Forbidden

Honestly, the incest was the thing I had the least problems with, in theory. Everything about this book was so bad. The writing was okay sometimes, and other times it was absolutely atrocious. The dialogue was always stiff and weird. The way sex was discussed sounded like a health teacher talking about abstinence, with how frequently “loving each other emotionally” and “just wanting to touch” was brought up. All of the interactions felt so awkward and uncomfortable. All of the events that took place happened for seemingly no reason. Every event up until the end just seemed like filler to keep the story “moving,” although where in the world it was moving to, I have no idea. The characters were so stiff and strange, especially Maya. Lochan was a bit more fleshed out, but his actions frequently made no sense. Every bad thing he did went without consequence up until the end, and the end had nothing to do with the actual harmful things he'd done. Maya was so contrived and her whole character seemed to exist just so there would be an incestuous relationship. The actual relationship was honestly not believable; the two siblings obviously have a stronger bond than just brother and sister, but when they began their “relationship” they immediately just started making out and saying how much they love each other, which does not show anything besides how contrived it was. The whole thing just felt very messy and underdone; if it had gone through a few more rounds of editing or had just been constructed better, this probably would have been a better book. However, I commend the author for trying to handle this topic; I just didn't think it was good.