The best way for me to describe this book is to say that it read like a bad fanfiction.

Now, this is not me knocking fanfiction. Because there is a lot of great fanfiction out there, and I 100% respect it. My point is, this read like bad fanfiction.

Basically, this family is like the Kardashians. Or maybe the parents are the Kardashians and the children are Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe's kids. I couldn't quite remember what the family was famous for. I know they have a soda company because I remember I rolled my eyes when Maximoff mentioned that their soda company outsold Coke for the last ten years or something. But then I think the parents had a sex tape released (which led me to realize this is a spinoff series of another series and I died a little on the inside because I'm a completionist and I would have wanted to read those first even though you don't have to), which sounds like Kim Kardashian and blah blah.

So I don't know anything about the Kardashians, really. I don't watch their show, and I have no interest in them. It's quite possible that a lot of the stuff in this book was realistic, and it's how things go. Maybe all the Kardashians live with their bodyguards, and maybe their bodyguards are super obsessed with them. Idk. But a lot of the stuff just seemed really over-the-top and absurd to me. But again, maybe I'm wrong.

This book, okay, was CHEESY A.F.

Like, I have four siblings and two half siblings, whom I love. I understand the love of family. But tbh, every time Maximoff went off on one of his rants (where he weirdly talked to the audience?) and was like, "If you mess with her, I'll break your face." I was like, "...please no." But this kind of brings in the bad fanfiction elements. Here are some of the cheesy/fanfictiony things that happened:

- Maximoff's eyes were referred to as "forest-greens," like as a noun, seven times. Which may not seem like a lot, but this doesn't include the times where his eyes were referred to as forest-green. I think that was thirteen. I was just like, "ENOUGH. I GET IT. HIS EYES ARE FOREST GREEN." This is the kind of thing where you're not really adding any description or value by referring to them as forest green, so why do it?
- Maximoff's (I refuse to call him Moffy, and I'm not sorry) little sister Kinney is mentioned to have an ex-girlfriend. They broke up because her ex-gf took a role on a TV musical show. And Kinney, apparently, smashes the television or her cell phone every time she hears a song from the show. Not an exaggeration. She quite literally smashes the television, breaks it, and goes through her allowance to buy a new one. That is... quite probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
- Jane and Maximoff both speak French (and Maximoff also speaks Spanish), and they will just talk to each other in French or throw out random words in French. I know plenty of people who speak multiple languages. None of them ever randomly throw out words in their other language. Plus, it was casually dropped that someone (an uncle, maybe? I don't remember) taught them French. And like, this was something I had a problem with in my second fave series of all time, All For The Game. They're just like, "Oh yeah and then this person taught them X-language." Like, unless you start this from birth, you can't just teach someone a language like that. (Or I guess you can, but it's extremely difficult.) Idk, as someone who has been trying very hard to fluently speak Spanish for years, I hate just hearing, "Oh yeah and then when I was 14 he taught me Spanish," like it's as easy as learning long division.
- Farrow having completed medical school and being like, "Lol I'm a doctor." Was so unnecessary. I get the backstory, but it was kind of stupid.
- There was more, but I can't think of anything right now.

This book was pretty boring, hence why it took me ten freaking days to read. I didn't HATE it by any means. I thought it was fine. It took a WEIRD turn at the end, but at 90% in, something happened, and I was like, "Oh, I'm finally interested." And I sat and finished the last 10% and was actually super into it. So I'll pick up the sequel. Chandler Ainsley said the next two were better and less cheesy than the first one, so I'll give it a chance!

Oh, and how could I forget the most important part? The smut wasn't very good. It wasn't very steamy, it felt kind of robotic. Idk it was very lackluster for me. But I'm still interested to see where this goes.