I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems withStill read in 2018.
I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series. Because in all honesty, there is not a lot of difference between the 11 books in this series.
To be honest, at this point I was very tired, and I only wanted to finish this series.
Almost considered giving this an extra star just because this is the only book where the female character does not end up being pregnant. ...more
I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series.I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series. Because in all honesty, there is not a lot of difference between the 11 books in this series.
This was supposed to be a spin-off featuring Devyn's brother(s), but I don't understand why it's labelled "spin-off" because it's just another book in this series, nothing unusual or original...
(view spoiler)[Well, basically, the girl was/is whored out by her own father, then handed over to the Russian as a... bit of a change in their brothels. The main hero gets her as a bit of a gift from Timofei. When he likes her way too much, he BUYS her for three million. (hide spoiler)] I could get past these things if I felt something between them, but I fell nothing. She is just a wh*re he purchased.
I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series.I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series. Because in all honesty, there is not a lot of difference between the 11 books in this series.
At this point, I cannot even say that I had high hopes for this one... or any hopes at all. However, this whole "I do not want a girl trapped by a contract" was sort of nice from Konstantin. But, it was too good to be true.
Where Pasha chose the worst possible husband for Oksana, Kirill did the same with Akim. How original, right?
(view spoiler)[The epilogue showing Kiska pregnant and Konstantin throwing a surprise wedding for her only cemented this book as a copy paste of the rest of the series. (hide spoiler)]...more
I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series.I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series. Because in all honesty, there is not a lot of difference between the 11 books in this series.
⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇ Might be a bit spoilerish!🛑❌😑
First, this cover is absolutely awful! The worst in the whole series.
Second, I was interested in this one, however, by now I should have known better. Especially since Timofei went on and promised Devyn that he would behave nicer to her than her father was to his mother. So, he promised to be a good husband, no violence or cheating on his part. Let's say that he went back on the first part pretty fast.
Third, again with the pregnancy thing. The contract states that Devyn has to be pregnant in a year otherwise the marriage is void. (And then Timofei amends it to three months! 😲) And Devyn does not know! She asked Timofei if she should get some kind of contraceptive and he's like "No, you need to get pregnant". Like WTF!!🤯🤯🤯🤯 That's so DISGUSTING.
Fourth, when the contract is no longer is a problem and they agree that they do not want kids now, there is an epilogue that shows that in 18 months she will be pregnant.
What's the fascination with pregnancy in this series?...more
I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series.I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series. Because in all honesty, there is not a lot of difference between the 11 books in this series.
Please, someone, shoot me, because I still had sort of high hopes for this one. (view spoiler)[Sana chose Mike! One would hope that this one would be a bit different since he is not "forcing" her but now. Slowly it just slides into the same pattern as the rest of this series. (hide spoiler)]
My milaya moya - Please, do not use Russian. This sentence looks really bad. ...more
I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series.I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series. Because in all honesty, there is not a lot of difference between the 11 books in this series. ...more
I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series.I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series. Because in all honesty, there is not a lot of difference between the 11 books in this series.
This one is pretty much the worst one. It's nothing more than a breading fantasy. (view spoiler)[She has to get pregnant because otherwise Dominik is supposed to marry someone else. But there are several loopholes. a) Dominik can get someone else pregnant and then be a good guy and marry that poor, pregnant girl or b) they need to catch his fiance cheating on him publicly or with a member of the Bratva (give or take). b) seems impossible because she may be sleeping around but she's careful, so he goes with a). But the girl has no say in it. He wants her pregnant, and that's it. In the end, he catches his fiance cheating, and he has his boss with him. So, they can say she embarrassed and shamed him publicly. But the other girl is still getting pregnant. (hide spoiler)] Beyond disgusting. ...more
I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series.I do not know what to say. Let's just leave it at the fact that my reviews for the book 1 and 2 pretty much sum up my problems with this whole series. Because in all honesty, there is not a lot of difference between the 11 books in this series.
(view spoiler)[Funny thing. When Yakov leaves, and Mike starts to woo Ashley, it is said that he was in South Africa and he saw her at her worse. The author tries really hard to present Mike as the good and sweet guy. But! When he "officially" meets Ashley, he says hi in Russian, she does not understand him and does not answer. So, he immediately calls her b*tch! If that is not a red flag, I don't know what is. Then again he is all nice, taking her on dates and stuff but the moment she says that she wants Yakov he is all nasty once again. But Ashley still thinks about him as the good guy. (hide spoiler)]
But the worst thing is that I actually sort of had a bit of hope for this one. How crazy of me. ...more
You know, I'm sort of tired of saying this but I feel like I have to! Please do not use language you do not know well enough.
And I sort of don't knowYou know, I'm sort of tired of saying this but I feel like I have to! Please do not use language you do not know well enough.
And I sort of don't know what to say.
Here I had hopes that the characters would be a bit more mature but no such a luck.
And every book seems like a rehearsal of the previous ones. You always get the same "characters" with almost identical problems etc. I already read the whole series but I just do not want to review it. And honestly, I cannot tell the characters and the plot from those books apart. If you ask me in which (view spoiler)[book the female heroin went behind the backs of her man with the help of his men to get rid of an FBI agent (hide spoiler)] I would have no idea. I know that it happened but I have no idea with which characters and in which book....more
The first one was bad. What did I think? :o Well, I did not think, and it's not my fault. Completely. My friend and I pretty oftWhy am I reading this?
The first one was bad. What did I think? :o Well, I did not think, and it's not my fault. Completely. My friend and I pretty often switch our e-readers, and we just did. I told her about reading the first one in the series, along with the problems I had and she told me to read the rest of the series with a bit of threatening and laughing. So I did. Because I figured it could not be much worse than the first one was.
Man, was I wrong?
Where I liked the main female character more than the previous one, I seriously wanted to chuck the book out of the window.
There is not much I'm going to say about this book, but I need to say one thing.
My Russian is a bit rusty (okay, a lot).
But even I see that the author butchered it!
moy chernovolosyy koroleva
moy - is used for a male
chernovolosyy - also for a male
koroleva - and suddenly a Queen. A female.
It is not something that is in English, so I get it that it is confusing. But trust me, it looks really really bad.
There were more problems with Russian, but I think this is enough to illustrate. And the thing that bugs me is the fact that if I was writing anything and had a sentence in a language, I do not speak I would get a native speaker to check it for me. Honestly, it would take me thirty seconds to go to Facebook, find a local Expat group and I bet if I posted a question "Hello, writing a book/story. How would you say this sentence xx in Russian? Thank you!" And I'm telling you, you would get tens of answers! Was it hard? No. I have no idea why the author did not do that.
Another thing that bugs me. The main male calls the girl "his blyad". I'm not going to go into the fact this word has really, really bad connotation. But the thing that made me angry is the fact this is a five-letter word, and the author managed to mistype it three times as "blayd". And actually, it is as first used in the wrong spelling and it really confused me. No one edited this book or what? You do not need to speak Russian to see that there are two different spellings for one word!
Nope, nope, nope.
Btw, every book had so many people betraying Bratva; I'm sort of surprised there is anyone left. Or that they are not in jail, seeing that they are so many people just waiting to betray them for the right price tag.
... Lituji toho, že jsem tohle vůbec četla. (Alespoň můžu vinit mamku, která to dotáhla domů).
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Můj první problém začal ... Lituji toho, že jsem tohle vůbec četla. (Alespoň můžu vinit mamku, která to dotáhla domů).
Může obsahovat náznaky spoilerů
Můj první problém začal hned na první stránce: Jmenuji se xy, jsem yyy a tohle je můj příběh. Sorry, ale tohle je amatérština. Jenom to ukazuje, že osoba neumí představit postavu, příběh nenuceně v průběhu.
Hned na první stránce se mi postava taky znechutila, když se popíše jako megální krásku a jak je strašně super! Pak se přirovná snad k Selmě Hayek? Tuším. Nevím, někdo jí zjevně zapomněl říct, že skromnost udělá divy.
Furt mává tím, že je profesorka (a lidi kvůli tomu ohýbají pravidla) a učí francouzštinu. Sice je to už pár let, co jsem ji aktivně studovala, ale stejně jsem tam našla několik chyb a párkrát to vypadá, že hodili větu do překladače, protože takhle by tu větu Francouz fakticky neřekl.
A hned z toho vyplývá další vět. Když dělali překlad, tak jim nevadila hromada textu ve FJ, ale museli počeštit Quiche. Přiznávám, že když jsem viděla poprvé napsané slovo kiš, tak ta knížka málem letěla z okna!
Spisovatelka si zjevně něco kompenzuje. Já jsem mega žrout, o jídle přemýšlím furt. Ale co se dělo v té knížce? To už fakticky byla nějaká nemoc. Brácha na to koukl a říká: "Jasný, ženská se hladoví, aby byla hubená, tak se nají aspoň na stránkách." A doopravdy to tak vypadalo.
Jistě, nikdy o Smithových neslyšela, ale bude je hned obhajovat, jak to byli super lidi. A vezme slovo sousedky za daný fakt a žene se za svou pravdou.
Ten konec? Nebyl realistický ani trochu. Vypadalo to tak, že vzala výčet na začátku a jediná chyba v hlavní postavě byla, že to není žádná Lara Croft, tak to musela napravit. Bylo to doslova směšné.
Stejně jako celý románek s jejím doktorem. A sorry, že ti řekne, že k doktorovi moc nechodí, tak to stejně nevysvětluje, že má najednou o ni zájem, jen co se zjistí, že má v "hlavě" kulku....more
For future reference - Always have a different book to read.
If I did have something else to read while travelling, I would DNF this like two chapter For future reference - Always have a different book to read.
If I did have something else to read while travelling, I would DNF this like two chapters in. I did not like the characters at all. And the plot was just a background noise for them to get to the bed.
We've got several plot twist/actions that were introduced during the "series": Taylor leaking the video, Lively, PRISM, (view spoiler)[ Her daddy killing some poor girl who said No (hide spoiler)]. Yet, none of this was ever solved. Just background noise....more
For future reference - Always have a different book to read.
If I did have something else to read while travelling I would DNF this like 2 chapters i For future reference - Always have a different book to read.
If I did have something else to read while travelling I would DNF this like 2 chapters in. Did not like the characters. And the plot was just a background noise for them to get to the bed.
The plot with Lively might be interesting. Unfortunately, the author rushed the whole thing to the point where it would be way better just to skip the "plot" and make it just about sex....more
Absolutně nechápu, proč jsem to dělala? Protože mi pořád nezabraly prášky na spaní a Coraline vypadala moc zajímavě. Ta holka je totálně na kulku, i kAbsolutně nechápu, proč jsem to dělala? Protože mi pořád nezabraly prášky na spaní a Coraline vypadala moc zajímavě. Ta holka je totálně na kulku, i když nejste u ní v hlavě! A nejhorší je, že on je pak absolutně stejný. Hrůza, hrůza, hrůza. Jinak miluju autory, kteří něco napíšou, a pak to přepíšou z pohledu jiný postavy. Za chvilku se to bude psát z pohledu podlahy. ...more
For future reference - Always have a different book to read.
If I did have something else to read while travelling, I would DNF this like two chapter For future reference - Always have a different book to read.
If I did have something else to read while travelling, I would DNF this like two chapters in. I did not like the characters. And the plot was just a background noise for them to get to the bed....more
What is the point of this thing? Just because there was the Shutdown, she posted this? I sort of wonder where it an extra for the latest Shutdown.
Can What is the point of this thing? Just because there was the Shutdown, she posted this? I sort of wonder where it an extra for the latest Shutdown.
Can I say that this was just pointless and that I really cannot stomach Anita describing how gorgeous she is?
I bet that Hamilton has a file with a long description of every character. And every time they come to the scene she just puts the description there. Every single time! We all know how blue eyes J-C has. We all know what happened to Asher and how he got his scars. And how he hides behind his hair. We all KNOW that! And this outtake is supposedly 25 pages, but if you erase the descriptions, then you will have half of it.
I felt sorry for Ellen, she was made the bad guy here, and she definitely did not deserve it. And the moment Anita goes to compare Ellen to herself, I just wanted to punch her! "She's curvy, but my breasts are bigger! She's in shape, but I'm in better shape!"
So sick of this. And it is not the first time other women are put down in this series this way! I can very much remember Anita bonding with another female hunter over belittling skinny women. Sorry, that is not okay in my book. ...more
Někdo by mě měl blahořečit! Zasloužila bych si to. Mac je naprosto otravná, nevyzrálá a s prominutím naprosto blbá. A nejvíc mě dostalo, když ke konciNěkdo by mě měl blahořečit! Zasloužila bych si to. Mac je naprosto otravná, nevyzrálá a s prominutím naprosto blbá. A nejvíc mě dostalo, když ke konci oznámila, že nás nechce otravovat popisem příšer. A to nás celou dobu zasypávala naprosto nudným popisem toho, jak je její oblečení úžasné, nádherné, co všechno k sobě ladí a navrch ještě její uchylka na laky! brr! proti růžové nic nemám, ale když ji tak pět let neuvidím, tak s tím rozhodně nebudu mít problem. A ta její touha vyzdobit svět mě taky dostávala. Tu holku by měl někdo oficiálně zabít. O Barronsovi toho nemám moc, co říct, tak jen podotknu, že mě nezaujal. Postřehy: To se milionkrat musí vracet k tomu, že byla servírka a jak super to bylo? Proč vždycky musela vykecat, co se dál vstane? A minimálně v jednom případě prozrazuje i děj dalších knih? to je spoiler, prosím pěkně! Právě jsem si vzpomněla na další věc, co mě pěkně rozčilovala: Když o sobě Mac prohlašovala, že je sexy mladá žena nebo něco na ten způsob. Ale realita je naprosto někde jinde, ona je nevyzrálé, rozmazlené dítě....more
I felt that the last books had zero plot. Now I want to apologise to that book because THIS had no plot at all.
Whoever wrote the annotation for this I felt that the last books had zero plot. Now I want to apologise to that book because THIS had no plot at all.
Whoever wrote the annotation for this book should get a HUGE award. Because it has more plot than the book itself.
The style of writing is getting worse and worse. So much repetition and stupid description of how beautiful someone is. And still, overly describing characters we know for several books. (view spoiler)[ How anyone could anyone think that it was okay to have three years old kid pretty much hitting on Anita? That's plain wrong! (hide spoiler)]
Anita is someone I have a strong distaste for, and she just made it even worst.
There was way too much yummy mounded goodness going on in front of me...
Don't get me wrong, I can be pretty vain but this... but this sounds so wrong... and I just cannot anymore.
Thanks to this I also started to hate the word "dance".
Well, after reading Bullet this was way better. Still it's not where the series started. Anita may not spend the whole book between naked bodies. HoweWell, after reading Bullet this was way better. Still it's not where the series started. Anita may not spend the whole book between naked bodies. However, she spends most of the book TALKING!
And I just realised that I have no idea who most of the characters are and I need to google them pretty often.
(view spoiler)[ Olaf and weretiger? Why not. I just wish there was the epic fight. Not just: "Hey, Olaf is a weretiger and he runs away!" (hide spoiler)]
I also "loved" that Anita and the other female marshal, Laila Karlton used body shamming of skinny girls to bond over. Funny how Anita talks big how she's for diversity and acceptance of others except for skinny girls. And this is not the first book that used this "trope" and I am asking why?! Shame someone based on race, orientation, religion or because they have some extra weight and people gonna eat you alive. But shaming someone because the person is skinny it's suddenly okay. So tired of that....more
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