I can’t emphasize enough how much this book would benefit from at least two or three more rounds of editing. The tense shifts between present and past at random (sometimes within the same sentence) which breaks immersion and at times makes it hard to follow the story. The pacing also feels uneven and rushed. I’m genuinely not exaggerating when I say that a hallway smeared with cat poop gets more page time than the entire wedding. The worldbuilding wasn‘t fleshed out very well, and especially in the beginning there was a lot of info dumping, while neglecting to tell other parts of the world. Like the fact that the characters are shifters, which isn’t even mentioned until well into the book, and it then doesn’t seem to have any impact on the story. The MMCs feel like exaggerated caricatures and are practically indistinguishable from one another. The FMC, while not a doormat (which I appreciated), doesn’t feel like a fully developed character either. Her only consistent trait seems to be stubbornness, and even that lacks nuance. The humor didn’t land for me. It mostly relied on “random thing happened, now laugh!” moments, which didn’t really work. There is plenty of groveling, which is something I usually enjoy, but here it didn’t carry much emotional weight. The MMCs cry, howl, and drop to their knees a lot, but there’s little real effort shown in terms of growth or understanding her on a deeper level until the VERY end. They repeatedly say they want more than sex, but I didn’t really feel it. They claim they would’ve loved her even without scenting her, but that’s hard to believe when their initial reaction to her was practically disgust. Conclusion: With extensive editing, I think this could become a fun, lighthearted read. But as it stands, it reads like a rough first draft that really needs refinement. I was really torn on the star rating, but settled on 2 stars for potential alone. Sidenote: at one point, she gets a ring with a “knot” on it, and I pray that they mean knot🪢, not knot🍆 I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

DNF at 32% 💕Reverse Harem (MMFMM) 🏍️Biker men ✨Friends to Lovers ✨Touch Her and Die ✨Forced Proximity ✨Insta Lust/Love 💔Tortured FMC 💔Shitty/Abusive Ex ❤️‍🩹(Re)Learning Intimacy ✅ Good worldbuilding. The author seems to have enough knowledge about bikes to write abt it, and the biker community feels fleshed out and distinct. ✅ A rare case where the different MMCs actually have distinct personalities. Granted, some of these personalities were annoying as fuck, but still. A win is a win. ✅ Corey. Just him. He was great. Ethan was good too, didn‘t do much though. ❌ Rio is an unreliable, immature, toxic, manipulative, impulsive, transgressive man-child who constantly crosses boundaries and then hits himself, so no one can be mad. He never takes actual accountability, never learns, and everyone excuses his actions because “that is just how he is.” ❌ A constant push and pull between the MMCs saying they need to give her space and then flirting, touching or kissing her. It got tiring to read about real quick. And this is the entire first 20%: them saying they won’t push her just to cross her boundaries and then play the victim. ❌ This unreliable behavior extends beyond romance and sex. They constantly make her promises that they then proceed to break. Constantly, the entire time. It gets to a point where her PTSD is triggered by Rio, but then Rio is a bit upset about it, so she gets over it immediately to baby him. ❌ Besides the romance, plot is randomly dropped. After the drive-by shooting in the beginning it is just not mentioned again, at all. They arrive at the house minutes after the shooting and that’s it. No trauma, no curiosity as to what happened, literally not even a mention of it. By the time I DNFd it had not come up again. ❌ The writing was kinda repetitive. Always the same discussions rehashed: Atlas thinks they’re driving too fast, Rio once again wants to fuck her, Atlas says to give her time, Rip is horney, Corey thinks she‘ll leave, Ethan… is there. That‘s literally the entire content of the first 30%. My book icklist speedrun: 🤨 Every single female character besides the FMC and her best friend are awful people and caricatures of high school movie bullies. 🤨 The MMCs can’t go a single page without thinking about sex in graphic detail. I hate lust > love. 🤨 What do these guys do for work? All they do is sit around, talk about sex, have sex, have parties and ride their motorcycles. And they live in a house with four bedrooms, a garage, they own bikes… Conclusion Not a BAD book I guess. There is no real plot besides the guys trying to get Skye to sleep with them and be comfortable with BDSM. Could‘ve lived with that, if 50% of all characters weren’t insufferable hypocrites.