Name: Samantha Waterson's review of How Does It Feel? by Jeneane O'Riley
Item: How Does It Feel?
Rating: 2
Author: Samantha Waterson

Jeneane O'Riley

Infatuated Fae Book 1

How Does It Feel?

Sara Poole

You have no idea the level of pain I will feel when you are gone forever. 

"Because if you're not dead, I fear I will leave everything to follow you." His gravelly voice was barely heard as it ghosted across my lips.

We were taught as kids that evil is ugly and crass and beauty is honest and good, but that is a dangerous lie. It's so much more unsettling for your villain to be ungodly good-looking. It made it even harder to decipher the obscure feelings they elicited from your mind and body.

Greer Andersson

I’m convinced this book started as a moth fan fic. 

Samantha Waterson

I’m convinced this book started as a moth fan fic. 

0% chance of continuing the series. 

it gets a star back because the ending was amusing to me, why do I always start out the year with a feral fae dark romance

fris🐝

I absolutely loved this book!!!! It literally kept me up at night just waiting for the next little twist.

Jessica Hamnett

Giulia Milani

What a book! This books surprised me in a crazy level! I need the sequel ASAP!!!

I have never DNF’ed a book before but this was just insanely cringy from the first sentence that I couldn’t bear to read past the first the five chapters. The main character is insufferably cringy whole being naive and pretentious, she lacks depth. the divulgence of her family trauma just shifts her character from overly cheery to depressing I cannot love anyone again cause I’ll get hurt with zero in between or transition between the emotional tones. the narration from her point of view was just too much. This book gives me wattpad vibes in the worst possible way. I couldn’t even make it to the plot beginning because it was unbearable, and I’m not someone who gives up reading books when I dislike them. 

Colleen

The amount of whiplash I got from this book is wild. I’m still confused. A little more explanation was needed. 

Amberlyn Holmes 

Deanna Coso

** spoiler alert **
           I decided to DNF this book about 38% of the way through. I know some people think you shouldn't review a book you didn't finish, but I feel as though if a book was so bad you did not finish it, you need reasoning to back it up. So where do I begin?

First off, the writing was very poor. Sentences didn't flow together, things were often overly described, there were missing commas everywhere, commas where they weren't needed, extra spaces between a parentheses and the next word, etc. If someone edited it, it was poorly edited. On the VERY 1st page it says, “My finger’s poked the open, bloodied wound on my head as a firm reminder of its horrible capabilities.” It should either be “finger” or “fingers” (plural), not “finger’s” (possessive). Even if it was "...finger is..." it doesn't make sense. I thought there was no way this mistake could be on the very 1st page? So I put the sentence into various grammar checkers, as maybe I was mistaken, to which all of them changed it to "finger." I know some people can overlook these things, but they stick out to me like a sore thumb.

By page 5, I could already tell I was probably not going to finish this book due to the poor grammar, shitty writing, and cringey sentences. 

Now to every single "ick" moment I had:
1) the amount of exclamation points, why in the world were there so many?
2) the FMC compared herself to Barbie twice in the 140 something pages I read, ick.
3) she hates swearing? "Son of a garbage can!" "Mother forking crap on a cracker!" "Tuna-teeth!" "Holy esophagus...." "What the fork!?" These were actually phrases the FMC used. Ick.
4) "monster seed" no explanation needed, this is where the book completely lost me but I tried to keep going (obviously, I didn't keep going for very long)

Now, I did give this 2 stars, but I really wish I could give it more like 2.5. Why you might ask? Because I actually enjoyed the beginning of the story, where she was just a biologist working in a small town. As someone with a bachelor's in biological science who has worked in wildlife rehab, does wildlife photography, and overall loves all things nature, despite the poor writing and cringey phrases, I found it a decent read. However, after going through the fairy portal, it went downhill. I feel this author could probably write some pretty great books with the main theme being nature/animals/biology, but the fantasy aspect was garbage. 

Some of her descriptions of nature were beautiful. "The beautiful birds chirps and sang their happy wake-up call of tweets and twirls. The grass held drops of dew along with the orange blanket of a rising sun. The unmistakably crisp morning scent clung to the air like a promise, a whisper of fresh starts and pine." These sentences were *chef's kiss* and gave me a sense of comfort. 

One more positive thing before I go, Earl was described at one point as wearing "mushroom and acorn pattern" suspenders, I just imagine a sweet, old man wearing them and I think it's adorable.

Known from booktok for the mind-blowing twist ending, How Does It Feel is not your average Dark Fantasy.

I would not classify it as an Romantasy or Dark Romance, but more a dark Fantasy. It was interesting, and had me binge through it.

A scientist with an obsession for Luna Moths and a particular type of mushroom accidentally ends up in the Unseelie realm one night after searching for her tools in a forest.

She is then assumed to be an assassin and therefore tortured and imprisoned.

Regarding the infamous twist ending: a seasoned Fantasy reader will piece it together at the halfway point. 

Rabia Sitabi

Known from booktok for the mind-blowing twist ending, How Does It Feel is not your average Dark Fantasy.

I would not classify it as an Romantasy or Dark Romance, but more a dark Fantasy. It was interesting, and had me binge through it.

A scientist with an obsession for Luna Moths and a particular type of mushroom accidentally ends up in the Unseelie realm one night after searching for her tools in a forest.

She is then assumed to be an assassin and therefore tortured and imprisoned.

Regarding the infamous twist ending: a seasoned Fantasy reader will piece it together at the halfway point. 

I didn’t expect that. 10/10 would recommend. 

Nena

dnf at 40% the mc was so annoying i couldn’t do it anymore… also i skipped to the twist cause that was the whole reason i started reading and good for her! 

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