Empire of Desire

"I love the characters in this book! This book was steamy and kept me on the edge of my seat. It was also intrigued with all the drama that was going on throughout the book. "

"I loved her sassy but introvert personality. It has good plots and it will keep you wondering what will happen next. I just wished he would have given her another gift at the end to keep it more special, I guess. "

"Wowza, this heroine is UNLIKABLE!<br/><br/>Look, at this point, I know I don't admire Rina Kent for her heroines...<br/><br/>In fact, I don't think I've enjoyed any of the heroines she has written so far.<br/><br/>Her heroines all somehow collectively suffer from no backbone and betraying body syndrome, but thankfully, Rina does that in a more... digestable way, I guess? Unlike other authors who write the worst of it...<br/><br/>So I can take it, for the most part, even though y'all know that I MUCH prefer stronger heroines who stand their ground and make the heroes grovel till their knees bleed.<br/><br/>But I have accepted that I unfortunately will never get a heroine like that from Rina Kent, and I am okay with that.<br/><br/>But Gwen, this heroine in particular, I really dislike!<br/><br/>She is jealous for absolutely no reason. She outright says she HATES...and yes, the word hate, she say she hates Aspen. All Aspen literally does is EXIST... quite literally.<br/><br/>This woman has done nothing to Gwen and most of the time, Gwen is not even on her radar, but for some reason Gwen sees Aspen as this big witch who's after Nate...<br/><br/>Gwen is ******* delusional.<br/><br/>It is exhausting and annoying to me as a reader to listen to Gwen react so irrationally. Her monologues are exhausting because of that.<br/><br/>Another reason why this book isn't vibing with me is the weird gendered tid bits.<br/><br/>Why is everything Nate does "masculine?"<br/><br/>Nate walks, Gwen claims he's walking so masculine-ly,<br/><br/>Nate breathes, Gwen waxes poetic how Nate is breathing in such a masculine way...<br/><br/>Lol WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?<br/><br/>it's amusing, yes, but after a bit, it just gets ridiculous and grating.<br/><br/>At some point, I think Gwen even categorized his "swearing" as masculine...?<br/><br/>Huh?<br/><br/>But Nate is not off the hook either, because I've lost count of how many times he's lamented about how tiny Gwen is.<br/><br/>Um, is this heroine a child?<br/><br/>Her tiny waist, her tiny hands, her tiny nose, etc, looks so "small against him."<br/><br/>I felt a little weird listening to that, lol.<br/><br/>Is there some type of size kink I'm not aware of?"

"Yeah Rina Kents books are good "