Sophia Cristello's Reviews > Endless

I liked the plot within this novel, it was a fun idea. Being scent matched to the escorts Isolde hired so that she wouldn't have to face her ex at her sisters wedding, was just the tip of the iceberg and it was good. However, I do have a few qualms.

The first thing that I'm not a fan of is the fact that the name "Cade" was used for one of the MMC. The reason I'm not a fan of this is because in Devyn Sinclair's Slate City Omegaverse series, the first novel (Knot Your Damn Omega) also had a MMC with the name "Kade". I'm just not a fan of recycling the same name for a completely different main character from one novel to the next. There are thousands of names to choose from, it didn't have to be the same one and I don't care what anyone says the K to a C letter changes doesn't make a difference when it's pronounced the same. I wouldn't have an issue if it was a secondary or side character, but for a main character the name is a bit too important to be reusing the same ones.

Also, I found that so often things got dragged on, especially with Isolde. I finished this book in 2 days (which is normal for me), but I found that there were times I just wanted her to shut up and get on with it. Like I get the point that she would get stuck in her head, but there comes a time where her just wallowing over the same thing for several pages became tiresome and annoying.

I absolutely hated how Joel was the least mentioned Pack member out of all of them. He has one chapter pov at the beginning and then he's vaguely mentioned, while all the other pack members have more consistently spaced chapter pov's and interaction with Isolde, and then about 60% into the book we finally get a second Joel pov. Both before and after that he has such brief interaction with her, even during their one on one time together she's asleep for most of it. After that he's once again vaguely mentioned and briefly talks even when he did get a few more pov's (3 total, with 2 in the last 40% of the book while the others were very evenly spaced). It was absolutely infuriating. This was probably the first time I've read Devyn Sinclair's omegaverse and seen such blatant favouritism between Pack members. It was very very clear that Isolde preferred both Hawk and Rowan, they were the ones that had the most relevant plotlines happen within their chapters besides her own pov and the ones she sought out or who interacted with her the most. Once again, infuriating. It's not because I don't like those character, because I do like both Hawk and Rowan as well as the others, but when it's supposed to be a why choose... the whole point is to be on equal ground, with equal love, not create a closer connection to some rather than all.

I've read all of the Slate City books and was a big fan, but I found that there was just something missing from this one. Like the Pack wasn't described as in detail as I'm used to from previous work, the steamy scenes dragged on in a very confusing way (couldn't really picture how they were all positioned in certain ways without getting in each others way), and there wasn't as much world building as I would have hoped since this is a separate universe from the Slate City Series with a different portrayal of omegaverse. Something just felt so off about this book and I'm not sure what it is. I assume that the next book in the series will be with Ocean, then the third will be Trinity... hopefully I like those ones better.