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anaconda

opinionated yapper with a tbr too long for one lifetime ✶ reverse harem enthusiast

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Psycho Devils (Cruel Shifterverse, #5)
Us Dark Few (Us Dark Few #1)
Blood Oath (Cursed Legacies #1)
Lola & the Millionaires: Part One (Sweet Omegaverse, #2)
The Gladiator's Downfall (Age of the Andinna, #1)
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anaconda completed their yearly reading goal of 40 books!

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anaconda's 2025 Reading Challenge

40 of 40 read
Us Dark Few (Us Dark Few #1)
Enchained: The Omega and the Fighter (Briar Wood Pack #2)
A Soul to Keep (Duskwalker Brides, #1)
Us Deadly Few (Us Dark Few, #2)
Survival Instinct (Cerberus Tactical K9 #1)
A King to Be Claimed (Our King, Our Master, #1)
Their Wife (Their Wife, #1)
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  • Fangs & Freaks (Shifters of Myth and Legends #1)
    anaconda
    Dec 08, 2025
    2.0
    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 1.0Characters: 1.5Plot: 2.0

    💕Reverse Harem (MMMF) 💕Bloody Mary x Vampires x Unicorn Shifter ✨Centered around MM relations ✨Possessive FMC ✨Love Triangle ✨Fated Mates ✨Enemies to Lovers ✨Insta Lust 📍Motorcycle Club Setting ❗️Dubcon between MCs

    ✅ The plot itself is actually really cool and fresh, and I haven’t seen something quite like it before.

    ✅When the MMCs, especially Warrick, talks about Bellonna, you can actually feel the fear and hesitance that would come from accidentally inviting a legendary monster like that into your home. There is some real reverence… at least at first

    ❌ This threatening aura is immediately undermined by the fact that Bellonna never actually does anything threatening. Even when she is enraged it has zero emotional weight and falls flat, people are terrified of the tales about her, not her.

    ❌ It’s not really a reverse harem, because the centrepiece of the relationship is Valys, not Bellonna. Everyone is competing for his attention, fighting over him, and he even has to ask her if she is willing to share him with the others. She feels more like an afterthought and a hot piece of ass if anything…

    ❌ No worldbuilding or downtime. Just plot, smut, plot, smut, plot. Many aspects were just not explained at all, it felt very surface level.

    ❌No organic development of relationships either. One moment they’re essentially strangers and in the next they’re suddenly obsessed, in love, feel safe with each other and act like they have a longstanding history beyond lust and a single hookup…

    ❌The writing itself was just not very good. It felt very soulless and fell flat, no emotional weight and is all felt very stiff. Emotions had little to no impact and despite the extremely fast pacing, it bored me.

    Random other thoughts: ➖ The bikerclub setting was completely irrelevant to the rest of the plot. It didn’t play a role ONCE ➖ Random inconsistencies, like Bellonna’s eye colour changing, or characters suddenly forgetting info they were told a chapter earlier ➖ The FMC has a sex slave… ➖ Every single character is horny af. Not just the MCs but every single supporting character as well. Like Lillith randomly groping herself mid conversation or asking when Bellonna is gonna eat her out like ma’am, what?

    Conclusion The premise of the book was really interesting. While I’m not a huge fan of the harem focusing on a guy instead of a girl I would have been fine with it, because it made for an interesting conflict, in theory. The execution is where it all fell apart for me. Little worldbuilding, so fast paced that relationships don’t develop organically, and what should’ve been emotional scenes fell entirely flat. Maybe a couple more drafts and an editor, and this could have been a great book, because like I said, the premise is very intruiging.

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  • The Silver Fox Bidder (Sold to the Mountain Man Book 2)
    anaconda
    Dec 08, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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    Very fast read. I loved the pacing, it was insta-lovey but we actually got to know the characters’ personalities a bit.

    The last chapter before the epilogue took me out of it a bit, would’ve been a 5 star read without it. There’s not much more to it really, it’s a quick and nice read.

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  • His Desire (Snowflake Falls Fire Department, #5)
    anaconda
    Dec 08, 2025
    3.0
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 3.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0
    🔥

    It’s your typical 40 page fast burn novella, if you like Jessa Joy, you’ll like this.

    I found myself getting bored quickly, but She’s early twenties I’d guess; way too young for an old man like me. My cock disagrees, lengthening and hardening until it’s stuffed against my zipper. woke me up enough.

    The ending is very abrupt and you just have to kinda take the author’s word for it when she says HEA, because we do not really see it.

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  • 🚩Bookish Red Flags 🚩

    Details, actions or mindsets that makes you think: nah, what the hell.

    I go first: calling no-spice fantasy "Clean Fantasy"

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  • The Dragon's Omega (Deathless Gods)
    anaconda
    Dec 08, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
    🐉
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    Dedicated to the girlies who want to be hoarded.

    Dynamics: Masc Alpha Dragon x Fem Omega Human Tropes: Omegaverse, Fated Mates, Insta Love, Forced Proximity

    Loved this so much. Vidar is a man who knows how to YEARN and LOVE. He is furious at himself for not immediately being strong enough to literally sweep her off her feet and instead relying on her, but he makes up for it down the line.

    A dragon always craved more. We loved fiercely, coveted possessively, and guarded the most precious treasure with our lives.

    Loved how respectful while also fully obsessed he was. He doesn't push the bonding onto her, making -sure she understands what immortality entails, and never pushes her.

    "Fate is forever. You, Lianna, are my forever now."

    Lianna is a great character, torn between her beliefs and being realistic about societal expectations. She is an omega and knows how that makes people view her. She is careful to trust and feisty, but once the man she truly wants comes along, she allows herself to relax with him.

    For such a huge, burly alpha, he gave me cute aggression, just sitting there, all unassuming and naked, cross-legged as he snipped, snipped, snipped at his facial hair with a pair of silver scissors.

    Loved the exploration of omegaverse sociology and culture as well, delicious. I'm totally gonna check out more from this author (realized many of her books were on my tbr list already and I loved this, so I'm ready)

    "What's mine is yours," he whispered roughly, "and I take very good care of what is mine."

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  • Blind Date with a Supervillain (Supervillain Romance Project)
    anaconda
    Dec 05, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 3.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0
    🦸
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    Is it a perfect book or subverting common tropes? No, not really! But it’s a really sweet coming of age story about two people from wildly different backgrounds coming together.

    My biggest complaint is that with the amount of hurt happening there was not nearly enough comfort for my taste.

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    Hungry for Her Wolves (Hungry for Her Wolves, #1)

    Hungry for Her Wolves (Hungry for Her Wolves, #1)

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  • Disappointments!

    Heeello everyone,

    What's one book for you that was an unbelievable letdown? I'm talking soul-crushing, frustrating, want-to-throw-the-book-across-the-room vibe.

    Also, absolutely no judgement here!

    Also also, spoilers (just in case)

    I'll go first ~ The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

    I love mystery and I love maps (I even make maps for fun) and this book combined the two, with magic, and it had such a promising start as well. Until....for 80% of it, there was nothing but all exposition and treating the main character as if she were ten years old. And the 'love interest' was a d*** 😒. And there was no plot to speak of. I've never felt so drained after reading a book and so so so very disappointed.

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  • His Fiery Mate (Alaskan Tails, #5)
    anaconda
    Oct 05, 2025
    2.0
    Enjoyment: 1.5Quality: 1.5Characters: 1.5Plot: 2.0
    🐉
    🔥
    👨‍🚒

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  • To Defy His Mate (Lunetti Pack, #0.5)
    anaconda
    Oct 04, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.5
    🐺
    🥊
    🐾

    Okay, uh, wow? Let’s put it like this: The writing itself was great. I am really invested now and will definitely be looking into more books by this author, because I reallt liked their style.

    However, this book is only about 60% actually book. This is more of a teaser for the other books in the series. I feel a little scammed rn. It was basically a glorified prologue, and I kinda wish it wasn’t.

    I really liked the relationships, the smut was good, the characters well defined… I guess I’ll look into the rest of the series because I really did like this, but it really was jarring for the book to randomly end at 60% after just setting up the inciting incident.

    Edit: I just found out their book doesn’t come out until next year and now I’m a little butthurt. How dare you make me invested for a book I will most definitely forget to read?

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  • Pack Rivals: Part One (The Rockview Omegaverse, #1)
    anaconda
    Oct 04, 2025
    DNF
    2.0
    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 0.5Plot: 0.5

    DNF at 28%

    I really did try to like this but I just couldn't. The premise was fun, but very quickly the entire plot became the men purposely weaponizing their scent in a way in which they knew she would be unable to freely consent, and her whining and whimpering about everything.

    I hate when an author is clearly aware about the power dynamics in their book but is unwilling to actually work with it and make an interesting plot. It's just the men going "well, she cant say no and other bad men would use that against her, so I'm gonna use it against her before they can."

    I'm tired. Bring back likeable men in books.

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