Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Oh for the love of god. I had to put this down after the umpteenth description of these two panting over each other, gasping in excitement, admiring each others' perfect toned bodies. Fine, fine, she's got legs that go on for days, and he's buff, but not too buff. Ugh. There is a plot going on in the background that might come to the fore once these two have sex, but I wasn't willing to put up with them lusting over each other for 100s of pages before that finally happens and the story can actually take centre stage. I really don't like it when writers pretend they haven't embedded a Harlequin into their stories and I've seen this writer downplaying just how intrusive the lovie dovey bits are here. Don't get me wrong, I like relational stuff. There are bits in Jemesin's Broken Earth trilogy that were charming, and Bujold's love story in Shards of Honour was also lovely to follow. But this, this is crap.