Baron of Hearts (Master of Monsters #2)

Awesome next chapter to taking titles and and getting the girls and the money and not a revenge…and love that the women r just as ambitious

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I am new to this author and have found this story to be interesting. Monster girls and sword play till your heart is content. A political mystery and royal intrigue. I am looking forward to the next book.

good stuff

Leo is an idiot and he just happens to “succeed”. Ambitious, prideful, and stupid. Nothing makes him unique compared to the other nobles in the story, so why should I even like him? The only thing that makes him different is his willingness not to abuse people, which isn’t that much of an upside.

He fumbles at the cloak and dagger stuff, is surprised by just about anything that doesn’t go his way. On top of that he wakes up often and “has nothing to do” which I find odd for a lord/Barron whatever. He helps servants with their jobs when he is bored.. wtf? Like don’t you have some diabolical plans you need to think about and to initiate? One of the nobles gets the jump on him and literally ambushes him in bed with his dragon bodyguard.. great guarding btw. Like anyone can just burst into his home and arrest him or threaten him? He also is not completely without useful weapons or tools, or even obvious leverage he could use against people and he doesn’t use it. It’s pretty tough to read through the stupidity, all the while the sex scenes are bookends to the rest of Leo’s fumbling.

If you’re looking for an intriguing plot or a intelligent MC.. keep looking.

I was hoping Leo would have grown over since the last book, or that he would grow during this one. Sadly he has proven himself to simply be incompetent. Ill try not to spoil anything. Leo never learns, he makes the same mistakes over and over again. Like the last book he has a serious problem walking around without guards, that happens multiple times in the book. Everything good that happens is because everyone else in the story is using him as tool and treating him like a fool, none of his achievements are his own. At one point someone breaks into his home and has him at dead to rights. you would think he would have learned to actually hire some guards for his home at least but no, he only has 4 people that can actually fight throughout the story. The story climaxes with all the advice he ignores crashing down on him, but hes rewarded for it instead by having the people that are actually smart save him so they can use him or because they happen to like him for some reason. Leo is the worst part of this story Im interested in what the people around him are up to, thats the only reason I finished it, I wish that werent the case. If a 3rd book comes out I might check it out just to see if Leo ever finds his brain.

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