The two main characters are a little annoying at first
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The two main characters are a little annoying at first, but as the story goes along, there is great character development. Yan's back story is very interesting, and the budding romance between him and the main character is sexy and sweet. The sex scenes are very tastefully done, full of passion but don't leave you feeling dirty after reading it. Highly recommend this book.
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I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

SHAMELESS is the second book in the King's Brats series.  In this book you learned more about the feud between the Grayhawks and the Flynns, and the author gives more insight into some of the character's backgrounds and what lead them to become the people they are now.  However, it is mainly about Pippa, the pregnant daughter of Matt Grayhawk, and Devon, the youngest of the Flynn brothers.

I liked the story overall.  I like Pippa and Devon and enjoyed their evolving relationship, although they did become a little irritating near the end.  Unfortunately, I found most of the secondary characters to be annoying, especially Matt and his interactions with Pippa.  He constantly treated her like a child, gave no thought to her wishes, and reacted inappropriately to certain situations.
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This book series is about a group of girls who discover they are linked by magical powers. Although their mission isn't clear, they know they have to protect the Earth somehow.
  This book is more of a emotional book than the first. It deals with death, responsibility, the loss of a friend, and abuse of powers. It also has some funny parts to it like talking appliances, and frog-transformations.
  Elyon has disappeared and Hay-Lins grandmother gets sick. Irma uses her powers so she can look noticable at a party and gets the wrong kind of attention!
  I didn't like how the girls just laughed at Irma when she confessed, that was serious matter, not something to laugh about. The girls also discover that the Elyon that they knew has disappeared and become evil.
  At the end of the book, their is a fight with evil, and the book gets more interesting towards the end. For once, all the girls transform and the battle scene is a lot better than the first.
  Once again though, there are comics in the front and back, but the ones in the back, continue the story unlike the actual novel-written text, and (once again) leave you a cliff-hanger. I would recommend this book to people who enjoyed the first, or are looking for a cheap, lite book series to get into. I still give this 4 stars though, because it's interesting, and deserves more than 3 stars (average).
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On the one hand Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance was cute and fun, but on the other hand, it kind of infuriated me at times much like our two protagonists did to each other.

The cute and fun:
It was fun watching Charlie and Fielding/Aaron have epic word sparring matches as well as kind-of-sort-of flirt with each other.

I ended up really liking Fielding/Aaron. He became this really well-rounded, multi-dimensional character even if he was weirdly hung up on Charlie. I liked that for a while, like a normal teenage guy, he was showing interest in other girls too. I think I probably would have liked the book a lot more if it had been wholly from his point of view.

The annoying:
I get the whole haters-turned-lovers plotline, but these two were just so cruel to each other sometimes it was hard to read. And then, just when you think there's hope, that they'll finally just jump each other and get over the angst, they just rip each other a new one instead. Most of it seemed pretty uncalled for too. Like they're having this nice moment and then one of them just says something cruel out of the blue. I wanted to reach in the pages and shake some sense into them.

It also felt to me like Charlie didn't really grow and change at all. She just kept on being a jerk to Aaron and then got what she wanted in the end anyway.

The Nutshell: Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance had its cute moments, but I don't think I'd recommend it overall. I found it infuriating at times and others I was just left scratching my head going "what just happened?" If you like the people-who-hate-each-other-become-lovers thing then you'll probably actually like this one, but it didn't really work for me.
212462
Both the first book in the series and this one start out a little slow, though the beginning of this one was more compelling than the first.  The two main characters, Lucas and Bianca, have to plan secret rendezvous to be together, which was fun.  What I found irritating was that at each of these rendezvous they never really get to be together.  It felt like the author was forcing them to be in these situations where they could never be together to add some kind of intrigue into their relationship.  All it did was annoy me and let me down.  It killed any type of romance between the two characters.  Every meet-up between them included some type of mission they had to go on or some situation where they were being chased or had to deal with vampire hunters.  I found the scandalous relationship between Bianca and Balthazar much more interesting, which is the only thing that kept me reading.

Another thing about this series is that it can be a dull read at times from a prose perspective.  There is rarely a metaphor or a similie or anything that makes you stop and think, "wow this is beautiful writing."  I realize its supposed to be in the voice of a teenage girl, but still.

I also didn't like the way the author described the one black character by labeling her as a "black girl."  I thought that was unnecessary.  The other characters were never labeled as "white".  All you need is the description of the character.

However, the story and the characters were compelling.  Although the climax was a bit of a letdown because there was so much build-up surrounding the wraiths that I expected them to be the center of the climax.  They just sort of went away three-quarters of the way through the story.

The ending was okay, but the fact that Bianca and Lucas still can't really be together was annoying.  I wanted them to finally get to be together in the end, since I stuck it out through all of the romantic letdown in the rest of the story.

But even with all its flaws, I'd still say its worth a read.
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The main reason I can't give this book 5 stars is because somewhere just past halfway or so it starts to get kind of annoying with regard to the main character. Papparazzi are, without a doubt, the scum of the earth as far as many people are concerned, and the newspaper editor in this book is a perfect example of why. And it's great to have a character you can hate so wholeheartedly. But the angst of the main male character, who waits until practically the last darn minute to stand up for himself, gets to be a bit much. And the corresponding angst caused in the main female character, well, I was almost to the point of skipping to the last chapter and calling it good. But I finished the whole thing, even though by the time I finally was sure who the main male character was (you think you know, but then it waffles around in a gray area for a while where nothing is certain) I was just wanting it over with!
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The first several chapters were painful to read. I had no idea what was going on, there were so many characters, but as the book goes on it started making more sense and I started to enjoy the book. I thought the story itself was interesting, and I really liked Cyra's character. What I disliked the most about the book is the switching between first and third person (it seemed Cyra's POV was first person, while Akos' was third person). I don't know if there was a reason for this, but it really irritated me. I will likely read the sequel since it ended on a cliffhanger, but I probably won't rush out to buy it when it's released.
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This book is both captivating and infuriating at the same time.

The cover drew me in right away. What a gorgeous way to grab my attention! As I started reading, I realized there is a good bit of mystery going on in The Winter People. It's pretty apparent that Salome is different from most kids her age. We are led to believe that it has to do with her fear of winter after a near death experience as a child, but the reader quickly realizes there is more to her story.

That's about where my captivation ended, unfortunately. The annoying qualities of the characters over took anything that I enjoyed. For starters, Salome is annoying. She jumps from one boy to the next without any hesitation. Not cool. I am glad that she realized the manipulation and potential abusive relationship with one boy, but she was the rebound queen. That made her relationships feel trivial, so I had a hard time believing when she found 'the one'. Her best friend wasn't much better. She was just as flighty in a very skanky sort of way. I won't say much about her, but these two girls were not good role models.

But the plot twist in the end did help save the story. It wasn't a surprise but it was delivered well. I did like Salome's choice, so at least I was left with a happy ending.
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It's decently entertaining but some of the characters are kinda hard to like.
2038215
I liked the book, but didn't really like the main character.  I frequently found myself frustrated by her naivete wanting to yell, "you've got to be kidding me."  Despite this I got caught up in the story and enjoyed it overall.
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Some of this story is good, it seems like it could really lead somewhere, but parts of it are so annoying.  The main characters reactions are so ridiculous sometimes that I have a hard time getting into the book.  I mean come on, someone turns into a wolf and you think that's cool but you pass out when they tell you that they are like 150 years old?  Give me a break.  And the part about her being surprised that they have table manners made me reconsider finishing this book.  I'm going to try and tough it out.
2395106
After reading the first book in this series I was excited to dive into the second.  The second book started out strong but by the middle of the book I found myself becoming very irritated with the main character, Emma.  She has enough drama in her life that is out of her control yet she seems to create even more drama herself with her actions, or lack thereof.  I'm not going to go into details so as not to give away any of the plot.  This is worth reading but I sure hope the third book makes some more progress.
882511
I didn't really get emotionally or intellectually engaged w/the characters and storyline until about 2/3 of the way through this book (first of many to come). Once engaged, I definitely liked it and the 2nd book starts off strong.
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I have two troubles with this book. First of all I can't make myself believe in noble con artists and second - the plot lost some cohesiveness and plausibility after 2/3 of the book, which rendered the remaining part somewhat boring. Don't get me wrong. The book is better than 90% of indie stuff on Amazon and overall it is worthwhile light reading. I hope in the sequel author will work a bit more on personages motivations and tone down "knight in shiny armor" aspects of the protagonist. The story has potential and I'm looking forward to the second installment.
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There are too many slow periods that tested my attention span. A couple of the main characters had some uneventful story arcs that felt like filler material. These became relevant at the end, but felt arduous... That said, there are some very likeable characters, and some really hateful characters that added great contrast/dimension to this story.
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The characters in this book are a little different from what you generally find in this genre.  For me this was a nice change.  The character development is pretty good, the dialogue is realistic, having dogs play an essential role is always a positive for me, the narrative flows smoothly.  All in all a pretty well written work.  I found the primary character annoying in the first book and most of this one.  She was nave to the point of stupid.  In this book she finally pulls her head out of her nether regions and I no longer feel the urge to slap her silly periodically.  I noted no major editorial issues.  The book spells out some of the hard choices that might need to be made in a long term grid down situation.  I will read the next one if there is one.
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I liked this one a little less than a first, mostly because it was a lot of repetitive information that the author gave in the first book. I get that it was Evie re-learning everything about the Surmatan world, but it could've been done a little more artfully through simple summary maybe. Then there's a slight plot hole about her missing memory: in the first book when Evie first visited Max's house, she voiced her assumptions about the Shadewolf Kaveri, thinking they were all involved sexually. The guys corrected her saying they were like brothers.

But in this book Max and Caleb act like they're involved sexually, which got me confused because I wasn't sure if they were pretending for Evie's sake due to her lost memory. But then Max just suddenly reveals to Evie that he took her memories away and she's completely okay with it. So I don't understand the discrepancy bw the two books. There was also a lot of unnecessary description of the school and landscape in the new world that I skimmed over and thought could've been more concise, but that might also be my own personal preference for more action and less description.

Aside from these I thought the overall plotline moved along quite nicely, and we really got to know more about the Surmatan world. The characterization of Evie and the guys continues to make me laugh throughout.