The main character is actually not that likable – her presentation is sickeningly passive-aggressive and unjustly self-righteous. The arousal scenes were “achingly” repetitive and just completely lacked any variety in vocabulary. Better than most amateurish fan-fiction stories like this but definitely not worthy of a 3 book series, as it was undoubtedly trailing off by the end of the second book. It’s very easy listening but absolutely not the best quality of writing.

Overall the full story should have been about half as long as it was. Even so, this did not help the flow as it seems the author had suddenly forgotten the point of this soft-core tease and mistaken it for an actual story. The author finally introduced some level of dialogue and shift away from the 1st person perspective but it was impossible to shake the feeling that so much of it was filler. Book 3 The final chapter of the series spent a very long time, and completely unnecessarily mind you, doing a character reshuffle that simply turned out to be lumbering and graceless. This doesn’t particularly detract from the middle chapter but certainly does set-up the final chapter for crushing boredom. Continuing with a slightly heated storyline with the occasional somewhat juicy scene, the plot begins to steer into unnecessary directions. There’s not a lot to be said on development, as it doesn’t really differ much from the first. Book 2 The second part is simply an extension of the first. It’s gentle tension building and teasing that is well done.

The characters are not terribly deep but that is a good thing in a story like this because it avoids clumsy chapters that aren’t relevant to the, lets be honest, soft-core fun.

Book 1 – The story begins with some effective character introductions, which moves the level of writing beyond the smut of most erotica. To split this up into three separate items is, well, a bit of a con to the audience. This story is part of the Beastly Tales series and as such should be reviewed as all three “books” because frankly they’re all the same book. Fan fiction writer's almost successful experiment

Deceit by M.J. Haag