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  (Lets just say if I was the development editor, I may have given more stars)   Hmmm. I’m going to have to be honest, and so many of you may not like it, so if you don’t, log out now. Why was it so slow? If the book just moved, there wouldn’t need to be a duet. I’ve read plenty of slow burn books that started and finished in one sitting. That said, I used to cite the Deception Trilogy by Rina Kent as an example, until I revisited it after a long break from her books—and now I wish it had two more instalments. Back to the point, there is no need for a duet if we moved on and stopped describing every little thing. An English teacher’s dream and a student’s worst nightmare. To clarify, I understand why it’s a duet; I just don’t understand why this book was moving at such a snail’s pace. For the plot, a duet is necessary, but for the story, such unnecessary description is not. I haven’t read her Sinners series in a while, though, and upon reflection, the writing does...

  (I'm so not telling you but it may or may not have a.........number in it. Got you!) I’m still recovering from the shock of discovering who was behind all the commotion that affected Bee. I was even more shocked when said suspect, who turned out to be the actual suspect, went far enough to cause harm to themselves to reach their motive. I was even more shocked when that person pulled out a weapon. It was STEM romance meets thriller. Diabolical. Let me back it up and give you some context of course. I’m very quickly actually working through Ali Hazelwood’s STEM romance books. Each one is better than the last, and after crying over Love, Theoretically , you didn’t have to ask me twice to get my nose buried deep into the pages of Love on the Brain . We have two misunderstood enemies, or nemeses as they like to call each other. A neuroscientist called Dr. Bee Königswasser and NASA engineer Levi Ward have come together to work on a project called BLINK. It was a collaboration between ...

  (Let's say, I'll give this a.....) Okay, so the number of times I’ve referred to this book as Deep Dive is alarming and so irritating. Why can’t my brain just remember the damn name? Anyways, let’s get into what I thought about Scarlett Vandermeer and Lukas Blomqvist. So, I wasn’t aware this was like a BDSM kink kind of situationship, and then I sighed outwardly because I was like, not Fifty Shades of Grey again. And then I sighed inwardly when I found it was surprisingly… normal. Well, as normal as BDSM can be. After The Love Hypothesis , I obviously had very high hopes. Did it reach them? Yes, it did, because my expectations were Ali Hazelwood-coded. I knew it wasn’t going to be a ground-breaking read, and just in case you missed it, I now have suitable standards. Guess what, my peeps? Having one hundred plot twists and over-the-top characters doesn’t equal a great book. Would you look at that? I evolved. I changed. I’ve matured. We have a diver (Scarlett) and a swi...