Mimi
I didn’t like this one overall unfortunately
The writing of this isn’t great. There are some extremely long sentences in this book that don’t make sense and are hard to follow. I also found myself not really caring about any of the characters in this.
The tropes in the first half of the book is what kept me going despite the writing. I do love a dark omegaverse with body betrayal, non con and an alpha that asserts his dominance over his omega. I ended up skimming through the text to follow the plot
The plot wasn’t great otherwise and bored me entirely in the second half. There are constant references to another woman, Moria and we have no context on who she is or what happened to her.
The cliffhanger ending was unnecessary and came out of nowhere. It completely ruined the book for me.
The smut was just OK and not spicy
I didn’t like this one overall unfortunately
The writing of this isn’t great. There are some extremely long sentences in this book that don’t make sense and are hard to follow. I also found myself not really caring about any of the characters in this.
The tropes in the first half of the book is what kept me going despite the writing. I do love a dark omegaverse with body betrayal, non con and an alpha that asserts his dominance over his omega. I ended up skimming through the text to follow the plot
The plot wasn’t great otherwise and bored me entirely in the second half. There are constant references to another woman, Moria and we have no context on who she is or what happened to her.
The cliffhanger ending was unnecessary and came out of nowhere. It completely ruined the book for me.
The smut was just OK and not spicy
Added to listMmc Stalks Fmcwith 12 books.
Added to listSecond Chancewith 22 books.
Added to listDark Romancewith 93 books.
This book is a long one. Initially the pacing felt slow and it dragged.
When the romance progresses between Brett and Bowen about 5-10% in, I started to get into the book. Primarily I start wondering who is Brett’s baby’s father and who is present Brett’s boyfriend.
The time jumps were very confusing in this book after a while. The flashbacks were so long I had to constantly go back to check what time period we are currently in. It might have been manageable if the flashbacks stuck to chronological order 1 year in the past but we had random jumps to college, high school and all different POVs.
When Brett actually cheated on Bowen, I started disliking her. I already thought she was an idiot for approaching Colson at work despite her fearing him but it was also disrespectful to Bowen, who had expressed concerns about her spending time with him.
What made it worse is Brett didn’t even feel bad or feel bad any time she cheated. She’d go home where Bowen would drop hints he knew she was cheating, she’d admit to nothing, though apologizing to him tearfully, then next day cheat on him again with no remorse.
I understand the author justifies it later on by making Bowen a bad guy. But at this stage of the book, Colton is a guy who mistreated her after asking her out, slept with her and took her out a couple of times in college, shot her with an actual gun, ghosted her for years then suddenly reappeared in her life stalking her, breaking into her house and scaring her.
Meanwhile, Bowen was her loving partner who she lived with 24/7 for months, had great sex with, fixed all problems for her, spoiled her with gifts and loved her enough she committed to having 4 kids with him
Brett had virtually no chemistry with Colson and had barely been with him romantically in the past either. They hadn’t lived together and Brett barely knew anything about him. She didn’t even know Colson had a sister and a step sister, despite Colson still being close to his sister. I wish Bowen was the lead and not Colson. It would have made more sense and made a more interesting book.
The book completely lost me when Bowen suddenly deleted Brett’s book, claimed Barrett hit on him and locked Brett in her bedroom. All of these seemed like out of character moments to enable Colson to get back together with Brett.
Brett’s author job is work from home and would not have taken her away from him. In fact, if she got her book published, she’d quit her job and be away from Colson. It made absolutely no sense Bowen would sabotage her book.
Barrett was one of Bowen’s biggest supporters. She was gushing over Bowen’s constant willingness to help her soft her problems at home. It made no sense Bowen would want to isolate Brett from her.
Supposedly Bowen is a skilled manipulator and serial killer. However, the author tries to convince us he kept a corpse, an incriminating letter from one of his murder victims and locks of his other murder victim’s hair unlocked in his home that Brett has full access to, instead of destroying any of it. Or at the very least, locking these away? Why he’d pretend he doesn’t know an Emily made no sense either when he was open with Brett that he had an ex girlfriend who ghosted him. It seemed like another out of character moment so Brett starts to doubt Bowen.
Bowen is cunning but supposedly would lock Brett’s bedroom door, assuming it’d keep her captive. He just leaves the house without tying Brett up to ensure she can’t escape, board up with windows, take away her car, guard her himself or even have surveillance in the room to monitor his captive. It made no sense he’d make her escape so easy.
Despite knowing Brett was at her friend’s place due to GPS tracking and wanting to recapture her after her escape, he just walked away like he didn’t know she was there? He waited days later after Brett had found the GPS and left the house to send police to retrieve her. Again, made no sense because Bowen could have just sent police the day he tracked the GPS
I ended up skimming through everything after 70% and there were so many unnecessary Evie flashbacks and a weird nonsensical fantasy arc with Evie's spirit so that Colson could find Evie’s body.
This book is a long one. Initially the pacing felt slow and it dragged.
When the romance progresses between Brett and Bowen about 5-10% in, I started to get into the book. Primarily I start wondering who is Brett’s baby’s father and who is present Brett’s boyfriend.
The time jumps were very confusing in this book after a while. The flashbacks were so long I had to constantly go back to check what time period we are currently in. It might have been manageable if the flashbacks stuck to chronological order 1 year in the past but we had random jumps to college, high school and all different POVs.
When Brett actually cheated on Bowen, I started disliking her. I already thought she was an idiot for approaching Colson at work despite her fearing him but it was also disrespectful to Bowen, who had expressed concerns about her spending time with him.
What made it worse is Brett didn’t even feel bad or feel bad any time she cheated. She’d go home where Bowen would drop hints he knew she was cheating, she’d admit to nothing, though apologizing to him tearfully, then next day cheat on him again with no remorse.
I understand the author justifies it later on by making Bowen a bad guy. But at this stage of the book, Colton is a guy who mistreated her after asking her out, slept with her and took her out a couple of times in college, shot her with an actual gun, ghosted her for years then suddenly reappeared in her life stalking her, breaking into her house and scaring her.
Meanwhile, Bowen was her loving partner who she lived with 24/7 for months, had great sex with, fixed all problems for her, spoiled her with gifts and loved her enough she committed to having 4 kids with him
Brett had virtually no chemistry with Colson and had barely been with him romantically in the past either. They hadn’t lived together and Brett barely knew anything about him. She didn’t even know Colson had a sister and a step sister, despite Colson still being close to his sister. I wish Bowen was the lead and not Colson. It would have made more sense and made a more interesting book.
The book completely lost me when Bowen suddenly deleted Brett’s book, claimed Barrett hit on him and locked Brett in her bedroom. All of these seemed like out of character moments to enable Colson to get back together with Brett.
Brett’s author job is work from home and would not have taken her away from him. In fact, if she got her book published, she’d quit her job and be away from Colson. It made absolutely no sense Bowen would sabotage her book.
Barrett was one of Bowen’s biggest supporters. She was gushing over Bowen’s constant willingness to help her soft her problems at home. It made no sense Bowen would want to isolate Brett from her.
Supposedly Bowen is a skilled manipulator and serial killer. However, the author tries to convince us he kept a corpse, an incriminating letter from one of his murder victims and locks of his other murder victim’s hair unlocked in his home that Brett has full access to, instead of destroying any of it. Or at the very least, locking these away? Why he’d pretend he doesn’t know an Emily made no sense either when he was open with Brett that he had an ex girlfriend who ghosted him. It seemed like another out of character moment so Brett starts to doubt Bowen.
Bowen is cunning but supposedly would lock Brett’s bedroom door, assuming it’d keep her captive. He just leaves the house without tying Brett up to ensure she can’t escape, board up with windows, take away her car, guard her himself or even have surveillance in the room to monitor his captive. It made no sense he’d make her escape so easy.
Despite knowing Brett was at her friend’s place due to GPS tracking and wanting to recapture her after her escape, he just walked away like he didn’t know she was there? He waited days later after Brett had found the GPS and left the house to send police to retrieve her. Again, made no sense because Bowen could have just sent police the day he tracked the GPS
I ended up skimming through everything after 70% and there were so many unnecessary Evie flashbacks and a weird nonsensical fantasy arc with Evie's spirit so that Colson could find Evie’s body.
An Omega's Awakening
Added to listOmega Versewith 9 books.
An Omega's Awakening
Added to listDark Romancewith 92 books.
I didn’t like this one overall unfortunately
The writing of this isn’t great. There are some extremely long sentences in this book that don’t make sense and are hard to follow. I also found myself not really caring about any of the characters in this.
The tropes in the first half of the book is what kept me going despite the writing. I do love a dark omegaverse with body betrayal, non con and an alpha that asserts his dominance over his omega. I ended up skimming through the text to follow the plot
The plot wasn’t great otherwise and bored me entirely in the second half. There are constant references to another woman, Moria and we have no context on who she is or what happened to her.
The cliffhanger ending was unnecessary and came out of nowhere. It completely ruined the book for me.
The smut was just OK and not spicy
I didn’t like this one overall unfortunately
The writing of this isn’t great. There are some extremely long sentences in this book that don’t make sense and are hard to follow. I also found myself not really caring about any of the characters in this.
The tropes in the first half of the book is what kept me going despite the writing. I do love a dark omegaverse with body betrayal, non con and an alpha that asserts his dominance over his omega. I ended up skimming through the text to follow the plot
The plot wasn’t great otherwise and bored me entirely in the second half. There are constant references to another woman, Moria and we have no context on who she is or what happened to her.
The cliffhanger ending was unnecessary and came out of nowhere. It completely ruined the book for me.
The smut was just OK and not spicy
The book was a complete waste of time where nothing happened. It was almost entirely uninteresting flashbacks and any momentum that built was destroyed with a POV switch. When the first death happened, my interest piqued a bit but it all faded to nothingness.
The book was a complete waste of time where nothing happened. It was almost entirely uninteresting flashbacks and any momentum that built was destroyed with a POV switch. When the first death happened, my interest piqued a bit but it all faded to nothingness.
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.
Added to listSecond Chancewith 21 books.
Added to listDark Romancewith 91 books.
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.
I was so excited by this book as it has been highly praised since its release.
Unfortunately I was massively disappointed by this. It's a long book and it felt long. There were so many points at which I wanted to DNF but again, I was curious about the hype so I kept going.
This is a dark stalker romance but surprisingly, (and I never thought I'd say this about a stalker who has murdered people and non-cons the female lead), the male lead is a loyal puppy who is repeatedly trampled on by the female lead and let's her walk over him for 80% of this book. The male lead dotes, pampers and spoils the female lead any way he can possibly think of throughout and the female lead is bitter, angry and throws it all back at his face every time. Even when she feels a sliver of happiness at how she's being treated by the male lead, she very quickly lashes out at him, verbally and physically abusing him.
Their relationship does improve slightly by the 40% mark. The female lead does start treating him better as she falls for him but she only lets the male lead experience a bit of affection, before she's bitter and lashing out at him again, and this continues for almost the entire book. Female lead is loving with the male lead-she's angry at the male lead for treating her well, hurts him and demands he stays away from her-repeat. The male lead even ends up with severe gunshot wounds with permanent hand injuries and back in prison for her.
I genuinely wanted the male lead to leave her as the female lead claims she wants, because she doesn't deserve his love. I felt so sorry for him.
The male lead had more chemistry with his therapist for most of the book and any smut in this book didn't feel spicy.
The last quarter of the book becomes plot-focused as it addresses the female lead's domestic violence situation. And I hated that plot. I already hated the female lead and found the pacing of the book slow and repetitive, but the plot of the last arc was an especially unlikeable read.
There is also a bit of femdom which isn't my thing.
I was so excited by this book as it has been highly praised since its release.
Unfortunately I was massively disappointed by this. It's a long book and it felt long. There were so many points at which I wanted to DNF but again, I was curious about the hype so I kept going.
This is a dark stalker romance but surprisingly, (and I never thought I'd say this about a stalker who has murdered people and non-cons the female lead), the male lead is a loyal puppy who is repeatedly trampled on by the female lead and let's her walk over him for 80% of this book. The male lead dotes, pampers and spoils the female lead any way he can possibly think of throughout and the female lead is bitter, angry and throws it all back at his face every time. Even when she feels a sliver of happiness at how she's being treated by the male lead, she very quickly lashes out at him, verbally and physically abusing him.
Their relationship does improve slightly by the 40% mark. The female lead does start treating him better as she falls for him but she only lets the male lead experience a bit of affection, before she's bitter and lashing out at him again, and this continues for almost the entire book. Female lead is loving with the male lead-she's angry at the male lead for treating her well, hurts him and demands he stays away from her-repeat. The male lead even ends up with severe gunshot wounds with permanent hand injuries and back in prison for her.
I genuinely wanted the male lead to leave her as the female lead claims she wants, because she doesn't deserve his love. I felt so sorry for him.
The male lead had more chemistry with his therapist for most of the book and any smut in this book didn't feel spicy.
The last quarter of the book becomes plot-focused as it addresses the female lead's domestic violence situation. And I hated that plot. I already hated the female lead and found the pacing of the book slow and repetitive, but the plot of the last arc was an especially unlikeable read.
There is also a bit of femdom which isn't my thing.
Added to listMmc Plants Hidden Surveillancewith 11 books.
