Listen I knew I probably wasn’t going to like this one. Her full length books aren’t for me so I knew that there was a 99.9% chance this novella wasn’t gonna work but I couldn’t leave out the last one in the series.

This lacked any real character development or any depth. I’m meant to care about the characters and if I’m indifferent towards and fmc that was just buried alive by her abuse husband then something went wrong.

This was the spiciest out of the bunch but tbh if wasn’t THAT spicy but it did feel added just for the sake of it. What could have been a good time for relationship development was kinda wasted (I think a good sex scene could develop the relationship it just wasn’t evident here).

The end was rushed so and it just unfinished. Usually I come away with wanting more from the characters in a novella but I had enough of these two

2.5 ⭐️

This one sounded so interesting but turned out to be the most boring of the lot (have one more to go) it took such a random turn towards the end that was frankly lazy and poorly thought out .

The murder plot didn’t even need to be in there because it was brushed over in half a page, the romance was fine but lacklustre im just glad we finally got an actual HEA not a HFN like the previous books.

The slang in this series is so cringe idk are they being told what slang to use because it’s getting ridiculous at this point.

Ehh this one didn’t really work for me I don’t think we needed a flashback that was going to take up over 30% of the novella if we were gonna present day because the present day parts weren’t given enough time to do even the smallest bit of development

The slang and dialogue were just a little cringe to me too.

I will say that I’m happy he found a job because it was getting very “The Materialists” up in there and I was worried

3.75 ⭐️

Another cute novella in this series although I would say if you’re feeling at all queasy please do not read it because 99.9% of the time they’re discussing food poisoning and vomit which… got a little tiring at times.

This one was cute it definitely ended on a HFN not a HEA and tbh I wanted at least an epilogue to see everything tie up. These two haven’t seen each other in 8 years and we really only get one night on stage with them so we don’t reallllly see the extend of where their relationship is going.

I’ll definitely pick up more Julie Soto though because her writing is fab!