Mimi
This is another book where I should have gave into my instincts to DNF early on but only finished to see whether it would improve and live up to the hype. Unfortunately the urge to DNF continued through the book.
Frustratingly, the foundations of this book is entirely reliant on miscommunication. This book would not even exist if the female and male lead talked to each other. Heck, all problems might have even been solved if they talked to any side character in their lives at all. It was just secret after secret where they kept it to themselves and told no one.
It annoyed me so much I ended up disliking both the leads.
The female lead is physically abused by one of her step brothers and hides this from her friends and her boyfriend, the male lead. The step brother, Chris, ultimately rapes her, gets his friends to rape her, causes her to miscarry and she continues to live at home and tells no one. She allows the male lead to think that she cheated on him.
What is nonsensical about this arc is despite her friends and boyfriend knowing about her bruises and her weirdness about any of them approaching the family home or meeting her family members or their inability to contact her while she’s at home, they don’t suspect someone at home is abusing the female lead.
The male lead even knows about Kyle being her step brother and it never struck him as weird he doesn’t know much about Chris?
2 years later, the leads meet again and there are yet again more opportunities for the female lead to tell the male lead or anyone at all, that Chris is an abuser and a rapist. The male lead is an accomplished hitman, and the female lead’s argument for still keeping this secret is she thinks Chris will kill him. Cue my eyes rolling here.
And the male lead who has an intense network who can find out anything about his targets, which include big bosses and highly protected politicians, can’t find out any information about who Chris is, despite having seen him at the gates himself and access to the female lead’s call log with him. The male lead also supposedly has been watching the female lead at her family home and stalking her enough to kill all her dates. Yet, still has no idea Chris is harming her.
The male lead’s refusal to even consider the possibility that the female lead didn’t cheat on him is also extremely out of character give how upset the female lead would have been in the aftermath and just how in love they were with eachother.
The male lead is being raped and forced to kill people by two villains, Bernadette and Archie, blackmailing the male lead’s family.
The male lead supposedly plans to kill Bernadette and Archie but does nothing for two years, not even a plan in place? He also tells his father, who is himself an accomplished murderer, absolutely everything yet keeps this from him? And conveniently this leads to more angst, plot and the cliche arc of the male lead choosing to leave the female lead for her protection.
The male lead has hired his own security team yet doesn’t have any protecting his own family? He’s rich but doesn’t have lawyers that can fight for his father’s sentence?
He hates Bernadette and Archie but has full trust in them honouring their word and leaving his family unharmed, instead of warning his family and friends that their lives are in danger?
Other plot arcs that made no sense was the male lead’s sister, Luciella, breaking up a relationship between her friend and her brother’s friend because she didn’t want it ruining the friendship dynamics. This is also why the female lead hid her relationship with the male lead.
Towards the end, Archie, a villain, takes a photo of the female lead’s (freaking the male lead out) and orders a hit for her murder.
Firstly, if Archie already had a team tracking the male lead, the team would already have photos of Stacey so the freak out was too late.
Secondly, if Archie really wanted to kill Stacey, the female lead, he could have gotten his team to kill her while they had no idea they were being tracked or even he could have shot her himself because they were oblivious to danger. Instead, Archie made himself known to the leads, walked away leaving them unharmed, sent a team to kill Stacey after essentially warning them he was coming after them, leading to a chase scene where Stacey escapes unharmed.
The book is littered with flashbacks in between, which I felt were unnecessary and disrupted pacing. i didn’t even care about the romance, I needed was the leads to talk to each other.
Unfortunately I was very disappointed by this book and hated it.
This is another book where I should have gave into my instincts to DNF early on but only finished to see whether it would improve and live up to the hype. Unfortunately the urge to DNF continued through the book.
Frustratingly, the foundations of this book is entirely reliant on miscommunication. This book would not even exist if the female and male lead talked to each other. Heck, all problems might have even been solved if they talked to any side character in their lives at all. It was just secret after secret where they kept it to themselves and told no one.
It annoyed me so much I ended up disliking both the leads.
The female lead is physically abused by one of her step brothers and hides this from her friends and her boyfriend, the male lead. The step brother, Chris, ultimately rapes her, gets his friends to rape her, causes her to miscarry and she continues to live at home and tells no one. She allows the male lead to think that she cheated on him.
What is nonsensical about this arc is despite her friends and boyfriend knowing about her bruises and her weirdness about any of them approaching the family home or meeting her family members or their inability to contact her while she’s at home, they don’t suspect someone at home is abusing the female lead.
The male lead even knows about Kyle being her step brother and it never struck him as weird he doesn’t know much about Chris?
2 years later, the leads meet again and there are yet again more opportunities for the female lead to tell the male lead or anyone at all, that Chris is an abuser and a rapist. The male lead is an accomplished hitman, and the female lead’s argument for still keeping this secret is she thinks Chris will kill him. Cue my eyes rolling here.
And the male lead who has an intense network who can find out anything about his targets, which include big bosses and highly protected politicians, can’t find out any information about who Chris is, despite having seen him at the gates himself and access to the female lead’s call log with him. The male lead also supposedly has been watching the female lead at her family home and stalking her enough to kill all her dates. Yet, still has no idea Chris is harming her.
The male lead’s refusal to even consider the possibility that the female lead didn’t cheat on him is also extremely out of character give how upset the female lead would have been in the aftermath and just how in love they were with eachother.
The male lead is being raped and forced to kill people by two villains, Bernadette and Archie, blackmailing the male lead’s family.
The male lead supposedly plans to kill Bernadette and Archie but does nothing for two years, not even a plan in place? He also tells his father, who is himself an accomplished murderer, absolutely everything yet keeps this from him? And conveniently this leads to more angst, plot and the cliche arc of the male lead choosing to leave the female lead for her protection.
The male lead has hired his own security team yet doesn’t have any protecting his own family? He’s rich but doesn’t have lawyers that can fight for his father’s sentence?
He hates Bernadette and Archie but has full trust in them honouring their word and leaving his family unharmed, instead of warning his family and friends that their lives are in danger?
Other plot arcs that made no sense was the male lead’s sister, Luciella, breaking up a relationship between her friend and her brother’s friend because she didn’t want it ruining the friendship dynamics. This is also why the female lead hid her relationship with the male lead.
Towards the end, Archie, a villain, takes a photo of the female lead’s (freaking the male lead out) and orders a hit for her murder.
Firstly, if Archie already had a team tracking the male lead, the team would already have photos of Stacey so the freak out was too late.
Secondly, if Archie really wanted to kill Stacey, the female lead, he could have gotten his team to kill her while they had no idea they were being tracked or even he could have shot her himself because they were oblivious to danger. Instead, Archie made himself known to the leads, walked away leaving them unharmed, sent a team to kill Stacey after essentially warning them he was coming after them, leading to a chase scene where Stacey escapes unharmed.
The book is littered with flashbacks in between, which I felt were unnecessary and disrupted pacing. i didn’t even care about the romance, I needed was the leads to talk to each other.
Unfortunately I was very disappointed by this book and hated it.