Paige ♠'s Reviews > Taken by Fate

I did not enjoy this. Nope, not at all.

🆗 I KNEW FROM THE BLURB that I was going to get a somewhat trashy story… I mean it’s a book about a girl that willingly gets kidnapped so she can save her friend but ends up being thrown into a Bachelor-esque competition instead. I wasn’t expecting a literary masterpiece but I definitely expected more than what I got.

❌ WHAT WAS THE POINT of the entire Jordan storyline?? We never learn anything about him. I couldn’t tell you his age, what his personality is, what they used to do together… literally NOTHING. And you’re telling me this bish willingly got kidnapped so she could save him? And she never thinks about him ever other than to bluntly think wow, I really need to save Jordan. Never longingly thinks about how she misses an annoying quirk he had? Literally nothing. I could tell you nothing about him. So I just could not get behind this motivation for her. I wish she would have been accidentally captured and just been trying to survive - would have been more believable.

❌ WHERE WERE ALL THE FEMALE vampires?? In the entire book, I think we were introduced to a total of two female vampires. The entire premise was around how these human girls needed to be brought in and fawned over by all the male vampires so they could quell their bloodlust or something. But was this not a problem for the female vampires too? It just seemed so incredibly one sided to me.

❌ THE ROMANCE WAS kind of the definition of insta-lust? Like literally upon first glance they were all turned on and mentally banging each other. It’s weird because they didn’t really do much sexually, but I still can’t call it a slow burn because they’re so obsessed with each other.

❌ THE THING THAT FINALLY triggered me to really not stand Sienna was when she tried running after Holly with the Hunters. I think this was supposed to show that she really cared about others but what was she hoping to accomplish?? 🤨 What would she have done with Holly if she found her? I just couldn‘t logically think through any of her actions.

If you enjoyed this book then I‘m really happy for you - I wish I could have joined you 😅 I can normally enjoy a book just for fun and not think about it too much, but for some reason, I just couldn’t let go of some things with this one.