Connie Suttle

I really liked the beginning especially because the mc didn't act so incredibly incompetent and foolish with all the new stuff around her like usual but instead quickly and efficiently analyzed her situation and takes things in her own hand. It went a little bit too far in the opposite direction at times tho.
She made unbelievable deductions about her new circumstances very fast. We never see her fail or make perfectly reasonable but wrong assumptions in that area at least.

This leads me to another common flaw this one is guilty of. Plot convenient selective stupidity. There is one major instance of this that I can accept because love really can make blind and all that but there are other things she really should've seen coming from miles away judging by her incredible intelligence in almost all other situations. If she had roughly average intelligence this wouldn't have been a problem.

Furthermore, she is the special special girl with all the special special abilities which, while not being too obnoxious, was present.

Roughly at 50%, there is a major plot point that determines most of the rest of the book but is fundamentally and very obviously flawed and honestly just ridiculously stupid.
I had to fight with myself to keep reading especially as the ramifications of this bullshit reason just keep piling and piling up but I wanted to give the book a chance past one even very big mistake.

Sadly, later on, we have a very unlikely redemption foreshadowing that isn't related to the first blunder but shows the same disregard for common sense.
The more books with this pattern I read the more bitter I become about it:
He treats her like shit; she is mad but can not resist and forgives him because reasons; he tries to fulfil her every wish and is suddenly a perfect partner.

I badly crave a book like this with the same beginning spiel but after he did the bad thing she resents him, doesn't forgive him and eventually, in a situation where she would normally come around, she blows his head off instead. Call be bloodthirsty but this would be so incredibly satisfying and might release some of all this built-up frustration.… (meer)

This one started out horribly with a neverending string of incredible bullshit.
First, she is being taught how to properly drink from a human after she lived off of humans for weeks by herself without ever hurting anyone and only getting caught on her very first drink before she even knew about compulsion.
Not by practising on someone mind you, no, by being forced to being bitten by a stranger.
Which as we already know causes an intense orgasm. WHAT THE FUCK. This crosses the borders to sexual abuse even if that wasn't actually the intension. Especially because it's completely unnecessary as she, again, is aware of all of this already, again, what the fuck.

Then, to test if she could keep behaving like a human under drug influence apparently, she is being forced to drink from a drug addict.
Not only did the master not make sure that the guy was safe to drink from by checking what kind of drugs he even consumed and how much and instead forced her to drink from the next best junky, no, instead of telling her beforehand what this was even about he just forced her to do it and then threatened her with compulsion afterwards when she started to suffer the effects of the various drugs. I can not put into words how much irresponsible bullshit is contained within this short first section of the story.
Not only that but then we are constantly told that this incompetent, inane prick is a "good teacher".
Good riddance. I pity the author for her school classes if she considers this a "good teacher".
And all this happened within the first 20 minutes of the audiobook.… (meer)

where to begin?
Connie Suttle is a Super Nova when it comes to creating worlds within worlds! This was the first book that I read of hers, and i was pulled in like a fish on a line! Seriously, if she were a drug, id have been six feet under now, from OD'ing!
This is the first in the series, and folks get your wallets out because you will not be able to stop at the one book!
Connie draws you into the story, and well while you fall in love with Lissa, and she is in no way a victim.. you really just want to beat the crap out of several people by the end of the book, just to stand up for Lissa!
What drew me to Lissa from the start, she didnt start out as your perfect, sexy bombshell who is kick ass.. she was you or me.. struggling, crippled by grief and well ready to just lay down her head and give up.. does life give her a break? nope! just decided to kick her while she was down.. and continued to do so.. if she was not the strongest willed woman i have ever met.. she would have just said.. F it a long time ago.. I dont want to write too much more.. without adding spoilers.. but if folks want spoilers happy to give em *LOL*
… (meer)