The Wombat's Book Blog

So I just checked, and I read my first Kristen Ashley on the 16th of April. That's ten days ago, guys.

I have since read 29 more of them.

Seriously, seriously good books, people. I'm not fucking around here. I DNF'd Wild Man because the hero pissed me off (because look, bro, if you're dating someone and an hour after you have sex for the first time, the DEA is banging down her door and dragging her off for an interrogation, and she finds out you have been lying to her for FOUR FUCKING MONTHS and she doesn't even know your real goddamn name then you, my brother, do not get to be pissy when she doesn't call you. Yeah? Yeah.) but on the whole, yeah they're great.

Her heroes straddle the thin line between Alpha and Asshole and, most of the time, they do it fairly well. Some of them have their moments where I, personally, would cut their nuts off and leave them in a pool of their own blood but, on the whole, once you understand where they're coming from, you tend to forgive them.

There isn't enough grovelling to entirely sate my appetite, especially considering the tendency of KA heroes to fuck up BIG, but on the other hand, these are proper hardasses, so I'm thinking that grovelling is not exactly in their natures.

Her heroines range between feisty and shy (poor Mara, I almost DNF'd Law Man because the crushing humiliation of being confronted with a hot guy and not having the first fucking clue what to say to him, boy do I ever know that, and it's not good feels) but they're all amazing in their own way.

So far I've enjoyed everything I've read other than the Rock Chick series. I don't know why, but I didn't particularly enjoy Rock Chick or Rock Chick Rescue. For example, I conceived an extreme dislike of Lee Nightingale (hero, Rock Chick) which I never really got over, so...

But yeah.

I'm going to try and write some individual reviews of KA novels to put my thoughts in order.

ALSO, these books are long as balls, people. Seriously, seriously long.