**Book Review: A Month of Reads**

This month, I read a variety of books across different genres and series. One book that caught my attention was "Barbarian Alien" by Ruby Dex M. I really enjoyed the world-building and the unique characters in this series. The author's effort to create a rich history and culture for the people on the planet was impressive. However, I did not enjoy the sequel as much as the first book. The plot was lacking, and the romance between the two main characters fell flat.

I was particularly disappointed with the second book in the series, which lacked the world-building and additional knowledge that made the first book so enjoyable. The protagonist was also portrayed as a "big dumb oaf" and the heroine was depicted as whiny and annoying. This didn't make for a sexy romance, and I found it difficult to get invested in their relationship. Overall, I don't think I'll be continuing with this series.

On a positive note, I did enjoy the first book in the series, which opened my mind to new possibilities and got me excited about trying different things. The author has a unique writing style that I appreciate, but unfortunately, it wasn't enough to save the sequel from being disappointing.

Moving on to my next read, "Born Darkly" by Tricia Wolfe. This book was part of a monthly book club pick, and I was intrigued by its premise about a serial killer and a psychiatrist forming a psychological bond. While it wasn't a traditional romance, there was definitely a romantic connection between the two main characters. I appreciated how the author handled the complex themes and topics in this novel. The ending left me on a cliffhanger, and I'm eager to find out what happens next.

Another book that caught my attention is "Caged" by JME. This book has a similar premise to "Born Darkly", but I was hesitant to read it due to mixed reviews of the first book in the series. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how well this author handled the tropes and made them feel intelligent and realistic. The psychology aspect of the novel was well-researched, and I appreciated the complexity of the story.

Overall, my month of reads has been a mix of enjoyable and disappointing books. While some authors have done a great job with world-building and character development, others have fallen short. I appreciate the opportunity to share my thoughts on these books and hope that you guys will find something that interests you in this article. If you have any Kindle Unlimited recommendations or suggestions for me, please let me know in the comments below.

**Author Recommendation**

I've recently been reading through various series and authors on Kindle Unlimited. While I enjoy recommending books to my audience, I also like to highlight some of the less obvious picks that I think are worth checking out. Ruby Dex M is one author who has caught my attention with her unique take on science fiction and romance.

If you're looking for something similar to "Barbarian Alien", but not exactly what it was, I'd recommend checking out JME's series. Her writing style is engaging, and she tackles complex themes with ease. Another author worth exploring is Tricia Wolfe, who has done an excellent job of handling dark and mature topics in her novels.

I'll continue to share my thoughts on Kindle Unlimited books and recommendations with you guys through various articles and videos. Thank you for your support, and I look forward to hearing from you in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell welcome back to my channel today I am going to be talking about all of the Kindle unlimited romances that I read in the month of October so I've kind of missed doing my wrap ups even though I said I was not going to miss them I've missed them and there have been quite a few Kindle unlimited romances that I've read this month that I haven't talked about in any of my other videos so I thought it'd be kind of fun to tell you guys about all of the different books that I've read available on Kindle unlimited they're all romances obviously some of the worst money some of them are dark there's just a whole host of good that I have to share with you guys so I'm really excited about it I hope you guys are excited too and I'm going to be doing these videos for the rest of the year and into the foreseeable future I think come January and probably going to start up my wrap ups again but I think it'll be nice to have two separate videos one with all the Kindle unlimited stuff that I've read and then one with all the other stuff it just makes it easier than having to sit down and like talk about 26 books all at once anyway let's get into it the first book that I read this month well it's the dugout by Megan Quinn so this is a new adult college romance about a guy named Carson who is injured and recovering from that injury and his physical therapist and or like baseball aficionado Millie he's kind of nerdy he's kind of a hotshot on campus and this is their romance so I read the first book in the series a couple of months ago and I really enjoyed it despite me kind of hating the ending I just really liked both the hero and the heroine and I like the way that megan quinn writes her heroes they tend to be very affectionate and will do anything to win the girl but in a very respectful way which i really appreciate I think I'm not over the douchebag main character guys I just think sometimes it's refreshing to have a change and that is the case in this one Carson and Millie are both similar to Knox and whoever the female love address in the first book was but I just didn't like this one as much I didn't feel like the relationship was as fun and it kind of took me a little bit longer to get into this one ultimately I did like where their romance went by it unfortunately the ending of this book also sucked and it did the same thing the first book dead which really grates on my nerves it's one thing to have shitty endings but it's another thing to repeat those shitty endings over and over again Megan Quinn does this thing where she makes her characters have really really long gaps in between breaking up that make sense so the very end of the book like 80% she'll have her character's breakup spend like seven years apart not that long but usually like four or five years apart and then they get back together after college and you rekindle their relationship and start where they left off and it just doesn't work that way you know with a real romantic relationship if you've been broken up for multiple years you have to rebuild that trust rebuild that relationship and with doing the kind of time apart thing at the 80 percent mark we're not able to see them grow as characters and grow together after they get back together so I just didn't I didn't like this ending and I didn't like this book as much as I liked the first one if you were interested at all in mega Quinn's books I'm definitely stay to try the locker room and I'm interested to see if in any of her other series she employs the same shitty ending because if so really disappointing because I think she does a really good job at like slice-of-life moments and building relationships but this just like wasn't my favorite I think I give this book two or three stars it was just whatever for me the next book that I read was faced captive by Lily Archer this is one that I picked up on Jess from peace love books recommendation I don't know what video she talked about this book in but I just remember her kind of talking about it in passing and saying that someone recommended it to her and she really liked it so anyway I picked it up this is about a human girl who gets captured and taken to the Fae world because apparently is she is a changeling and changelings are supposed to be sort of like servant to the feral team but when she gets there she finds out that she is the mate of one of the Fae Kings which saves her from being a servant which is great but there's a lot of things that I didn't like about this one I didn't like the writing first of all I felt like from the very beginning the main character is that annoying like uptight virgin stereotype which I don't really drive with I also didn't like that the hero seemed to be kind of a big dumb Oh like well I think she was trying to go for that whole big buff alpha like I'm here to protect you beats chest kind of thing I don't really like that if you're gonna do alpha male do it different because I didn't like this and then there just wasn't any smut which for a really short hundred fifty page book there needed to be something to keep me interested and there is no smut in this I think this is supposed to be a series of like serial novellas I'm not saying we needed smut up front the first one but like it just seems misleading to be like oh this is like a fantasy smut it's gonna be so good and there's no spine it's like why did I even bother so I probably won't be continuing on with this because like I said I didn't enjoy pretty much anything about this one i rated this two stars I don't really rate smut but since there was no smutty content in this I felt okay rating it and I rated these two stars so anyway the next book that I read was preacher man by Jess Akane and okay this was something I think Jessa Cain tries and and is successful at doing what Alexa Riley tried to do what does it better you know what I mean these are very taboo shorts muddy books and this one is exactly what she would expect it to be it's about a girl falling for a preacher and the future kind of has a secret past you know he wasn't always a good I thought this was fun and funny and it wasn't quite like back river quiver funny but it was still amusing enough to where I wanted to keep reading it despite not thinking that the sexy times were that sexy and this one there is a voyeurism and stalking element which I found a little bit disturbing and there's a little bit of a DDL G kink which if you're into that cool I don't really with that it's just kind of whatever like I'm not going to not read a book if it's not that content but it's just not really my thing but I will say there is a super sexy and fun exorcism so if you're into that there's that in here also if you like fleabag or you're just looking for like a good preacher smutty book I mean this is a fun time like it's objectively it's objectively a fun time wasn't really like my thing but it was like fun to read for sure and I think in general all of Jessica ins books are taboo and give you a good shock to the system if you want something a little different or if you're trying to get out of reading slump like these I think are really good to do that the next book that I read was also a Jessica and it's called wearing him down this one is an overprotective stepbrother kind of romance and she's like this super sweet virginal schoolgirl but she's like always had a thing for him and this one wasn't gross to me because she's 18 and while their parents are married I think they married like pretty early house the early on basically they didn't grow up together the two main characters which is good because that would be gross so this is basically just our romance it's about her trying to like get him to be into her wearing him down like the title of the book would imply again there's that kind of like DDL G kink he takes care of her spends money on her he's very overprotective he's definitely an alpha so if you're not into that you're probably gonna hate this there's a lot of oh he can't even look at you I'll beat him up or you know that kind of so I don't know uh solid I guess I thought I wouldn't rate this I mean it is just pure smite but um it wasn't a bad time that's fine I think I like this one better than preacher man but like I don't know there's just whatever the next book I'm gonna call the one where I figured out maybe extraterrestrial lovin ain't so weird so this is a book about a group of women who are abduct by aliens and they're supposed to be taken somewhere but they crash land on a different alien planet and their captors are dead but the women are saved by these big hunky blue alien dudes it's a little bit more complicated than that it honestly I was kind of surprised at the lore in world building that goes on in these books but this first book was a whole lot of fun I really liked the hero I really liked the heroine they had a lot of sexual chemistry and seeing the ways in which the author decided to take liberties with these aliens to make them more sexually pleasing for human women was interesting like parts of their Anatomy work well for human women and it was kind of fun and interesting to read about and also I did like I said really enjoy the world that she built it wasn't just like I don't know we've crash-landed and there's some blue guys there was a history behind these people and they have their own language and they have this like sim biotin their head or whatever that like keeps them from dying on this inhospitable planet it's very interesting like I will say the work that the author puts in is pretty impressive and I joint this one that being said I didn't enjoy the sequel which kind of sucks so the second book the series is barbarian alien by Ruby Dex M pretty much everything I liked about the first book wasn't present in the second book there wasn't a whole lot of world-building or additional knowledge that we get about the planet which I mean I guess you kind of set that up in the first book but I wanted there to be something some some plot something something in the second book and there just wasn't the hero who was kind of big dumb oaf and then the heroine was whiny and annoying and was constantly like oh my god don't touch me get away from me which didn't make for a sexy romance if the girl's not into it it's not a great time to read about and like wall I understand why you would be stressed about a big blue dude saying like hey you're my mate like we gotta get together I just I don't know like I said she was too whiny and it wasn't it wasn't an enjoyable thing to read about I don't know that I'm gonna continue on with the series I think I've gotten enough from the series I think it's kind of opened my mind and got me to I don't know want to try different things I think she has I think this author has a dragon shifter romance series which seems kind of interesting so maybe I'll give that a try I'm definitely not counting this author out I think she does a really good job at writing and her characters are all pretty unique but the second one just wasn't for me and in general I don't really need to continue to read a blue alien smut series that has 15 books so there's that and then the last book that I read this month was born darkly by Tricia Wolfe this is one that I picked for these monthly book club it was the pick of the month and I also read it in my vlog talked about it on my live show but I thought I would just talk about it here too in case you're not really into vlog videos but this is a story about a serial killer and a psychiatrist and their relationship and I say relationship because it wasn't necessarily a romantic relationship this is kind of a psychological bond that they form there's a sexual connection there but I'm not sure that I would consider any of what happened romantic I really liked this in my opinion it read a lot more like a thriller the ending of the book left off on this awesome cliffhanger there was just a lot to like about this book and I think it was done really well I've read another book I think it's called caged by JME dark hour it's got a similar premise and it was not pulled off well so I was kind of hesitant to go into this one this one did the same tropes excellently and it just read very intelligently the psychology that's included in the book you can tell the author did research and seems to know what she's talking about so some things are a little unrealistic like a prison break that happens but other than that I thought this was a really really good book I don't know if I'm gonna continue on with the second book in the duet but I don't know the cliffhanger most pretty good so that's it guys that's all of the smutty books that I read this month I know if you guys liked this format a video I know that I've done other Kindle unlimited recommendation videos this wasn't really a recommendation more of just like what I've recently read so let me know if you guys like this better or like what I think I'm probably gonna continue to do both like I'm gonna do unlimited wrap ups and then maybe some like TRO faced recommendation videos in the Kindle unlimited series that I'm doing on my channel I think this is a fun way to kind of share the things that I'm reading with you because I don't want them to just like slip through the cracks I don't want all the good books that I read to not get talked about to you guys so anyway um in the comments down below let me know of any Kindle unlimited recommendations you have for me any books that you think that I would enjoy pretty much it though I love you guys so much and until next timewell welcome back to my channel today I am going to be talking about all of the Kindle unlimited romances that I read in the month of October so I've kind of missed doing my wrap ups even though I said I was not going to miss them I've missed them and there have been quite a few Kindle unlimited romances that I've read this month that I haven't talked about in any of my other videos so I thought it'd be kind of fun to tell you guys about all of the different books that I've read available on Kindle unlimited they're all romances obviously some of the worst money some of them are dark there's just a whole host of good that I have to share with you guys so I'm really excited about it I hope you guys are excited too and I'm going to be doing these videos for the rest of the year and into the foreseeable future I think come January and probably going to start up my wrap ups again but I think it'll be nice to have two separate videos one with all the Kindle unlimited stuff that I've read and then one with all the other stuff it just makes it easier than having to sit down and like talk about 26 books all at once anyway let's get into it the first book that I read this month well it's the dugout by Megan Quinn so this is a new adult college romance about a guy named Carson who is injured and recovering from that injury and his physical therapist and or like baseball aficionado Millie he's kind of nerdy he's kind of a hotshot on campus and this is their romance so I read the first book in the series a couple of months ago and I really enjoyed it despite me kind of hating the ending I just really liked both the hero and the heroine and I like the way that megan quinn writes her heroes they tend to be very affectionate and will do anything to win the girl but in a very respectful way which i really appreciate I think I'm not over the douchebag main character guys I just think sometimes it's refreshing to have a change and that is the case in this one Carson and Millie are both similar to Knox and whoever the female love address in the first book was but I just didn't like this one as much I didn't feel like the relationship was as fun and it kind of took me a little bit longer to get into this one ultimately I did like where their romance went by it unfortunately the ending of this book also sucked and it did the same thing the first book dead which really grates on my nerves it's one thing to have shitty endings but it's another thing to repeat those shitty endings over and over again Megan Quinn does this thing where she makes her characters have really really long gaps in between breaking up that make sense so the very end of the book like 80% she'll have her character's breakup spend like seven years apart not that long but usually like four or five years apart and then they get back together after college and you rekindle their relationship and start where they left off and it just doesn't work that way you know with a real romantic relationship if you've been broken up for multiple years you have to rebuild that trust rebuild that relationship and with doing the kind of time apart thing at the 80 percent mark we're not able to see them grow as characters and grow together after they get back together so I just didn't I didn't like this ending and I didn't like this book as much as I liked the first one if you were interested at all in mega Quinn's books I'm definitely stay to try the locker room and I'm interested to see if in any of her other series she employs the same shitty ending because if so really disappointing because I think she does a really good job at like slice-of-life moments and building relationships but this just like wasn't my favorite I think I give this book two or three stars it was just whatever for me the next book that I read was faced captive by Lily Archer this is one that I picked up on Jess from peace love books recommendation I don't know what video she talked about this book in but I just remember her kind of talking about it in passing and saying that someone recommended it to her and she really liked it so anyway I picked it up this is about a human girl who gets captured and taken to the Fae world because apparently is she is a changeling and changelings are supposed to be sort of like servant to the feral team but when she gets there she finds out that she is the mate of one of the Fae Kings which saves her from being a servant which is great but there's a lot of things that I didn't like about this one I didn't like the writing first of all I felt like from the very beginning the main character is that annoying like uptight virgin stereotype which I don't really drive with I also didn't like that the hero seemed to be kind of a big dumb Oh like well I think she was trying to go for that whole big buff alpha like I'm here to protect you beats chest kind of thing I don't really like that if you're gonna do alpha male do it different because I didn't like this and then there just wasn't any smut which for a really short hundred fifty page book there needed to be something to keep me interested and there is no smut in this I think this is supposed to be a series of like serial novellas I'm not saying we needed smut up front the first one but like it just seems misleading to be like oh this is like a fantasy smut it's gonna be so good and there's no spine it's like why did I even bother so I probably won't be continuing on with this because like I said I didn't enjoy pretty much anything about this one i rated this two stars I don't really rate smut but since there was no smutty content in this I felt okay rating it and I rated these two stars so anyway the next book that I read was preacher man by Jess Akane and okay this was something I think Jessa Cain tries and and is successful at doing what Alexa Riley tried to do what does it better you know what I mean these are very taboo shorts muddy books and this one is exactly what she would expect it to be it's about a girl falling for a preacher and the future kind of has a secret past you know he wasn't always a good I thought this was fun and funny and it wasn't quite like back river quiver funny but it was still amusing enough to where I wanted to keep reading it despite not thinking that the sexy times were that sexy and this one there is a voyeurism and stalking element which I found a little bit disturbing and there's a little bit of a DDL G kink which if you're into that cool I don't really with that it's just kind of whatever like I'm not going to not read a book if it's not that content but it's just not really my thing but I will say there is a super sexy and fun exorcism so if you're into that there's that in here also if you like fleabag or you're just looking for like a good preacher smutty book I mean this is a fun time like it's objectively it's objectively a fun time wasn't really like my thing but it was like fun to read for sure and I think in general all of Jessica ins books are taboo and give you a good shock to the system if you want something a little different or if you're trying to get out of reading slump like these I think are really good to do that the next book that I read was also a Jessica and it's called wearing him down this one is an overprotective stepbrother kind of romance and she's like this super sweet virginal schoolgirl but she's like always had a thing for him and this one wasn't gross to me because she's 18 and while their parents are married I think they married like pretty early house the early on basically they didn't grow up together the two main characters which is good because that would be gross so this is basically just our romance it's about her trying to like get him to be into her wearing him down like the title of the book would imply again there's that kind of like DDL G kink he takes care of her spends money on her he's very overprotective he's definitely an alpha so if you're not into that you're probably gonna hate this there's a lot of oh he can't even look at you I'll beat him up or you know that kind of so I don't know uh solid I guess I thought I wouldn't rate this I mean it is just pure smite but um it wasn't a bad time that's fine I think I like this one better than preacher man but like I don't know there's just whatever the next book I'm gonna call the one where I figured out maybe extraterrestrial lovin ain't so weird so this is a book about a group of women who are abduct by aliens and they're supposed to be taken somewhere but they crash land on a different alien planet and their captors are dead but the women are saved by these big hunky blue alien dudes it's a little bit more complicated than that it honestly I was kind of surprised at the lore in world building that goes on in these books but this first book was a whole lot of fun I really liked the hero I really liked the heroine they had a lot of sexual chemistry and seeing the ways in which the author decided to take liberties with these aliens to make them more sexually pleasing for human women was interesting like parts of their Anatomy work well for human women and it was kind of fun and interesting to read about and also I did like I said really enjoy the world that she built it wasn't just like I don't know we've crash-landed and there's some blue guys there was a history behind these people and they have their own language and they have this like sim biotin their head or whatever that like keeps them from dying on this inhospitable planet it's very interesting like I will say the work that the author puts in is pretty impressive and I joint this one that being said I didn't enjoy the sequel which kind of sucks so the second book the series is barbarian alien by Ruby Dex M pretty much everything I liked about the first book wasn't present in the second book there wasn't a whole lot of world-building or additional knowledge that we get about the planet which I mean I guess you kind of set that up in the first book but I wanted there to be something some some plot something something in the second book and there just wasn't the hero who was kind of big dumb oaf and then the heroine was whiny and annoying and was constantly like oh my god don't touch me get away from me which didn't make for a sexy romance if the girl's not into it it's not a great time to read about and like wall I understand why you would be stressed about a big blue dude saying like hey you're my mate like we gotta get together I just I don't know like I said she was too whiny and it wasn't it wasn't an enjoyable thing to read about I don't know that I'm gonna continue on with the series I think I've gotten enough from the series I think it's kind of opened my mind and got me to I don't know want to try different things I think she has I think this author has a dragon shifter romance series which seems kind of interesting so maybe I'll give that a try I'm definitely not counting this author out I think she does a really good job at writing and her characters are all pretty unique but the second one just wasn't for me and in general I don't really need to continue to read a blue alien smut series that has 15 books so there's that and then the last book that I read this month was born darkly by Tricia Wolfe this is one that I picked for these monthly book club it was the pick of the month and I also read it in my vlog talked about it on my live show but I thought I would just talk about it here too in case you're not really into vlog videos but this is a story about a serial killer and a psychiatrist and their relationship and I say relationship because it wasn't necessarily a romantic relationship this is kind of a psychological bond that they form there's a sexual connection there but I'm not sure that I would consider any of what happened romantic I really liked this in my opinion it read a lot more like a thriller the ending of the book left off on this awesome cliffhanger there was just a lot to like about this book and I think it was done really well I've read another book I think it's called caged by JME dark hour it's got a similar premise and it was not pulled off well so I was kind of hesitant to go into this one this one did the same tropes excellently and it just read very intelligently the psychology that's included in the book you can tell the author did research and seems to know what she's talking about so some things are a little unrealistic like a prison break that happens but other than that I thought this was a really really good book I don't know if I'm gonna continue on with the second book in the duet but I don't know the cliffhanger most pretty good so that's it guys that's all of the smutty books that I read this month I know if you guys liked this format a video I know that I've done other Kindle unlimited recommendation videos this wasn't really a recommendation more of just like what I've recently read so let me know if you guys like this better or like what I think I'm probably gonna continue to do both like I'm gonna do unlimited wrap ups and then maybe some like TRO faced recommendation videos in the Kindle unlimited series that I'm doing on my channel I think this is a fun way to kind of share the things that I'm reading with you because I don't want them to just like slip through the cracks I don't want all the good books that I read to not get talked about to you guys so anyway um in the comments down below let me know of any Kindle unlimited recommendations you have for me any books that you think that I would enjoy pretty much it though I love you guys so much and until next time\n"