Review of Fighting For Phoenix (Skullz Ink Book 1) by Lynne Leslie
When Jayden's fiancé cheats on her, she leaves him without bothering to get an explanation. Years later, she's happy and content, and owns a bar that puts food on her and her son's table, and provides shelter. And then her ex-fiancé walks into her bar and upsets her life all over again. Will she let Phoenix back into her life and give Jax the daddy he's always asking about? Or will she keep her heart closed off to the second chance that could be in their future?
I wanted to like Fighting for Phoenix, but I just couldn't. It's so ott dramatic and angsty, and so completely unbelievable that I couldn't settle in and enjoy it. I do normally love second chances and seeing someone redeem him or herself, but the jump the shark ridiculousness of everything that happened just made me think I was reading the manuscript to a a c or d list Lifetime TV movie. Phoenix and Jayden are almost caricatures of regular characters, with their melodramatic ott reactions and mannerisms and like I said before, all the drama and action is overdone in the worst way. I just could not for the life of me connect with or like either the characters or the story here. The only thing that saved this from 1 stars is one of the secondary characters - Liam. If he hadn't been a fairly stable, likable character in a story full of ridiculousness, I'd probably have DNFd this one.
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When Jayden's fiancé cheats on her, she leaves him without bothering to get an explanation. Years later, she's happy and content, and owns a bar that puts food on her and her son's table, and provides shelter. And then her ex-fiancé walks into her bar and upsets her life all over again. Will she let Phoenix back into her life and give Jax the daddy he's always asking about? Or will she keep her heart closed off to the second chance that could be in their future?
I wanted to like Fighting for Phoenix, but I just couldn't. It's so ott dramatic and angsty, and so completely unbelievable that I couldn't settle in and enjoy it. I do normally love second chances and seeing someone redeem him or herself, but the jump the shark ridiculousness of everything that happened just made me think I was reading the manuscript to a a c or d list Lifetime TV movie. Phoenix and Jayden are almost caricatures of regular characters, with their melodramatic ott reactions and mannerisms and like I said before, all the drama and action is overdone in the worst way. I just could not for the life of me connect with or like either the characters or the story here. The only thing that saved this from 1 stars is one of the secondary characters - Liam. If he hadn't been a fairly stable, likable character in a story full of ridiculousness, I'd probably have DNFd this one.
ARC via Booksprout.
#bookreview #LynneLeslie #bookseries #contemporaryromance #secondchanceromance #ARC #Booksprout
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