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From Rags
by

Suzanne Wright (Goodreads Author)

SamJ ★Needs a HEA★'s review

Nov 17, 2013

really liked it

bookshelves: 3-and-a-half-star-reads, genre-contemporary-romance, reviewed, book-challenge-2015, read-2015, heroine-model, heroine-raped-and-or-abused, hero-possessive-jealous-ott-alpha, theme-secrets-and-lies, theme-dirty-talk, theme-denied-love-lust, theme-friends-to-lovers, theme-enemies-to-lovers, theme-horrible-ex, theme-non-con-dub-con-kidnap, theme-saved-by-hero, theme-abuse-issues, theme-awful-parents-of-a-mc, theme-insta-lust-or-love

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★Book Basics★

Genre : - Contemporary Romance
Series : - Stand Alone
Love triangle? - (view spoiler)
Cheating? - (view spoiler)
HEA? - (view spoiler)
Would I read more by this author/or in this series? - Yes
Rating - 3.5 stars

★Review★

I did not enjoy this one as much as I did the Phoenix Packs series.

I found the heroine maybe just a too bit one dimensional for me. Yes SW can write "feisty strong" heroines but at times it feel like that is ALL there is to them. The heroine just deals with her awful past by.......turning off her emotions! Even at the end, when what happens to her happens she is kind of just "meh". Actually made it hard to connect to her as a character.

The hero, atypical grunting alpha all "mine mine mine" while not feeling like he can offer the heroine anything as he is unlovable etc.....

YET! - I do enjoy the way SW writes. Her books are fast paced and entertaining. Might I get bored of it in the future, since so far, all her characters seem very similar? Possibly.

But currently, am enjoying them.

I do wish, and this was a issue I had in the Phoenix Pack series, that the world SW likes to make her characters inhabit were not full of stereotypical ex girlfriends, bitches, twats etc. In fact, anyone who the hero or heroine are not friends with, or will become friends with, is portrayed in such an over the top horrible way it is a bit much.

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Reading Progress

November 17, 2013 – Shelved as: to-read

November 17, 2013 – Shelved

October 6, 2014 – Shelved as: books-i-must-buy-soon

November 3, 2015 – Shelved as: on-kindle-waiting-to-be-read

December 12, 2015 – Started Reading

December 13, 2015 –

70.0% "Ok so I am sort of enjoying this but enough with the "loves, arse, Shag, shagging, mates" etc. Usually I find that a book based in England with all of these terms is written by American Authors trying to make it seem oh so British, but this is an author who is British, but really, I have not heard the term "shag" in years, and it just feels forced, as if the author is trying to push the Britishness of the book."

December 14, 2015 – Finished Reading

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: 3-and-a-half-star-reads

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: read-2015

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: book-challenge-2015

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: reviewed

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: genre-contemporary-romance

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: heroine-model

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: heroine-raped-and-or-abused

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: hero-possessive-jealous-ott-alpha

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: theme-secrets-and-lies

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: theme-denied-love-lust

December 16, 2015 – Shelved as: theme-dirty-talk