_hellcat's Reviews > Cherish

TLDR: ಠ_ಠ Let me preface this by stating that I very much enjoyed the Crave series…and then Cherish came out and I resented it for about 75% of the book. By the time anything legitimate started happening (the last 25% ) I was so numbed by the monotony of Grace’s unending inner ̴M̴̴o̴̴n̴̴o̴̴l̴̴o̴̴g̴̴u̴̴e̴ temper tantrum that I became indifferent #StockholmSyndrome. Author gave up on this one and you can sense this as you make your way through it. The ending was bizarre in a ‘really…that’s it?’ kind of way. This book should have been named ‘Complain’ because that’s all that Grace does for 592 pages.

UPDATE: 7 hours into the audiobook and nothings happened. So much filler. So far this book sucks. It’s all just Grace whining and being a narcissist because in her mind everything is up to her and she knows best…rather than the collective wisdom of the hundreds of years old people that surround her. Hudson could do better. 👎 So far this book is one unending Grace-internal-dialogue. Spicy scenes consist of a pillow fight and fade to black bs. Almost considering DNF. Doesn’t even seem like it was written by the same author. That or reads like Tracy Wolff found Jesus and has gone soft or something. So far not so good.

Update II: Well….I stuck it out and there was very little improvement. Even the way it ended was like ….wait…really? I can’t help but feel like Tracy was ready to be done with this series. It reads as if there was a certain length agreed upon and rather than filling it with plot…she just filled pages with Grace’s unrelenting ruminations and side-bars.

Want to mention that I don’t know what happened to Grace after she decided that sunny San Diego was totally the right place for an ancient Irish court of Gargoyles, but what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [sooo bad I literally cackled the first time the news broke]

Perhaps too much “El-lay” rubbed off on her. She was so annoying whining about Hudson redecorating. I mean for fox-sake the dude has stuck his neck out and saved her how many times ?

Not to mention that this insecure, self absorbed, demi-god queen was already put in check once by the Gargoyle Court. Specifically for not aligning her attitude with the nature of the gargoyle spirit. She whines because everything is so haaaard and she has to fix it all (*she doesn’t*). Where’s Calder when you need her? ….oh that’s right. Nvm.

Anyhoo this book is nothing like the others in the worst ways possible. It reads like Tracy wasn’t invested in the series anymore.

The only mildly redeeming parts of this book was the return of Smoky🎀 and a giant marble Hudson peen🍆. 😈