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I think this is my first written one star review. Based on my personal rating system, I really can't give it a full star. The story concepts had promise. When the reader gets to the steamy sex scenes, the author knows how to turn up the heat. That wasn't the problem. Not the story type or genre. Here were the three problems I couldn't get past in order to recommend:

1) Needs an editor. There would be sentences where the sentence starts with a quote (") for person speaking and then no end quote. I am by no means the grammar police. But this was a consistent error that drove me nuts. There are other paragraphs where two characters are speaking but then the one character calls them by another character who isn't present. Example: When speaking to Cayce, Dylan calls her Cait (her twin not present).

2) Every single female lead character had some sort of sexual history that was bad, and had fear overcoming it. I don't mind this storyline. But all five books, I felt like the female lead was just renamed. There was nothing unique that set each one of them really apart for me.

3) Alternating POV every other paragraph. Again, I am okay with alternating POVs. At chapter breaks or break within the chapter. This was the problem that I had that made me struggle with completing the read. Example: First paragraph, it's Angela POV, next it's Nolan's, then Rachel the BFF, then next one we are in the Lead Singers head. I felt like I was at a tennis match and had no idea where to follow the ball. The reading became exhausting. Thus why it took me so long to finish.

I really don't like to write negative reviews and this one I almost just didn't because I couldn't be positive. But, if someone follows my shelves, I wanted to make sure they know how I felt about the book. There are others who may love this series (it's a steal for 833 pages at 99 cents on Amazon), but I can't in good conscience recommend.