ARC Review: Eternally Damned by January Rayne (Shallow Cove Dimensions #1)

 

Eternally Damned by January Rayne
My rating: 3.5 of 5 leaves

I received the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The actual rating is 3.5 leaves (yes my blog uses leaves as the rating system). and the reason, 1.5 leaves were not added is due to several reasons that I'll discuss below.

So let's start that I read the book together with the prequel which I loved immensely! Meeting Severide, Esmeralda, Alexander and Atreyu. And the world that was built was amazing! Honestly, I advise everyone to read the prequel - Eternally Hers: The Introduction Novella to Shallow Cove™ Dimensions before you start this book because you need to know what happens before the start of this one. And it would shed so much light on what's going on with Alexander and Maven.

Now, let me be honest and don't get me wrong! This book is "trashy" in all the good ways! And maybe you won't agree with my definition of trashy, but for me, it's those books and TV shows that suck you in immediately and you just love it, but you also see some absurdity of the whole situation, but you still effing love it! Because sometimes you just need a book that has so much sexy action that you think it's not possible, but hell you just love reading it and can't put it down.

This is one of those books where the main characters are attracted immediately and there's the whole fate and mate, etc. So if this is not your cup of tea, I doubt you'll love it, but if you need a light read with tons of d!ck action ( A LOT OF D!CK ACTION), then this should be your next read!

Meet Maven, who I liked as a character for the first half of the book, then she pissed me off somewhere in the middle, but I came back to loving her again by the end of the book! The only thing that I would have wanted to see more was the whole transition of her accepting being a witch. The whole transition was so rushed, hence why I can it is "trashy". Everything was going sooo fast. And don't get me wrong I liked how fast everything was going, but I did want a bit more world-building.

I'm still concerned with the whole Brenden thing, I really need to know more about his reasons and the whole war, and I hope like hell we'll get more answers in the next books because while reading about sexy time is great, reading about the world is always so interesting.

And last but not least, Alexander. Now I liked the guy in the first few chapters, then he royally pissed me off, okay maybe not pissed me off but rather his moping and the alpha male just wasn't getting me. I mean, let's be honest, why's he the master of the coven? why not Maven? I mean she's the one because of whom everything is being rebuilt, but no, the male swoops in and "saves" the day and gets all credit. (I think my feminism was a tad bit wonder with too much Alexander as an alpha hole).

Oh, and the last thing before I finish off my rambling thoughts. Where do I petition to make this into a reverse harem? Like honestly, I was way too pumped for Maven being the beloved to both Alexander and Atreyu, but noo.... I get just a normal couple. But I wasn't complaining, so all's good (okay I'm lying I was complaining just a bit).

So, if you're on a bit of a reading slump, and need some fun vampire spicy book, grab your copy of the prequel and grab your copy once it's live on the 5th of April!

XOXO

Katie

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