Adell Ryan

3.5 Stars! This was pretty good but I wish the story was a bit more self contained. I know this is a first book in the series but this feels more like a prologue in some ways rather than a first book. The plot was very background and mostly didn't show up until the end and the relationship is still very underdeveloped. There is also a page about the content warnings for this book and definitely read those before going in.

I also want to say right up front that this book has some "not like other girls" issues. There's a lot of comments about how impressive and different it is that Remi knows stuff about cars and Remi talks about how she doesn’t own any skirts and I just found that really annoying. Books being published in 2020 should know by this point that this kind of thing is not acceptable. It's demeaning and those kinds of comments from the love interests don't make them seem more attractive. If you want to make your characters unique, give them interesting character traits don't just talk about how they know so much more compared to all other females .

The relationships in this book were pretty good, though underdeveloped. I read this book because I've been really into reverse harem romances lately and I basically got what I expected. I felt a little weird about the pacing of the relationship because it seemed to somehow progress very fast and very slow. Remi met and got with Trenton, Hayes, and Crow (sort of) pretty quickly but then they never progressed past referring to each other as a one-night stand which made the relationship seem very slow. I think it will probably develop a lot more in book two but I wanted a little more from this book.

There actually was less plot in here than I expected and also less car racing in here than I was expecting. I really wanted to read a story centered on street racing because that seemed very interesting as a backdrop for a romance but unfortunately we didn't actually see much. We know all the characters have a history of street racing and I would definitely like to see more of that in book two and maybe an actual street race as well.

I think I'll definitely be picking up book two because this book did leave me intrigued enough to want to read more and I do want to see how the relationship develops. This book ended really suddenly and I do wish there was a little more substance in this one but I do think it could be a really good set-up for the next part and I'm interested to see what happens.… (meer)