User:ILoveHarley

Ranking, Main Characters & Love Interests

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Random Notes:

 * The Heist: Monaco, Distant Shores and Nightbound deserved better.
 * Despite the ranking, the only books I truly disliked are the ones in the bottom tier.
 * Bloodbound and Queen B would've been Top Tier books had they not been genderlocked.
 * I feel bad for ranking The Haunting of Braidwood Manor this low because it does have a very solid and engaging story. It's really short though, making it hard to do a fair comparison between it and the rest of the longer, more developed series.
 * Half of the issues of The Royal Romance could've been avoided if they had implemented polyamory. Another option would be to just remove the romance entirely. I know it's literally on the title but seriously, everytime a romantinc scene popped up, I closed the book. The actual overall plotlines are fun, even if it is the same recycled storyline for every book, plus this series does have the best cast of non-LIs characters. Even the LIs are genuinely fun outside of the romantic scenes. I just feel that those in particular were done very poorly, and with there being at least one of them in almost every chapter, it was tiresome to read this series at times.
 * I lost all interest in Wishful Thinking after MC lost her powers, but unlike those, it never returned.
 * The Freshman < The Senior < The Sophomore < The Junior.
 * Witness might be the worst book in here by far, but Distant Shores is definitely the most disappointing. So many questions were left unanswered, so many plotlines were left hanging, and everything was wrapped-up with such an underwhelming finale. That bonus scene at the museum was cute though, and would've worked a lot better as the actual ending instead of that Robert fiasco.
 * On that note, Oliver had the potential to be a top-tier LI but they did him so wrong. He is introduced way too late into the story, is immediately smitten with the MC for no reason, disappears again, has close to no romantic interactions whatsoever and had by far the weakest 30-diamond scene of the three LIs. Romancing Oliver felt like romancing no one in this book, honestly.
 * I have to admit I truly enjoyed Passport to Romance, or at least its first couple of chapters. The quality did start declining with every chapter, before plummeting on the airport one and never recovering. I still would've liked to see a sequel, though. Oh well...
 * Red Carpet Diaries and America's Most Eligible were really good series that got completely ruined by their third books.
 * The best thing about Witness was its soundtrack - almost entirely recycled from far better books.

Favorites



 * "And when you finally make it to the other side, you'll be the queen you always carried inside you." - Grace, Endless Summer
 * "If you can breathe, you can stand, and if you can stand, you can fight." - Olivia, The Royal Romance
 * "Never trust your safety to the assumption that powerful men will choose peace over battle." - Lena, A Courtesan of Rome
 * "You take a deep breath, don your mask, and finally take your place in the royal masquerade." - The Royal Masquerade
 * "When you worry about the future, you're only seeing what you're afraid the future will hold." - Avery, Platinum
 * "Yuff." - Pompadour, The Royal Masquerade
 * "Yuff." - Pompadour, The Royal Masquerade