Claire 's Reviews > Endless

2.5 stars. This might be a case of “it’s me, not the book.” If you’re in the mood for an RH omegaverse that’s low conflict and low plot, you may like it. It's not terrible, it just was Not For Me. And, among the 3 books from this author that I've read - including Knot Your Damn Omega and Knot for a Moment - this book was the worst one.

This is an RH omegaverse with 1 heroine, 5 heroes. The heroine is going to her sister’s wedding, and her evil ex will be there with his new fiancée. The heroine blew up her life and ran away after her bad breakup with her ex. She’s feeling anxious about seeing him again. So, she hires a pack of male escorts to pretend to be her dates. It turns out she’s their scent match, which the guys realize, but she doesn’t. So, they wait for the right time to tell her. That's the extent that this book has a "plot," aside from a sprinkling of her evil ex randomly popping up to be mean.

This needed fewer heroes. The guys’ personalities all blended together. None of them were distinctive. And, a few of them fell by the wayside and hardly got page time.

But, the biggest issue is that the heroine felt like “poor little rich girl.” Her problems were NOT big enough for her to blow up her life and be emotionally wrecked over. I’m not saying that a breakup can’t negatively impact you! But aside from that 1 hiccup of having a shitty ex, her life was great. She was rich, had a loving family, supportive friends, and a pack of 5 guys ready to worship her. She needed to be more isolated – or her problems needed to be worse – in order to warrant the level that she was spiraling about it. And, to justify the level that everyone was tip-toeing around her. It TRULY felt like this was all happening for no real reason.

Everyone’s problems are valid – I’m not saying this heroine needed to suffer hardcore. It’s fine for a book to have a heroine with “mundane” issues. Not every book needs a heroine with melodramatic problems. But, as it stands, it felt like there was so much fussing over her, when that wasn’t earned. This story wasn’t balanced.

It’s unsatisfying for a dark romance to have the hero treat the heroine terribly, and then not grovel. This book was the opposite of that, but just as unsatisfying– it was unbalanced in the opposite direction. Everyone was worshipping and coddling the heroine, to "make up for" her suffering, when there wasn't much to "make up for." She had a great life! So, the emotions fell flat. And since the main plot was, "Let's coddle this girl who doesn't need coddling," this got boring.

The third issue is, although the heroine’s sister is supportive and gives the heroine permission to have her own drama with her men, it STILL felt like the heroine was making her sister’s wedding all about herself. So, it’s hard to feel invested in a heroine who feels like “poor little rich girl,” makes a mountain out of a molehill by acting like her problems are huge when her life is actually great, and comes across as self-centered.

But, I’m a clown, because this book set up her 2 friends to get their own books, and 1 of them seems to be in a forced marriage. So, I am curious to check that one out, even though I KNOW this author is allergic to writing interesting conflict, so that will most likely end up being a non-issue in that book.