Where to start. 

I went into this expecting a short, steamy omegaverse novella. What I got instead was a mess (and not the good kind).

I’m not sure if it was the bad writing or if the author genuinely got confused between their characters, but the two alphas switched names so many times that I stopped trying to keep up with them.. There was no transition between positions; one minute a person would be standing, then suddenly they were lying down?

It was hard to keep up with and the spice was just..unsexy. 

Credit where it’s due, the book was appropriately tagged and had cws. I would have liked the mutilation to have been tagged too, but it would technically fall under other warnings, so I’m not mad about thay. 

But there wasn’t really any connection between the spice and the kink. Like we’re told that seeing something turns the fmc on, but it just feels surface level and weird. 

And I like that sort of thing normally. I mean, Lauren Biel is a favored author of mine. 

There just seemed to be a lot of pieces the author wanted to connect that didn’t quite do so. 

All of this said, it read like a very early work from an inexperienced author. I gave it an extra star because I feel like, if given time and inspiration (and a halfway decent editor), this author could definitely improve and write some great fiction. 

I look forward to that day. Unfortunately, it is not today. 

I’m going to go read the second in the duet (it’s after Yule and I have a book goal to think about) and be done with it.