Alas, I shall have to leave this series on the wayside. So my eternal search for good PNR smut continues. You're not really dealing with inequality and themes of a segregationist society if the people being oppressed don't really give a shit, are you? The segregation aspects, at first, proved to be the most interesting aspect of the novel.
"Oh, you're kidnapping me and holding me hostage? Look, I'll make out with you on the bed, stay the night then insist on being released in the morning, okay?" YOU'RE A LAWYER, WOMAN! Because the dude does his over protective spiel and the female MC goes, "That's a nice little mantanty you had there, but I think I'll do what I like, thanks!"Īnd it's not like Kim didn't put up a fight every now and again - but it's that she is supposed to be a kickass lawyer and there was really no indication of that in the novel. That's why Mac and Barrons is so awesome, or Kate and Currans. Look, I don't necessarily dislike the over-protective alpha male stuff - but, for me, it has to be balanced by the female protagonist. The Shifters aren't being helpful, and within 24 hours Kim is "mated" to Liam who has fallen desperately in love with her. Kim is a lawyer trying to prove a Shifter, in a segregated and speciest version of today's society, didn't kill his girlfriend. Liam is hot and Irish, because to be otherwise would violate the laws of the romance industry. Why all the pseudonyms then, huh?! It's not like people are going to be like, "Ewwwww, she writes books of the exact same caliber but containing marginally more sex! I HAVE NO INTEREST IN THAT AND AS AN ASIDE, WHAT IS THE COLOUR BLUE AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU!?!?!?!?!"īut I'm off-track. After all, the only real difference between PNR and UF is the ratio of sex to world building/storyline. However, I'm also infinitely suspicious of writers with multiple names in pretty much the same genres. It's not like Jennifer Ashley can't write, because I'm rather fond of her Stormwalker UF series by her other nom de plume, Allyson James. Put them all together and they just kind of distill into a boring muckwater that you neither want to drink - or pour out into the sink in the fear that it leech into the wild and cause untold destruction. Pride Mates is a strange concoction of 3 parts instaloving alpha male, 2 parts nonsensical female MC and half a part of shaky world-building. It's important to remember, before you recommend a beloved book to me, that I am a salacious hellspawn deposited onto this earth for the express purpose of destroying all that you love and violating that which you hold most dear.
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