Mimi
Added to listMmc Stalks Fmcwith 11 books.
Added to listDark Romancewith 90 books.
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 kicked by the female lead 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.
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 kicked by the female lead 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.
Added to listForbidden Romancewith 23 books.
Added to listSomwith 15 books.
DNF 50%. I do like reading dark smutty romance. Non con taboo relationships aren’t a trigger for me so I didn’t have an issue with this.
However, the writing in this wasn’t great. With this being 95% smut, there wasn’t any chemistry built between any of the characters in this book. Most of the smut wasn’t spicy and actually felt abrupt. There was only a somno scene that I did find spicy.
All the smut scenes fell flat and felt repetitive. At the 50% mark I jumped to the end to see if there was any plot progression, a happy family ending or anything that didn’t feel the same as the first half of the book, to make the rest of the book worth reading.
Unfortunately the ending didn’t redeem the book
DNF 50%. I do like reading dark smutty romance. Non con taboo relationships aren’t a trigger for me so I didn’t have an issue with this.
However, the writing in this wasn’t great. With this being 95% smut, there wasn’t any chemistry built between any of the characters in this book. Most of the smut wasn’t spicy and actually felt abrupt. There was only a somno scene that I did find spicy.
All the smut scenes fell flat and felt repetitive. At the 50% mark I jumped to the end to see if there was any plot progression, a happy family ending or anything that didn’t feel the same as the first half of the book, to make the rest of the book worth reading.
Unfortunately the ending didn’t redeem the book
Added to listMmc Drugs Fmcwith 12 books.
Added to listMmc Jealouswith 45 books.
Added to listRich Mmcwith 9 books.
Diamonds are Forever
Added to listFmc Goes Into Hiding From Mmcwith 6 books.
Added to listFmc Tries To End Relationshipwith 20 books.
Added to listDark Romancewith 89 books.
Added to listMmc Forces Fmc To Marry Himwith 19 books.
Added to listManipulative Mmcwith 39 books.
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