Mia's Reviews > Endless

DISCLAIMER: I received an ARC in exchange for my review but that in no way influences the opinions I am about to express.

Ok, on to the review.....

I LOVE Devyn Sinclair and this book was really really sweet but I don't think it's going to ascend to level of love I have for the Slate City Omegas (SCOs).

As always, my loves first.....

- This is a new omegaverse. It did not follow the same rules as the SCO books. It is really apparent really quickly and I double checked and she does specify it is a different omegaverse. I thought the change was actually a really smart plot device that she utilized well. It's also SO interesting because omegaverse rules are usually standard across all an authors books even if the characters aren't interconnected.

-Devyn Sinclair is my throat goat. Nobody else can pull off oral knotting as well as she can.

- Like I said above, this is superrrrrr sweet. Just a lot reassurance and love being poured into the FMC.

- *slight trigger/ spolier* I found the portrayal of emotional abuse and degradation of self to be very truthful. As I'll state below, I struggled to connect with the characters in this book but this part was the most authentic to me. The thought processes and rhetoric that comes from a person who has been severely emotionally abused are echoed with scary accuracy. This brought the fmc into a much more positive light.

Now, onto some of the stuff that contributed to the removal of the star. Most of these are personal things that impacted my reading enjoyment and doesn't mean that everyone will feel the same as I do.

- I struggled to connect with these characters. I felt like they didn't have super clear, core personalities. For the MMCs I felt like there was little to no development between them and their lives and their individual relationships. I literally started referring to them by their kinks because that is one of the main things that is differentiated between them. I value the individual relationships between a fmc and a mmc. All of the fmc's one-on-one scenes didn't really focus on the development of their long term realtionship but rather the development of their sexual relationship. I also struggled to connect with the fmc as well. I sympathized with her a lot and as I said above, I found the emotional abuse aspect of the story very truthful. But I felt like she was just an empty vessel for the mmcs to pour their love into until she was magically fixed. She didn't really have any hopes or dreams outside of graphic design. I wanted more personality besides abused and self-loathing. It ended up bothering me that most of what seemed to "fix" her was so dependent in the mmcs. It's nice to have outside validation but it is not healthy to base your entire self worth on it. I did like the scene at the rehearsal dinner but I wished it felt more in line with her character and she had been working up to it through the entire book.

- the timeline here seemed weird to me. In a couple of ways. The first was that it is originally said that she was arriving 3 weeks before her sisters wedding but the actual timeline in book leading up to the wedding seemed a lot shorter. The other timeline issue is the whole year away with the ex just bided his time. It just read weird to me. Like she comes back and he's immediately feral to get back with her and just gets more and more unhinged. And it's later passed off as he always wanted to get back together with her. Idk I guess I just don't buy that that type of psycho goes dormant for year. Instead, I feel like it would provoke him into stalking her across the country.


My final review is that this is a sweet book with some nice kink but it doesn't have some of the most important factors that really elevate rh to a five for me.