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The Powers that Be - Harper Bentley

2/5
So I'm going to review an entire series in this post because it's a self- published series so it only took me about a week to read the lot of them. 
The Powers that Be... for some reason the name and the cover of the first book made me think it would be some sort of fantsay/supernatural book but it's just the last name of all the boys. It's straight up romance smut, which is what I generally expect from self published books. Not always, by any means, but enough of the time. 
Welp. This whole series played exactly into what you would expect. The guys are all muscled, tattooed, "sexy as hell" (which is literally the most commonly used descriptor in SP works), and have some sort of dark spot on their history. One has a child, one's ex died, etc; etc. 
Every book is the same. And I found that the most annoying thing is that its an episode of Three's Company where there is some sort of misunderstanding that could easily be fixed by a quick conversation. The guys are all over-the-top rude when they're talking to the female leads. To the point where I was thinking something along the lines of "I don't care how hot this guy is, that is a half step away from sexual assault." It really put me off the series. And some of the stuff they say is so sexually explicit, and being said in the middle of a classroom that I can't help thinking "who talks to people like that in a very, very public place?" 
It was all just too over the top, and too scripted from book to book that I really couldn't manage to give it a better rating.  I could literally tell how much book I had left by what point in the relationship each couple was. 
Sad panda. At least they were cheap.

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