger. Turns into an alien dog. The dog…pleasures her downstairs. The next day the dog is a man and they mate. Too weird for us.

She loses her virginity in a dirty shed. She finds a chicken bone in her pocket that lets her time travel. She falls for a man she knows is using her. She’s hard to root for.

We love Lola Glass but don’t bother with this series. FMCs are impossible to care about. Rare miss.

Clinical descriptions of people and everything. Sterile.

She was 18, deaf and hidden away, pregnant by rape, eventually married off to a dude who got his eyeball ripped out (and gifted it to her - along with a penis, not his) and lived HEA with him and the baby.

My love of Katee Robert will transcend this disappointment. It’s a cute premise, but a pediatrician being that kinky was bad for my imagination.

JUST USE YOUR WORDS. Please. This could have been avoided.

Fictional drugs and an annoying FMC made this impossible to enjoy.

Too long. The audiobook is 21 hours and there’s just not enough plot for it.

This book was riddled with distracting language. So many "my big dick" comments from the MMC. "She oozed from my touch" about how wet she is. "I felt my body burn so hot I was about to shed my skin like a snake.” Gross.

She’s not a “Queen” - she’s a whiny FMC who can’t crunch basic numbers.

This story makes no sense. One character is kind of redeeming. Kind of.

Insufferable FMC. You don’t get a humanitarian award for being a camgirl. Get off your soapbox.

The FMC was a young “old soul” with weird dialogue and the MMC was “an old asshole” who is only 42. So am I. F*ck off.

There’s no story at all. If you want ‘finds her omega in a bar’ read Baby and the Late Night Howlers.

Rare miss by Sloane St. James. If you’re not into a milk kink, this probably isn’t for you, either.

This FMC had no redeeming qualities. She was bitchy and entitled throughout this whisper of a plot.

He’s an elite hit man and…illiterate?

So painfully slow. We both listened to the audiobook so maybe you need to be able to skip the content easier. Try the Kindle or physical copy if you must read it.

This book couldn’t figure out it’s soul. Vampire, mafia, fated mates, arranged marriage, submissive, not submissive. It tried to do too much and all of it in half measures.

She’s basically kidnapped. And not in a cute way.

Dario was great, but Eden really struggled with their class difference. 25% of this book was the business of setting up a soup kitchen. Anticlimactic.

How is she still alive? She must be the dumbest, klutziest FMC we’ve read. Second only to Daisy from Highest Bidder.

The story and the MCs are so aggro and it just never lets up.

We WANTED to like this one, but it’s so historically detailed, you should get college credit at completion. The action picks up at the end.

Cool story that didn’t move for 350 pages. Resolved in half a chapter. Deflating balloon sound

She’s so intolerant and preachy. I hated to DNF, but the fun was gone after the third ‘teaching moment’ she hosted.

Two mute, feral alphas. Two law enforcement officers. One cellist. One reformed murderer-turned-submissive. A child-like omega. The pieces didn’t quite fit together.

Lots of dark potential, but it was boring.

Every decision was so immature. The writing was a matching set.

She’s collecting brothers like Pokemon.

Terrible. Only 100 pages and that’s 99 too many. He rapes her and 3 nights later she is totally over it.

Tries to introduce progressive sexual views in historical romance, and cute swans, but the FMC just comes across slutty. Not enough swans.

The writing toed the literacy line. Stream of consciousness sentences and missing words broke our immersion.

Everything felt pointless. No backstory on the nightmare, no creative use of smoke. Mina’s story is sad and moving.

Skip this. Read Nero instead. Same author, way better book. Hans requires too many logic leaps to work.

Don’t read this, no matter who tells you to. It’s disturbing for shock value alone.

This was a small business how-to on starting a plant store.

Forgive me, Lisa, but I hate this book. It’s your only flop in my decades of reading your stories. Flimsy plot, boring characters.

Daisy is the idiot FMC here. “I’m tired of being treated like a child. I can take care of myself.” “Oops I forgot to take my birth control for a few days, guess I’m pregnant.”

The only Nora Roberts book I dislike. It’s a coming of age story about a family of magicians.

Dinosaur Romance. Don’t you dare judge me for reading this. I did this for you!

Felt like a self-help book written by a therapist trying to drum up business. But you should read the Toronto Terror series. It’s so good.

Dad’s best friend but she’s waaaaay too immature for it. So whiny.

He’s the Irish ‘Master’ of a chocolate-factory-in-the-front, sex-club-in-the-back located in Philadelphia, exclusively used by organized crime.

Eh, the story is boring until the last 10%. Read Halfling (#1). Read Sweetling (#3). You can skip this one without missing a plot beat.

Drivel dialogue. HIM: "I want to wreck your sopping wet c*nt and drive a truck through it while I finger your *sshole." HER: "Me too."

The pack is needlessly cruel. She almost dies. She takes them back without a single grovel.

He’s a sophisticated stalker and manipulator…in high school.

An HR Manager falls for the CEO. She’s worked for him for years, but yeah, sure, he’s totally different than you think. Vehemently shakes head

Maggie longs to seduce her former stepfather so she hooks herself up to the milking machine, eats lactation cookies, and prays for boobs.

This plot just doesn’t move. And when it does, it’s not logical.

If you start the Perfectly Imperfect series with Painted Scars, try another one. This is not a reflection of the series. It’s disjointed, jumpy, and not endearing like the others. Neva gets a pass on this one.

To be fair, we think the audiobook was part of the struggle with this one.

“I've been kidnapped and put on a ship by this bad guy, I guess I'll wear his clothes. Oh, we've landed on shore. We're now in love and planning the biggest diamond heist ever. Oh my god he betrayed me I'll never forgive him. JK, I misunderstood the situation. We're in love again. The end."

The FMC is insufferable. She doesn’t have power, but other people do and she’s jealous. Especially because they save her life 20 different times. She should have died.

Book 2 of Forged in Blood. It’s smutty, but the story only inches forward.

She has a long term boyfriend she wouldn’t bond with..idk why not. But then she forms a pack and bonds…some random guy first. Rude.

Nothing happens.

Cute premise, but the FMC was so arrogant and ditzy it was a hard combo to like.

There’s a huge disconnect between who the FMC is and what the author wants her to be. She’s insufferable. You can’t really skip this one if you’re reading the series, but just know. It’s tough.

Uneventful finale. The series is a really interesting premise, but the finale is just okay. Bummer.

There’s no way so many impossible coincidences happened in this dystopian world. And why the f*ck did they dress her up like Wonder Woman?

Her actual name is ‘Shatter’. Part 2 is better, but there are better choices out there.

The first half was promising. The second half the MCs act out of character and it gets preachy. Loved Priest (#1) - read that one.

I didn’t care about her green riding habit. Apparently that’s necessary for this plot.

Eh, they were just so mean to her. It was hard to read. There isn’t real spice, but there’s a lot of second base.

There is no way he could smell her ovulating. GTFO

She finds human touch skeevy, but she’s horny. So she finds comfort in the arms…of a magic pillow man who steals the life force from flies to maintain his sentience.

I despise the "billionaire bangs his assistant" trope and this was far worse - she was a virgin AND naive to the bone. And 'to the bone.'

Confusing inner monologue and what happened with Bethany?

The MCs are literal dirty artists and the plot is razor thin.

After multiple tries, she finally loses her virginity on a dingy couch in a chop shop.

A mediocre Social Media Manager catches the eye of a billionaire security firm owner. She’s useless and he’s enthralled. Disappointing series finale. Read any of the other books in this series. They’re 5.0/5.

Such an adorable plot. But the first 100 pages are a farm simulator. It moves too slow.

Five too many priest fantasies.

Shallow and smutty. Hailey is a poor decision maker. "I have to attend this Christmas ball with my ex and his family to play nice to help my parents' business." At the party: "Let's have loud, public sex in this closet so everyone hears us."

She’s the neighboring winery owner. He’s a special forces agent. Someone is after her because of something her dead dad knew. No other details available.

Love Anna, but the dialogue in this book toggled between period and modern. A guy tortures the queen and doesn’t even lose a finger? No way.

The plot was strong, but the FMC was completely insufferable. She’s the best. She knows everything. She listens to no one. Bad things happen after her dumb decisions. Totally unrelated.

There’s ‘virgin’ and then there’s ‘violently virgin’ - this FMC was the latter. And when she was kidnapped by the MMC’s brother, no one is surprised or bothered?

She's a prudish spinster running a failing orphanage. He's a billionaire investigator tracking a killer. And she’s your best option to solve the mystery? I think you’re a shitty investigator.