Chained by Love

I’m going to preface this by saying I am not a picky reader but there were multiple moments when I wanted to abandon this book. In fact I only held on because the intro teases something dark and ominous and I was curious as to what it was. *Spoiler alert you’ll be kept on the hook until you buy the second installment. * Which I will not be doing. I wouldn’t even read it if you paid me because while the storyline is half there, character development isn’t and the writing is super repetitive. Savannah “licks her lips” OVER FIFTY TIMES and the author makes sure to describe it each and every time in exactly the same way. This went from being a cute nervous tick to what appears to be a full on compulsion and I don’t particularly want to imagine the heroine as Lizard Girl. The author could have expressed nervousness or discomfort in a million ways; fidgeting, playing with hair, avoiding eye contact. But alas. If you make it past the lip-licking you’ll get to the “Hms”. Fifteen chapters in the author who didn’t use “hm” once starts using it every couple of pages (I lost count as I was nearing a dozen). I’d give this book a hard pass. Even with a revisit from an editor it was unfocused and unoriginal.