The Bookish Girl's Guide to Mating with a Werewolf- Lola Glass (Mate Hunted Book 1)
Pages: 145
Read Time: DNF
Rating: ★★ (2 stars)
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I want to start off this review by saying that I rarely DNF books. Usually, I can find something to like about it because I enjoy reading and I think books deserve a chance. I don’t like to give authors bad ratings because writing is a lot of work and, as a writer, I respect the hustle. That being said, I have no idea how this book (novella, really) had such good reviews on Kindle. I couldn’t get into it. I think I managed maybe twenty pages before I gave up.
The intrepid female main character stays up all night reading a romance novel about werewolves and, in an act of complete impulsivity, decided to travel to an area where people joke werewolves live very early in the morning. Still in her pajamas, she goes to a grocery store of all places. At, like, five in the morning. I wouldn’t think to find a sexy werewolf lover between the bread aisle and the produce, but she gets lucky because she spots a mysterious man who, wouldn’t you just know it, happens to be a werewolf!
Suspend your nonbelief here, friends. There’s nothing to worry about how sketchy it is to try and pick someone up in a grocery store. Everything is cool, because she consulted with her bestie via an obnoxious text thread and the general consensus is that everything is a-okay. Anyway, she runs back into the guy in another aisle (literally), and he starts wolfing out. There’s more dudes surrounding her and gasp! She’s their mate? It felt like it was leading to a steamy encounter in the deli, but I stopped reading there. I couldn’t tell you what happened after that because I exited out of the book and returned it to Kindle. Now, I could have given it more of a chance, but the book read like one of those random Facebook ads for a storybook app. You know the ones. The first-person narration seemed like it was going for quirky and flirty, but mostly read as unhinged to me.
I really can’t go on about much more than that because, like I said, I didn’t read more to speak on. There is a chance, a slim one, that the writing improves in the other 120 pages and the plot actually starts to make sense, but I wasn’t really willing to sit around and find that out. That being said, don’t let my opinion shit all over your parade. You may very well enjoy a short erotic story with a batshit crazy FMC, so take this review with a grain of salt. Everything is subjective, and you may have a completely different experience with this book.
Still A Better Love Story Than 50 Shades/10
