This book is a solid 4 on my scale. It is a nice comfort meal with feel-good hugs and a bit of hot and steamy. Just enough development to satisfy the basics but no in-depth development that would make it the full banquet. Since I am in a series mood and need the soft and light, I am headed for the next one in the series. A happy reader knows what they need at any given time. ( )

This book started out so well. The first couple of chapters hyped me up for an entertaining shifter story, and then it just... wasn't. It was just so ridiculous (not in a funny way) and frustrating and at times downright boring.

The setting is Germany but didn't feel like it at all -the only way you could tell we're not in the USA is the occasional of German phrases (and judging by the reviews, even that was not done properly). Following the dialogue felt like trying to follow a rubber ball ricocheting around an empty room. And if that wasn't enough, often there was one fact that was being reiterated in many different ways in the same paragraph.

The drama and insecurities of the MCs felt fabricated and totally unrelated to their actual characters. But even that would have been okay, if it wasn't going on and on and ON.

By ~80ish% I was so bored. Even when stuff FINALLY started to happen, it didn't manage to hold my attention, I just wanted it to end. The thing I wanted to see resolved most, aka the non-romantic part of the plot, was NOT resolved in this book, and that was the final straw - I definitely won't be continuing the series. ( )