Challenge: Write a Book Review for the Latest Book You’ve Read
I have been challenged to write a review on the last book I’ve read… I’m just SO bummed that the book I’ve been reading is one that I didn’t end up liking. 🙁 That’s rare for me, but a promise is a promise. Here goes nothing…
I just finished books 1 & 2 of “The Biker Series (1-4)” by Cassie A. Middleton. I bought the bundle at a 
discount from Bookbub, a website with which I’m a frequent visitor. I get daily emails from them, and use it as an opportunity to read authors who are unfamiliar to me. I’ve never read one of Ms. Middleton’s books before these two.
**This review will be over book 1 & 2, which focus on the same couple, and it contains spoilers!**
If this were Amazon, I’d give these books 3 stars… maybe 3.5 if I’m feeling generous.
I strive to not be critical of books, but this one struck a few discordant notes with me. First of all, the Prologue is about a virgin getting raped. Putting it mildly, this sets a very dark tone for the novel. But, the author doesn’t stop there. Within the first 1/4 of the book, she has 1 rape, 2 attempted rapes (one using date-rape drugs), drug and alcohol abuse, and a secondary character was murdered. For me, it was too much. I like more lighthearted content in the romance novels I’m reading, and these books… weren’t enjoyable.
I really struggled to keep reading past the half way point, but I liked the male lead, so I kept going. The reason I read the 2nd book was because it’s basically the second half of the first story. It’s like the author wrote one story, decided it was too long, and chopped it in half. There was no ending to the first- it just flowed into the second.
Beyond the violence and dark undertones, the writing was average, and the dialog sometimes has no point. The characters repeat themselves, and conversations drag on. These novels would have been much better if the author had taken a scalpel to the scenes; there was a lot of “fluff” that could have easily been cut out. It also would have made the story fit into 1 novel, and not drag onto 2. She was also in desperate need of an editor! Wrong word use, typos, wrong punctuation, the wrong name being used… all things that an editor could have caught.
I suppose overall my feeling on the novels is that I’m disappointed. There are better books out there that I could have spent the last several hours reading, but I stuck with these two.
I have another two books in this series, but don’t think I’ll be reading them.
Phew! Ok, that was super negative. I promise that the next review I do will be of a book that I really liked!
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