Elemental Ride edition by Mell Eight Romance eBooks
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Rawley isn't the type to crush hard and fast on anyone, but he's somehow helpless when it comes to the new mailman. Even his bikes and his job as enforcer for a local motorcycle gang, the center of his world, don't compare to his interest in Reign. Unfortunately, Reign doesn't seem to be as interested—but secrets and magic have a way of turning everything upside down.
Elemental Ride edition by Mell Eight Romance eBooks
Apparently the problem has been solved as I downloaded the correct book. On to the actual review! As expected, you can count on Mell's books to be short, sweet, a bit sexy, and contain the expected happy ending. This one I gave five stars when I would usually give 3.5-4 for her books because of the concept. This isn't the usual type of relationship you would expect in her books, and I enjoyed the surprise. Without spoiling anything, I will just have to say you need to read it to find out.Product details
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Elemental Ride edition by Mell Eight Romance eBooks Reviews
Rawley has things to do and he just wants to sleep so he can wake up to do them. Rawley is, understandably, less than pleased when he’s awakened early by someone at the door. It’s the mailman. Ugh. Well, okay, it’s a very sexy mailman with big blue eyes, but it’s the mailman. Rawley gets more sleep and is able to start his day. One of the members of his club tries to get some repair work on his bike without paying Rawley for the work. As it turns out the guy is also not paying his girlfriend for food. Rawley keeps his bike as collateral. Of course the guy tries to get his bike back. However, the sexy green eyed mailman puts a stop to that. But… didn’t he have blue eyes? And didn’t his name tag say Reign but it now says Leif? Are there two sexy mailmen? Rawley and Leif go on a lunch date. Rawley really likes Leif. Leif is also Reign. He’s also a couple of other people. It’s complicated. When Rawley is next woken up by Leif to help save a puppy he begins to really understand Leif, Reign, Ashe, and Skye. Unfortunately, Rawley isn’t the only person interested in Leif, Reign, Ashe, and Skye. Add to it Ashe isn’t really all that personable, but Rawley isn’t letting anyone touch his mailman.
This book is about magic not mental health. Leif, Reign, Ashe, and Skye are separate beings housed in one body, they are not personalities. I appreciate multiple personality disorder is touched upon in this book and is rightfully called a serious condition, as that’s what it is. However, this book isn’t about health, it’s about magic and elemental sprites living in people. Now, having said that, Rawley really finds himself enchanted by a couple of the sprites in his mailman, one of them not so much. Ashe makes sense and Rawley can see that. Ashe is wary. The personalities Rawley encounters could have easily overwhelmed the story but they didn’t. In spite of the very startling information about the mailman, there is a plot. The plot is about the mailman, but other stuff happens, too. The book was well balanced, charming, and sweet. It’s a great afternoon read.
Book – Elemental Ride
Author – Mell Eight
Star rating - ★★★☆☆
No. of Pages – 65
Cover – Nice
POV – 3rd person, 1 character POV
Would I read it again – No
** COPY RECEIVED THROUGH NETGALLEY **
I was looking forward to this one, after dipping into some of the other Roughhouse Raiders collection, unfortunately it just didn't quite keep up with the other.
This was mainly for one reason – this is an incomplete story. At least, that's how I read it. Why? First off, there's some strange phrasing that didn't feel comfortable with the characters or the contemporary feel of the story. The storytelling of the first half of the story – until around the time Rawley is with his MC brothers – is very stilted and uncomfortable, as though the author is trying very hard to fill in some time, just to prolong the first half of the story some more, which was completely unnecessary.
Then there was a heck of a lot of unnecessary repetition and description. For example, if the MC Rawley woke up at the beginning of a chapter to the doorbell ringing one more time, I might have killed the damn thing myself. There was a whole lot of detail about things in his apartment, almost to prove how poor he was and how rundown the place was, while less than half of that was needed to get the point across. We even got continually reminded of how poor everyone was, what a terrible neighborhood it was and how brazen or stupid Reign must be to deliver the mail in that hard-core area. It was all a little too much overkill for me. This is a care where less is more.
On top of that, there was no mention of the Elemental side of things until around 8%, which is a long time for a short story, and even then it was a confused description of what it meant, how Rawley was connected and what use it was for. I also found the explanation of his “blue teardrop shape” to be a little incredulous, as the way it was described meant it had to cover half of his upper torso, though it didn't come off as being described as that big. So either that was something I failed to grasp, something not well explained or it was just explained in the most awkward way. Either way, it felt confusing and didn't fit with the description.
When it came to characters, I actually really loved Reign, Skye, Ashe and Leif. They all had their own personalities and they all worked independently of each other, never melding into one character. Skye and Ashe were a little over the top, but I really liked it when Reign and Leif were allowed out to play.
Rawley, on the other hand, I didn't like so much, which is a problem when he was the MC of the entire story and the only one giving his POV. He was portrayed as this tough as nail, hard core MC, but was a push over and pretty self involved, too.
The big downer for me was that Rawley had more of a relationship with his own hand during the entire story than he did with Reign. The build up to the romance was huge – constantly flirting, Rawley fantasising about it, even heading off against his President about Reign – yet it never went anywhere. In the end, he shared one brief kiss with Reign that wasn't even romantic and there wasn't anything more than a vague hint that they might have a relationship in the future.
There was also a huge deal made out of the fact that Reign was something special, Elementally, but that was never followed through on. For me, the story felt incomplete because of it. More like the beginning of a longer novel, setting the scene, than a complete story.
I really liked the overall idea of the plot, but the sloppy execution and the writing style didn't work for me. This wasn't a cohesive story in any way. It was too haphazard in the amount of time and attention it spent on things (more time given to Rawley constantly jacking off than the relationship supposed to be budding between him and Reign) and far too descriptive about things that didn't matter and could have been easily and quickly explained in another way.
I think that if it were ever to be made into an actual novel, with more attention given to Reign and some more editing, then I'd give it another shot, but right now it's just a bit too all over the place for me.
For the most part I enjoyed this quick paranormal read. The problem is it left me wanting more, not just about Rawley and Reign, but about this world and the idea of elemental spirits being injected below human skin for ten years, providing the human with powers and the elemental with a safe space to grow up. It’s a fascinating idea, but one that couldn’t really be explored in a short novella.
At least not when it’s competing with a biker gang’s possible removal from their chosen space and Rawley’s possible romance with Reign. The biker gang issues could have been intriguing, but they’re pushed right to the back, leaving a definite unfinished feel to them.
As for Rawley and Reign, well, again that was an intriguing idea that only had a chance to hint at what could possibly happen there. This novella felt like the beginning of something more, rather than a complete tale in and of itself, and I would love to read other things with them in. Simply because there is so much more to be explored especially as Reign has so many different personalities living beneath his skin.
So overall I liked this, but on its own it's short and underdeveloped. If more comes, great, but if this is all there will ever be, then it feels like good ideas left sadly unfinished.
(ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley.)
Enjoyable story thanks
An excellent author
Apparently the problem has been solved as I downloaded the correct book. On to the actual review! As expected, you can count on Mell's books to be short, sweet, a bit sexy, and contain the expected happy ending. This one I gave five stars when I would usually give 3.5-4 for her books because of the concept. This isn't the usual type of relationship you would expect in her books, and I enjoyed the surprise. Without spoiling anything, I will just have to say you need to read it to find out.
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