DNF Series Review: Undescribable by Shantel Tessier

Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below:

Synopsis for Undescribable (from Goodreads):

Samantha Hall needs a fresh start

Broken hearted and alone in a new city, Samantha begins to build a new life for herself while working as a bartender. Focusing on her new friends and rebuilding her broken life, Samantha is content.

Until she meets him – attorney by day and a cocky, foul mouth playboy by night. All girls want Slade Long, but not one has ever been able to keep his attention for long. Having a different woman in his bed every night is how he prefers it-no emotion, no connection.

Until he meets her – an angel with the sweetest voice he has ever heard and the most enticing green eyes. Samantha makes him second guess his actions and has him wanting something he didn’t know existed. How can a man who has never been in love, be so sure? Can real love happen this fast?

Burned by her past, Samantha struggles to keep up with the overwhelming passion she feels for Slade. She knows that he will be nothing but trouble to her already fragile heart, but how long can she continue to deny the love that she feels for him?
Will Samantha let Slade prove his love is real, or will she push him away?

She thought she knew love…… He thought he never wanted love….. Together they will show each other what they can’t live without.

Series: Undescribable Series or the UN Series
Author: Shantel Tessier
# of Books: 5 (Indescribable, Unbearable, Uncontrollable, Unforgettable, Unpredictable)
Book Order: Chronological (#1-3) & Connected (#4-5)

Full series reading order, including novellas, found here.

Complete?: Yes
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Heat Rating: Unsure
Point of View: First Person, Alternating
Publication Dates: July 2013 – April 2015
Source & Format: Own–eBook

Disclaimer: I stopped reading Undescribable (Book 1) at 14%. Find out why below…

Why I Picked it Up / My Expectations:

I’m a sucker for the asshole playboy who gets turned into a bonefide boyfriend. I’m pretty sure that’s why I bought this book nearly 3 years ago…I’m really not sure why I bought this or how it crossed my radar.

But I was excited to start this. I was looking forward to a book filled with sexual tension after finishing a particularly slower novel.

What I Liked:

Honestly, nothing really stood out…probably why I DNF’d it.

What I Didn’t Like:

–One Dimensional Characters–

These characters didn’t seem to have much depth to them. Samantha was a little naive in my opinion about somethings. She was kinda uninspiring as a heroine and so I didn’t find myself rooting for her.

And Slade…he just didn’t work for me. He was definitely an asshole but he wasn’t winning me over to his side. I could tell that he was going to be a quick convert to the “whipped” camp. (I mean he was practically in love with Sam after hearing her voice on the phone for all of 5 minutes…)

–Drawn-out Plot–

While 14% might not seem like I got far into the novel before I DNF’d it, I was actually a solid 60 pages into the story. And the two of them had just met… I like my romances to start early in terms of the couples meeting. Yes, they did have the phone call interaction but I wanted a little more.

It’s not that the writing is especially detailed; I just think it focuses on the wrong things and tends to drag them out. It just felt like it was talking a while to get to the main plot.

Will I Finish It?

At the 14% mark, I couldn’t see where this story was going to go. It didn’t seem like there was going to be much of a plot besides these two playing cat and mouse. When I say that it was going to take me another 5 hours to read this book, I didn’t think I could do it. Add to it the fact that this series has two more books with these characters when there seemed to be nothing happening.

So no, I won’t be finishing this novel or this series.

Series Rating: DNF

If I read this when I bought it, I would have enjoyed a straight romance series. But as I have evolved as a reader, I need more depth to my stories and characters.

Read if You Like: contemporary romance, asshole heroes
Avoid if You: a deeper story and characters.