Lucía Ashta

A waste of good writing just to exploit all the most profitable tropes and tricks.
Just long enough to not count as a novella but still insultingly short considering the normal audiobook price.
A title that is clearly meant to collect on confusion with kate daniels.
The book opens right into an extended sex scene because that is how you capture an audience.
Followed by tired enemies to lovers tropes but without any subtleties about their romantic relationship considering they fucked each other's show more brains out right at the start. Add a bit of angst and the by now famous Leia Stone pregnancy and the paranormal romance chlichée collection is complete.
We of course need a Japanese katana and a bunch of archaic Japanese culture elements for the weeb readers and a magical regulatory institution and all the other old UF clichées.
Everything about this was predictable and while most elements were clearly derivative from existing popular books nothing was outright plagiarism.

What makes me mad about this book is that it is not bad because the author is actually a competent writer. She (or rather they) can do without all this low-effort cheap crap.
I think if she tried she could actually write a pretty good book/series. But judging from all her more recent books she clearly tries to aggressively optimize for the most money per hour of work she possibly can get away with still. show less

It was okay, but I'm getting tired of the main character taking forever to find out her powers, and then it turns out she is the most powerful ever. Why do authors do this? At least we found out in the first book rather than two or three books later. All fantasy novels seem to be the same lately. I am assuming it's a cash grab since these are on KU and authors get paid by page reads, so they want to force people to read half the book because they've already invested in the story. She knew show more about the magical world her whole life, her brother goes to the school, but she is clueless about it? Might ad well have made her be a human who stumbled on a magical world instead. If I would have written this, I would have made her be a human who knew nothing of the world instead, and I would have revealed the powers right away. show less

I haven’t read many of the reverse haram books, but this one was a lot of fun.

Loretta is sheriff of Traitors Den, a little western town stuck inside a magic bubble, temporal rift, ok not quiet sure on that one. Alright so the town is actually more of a old west theme park version of a town. All the inhabitants are stuck there dumped out of a one way portal. The other catch is all of the inhabitants are magical, either shifter or magic users. Of course there are always exceptions to the show more rule and Loretta is that exception she doesn’t have magic. Even without the help of magic she is one tough lady. I loved Loretta and her take no crap attitude.

When two new guys fall through the portal they bring a whole heap of trouble with them. The plot is very character driven and if I hadn’t been so taken with Loretta I might not have gotten invested in the story. Rhett and Zeke the two who fell through the portal, are sexy as sin and twice as troublesome. They’re taken with Loretta, but she already got enough relationship problems. The sexual tension between these three was thick.

I enjoyed the banter, jokes and general world building that the author used. The cliffhanger ending left me a little sore but over all I really liked this book. show less

This was a very quick but captivating tale of a young woman discovering she has a natural and wild ability to control magic among a world where magic equals a death sentence and where many of the men treat woman as objects rather than humans. She seems to never stay scared of anything and has wonderful morals, I wouldn’t mind handing this book to my daughter if she could read and we’re just a bit older than 5, and I wouldn’t mind reading the sequels to see where this story goes. I love show more how much respect the author shows for the elements through her characters and she has beautiful words to describe the respect each element is due.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. show less