Caffeinated Crystal's book reviews

Original review: To Catch a Firefly is a love story, a BIG ROMANCE, featuring childhood best friends who take their time getting their timing right.  Ellis is a neurodivergent mc who is mostly mute. He's my favorite kind of character, calm and quiet on the outside, but with a molten level of lava feelings rolling through them. Ellis is a good man. He's patient, kindhearted, thoughtful, and he loves his best friend Lucky. That's his person.  Lucky is a tornado of a man. He's a live wire. He has big dreams of adventure and seeing the world. He wants to see everything and do everything, but he can't do all that in his hometown in Nebraska.  Did you read Fool Hearts? This gives MAJOR Wyatt and Easton vibes but lighter(ish) angst. There's an airport scene (my heart!), multiple BIG moments, nature (that's all I'll say!)... this book just had so much.  Ellis and Lucky's story was wonderful, and I loved reading it on so many different levels. These two were ...

Syn Blackrose has a way of making me enjoy books that I lovingly call "Shann books" - dark and twisty and messy, just the way my book bestie Shann likes 'em. That vibe is usually not for me. That being said WHAT WOULD IT COST? is messy and won't be for everyone. Even I left the end of the book feeling a bit icked out over Ethan's whole self. Was the sex/spicy scenes hot? Yes, especially if you love a manipulative, domineering asshole that throws "good boys" around, fucks like a machine, and likes to humiliate. I hated it and enjoyed it in equal measure. I feel like, as much as I enjoyed the story, it's left me existing in a bit of a dark place where people with no empathy and too much money have way too much power - and that feels a little too close to home with every doom scroll. Again, this story won't be for everyone. But if you enjoy DARK ROMANCE this very well may be for you. Read all Syn's stuff too, because the stories seem to be getti...

OMG. Y'all. This book 🤭🥵💕✨️ Absolute magic. Sweet and dirty omegaverse. Perfection. No notes. 5⭐️ based on vibes ✨️They be fuuuuuuuucking✨️ 🍆🍑☠️ • ex boyfriend (turned bff)'s brother  • forced proximity • snow storm! • unexpected heat • knotting & caretaking • A/B/O LORE & universe building

Y'all HOLY S H I T did I eat this book up. Owning Jett will be best enjoyed if you like INTRIGUE and spy craft mixed in with your romance. Jett and Locke were both stubborn idiots. But I loved them anyway. Their romance was years in the making, chock full of misunderstandings and untruth. But they always ended up back in front of each other, almost like serendipity.  • age gap • do gooders  • accidental sex work • Pretty [wo]Man vibes • international intrigue • billionaire hero • late biawakening The only kind of billionaires I like are the fictional ones, and Locke was growly and mercurial. Possessive. Jett had him intrigued from the get-go. Jett was so multifaceted. In previous books Jett definitely came off as a ditsy playboy airhead, but he was absolutely more than that and I loved watching these two dance around each other. More than that, I loved when they figured it out. The Paxis of it all was interesting, too. Overall, this was an amazing addition to the spinoff serie...

Bennett and Kieran are book 2's couple and with the big plot boiling beneath them... all that makes The Second and His Bonded enjoyable as hell. Bennett, Rick's second, and tiger shifter has this urge to "take care of" Kieran. Kieran is a wolf shifter and a refugee from McAllister's Pack from book one. Kieran is still messed up from his father's Pack and doesn't know how to integrate into his new one. And with all the drama from book one, Kincaid's Pack does a shitty job of helping him get settled into his new one. Kieran's wolf is weakening, he is pushing away everyone and Bennett has enough. Thankfully the King siblings adopt Kieran, he and B get their shit together and there is eventually a: nubby mating, a rescue, and a fight scene. Kiki does well dropping hints for not only the rest of the series, but also the next book. • tiger/wolf shifter • Pack dynamics  • alternative "knotting" • traditional knotting • caretaking  • age gap • Bl...

Kiki Clark has been posting Kincaid Pack stories and it's making me crave a reread. So... I just finished the prequel, New Pack for New Year, and what a great little novella. • fated mates • lion/wolf shifter • age gap • ✨️watch me✨️ • prequel to series Victor, escaping his abusive pack, finds sanctuary with his cousin Marcus's pack. Having only been there for a couple of days, he meets Cole, who just so happens to be his mate (and a lion shifter). I love Meyerville. And I love Rick Kincaid, the big bossy, magical jerk. Let's go!