Mimi
I liked the dark romance plot of this but the writing was not good.
A rich lead singer in a band non-cons the female lead who trespasses on his property. He forces a pregnancy, and refuses to let her go and walk out of his life ever again. He goes to great lengths to insert himself in her life and loses his mind when she goes into hiding from him and he can’t find her or when she’s hanging around with other men. He’s manipulative and ultimately is successful in forcing her to agree to marry him.
The female lead is surrounded by cowards and even I felt frustrated on her behalf how easily everyone brushed off that she was raped and abandoned her: her brother, sister in law, roommates, friend/potential-lover.
Disappointingly, writing was very choppy and a lot of the scenes were not shown but told with all the closed door and lack of description making scene changes and flow hard to follow. The actions and dialogue of the leads were also at times non-sensical. E.g. it made no sense Dev wouldn’t believe Cathy’s story about her painting and the cows, when even Chris was backing up her story.
The dynamics between the main couple also felt wildly inconsistent from one scene to the next. Dev was superglued to Cathy one moment, then walks away and leaves her alone the next minute. Cathy hates him one moment but then feels like a couple with him the next moment.
I also wasn’t a fan of how the author justified the male lead’s actions in the end either to redeem him. It would have worked better if he was a bad guy that stayed bad
I’d be interested in reading a cliff notes of the plot of the next book as I do like the dark romance plot, especially with a baby in the picture and how Dev is going to keep Cathy from leaving him, but I would struggle through the author’s writing
I liked the dark romance plot of this but the writing was not good.
A rich lead singer in a band non-cons the female lead who trespasses on his property. He forces a pregnancy, and refuses to let her go and walk out of his life ever again. He goes to great lengths to insert himself in her life and loses his mind when she goes into hiding from him and he can’t find her or when she’s hanging around with other men. He’s manipulative and ultimately is successful in forcing her to agree to marry him.
The female lead is surrounded by cowards and even I felt frustrated on her behalf how easily everyone brushed off that she was raped and abandoned her: her brother, sister in law, roommates, friend/potential-lover.
Disappointingly, writing was very choppy and a lot of the scenes were not shown but told with all the closed door and lack of description making scene changes and flow hard to follow. The actions and dialogue of the leads were also at times non-sensical. E.g. it made no sense Dev wouldn’t believe Cathy’s story about her painting and the cows, when even Chris was backing up her story.
The dynamics between the main couple also felt wildly inconsistent from one scene to the next. Dev was superglued to Cathy one moment, then walks away and leaves her alone the next minute. Cathy hates him one moment but then feels like a couple with him the next moment.
I also wasn’t a fan of how the author justified the male lead’s actions in the end either to redeem him. It would have worked better if he was a bad guy that stayed bad
I’d be interested in reading a cliff notes of the plot of the next book as I do like the dark romance plot, especially with a baby in the picture and how Dev is going to keep Cathy from leaving him, but I would struggle through the author’s writing