A dark, unconventional romance that is rooted in revenge is the premise of Never Kiss A Bad Boy. The story begins and ends with murder, and everything in between fills us in on how our male leads, Kite and Jacob, became hit men, and why the female main character, Marina, is out to kill. If you couldn’t guess it from the phrase ‘male leads’, this is a triad tale. I liked it far better than the Dark Elite series I read several weeks ago. I enjoyed there being only two male love interests rather than a harem of four, and the plot was better besides.
That being said, I was disappointed in the number of grammatical and punctuation errors that I found in the text. Equally disappointing was the fact that not only was the antagonist’s last name misspelled once, the main female character’s first name was also spelled incorrectly one time. Did the author incorrectly spell her own characters names more than once, or were they somehow messed up during editing or printing? Either way, I find this carelessness sloppy.
On top of that, I found the format to be unsightly, the margins were incredibly large, taking up about a third of the surface of the page all around. It made for odd sentence spacing and large gaps in paragraphs, which I also found to be too numerous. The chosen font and size of the text I found unfitting of the genre, the text being large and ordinary when something smaller and more feminine or delicate would have looked a lot better. I might not have even made such a big fuss over the errors I mentioned in the previous paragraph had the font and format been more pleasing to the eye. It’s not just that the story has to be good, it has to be visually pleasing for the reader, in my opinion.
Besides seeing obvious room for improvement, I will say that I might read this again. The spicy scenes are probably the most well written parts of the book, which is good since that is the genre this book falls within. They are lengthy, which I like, the language can be just slightly vulgar, and the descriptions are just right to give you a good visual, for those with very active imaginations. I did mark the scenes with post it notes just in case I want to skip over everything else, which I can see myself doing because I can also see myself becoming irritated if I notice even more errors during a re-read. I feel as though I am slowly making my way towards finding my perfect book or series in this genre, I just have to pay my dues by reading some not so great pieces first.
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