You gotta love Sutton, as she had a heart as big as the world, and thinks the world of her neighbors who treated her like dirt! Sutton's mom worked the oldest profession in the world, did drugs and barely took care of Sutton, not to mention tell her WHO her dad was! I felt so sorry for the trailer trash little girl who didn't have any friends. I fell in love with Mark the instant he saw Sutton working at a dump of a bar, and I can't wait to read book two!!

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HOTCHA | Dec 20, 2023 |

Mated to the Big Bad Wolves: Tales from Little Red… av S. Cinders

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Genres; Adult Erotica Paranormal Romance.
2.5 Stars
Negatives & Positives
Considering all the typos, editing errors, stilted language and and sentence structure problems, 2.5 is being generous.
It an interesting adult twist on Little Red Riding Hood. Unfortunately it is quite boring. There is no real substance to any of it. There is a layer of cuteness and it is definitely erotic. Just not well written erotica. I don't think even lengthening the story would have done much to help it. It needed more tension, angst. A bit of suspense would have helped.
Just not much more I can say about this.
It wasn't terrible. But I can't in all honesty say it was good either.… (mer)

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bodebeabay | Sep 25, 2022 |

Once Upon a Christmas Wedding: a holiday romance… av Scarlett Scott

Aaaand, I finally finished! Before Christmas, even! :)
Lots of interesting stuff here (varying time periods, settings, writing styles, editing, and levels/types of steam), but these were my favorites:

Hell’s Wedding Bells - Annabelle Anders
Home for Christmas - Celeste Jones
Holly and the Beast - Annabel Joseph
Mistletoe Kisses - Elise Marion
The Holiday Hussy - Merry Farmer
Christmas Charity - Beverly Oakley
The Russian Betrothal - Elsa Holland
Marrying Miss Bright - Dayna Quince
The Russian Prince’s Bride - Mariah Stone
Holly and Old Lace - Vanessa Brooks
Wedded in Winter - Scarlett Scott
A Wicked Wedding - Laura Trentham
The Angel of an Astronomer - Linda Rae Sande

Thanks to all of the authors for putting together this enormous collection and making it free. It kept me entertained off and on almost all year long, and now I have a bunch of new writers to check out…:)… (mer)

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readingtangent | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 20, 2020 |

Once Upon a Christmas Wedding av Elsa Holland

I never want to read about a wedding on Christmas ever again.

I am so so so glad I am FINALLY done with this. The relief! While I actually enjoyed more of the stories than I expected, this went downhill when I read the whole second half over the last week.

THINGS I LEARNED FROM THIS ANTHOLOGY (in categories cause I'm just that sick of everything)
Plot & character things
- All men speak in a rich baritone
- A woman's hair is always long and usually curly
- Every blonde woman is an angel (twice the angel if her hair is also blonde & curly)
- Scotsmen are always rugged and we'd forget they're Scottish if they didn't call the heroine "lassie" in at least every second sentence
- Epilogues only exist to show us that the heroine is pregnant
- Isn't it funny to call this heroine in Christmas romance anthology Holly? So original!

Sex things
- "It's called a cock."
- There's always oral sex before the virgin is deflowered (or "claimed", as most stories put it. By his rod.)
- "What was that?!" - "It's called an orgasm."

Actual serious criticism
- People of color didn't exist in 19th century England, not even as servants (except for that one story)
- Neither did queer people
- Beta readers for spelling and grammar? We don't need them cause we're just THAT good. 99% of these mistakes were things spellcheck should've picked up on, what are you even doing?!
- Apparently spanking is so sexy that there's no need to distinguish it from abuse. Hard disagree.

INDIVIDUAL RATINGS (to be taken with a grain of salt, especially those at the beginning - when I wasn't sick of the premise yet - and those at the end, when I was too sick of the premise. I've also got an update with a mini review after every single story for you to enjoy...)
Hell's Wedding Bells - 4 stars
Two Lady Scoundrels and a Duke - 1 star
A Wicked Wedding - 5 stars
The Lady's Guide to Mistletoe and Mayhem - 1 star
The Russian Betrothal - 4 stars
Beautifully Reckless - 2 stars
The Mistletoe Mistress - 3 stars
Deeds Not Words - 2 stars
Holly and the Beast - 3 stars
The Winter Bride - 3 stars
Mistletoe Kisses - 3 stars
The Christmas Countess - 2 stars
Mischief and Mistletoe - 2 stars
Kidnapped With the Knight - 1 star
The Russian Prince's Bride - 4 stars
Christmas Charity - 3 stars
The Angel of an Astronomer - 4 stars
Wassail, Wagers and Weddings - 3 stars
Highland Yule - 1 star
Marrying Miss Bright - 3 stars
Kiss Me, Macrae - 3 stars
Holly and Old Lace - 1 star
Home for Christmas - 2 stars
A Spinster at the Highland Court - 2 stars
The Holiday Hussy - 1 star
December Debauchery - 3 stars
Wedded in Winter - 2 stars… (mer)

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j_tuffi | 2 andra recensioner | May 30, 2020 |

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