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mlcreads's review
3.0
Jewel has a lot to handle in her life and her interactions with Clay and Randy certainly make it interesting. Nina and Ed's relationship is complicated and Jewel ends up in the middle without meaning to, but they do sort it out in the end.
bikes_books_yarn's review against another edition
3.0
You know how sometimes you get in a rut and you need a splash of cold water to bust you out of said rut? Well - this book splashed cold water in my face and then looked at me and said - You is one pathetic bitch. Submit to me! Yeah. That's how this book rolled.
The writing was kind of weak. I read the first 20 pages and was HUH? and seriously wondered if I should start over and read more carefully. And then I thought about it and looked at the cover art again and thought - No - It's not you....it's the book. So I plugged along and you know what? I liked it.
Here is the thing. Life is really F'd up and hard to take a lot of the time. And this character - Jewel - has a lot of armor on to deal with the world. I can SOOOOOOOOO relate to that. It's a tough tough world - and as hard as we try to not be defined by our past and the tragedies of out life - we are. And I like that Jewel is confronted with her emptiness. Because we are all confronted with our empriness at some point.
So yeah - I am making this into a much deeper book than it is. But I did enjoy reading it - and I am looking forward to the next one. Thankfully I have the first three in this series so I can indulge to my hearts content.
The writing was kind of weak. I read the first 20 pages and was HUH? and seriously wondered if I should start over and read more carefully. And then I thought about it and looked at the cover art again and thought - No - It's not you....it's the book. So I plugged along and you know what? I liked it.
Here is the thing. Life is really F'd up and hard to take a lot of the time. And this character - Jewel - has a lot of armor on to deal with the world. I can SOOOOOOOOO relate to that. It's a tough tough world - and as hard as we try to not be defined by our past and the tragedies of out life - we are. And I like that Jewel is confronted with her emptiness. Because we are all confronted with our empriness at some point.
So yeah - I am making this into a much deeper book than it is. But I did enjoy reading it - and I am looking forward to the next one. Thankfully I have the first three in this series so I can indulge to my hearts content.
selket16's review
2.0
Told in first person, our narrator refuses to even think about what hinky means to clarify the situation, so this book gets a bit confusing as you try to figure out what's going on. Also, hinky? As an official term? Really?
Then there's her boss having her tail his wife/her best friend. Who would honestly expect to get an honest report while sending his wife's best friend to spy on her?
The book was just hard to follow and illogical. I just have better things to read.
Then there's her boss having her tail his wife/her best friend. Who would honestly expect to get an honest report while sending his wife's best friend to spy on her?
The book was just hard to follow and illogical. I just have better things to read.
shanameydala's review against another edition
1.0
This is possibly the worst book I've ever read. It was poorly edited and the story was crazy, but not in a fun or entertaining way.
Wish I didn't have the compulsion to finish every book I start. :(
Wish I didn't have the compulsion to finish every book I start. :(
aprillen's review
3.0
Ha ha, this was a quick, light-hearted fun and sexy read, perfect for when you've had your Christmas holiday ruined by an ill-timed, evil cold from Hell. Found it on sale at the BookView Café. Not sure I'd really appreciate it all that much if I'd had to pay lots of money for it and hadn't had my head full of horrible goo and no attention span for more demanding things.
deborahs's review against another edition
1.0
I wanted very badly to enjoy this. I liked the premise quite a bit, but I just didn't like any of the characters.
mcipher's review against another edition
2.0
I’m back and forth between 2 and 3 stars. On the one hand, this was just so freaking weird and disjointed - it jumped all over the place, there’s no back story to why things are magic-ish, and there is just random stuff like the phrase “da mayor” thrown in as if it’s a figure of speech (and then sometimes characters talk with that accent, and sometimes they don’t). It felt like a writer wishing she was Jenny Crusie, with the hot con men and the bigger girl heroine who can’t help but want to help him out even though he’s cramping her own con - except with random magic tossed in. The smoking pigeons were funny and I feel like this could have been really good if it weren’t such a mess. And there is some pretty awful slut shaming and one sentence about a teenage daughter that just threw me off so badly - like, you could think that... but should you write it? You definitely shouldn’t publish it... This book needs three or four more drafts and a really good editor and then I’d be all about it.
chaos_code's review against another edition
2.0
DNF.
It got two stars because the summary seemed interesting - like a funny, sexy read.
Instead we have annoying characters and annoying situations. I would almost like the main character but she has no backbone. For example: Really annoying slutty character is in the wrong and is a bitch -> argument -> MC apologizes because she doesn't want to lose a "friend" (who's barely a friend and is fucking her best friend's husband).
The relationships are just horrible.
The reader is also thrown into a world where magic kinda exists but nothing is explained.
Oh and the MC is kinky. That's fine. Enjoy your kinks and whatever. What's not cool? Rape.
In Greek mythology, Zeus comes to earth as a swan and has sex with Leda (a princess). Maybe the author didn't know that Zeus actually raped her. So when the MC randomly recalls a mythological story about swan sex, the sex demon gives her swan sex. She has sex with it/him, enjoys it and gets turned on by it whenever she remembers. See, if she was into beastiality as her kink then fine. But turning a rape story into something hot and desirable is not cool. If you wanted to have bird sex or swan sex then don't reference the rape story.
In fact, writing this review? I changed my mind. It's a 1.5 review.
It got two stars because the summary seemed interesting - like a funny, sexy read.
Instead we have annoying characters and annoying situations. I would almost like the main character but she has no backbone. For example: Really annoying slutty character is in the wrong and is a bitch -> argument -> MC apologizes because she doesn't want to lose a "friend" (who's barely a friend and is fucking her best friend's husband).
The relationships are just horrible.
The reader is also thrown into a world where magic kinda exists but nothing is explained.
Oh and the MC is kinky. That's fine. Enjoy your kinks and whatever. What's not cool? Rape.
In Greek mythology, Zeus comes to earth as a swan and has sex with Leda (a princess). Maybe the author didn't know that Zeus actually raped her. So when the MC randomly recalls a mythological story about swan sex, the sex demon gives her swan sex. She has sex with it/him, enjoys it and gets turned on by it whenever she remembers. See, if she was into beastiality as her kink then fine. But turning a rape story into something hot and desirable is not cool. If you wanted to have bird sex or swan sex then don't reference the rape story.
In fact, writing this review? I changed my mind. It's a 1.5 review.
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