Best Friends (New Species, Book 15) - Laurann Dohner
Dec 23, 2019 16:04:09 GMT -7
Banana Boat and bj like this
Post by Mari on Dec 23, 2019 16:04:09 GMT -7
2 generous ⭐
DNF @ 69%
I thought Best Friends - Laurann Dohner was just plain bad. I used to like the New Species series. This book read like it was written by a teenage boy who only thinks of sex.
The story revolves around two best friends and their relationships with two New Species males. Melinda (Mel) and Mary work as waitresses in a diner that New Species stop at to eat. Mel has the hots for Lash. Two men enter the diner intending to shoot the New Species when Mel shoots them first. She's wounded and carted of to Reservation by Snow who has the hots for Mel.
Mary is deathly afraid of animals. Dogs, cats, doesn't matter, animals don't like her either. She's also afraid of New Species. At Mel and Snow's wedding she crawls through duct work to avoid a New Species male and drops into Lash's lair. Mary is afraid and a bit traumatized and Lash decides the way to Mary's heart is sex.
That's where I stopped reading.
Now to the nitty gritty. As if reality isn't enough, the book starts with disturbed men trying to conduct a mass shooting. Mel and Mary check all the TSTL boxes. They're both inexperienced in relationships so don't question when males think it's OK to use sex as a weapon. Mel is slut shamed and too stupid to realize it. Mary is basically raped and too stupid to realize it.
Lash behaved and spoke like a 15 year old bully with insecurities and misogynistic tendencies. I couldn't take any more of Mary being held prisoner and raped until she agreed to be Lash's mate. That's where I stopped.
Both stories were nothing more than sex with the flimsiest of plots. There were editorial and spelling issues. I'm a fan and have enjoyed the prior New Species books. This was the absolute worst Laurann Dohner book I've ever read.
DNF @ 69%
I thought Best Friends - Laurann Dohner was just plain bad. I used to like the New Species series. This book read like it was written by a teenage boy who only thinks of sex.
The story revolves around two best friends and their relationships with two New Species males. Melinda (Mel) and Mary work as waitresses in a diner that New Species stop at to eat. Mel has the hots for Lash. Two men enter the diner intending to shoot the New Species when Mel shoots them first. She's wounded and carted of to Reservation by Snow who has the hots for Mel.
Mary is deathly afraid of animals. Dogs, cats, doesn't matter, animals don't like her either. She's also afraid of New Species. At Mel and Snow's wedding she crawls through duct work to avoid a New Species male and drops into Lash's lair. Mary is afraid and a bit traumatized and Lash decides the way to Mary's heart is sex.
That's where I stopped reading.
Now to the nitty gritty. As if reality isn't enough, the book starts with disturbed men trying to conduct a mass shooting. Mel and Mary check all the TSTL boxes. They're both inexperienced in relationships so don't question when males think it's OK to use sex as a weapon. Mel is slut shamed and too stupid to realize it. Mary is basically raped and too stupid to realize it.
Lash behaved and spoke like a 15 year old bully with insecurities and misogynistic tendencies. I couldn't take any more of Mary being held prisoner and raped until she agreed to be Lash's mate. That's where I stopped.
Both stories were nothing more than sex with the flimsiest of plots. There were editorial and spelling issues. I'm a fan and have enjoyed the prior New Species books. This was the absolute worst Laurann Dohner book I've ever read.
