I wasn't expecting to be diving into another series but I couldn't be more excited. It seemed the author threw some of that dialect in near the end (yay), but I wanted it throughout! Yet there was very little dialect written, enough that I kept forgetting about it and, in my head, imagined them speaking with an American- my default- accent. Then, we have 5 gorgeous, amazing, sexy men who are Irish 🤤. I felt it could have been explained a bit better. So why did I take off a star if I loved it so much? Well, I was confused at the beginning, the first 10-15% maybe. Her descriptions were making me sigh left, right, and center.
It was so soothing to me, that's why I took my time reading this. Joley Sue Burkhart is fantastic at creating feeling and bringing to life her characters.
Which I thought was powerful considering I have aphantasia (basically I don't have a "mind's eye"- I can't create a mental image). I'm not even joking, these characters were described so well it was almost like I could see them or smell them. There were so many tender touches or physical affection like light hand-kisses or running fingers through hair, hugs, kisses, reflecting on how settled Riann (FMC) felt because of the MMC's scents. You weren't told about the lust, you were shown it, almost experiencing it with them. The characters didn't fight it, they just.succumbed to the attraction and tension that was building. One of my absolute favorite things about this book was the descriptions, the amount of showing, not telling. You know with instalove, you read about how the characters are always thinking or saying "Oh, it's going so fast, it's never been like this before, am I moving too quickly, should I even bone them even though I REALLY want to?" Yeah, you get none of that here. This was a slow-burn with one steamy scene at the end that hopefully leads into many, many more in the next book. It was a fun, paranormal adventure novel that did not end on a cliffhanger yet does have more books to it! Honestly, there definitely needed more to this story and these people and the gargoyle and the leprechaun! The storyline wasn't all that complicated and the plot and relationships moved fast, not quite in a sexual way, not until later. I found this in my Kindle library, expecting a mindless read to get me ready for another book on my TBR. I picked this up due to needing something short and sweet, something that had good reviews after the absolute disaster that was The Nerd. It was pretty short, around 115 pages, but I dragged it out over days because of how much I loved how it made me feel.
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