Degenerates (Badlands, #5)

by Natalie Bennett

[Eve1972]

While I enjoyed this one overall, it wasn't one of my favorites by this author. One, it felt like it took forever for these two to even spend five minutes in each others company, and then BAM insta-love. I would have liked a bit more fleshing out in that regard. Two, even though this author writes super dark books one of the things I love is that they are usually OW free. The whole "fuck buddy" thing turned me off of Zane. Maybe if Addy hadn't been a virgin (groan) which I found completely unrealistic, to begin with, I would have felt differently. I just didn't need to read about Zane fucking around while he bides his time. It added nothing to the story for me and just came across as a pointless scene to up the word count. *shrug*



Apart from those two issues, the book was entertaining. As I have said about 600000 times at this point, I enjoy this author's writing. It has a certain ease to it that makes it very readable. The pace of this one was a little off for me. Mainly because it took a bit too long to get this couple together and their relationship started. That said, I never found myself bored or wanting to skim. The story kicked into high speed around 50% with some shocking twists and turns. As per usual with this author, there was plenty of blood and gore. Death and destruction. Hot sex scenes. Cameos from characters of the previous books. An intriguing cast of secondary characters and both Zane and Addy were likable psychopaths. Last, it all wrapped up on a cliffhanger. I can't wait to see where this story is headed, and I will keep my fingers crossed that there isn't going to be any drama caused by the fuck buddy...sigh.