For The Fans by Nyla K.

Up until halfway this book had the perfect love-hate relationship with steam and amazing chemistry, that pulled me in completely! I was so sure it would be a five star read, but sadly, after that, there was way too much smut for me, and the cheesiness… I can’t even, it just ruined most of what could have been such an amazing story.

For The Fans is a love-hate, forbidden step brother romance between the (on the surface) perfect golden boy and superstar football player Kyran and the weed-smoking loner and dreamer Avi. When their parents get involved and eventually marry, they are forced to live together even though they immediately dislike each other. Later on though, a family catastrophe forces them to cooperate to get money to pay for college and they end up doing Fans Only porn videos. But the attraction is definitely not only for show…

I love enemies-to-lovers stories and I truly rooted for the characters in this one. Kyran was so broken inside, but putting up a show, and Avi was so adorkable. And their push and pull, the cold and warm, the hate, love and jealousy was so on point. I loved to see how their toxic relationship developed into intimacy, but still with the tension, the back and forth, to keep the story completely addictive and intriguing. I’m usually not a big fan of too explicit smut, but here it had a purpose and was really well done. At first.

Sadly though, in the second half of the book it all just turned cringy. And slow and long. It was a good storyline, but to write 575 pages based on it was to stretch it way too far. I feel like the book could have benefited so much from a thorough editing. It was at least a 100 or more pages too long, and there were so many unnecessary and random plot twists and storylines, and page after page after page with graphic sex scenes. There were also a lot of unnecessary pop culture references that felt out of place and slowed the story down even more.

So very mixed feelings and I’m really struggling with how to rate this book. Overall, I loved the characters and the premise, and the first half of the book was so good!!! So it kind of breaks my heart that the second half ruined it all.

I also want to point out that this book has a lot of content that could potentially be harmful, so if you have certain triggers please head over to Nyla K’s website to check them out before reading as they are not listed at the beginning of the book or mentioned in the blurb.

Rating:
3 stars

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Nyla K.