Paused... stopped?... at 42%, somewhere in the middle of chapter 7. Might or might not continue this another time, but I don't think I'd be in the mood anytime soon.
The plot is really interesting. Anubis, quantum physics, the shapeshifters and everything the author built around it is so engaging. It's really good, honestly.
So, why stopping? At 42%, we get a sex scene between Luca and Nox, and I honestly feel like we've hardly spent any time with them. So far we've been mostly learning about Koda (Luca's older brother who died) from Nox's memories/flashbacks and Reese's (the scientist who worked on case with Anubis) POV. I think there's been more Reese's POVs than Luca's so far, actually.
I was patiently waiting for the story to focus more on Luca and Nox, but then that sex scene happens and, I don't know, I am just not feeling it. I feel like I felt more connection between Luca and Vic (a guy that Luca met briefly and hooked up with while running with Nox) or even that guy at the store that flirted with Luca.
Nox also keeps saying that he shouldn't be attracted to Luca, that he isn't actually, but that his instincts are telling him to fu- touch Luca because the Anubis in him sees Luca the same way it saw Koda: as his alpha. And so far, we've learned that it's betas' instinct to adore and want to sleep with their alpha (and Nox is one of Koda's betas - and yes, they all slept with Koda, sometimes even at the same time). It's not voluntary, Nox never wanted to love Koda, but as he said, he never had a choice, none of them did. Some of them were straight even and fought it at first until eventually giving in.
And let me tell you, despite how it sounds, all of this actually makes sense and the way Anubis works with his betas is very intriguing. But I don't think I'm feeling any romance between Luca and Nox.
I would still recommend for interesting action/sci-fi plot, just not so much for romance.
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-sci-fi, shapeshifters...
-Age gap; Luca is "just shy of 20", Nox is in his middle or late 30s, not sure.
Paused... stopped?... at 42%, somewhere in the middle of chapter 7. Might or might not continue this another time, but I don't think I'd be in the mood anytime soon.
The plot is really interesting. Anubis, quantum physics, the shapeshifters and everything the author built around it is so engaging. It's really good, honestly.
So, why stopping? At 42%, we get a sex scene between Luca and Nox, and I honestly feel like we've hardly spent any time with them. So far we've been mostly learning about Koda (Luca's older brother who died) from Nox's memories/flashbacks and Reese's (the scientist who worked on case with Anubis) POV. I think there's been more Reese's POVs than Luca's so far, actually.
I was patiently waiting for the story to focus more on Luca and Nox, but then that sex scene happens and, I don't know, I am just not feeling it. I feel like I felt more connection between Luca and Vic (a guy that Luca met briefly and hooked up with while running with Nox) or even that guy at the store that flirted with Luca.
Nox also keeps saying that he shouldn't be attracted to Luca, that he isn't actually, but that his instincts are telling him to fu- touch Luca because the Anubis in him sees Luca the same way it saw Koda: as his alpha. And so far, we've learned that it's betas' instinct to adore and want to sleep with their alpha (and Nox is one of Koda's betas - and yes, they all slept with Koda, sometimes even at the same time). It's not voluntary, Nox never wanted to love Koda, but as he said, he never had a choice, none of them did. Some of them were straight even and fought it at first until eventually giving in.
And let me tell you, despite how it sounds, all of this actually makes sense and the way Anubis works with his betas is very intriguing. But I don't think I'm feeling any romance between Luca and Nox.
I would still recommend for interesting action/sci-fi plot, just not so much for romance.
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-sci-fi, shapeshifters...
-Age gap; Luca is "just shy of 20", Nox is in his middle or late 30s, not sure.
