This is the start to a real adventure, a real life filled with college parties and hardworking students. The best part, or worst if you want to think of it that way, is that I don’t know a single person here.College was supposed to be my fresh start, a chance to get away from my past and the pain. But College isn’t what I was expecting it to be, that’s for sure.The problem with running away from … away from your problems is that sometimes they find you anyway.
And sometimes, new problems find you.
Some of the problems that find me are the mix up with my assigned housing, guys who know what they want and aren’t afraid to take it and my past nipping at my heels.
My name is Jasandria Kildan and this is how I met my Harem and learnt that sometimes it takes more than two hearts to make a family.
If you like College drama, complicated love and Reverse Harem relationships, you’re in for an emotional ride with this book.
This is a Reverse Harem Contemporary Romance
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Na. Contemporary Romance. Rh. 4 college roommates. HEA. College setting. Sweet story with some drama. Clean (I haven’t read anything that was a standalone and this clean in a looooooooong time).
This is the first from this author I’ve read, and I opted for it after the author did a really clever promo in a book group I’m in.
This book was… confused, for lack of a better word. The main thing that kept throwing me off was the timing of the book. The way it’s written makes it all seem like it happens in a matter of days, but when you reach the end, you find out that it should’ve been a month. Now, I’ve got a thing about authors who try to tackle long periods in short stories (the book is only 100 pages), but I’ll tackle that in a minute. I actually went back through this book to double check to see if there were time indicators on chapter headings that I missed – 3 days later, 1 week later, whatever, but there was nothing. Honestly, my initial reaction reading this book was, “Geebus, they move fast!” because I genuinely thought it had all happened in like 3 days. There’s just no indication in the way that the story is written that it takes places over a longer time period. All it genuinely would have taken was some subtitles in italics to see XXX later, and it would have helped the pacing so much. So, that brings me to longer time periods in short stories. It is rare, and I mean rare, that I’ve seen an author successfully tackle a long period in a short story. Often it means things are rushed, details get left out, and what could be brilliant backstory gets left on the side of the road. All of that happened here. The premise of this book was fantastic, and the author set it up so that these characters could have had some seriously amazing character development and depth, but it all just goes unaddressed because there is no time in the length.
There were a few other things that normally wouldn’t bother me, but it all sort of adds up eventually. Some minor editing issues here, but mistakes happen; it’s nothing overwhelming. The pacing of the book as mentioned above, makes the story as it’s written seem super unbelievable/realistic. I’m not one to go on about believability in fiction. Everyone reads for a reason, and typically, it’s some form of escapism. No one cares about real with escapism. Sometimes the unreal does the trick better than the realistic. That said, I feel like there’s a line where, if it’s too unbelievable/unreal, it actually detracts from the story. For me, this book has crossed that line.
I know I’ve gone on a lot about a short story, and I probably making it seem like I’m coming down really hard on it. That’s not my intention. I actually think that some relatively minor tweaks to this story could make it really good for the short story it is. And really, I enjoyed it for what it was; it was entertaining enough for the length, and this was actually a toss up between a 3 and a 4 for me. The above just all added up too much for a 4, though, but it was still a decent story, and definitely too good to be a 2.