Christmas Triad – K.C. Crowne

1 star

I didn’t get on with Christmas Triad as much as I wanted to. A reverse harem spice bomb with three hot military brothers our FMC has known since she was a kid? Sign me up! But unfortunately, the execution just didn’t take me there.

Starting with the characters, they were kind of bland. I don’t feel like I learned much about any of the guys beyond Jay, sort of, so I wasn’t really interested in them or their relationship with Dream. They didn’t feel fully formed to me and didn’t quite exist as much as characters in other books I’ve read. Dream was really inconsistent; one chapter she was thinking about getting back with her smarmy abusive ex-fiance because he apologised even though she was falling for the guys, then the next she was all in on being with the guys, then she was hesitant again. I needed her to be more consistent.

The spice felt very robotic. It was almost like I was going down the list of everything that involves a spicy scene and checking the elements off. I didn’t feel any passion between the characters or any deep connection despite their shared past. It was kind of clinical, and when the four of them finally got together, it read super awkward.

Between all the editing mistakes, the off-putting terminology for certain things, and the inconsistent cardboard characters, I just couldn’t get into this. I’d be willing to give this author another try as maybe this was just a one-off, but it’s jot high on my priority list.