Jessica Alcazar's Reviews > Colters' Lady

HOLY BEGEESUS!
(full review later)

OK, so now I'm ready to do a full review of this series as it stands at this time. meaning I have read all the books presently published as of today.

First I'd like to say that over all, it was a phenomenal family story. I laughed and cried and laughed and cried through most of the books. They were all very touching.

As for the unique lifestyle of the Colter men, the boys didn't get a very good character exploration in their story. It was told to us that the fathers knew early on in life that that's how it would be with them. As for the sons, not only had THEY not thought of such a relationship, but when it did come to pass, they just sort of shrugged and said well ok then...that's beyond not realistic. it was hard enough to get past the love at first sight for all three sons, no if and or buts about it, but then we had to swallow that not one single time did they even butt heads about the logistics of such a relationship. i'm no expert, but i'm pretty sure that the whole sharing thing takes A LOT of finesse and is not just something you get right from day one. as a matter of fact, i really dont think that there's anything about any relationship that is gotten right from day one. so to not show us some of those growing pains between the four of them, i think it cheated us out of making the story believable. i know these stories are fiction, but they aren't supposed to be make-believe!

Callie was the only sibling in her story, Colters Daughter, that even showed any growing pains throughout the relationship. But even with that, her story was a total let down to me. First, I think it would have made better sense for callie's story to come first and introduce Lily into the picture in the story. Callie had already come home from Europe during the brother's story, Colters Legacy, devastated by what Max had done. If her story would have come before her brothers, maybe her brothers could have somehow had time to assimilate the feelings for the same woman thing before their happily ever after story came....
Now secondly, I really loved Max, but their D/s relationship was very blah to me. It had NO wow factor at all. I honestly expected her in some sort of menage situation. Even with the D/s fitting callie so well, I think it would have made a better story as a D/s menage of some sort.

Now as for the last book so far published, Colters Promise, I thought it was very touching. I may have cried through over half of it! The only thing that irked me about the book itself, is that it really was just long epilogues to the first three books all put together in one book. When I finished reading it, as glad as I was for the short updates on their lives, I couldn't help but think the only reason this was even published this way was just another marketing tool to make more money by making us buy a whole other book .... it kinda took away some of my feel good for the series ....

All that being said, I am very much looking forward to Lauren's story soon ....