Occasionally she would question things like why the cafeteria would suddenly have better food after she complained to Oz about it, or why he had known that she didn’t set her alarm one morning. She’s charmed that Miles is into her so much, but the reader is well aware of his machinations. Mallory, poor lamb, may be super book smart, but as far as real life goes, she’s dumb as a post.
But this is a full-length novel, and much of what I read was from Mallory’s perspective. In a novella-length story, there wouldn’t be enough page time to question why he was super obsessed with this girl he saw for like five minutes. Miles–or Oz, as Mallory calls him after their first meeting–is a sociopath. For the next five years, he basically orchestrates every aspect of her life so that eventually she will meet him and he can claim her. He falls hard for her and decides she will be his. When Miles, our hero, spots Mallory, she’s seventeen and kicking ass at a high school math competition. Some of their novellas have worked really well for me, and some of them haven’t, so I was curious about what would happen if I read their first attempt at a novel. Their specialty is over-the-top insta love and alpha males. Because I sure didn’t.Īlexa Riley is the writing pen name for a couple of women who are hilarious and awesome to follow on Twitter. You won’t like it.” And, again, she would have been right. And I’m sure that, if she’d looked at the blurb for this book, she’d have said, “Don’t do it, Shannon. You won’t like them.” She’s right, of course. Somewhere in that Twitter exchange, she said, “Well, duh, of course I’m not going to rec you any Harlequin Presents. A few weeks back on Twitter, I asked Sybil to recommend Harlequin lines I should be reading.
Shannon C’s review of Everything for Herby Alexa RileyĬontemporary romance published by Carina Press on 27 Dec 16
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