DNF'd this one at around 35%.
I really wasn't connecting with the reading style and found myself putting it down after a page or two with no desire to pick it back up

DNF

I was not jiving with the author's writing style. The synopsis sounded really good, so I may try again in the future.

DNF 25 %
Meh. Caly was boring and had the very feel of damsel in distress. Things did not change much, other than that the main characters became the insta-love couple i most times dislike. I had hoped it was going to be fun, easy read and hot. But it was not.

Sorry but this book was not for me. The book was super long and the "sexy scenes" were very repetitive. Maybe with 250 pages shorter I will enjoy it probably a little bit more.
Thank you so much to Netgalley for this arc in exchange for an honest review.
3 stars

This book was absolutely fantastic! Going into it I wasn’t sure if it was for me, and with it being a fairly lengthy read, I was dubious. But if my word, it was sooooo worth it! I found it completely addictive, the plot line and characters were enthralling and by the time I was finished I felt cheated that I didn’t have the second book to hand to begin reading straight away. Brilliant read, fab author, so happy I stumbled across it! Thanks for the opportunity to read and review this books. Apologies for the delay in submitting the review, I became quite poorly earlier on this year and just getting on my feet again. Full review to hit my website - www.lotteslibrary.com - soon.

I honestly couldn't get into it like I would have like to. The overly explaining of scenes, the lack of transitions between characters, and slow pace made this a difficult a read for me. The story was not a bad one just hard to get through especially with the length of this book and lack of attention keeping action/conflicts.

but I hope you enjoy it more than I did.

And as always Happy Reading!!

I was not expecting 640 pages when I started to read this book! However I quite enjoyed it! The story was pretty interesting and I loved the characters and the switching POV! Also *Warning* it starts pretty soon with mature content! (+18) 🤗

The concept of the supernatural is very intriguing and I loved the variety that was shown! Especially the different kinds of shifters! ☺️ I‘d love to have the abilities from the main character, who wouldn’t want to see handsome men in their dreams?!? 😂

DNF
I had high hopes for this story and it wasn’t bad, but just not for me.
I like the steamy scenes, possessive wolf, and cat sidekick.
However, the main character is annoying. h is from the human word and when dragged into the supernatural world, her inner monologue is repetitive, lacks common sense, and critical think skills. For example, h is injured and is told by H that a healer was going to come talk to her. Her inner monologue debated whether this healer was a real doctor or some kind of supernatural being for like three or four full paragraphs. Meanwhile she’s in a supernatural forest in a cabin and was just exposed to many supernatural creatures. The healer uses magic and h’s mind goes “huh, I guess she’s not a human doctor then” uh no duh!
Another issue is the multiple POVs. I don’t mind multiple POVs usually but in this story the author changes POVs by paragraph instead of chapter. So, it the main characters kiss, a simple kiss is dragged out by reading both of the inner monologues of H and h.
I ended up putting it down around 41% of the way through. To be honest, it just wasn’t worth the frustration and I was tired of rolling my eyes.

This is a paranormal read full of self discovery, insta-love, and alpha males that comes out this May. I received an advanced readers copy from NetGalley and read about 60% of it until I had to stop because it felt like the book really started to drag on unnecessarily. It was just too long and nothing was really happening.

Caly’s life is routine, from her morning coffee/music to her job as a paralegal, until she rear ends a car. The man in the car doesn’t make her pay for the damage and just lets her leave. She is feeling extremely lucky and feels her luck grow when he asks her out the next day. Everything is starting to change for the better in Caly’s life, but with a killer she doesn’t know about on the loose and a whole other world hiding from her view, her life might end up changing more than she ever imagined could be possible.

#Calypso's Heart by author # M. C. Solaris is a wonderful, fun and must have novel. This new series has vampires, immortals, and a strong heroine. When I was finished I was ready for the next.
Thank you for the advance copy,
#Netgalley, #M.C. Solaris and #Victory Editing

This fantasy romance book was just ok. It lacked that special something that makes a fantasy romance stick out from all the other similar titles.

Unpopular opinion to come.

This tome is 650+ pages, probably 400+ pages too long.

Unfortunately, the opening chapter alone is full of the usual cliches, including but not limited to a dream sequence and the breath that the MC wasn't aware of holding (twice in consecutive paragraphs even).

The MC, Caly, is your ordinary girl, nothing special to look at, no discernible interests apart from her coffee and her playlists. The male characters are all paste-board clichè shifters and a vampire.

I started skimming the book from about 30% on. I liked it until then, but it was repetitive after that first third.

The book definitely had a lot of mature content, shifter romance/sex scenes. The lauded multiple POV were confusing at times, since it felt like the author couldn't make up their mind which view to jump into.

I just hope that the other books in the series are edited more carefully.

Big thanks to netgalley for the ARC in exchange for a review.

I made it through about 35% before I had to quit. I tried but just couldn't. All of what I read could be summed up with "twins, they were twins, aristocrats, twin towers, frost, twins, feminine females that ever femaled with feminine female parts, twins twinning, twins"

The POV was all over the place, switching from one person's POV to another's within the same paragraph.

The language was dull and boring and literally the same thing over and over again. Yes, they are twins, who are twins that tower over everyone they meet so they can only be described as twin towers towering over everyone with their towering twin smirks.

Literal quotes:
"perfectly groomed female brows"
"feminine eardrums"

This is the worst review I've ever left and although I didn't enjoy the book at all, I think the story could have some real potential. With more varied descriptions, less descriptions (they wear white shirts literally every time they step into a scene) and a better POV set up I believe this would be an enjoyable read.

Meet Caly, an ordinary girl, that has not much personality besides an obsession with her coffee of the moment and her playlists, that is not so ordinary after all. First, she gets abducted by the guys she’s been dating (in her defense, it was only two dates) because he wants to know what species she is. Then, she is rescued by a sexy Alpha male (wolf shifter) and his group (called the Orion order) and she learns that she is not actually human and that she has special abilities and is immortal. The guy who abducted and tortured her is also a powerful shifter and a serial killer, the one that Orion’s order has been looking for, for quite some time.

I enjoyed the first 30% of this book, but it gets boring after that. The scenes are repetitive and not much happens besides the everyday life of Caly, the sexy shifters, and the vampire. Also, the way the order of Orion is introduced is a little bit confusing. It took me two whole chapters to finally figure out who was who and I even thought that the guy she was dating was part of the order for a while.

I thought this story would be more about the murders and the search for the psycho killer, but I made it as far as 70% and I am still reading about Caly getting used to her new life as a species and having torrid sex with her lifemate/sexy wolf shifter. I just don’t care about this story and the characters enough anymore to continue. There are so many useless descriptions and this story drags on and on and on. Everything is described…I don’t mind descriptions, but I don’t need to know about the color of your makeup, the yoga outfit that someone is wearing, all the ingredients in your friend’s sandwich, or the way your messy bun is not as pretty as you wish it were.

Overall, the beginning was promising, and reading the reviews I assume that the end gets better and that it’s worth it because there are a lot of 4 stars and 5 stars reviews… But the middle is boring, ordinary, and way too long, it killed the mystery and the ambiance that the first chapters created. There are many repetitive or pointless scenes, and a lot of inner monologues, that could have been removed to allow us to get to the real plot of the story (because I am still assuming that this story is somewhat about catching a serial killer).

Review published on Goodreads on November 26, 2020

DNF & 50%

Unfortunately this one was just a miss for me. The paranormal elements were interesting but overall the book was 200 pages too long with the descriptions and inner monologue stretching to an unnecessary degree that every scene felt sluggish and overworked. The males of the Order felt juvenile and stuck in their rut of assigned personalities, and the chemistry between Blake and Caly felt very cookie cutter for the paranormal romance genre. Caly felt particularly vapid and naive and I just couldn't connect to her as a main character.

Thank you to netgalley for providing a digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

ARC Review: Received for free via Netgalley for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
Thank you for letting me review this title.
Overall it's a good book, it dragged a bit in some moments.
The plot was interesting and the characters had a good growth.

So I REALLY, REALLY tried with this book. After reading the description, the book sounded interesting. Then, after I started reading it and my frustration began, I read the current reviews and decided to not give up. There were way too many POVs with way too much unnecessary and repeat information. Then, when it was something that should’ve had more info, it wasn’t given. As it was, because of all the extra POVs and info (that easily could’ve been in separate books), I decided I didn’t care about the twins frat boy antics (and the one twin’s penchant for chain-smoking). The only secondary character who I thought would be an interesting read was Nico. When Caly starts describing the healer, whose description was already given many chapters back, I was pretty much done. At that point, I found myself skipping paragraphs and almost whole pages of the secondary characters POVs, especially when they didn’t pertain to what was happening in the story. .
**I voluntarily read and reviewed this book

Okay, before I really get into this review, there are a few things you need to know going into this book.

~ It is long, like Kristen Ashley long. Its starts a little slow, the first 8ish chapters keep you wondering when it is going to really kick into gear. But those first 8 chapters aren’t bad, they just have you wondering what direction this is going

~ There are a lot of details, and world building. Again, this is not necessarily bad but it makes for a long book. There are so many Species involved in this series all the details are kinda needed to help you understand how 3 shifters, a vampire and an aristocrat tech nerd all live happily in a house. If this book was 200 pages shorter I would probably be writing about how it didn’t make sense how all these species got along and interacted so well.

~This book is told in lots of POV’s - so while reading this book it is definitely getting set up for books to come. And since this book is so detailed and LONG - the books to come hopefully won’t need all the back story and world building since this one is pretty much covering it all. Also the way the POV’s change are quick. It can be confusing, but there are some parts that I actually loved the way it flipped back and forth between the couple through a conversation, so you always know what the hell the other is thinking for their actions. Sometimes it was actually funny to read how they were thinking the same thing, but their actions were totally different.

Now, as if this review isn’t long enough lets dive into the actual book a bit.

Caly is a dream traveler, but she is raised in the human world. Has absolutely no idea Specians even exist let alone that she is one. But, she has spent her entire life feeling like something is missing, and not being able to figure out just what it is. She is a great heroine, and we really get to dive into the way she thinks. While she is extremely drawn to Blake, she still keeps her true emotions at a distance, because being raised human she still can't grasp the LifeMate thing.

During the first part of the book she meets a guy named Nick, when she rear-ends him driving to work. He is a Specian and can scent that she is one as well, so he follows her. Then bumps into her and asks her out because he thinks she hit him on purpose.

Blake (our hot alpha wolf of The Order) has been hunting The Ghost (aka Nick) for years and they just can’t catch him. The first time he meets Caly is in a dream that she pulls him into. But he can only see her eyes. I will say, the topic of Caly’s eyes if definitely brought up in this book a lot, like a lot.

Yes, Blake and Caly have an insta-love connection in this book - BUT THEY ARE LIFE MATES GUYS!! It’s supposed to be like that. For this book being so long, the sex was definitely there, but also spread out enough that it didn’t feel like it was over done in my opinion.

Now, the side characters are awesome! I can’t wait for the Twins’ books. Actually I really can’t wait for Nico. I love me a mysterious badass. We get all their POVs in this book, so we can to know them each a little bit more.

And so you know, like I said it starts off a little slow, then we get some huge Ghost drama and you are totally sucked in. The middle of the book is definitely a lot of world and character development. It is a lot of how Caly is transitioning to this new world, how her relationship is going and meeting new characters that are coming. Then the higher drama comes back in the end.

I did truly love all the details about these characters, their personalities, their abilities and the world that they lived it. Everything was explained very well in my opinion. My only real complaint is the middle just got a little boring for me. I do love me some angst and I would have liked to see more happening with The Ghost throughout the whole book. Which I think would have made this a solid 5 star with those elements continued through the entire book and not just the beginning and end.

I can’t wait to read Rhyker’s book and see how it is. Since this is the first book in what looks to be at least 4 books already, but I can definitely see at least 6 books coming from it so far it makes sense that it is the developing book.

If you are looking for a book for a long weekend, and some traveling, where you have the time to delve in and get lost in this world this is a great book. I don’t think this can be enjoyed to its fullest in short pieces though, but that’s also just my personality.

Awesome book! Loved it, Blake is chasing an evil being. Caly accidentally becomes prey to the evil known as the ghost! Can Blake and his pack protect Caly? Especially when Caly is human or is she? This book has all kinds of fun supernaturals in it! First time reading this author but not last!

I received a complimentary copy of this book from NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own

Initially I was unsure about this book. While the synopsis captured my attention, I was a little unsure about the way this book was going to go. I was so unsure that I had the book loaded up on my screen but didn't start reading until some time later. It took me until about a good 100 pages in before I settled into the writing style. I would still that the author go back to the first 1/3 of the book and doing some re-writing. I found it hard to keep track of the POVs. It was like the majority of the chapter was in one POV then for a sentence or two it would randomly switch. It was very confusing. This made it harder to really get into the story, I would suggest to the author that the book just be in the POV of Blake and Caly or at least stating at the start of the chapter whos POV it would be in.

I kept reading this story out of sheer will and the promise of an interesting plot. As the story progressed I did get pulled into the plot, there were many characters that were interesting, they just need fine tuned. The development of Blake and Caly's relationship was interesting and I did enjoy how the secondary characters showed development as well.

Overall this book needs a lot of work but the story is very interesting once you get into it.