I wasn’t lamenting the fact that I didn’t know about her dark mysterious past, I was saying it’s an over used trope, one amongst many. And my bad, they were just eye fucking by the end of the book, but of course we needed a couple extra books of “will they, won’t they?”.

If you like the books that’s great. I, and a lot of other people, find them to be poorly written. The world building had a great starting point but falls apart the first time it’s questioned. If they managed to put bandaids on it through the series and come up with a decent explanation for things working then good for them. Everything else could have come from an Urban Fantasy Romance ad-lib. The series was sold as an action packed Urban Fantasy, and instead I got a generic UF romance novel and the biggest change from the formula that has been done over and over was that the love interest is a werelion instead of werewolf.