Darling Girl

I went in blind. Two or three chapters in, I was hooked on the dark fairy tale vibes but by chapter 10, I was bored. This is an incredibly average book and even the trigger warning scenes (that if I had known about prior would have made me skip the book all together) were shockingly boring. It's like the author thought throwing in some trauma would make up for the poorly written characters.

A lot of the plot wasn't even resolved. The ending was lazy as hell (the main character gets drugged while her mom does all the hard work) and then her company gets sold for enough money that she never has to work again, her son is magically healed and she falls in love. This feels like an unfinished project and it's seriously made me consider cancelling my BOTM subscription all together since they thought this was good enough to promote.

I swear this was a rape fantasy draft that got picked up by someone who knew someone. Don't waste your time ☺️