Shame about book 3

I quiet enjoyed books 1 & 2 but 3 was let down by the over use of a pet name & how idiotic the main character was in the final part of the book, she had been ditzy throughout but her actions towards the end of the book were so dumb it made it unbelievable, a real shame as I love the Authors other books :(

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Totally enjoyable

I was surprised by these stories, they turned out to be different to what I was expecting. A new author to me, and will be looking for more of her books.
I actually like these stories. They are basically funny and cute, so what is not to love? The heroine is a bit (more a lot) teenage angst, but totally loveable, funny and enjoyable. Even makes me wonder if teenage angst makes more sense than commonly thought. The first two books have a very volcanic take on healthy versus unhealthy relationships/abuse. But I think this is actually a very good message to put out to the world, today and every day, and done very well here. I have a bit of a problem with saying what is on my mind over this. But think how the author puts this on paper is a good way to get this message out to be heard. In a way it can be understood on an emotional level. Good message to remind us all to keep our eyes open and good message to those being in a vulnerable position in life. Which makes me love these stories. If I had a teenager this would be a recommended read just for that part of the story. Overall, a recommended read for that and the joy of the story itself too. Funny and cute, and so enjoyable and likable.

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Cringe-worthy

Would you try another book written by Lily Harper Hart or narrated by Angel Clark?

No!

Would you ever listen to anything by Lily Harper Hart again?

NO!

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Wicked Beginning?

Every scene where Ivy and Jack interacts! My God, this was bad! Really bad! How on earth can this whiny thirteen year old egocentric girl (I know she's older but it's hard to see) and this totally incompetent male police man who sounds like a thirteen year old boy even... Oh, so bad!

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I didn't have very high hopes for this book but I was willing to try it for some light reading. It was really bad. It's supposed to be about two adults and they are sooo silly, like unmature teenagers and they just keeps on whining! The characters are unintresting and the story is unlikely and not very intresting at all, which if the charachters was some people you did want to read about doesn matter, but now it's so obvious. I will never read another book by Lily Harper Hart nad I don't think I will listen to a book narreted by Angel Clark either. Her very hig pitched voice really emphazises the whining.

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Potentially good but actually very disappointing

Would you try another book written by Lily Harper Hart or narrated by Angel Clark?

Angel Clark's narration is great but I would be reluctant to try another book written by Lily Harper Hart

Have you listened to any of Angel Clark’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Angel Clarke seems to be a consistently good narrator, judging by the other series I've listened to which she has narrated.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Wicked Beginning?

The scenes I would cut are the ones where the supposedly strong-willed Ivy allows the obsessive and controlling Jack to walk all over her - for example, the occasions when he refuses to leave her house (knowing he's bigger and stronger than she is so she can't physically eject him) and she does nothing to prevent him from getting away with it.

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Sadly these books have a consistent thread of a supposedly strong woman allowing a controlling man, who is obsessing over her, to walk all over her. He spies on her, stalks her, openly follows her, and refuses to leave her house, Beyond making a few token verbal objections, she does NOTHING to stop him. She even stops her brother from beating him up and prevents him from throwing this man out of her house!

And it's all written as if this "relationship" is meant to be a Good Thing for her. Her relatives encourage it, apparently because having a contolling obsessive for a boyfriend is better than not having a man in your life...!!!

I couldn't continue to listen to it.

I didn't finish the third book because I could see that, despite his abandoning her when she'd been shot, accosting her in the woods, following her home and forcing his way inside, and then climbing into her bed while she was drugged to insensibility, she was going to take him back and continue to allow him to be controlling and dictatorial toward her.

This author seems to have peculiar ideas about what constitutes a good relationship and to what a woman should allow a controlling partner to do to her.

Teddy

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