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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was really excited about this one. I love sports romance, and I love dark romance, and putting the two together is usually a hit for me. But this one was just missing something. I can't really put my finger on it, but it was like he wasn't that dark or it came out of nowhere. And their chemistry just didn't feel right to me. There were also some formatting issues I wasn't a fan of - the text messages would go from text bubbles to being written in paragraph form with italics. It made it hard to know what was texts and inner monologue sometimes. I'm disappointed that I didn't love this one more.
challenging
dark
emotional
fast-paced
dark
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The MMC was a creep and the FMC should have stayed far away from him. It was an interesting study of an unhealthy stalker relationship. The author does a great job of showing you the inner workings of the obsession and how the other person might come to accept these troublesome behaviors.
The narration was lovely.
Read the trigger/content warnings.
The narration was lovely.
Read the trigger/content warnings.
dark
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship
Moderate: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Sexual harassment
damn ladies, if he wanted to, he would get that tattoo
Monroe y Lincoln
Ellos se conocen por error, ya que el se confunde de número de teléfono y se contacta con ella. El se obsesiona con ella cuando le envia una foto.
No fue para mi
Ellos se conocen por error, ya que el se confunde de número de teléfono y se contacta con ella. El se obsesiona con ella cuando le envia una foto.
No fue para mi
I liked this book just as much as book too Ari is divine. I liked Blake too and loved how her story ended ❤️
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞 (I mean if you like super over the top toxic romantic behaviors 😆 This will be lower for a lot of other readers)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑 (kind of a mix, some are shorter)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: A bit
Perspective: first person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? slow to medium
When mains are first on page together: first interactions are through texts at about 11% in (chapter 4) but they don’t actually interact in person until about 26% (chapter 11)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after for the mains
Epilogue: Yes, one takes place a little bit in the future, and a second one has more of a set up for the next book in the series
Format: listened to an audiobook from the library (Hoopla)
Why I chose this book: was in the mood for a stalker hero and found this on a list somewhere
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet hero and heroine
Should I read in order?
This is the first in Jane’s Pucking Wrong series.
Basic plot:
Monroe gets a wrong number text from Lincoln and it leads to so much more when she responds….
Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- hockey player hero
- independent, driven heroine – she’s got 2 jobs and going to school after escaping her foster home
- super obsessed, stalker hero – you’re going to have to be okay with some darker relationship elements – lots of codependent relationship themes, non-consensual acts while the heroine is sleeping, kidnapping
- class difference – he’s rich, she can barely make ends meet
- tattooed hero
- higher steam – at least 11ish full scenes with some bondage elements
Ages:
- heroine is 18, hero is 24
First line:
“Monroe, my pretty little girl.”
My thoughts:
I read this one because I wanted an over the top hero that was obsessed and I got it here! This one had a lot that I ate up – the obsessive hero, lots from his point of view, and the codependent relationship aspects I am ashamedly in love with in romance. But it was also TOO over the top for me in a lot of parts.
He does things just a bit too big for me to be even believable here – buying out a restaurant for the night, okay I can see that….but free tuition for the class for the whole year if she goes to his game and dinner afterwards? It just kept getting more extreme for me to the point that I was taken out of the story and kind of rolling my eyes. (view spoiler)
Still, I loved a lot of parts of this novel. I’d read more from the author I think. Loved the male narration but the female narration was truly one of my worst narration experiences ever. I feel awful saying it because I can only imagine how much work goes into narrating a book – but the female narration was spoken so immaturely with emphasis put on weird words in a sentence that was really hard for me to listen to. If it’s the same narration for the next book I will probably pick it up and read it even though I adored the male narration.
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating from me: 4 stars
Favorite book: This one by default
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- I’m going to point out the age gap – it’s only 6 years but she JUST turned 18 and he is a 24 year old rich hockey player
- rape of, drug use, and death of heroine’s mother when she was a child
- child was in foster care since the age of 10
- the heroine is sexual harassed multiple (multiple! Like endless!) times
- the hero is a stalker – got a PI and finds where she lives
- the hero physically assaults someone that took the heroine on a date
- plenty of codependent relationship themes and nonconsensual/dubious consent acts – the hero jerks off while watching her sleep and marks her mouth with semen, the hero secludes her and ends a lot of her relationships and forces her to live with him, the hero kidnaps her when she threatens to leave him and chains her to his bed….you get the idea
- loss of hero’s brother and grief regarding the event
- abusive and toxic family themes
Author content warnings? Nothing mentioned on audio
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex: I can’t remember but I don’t think so – I can’t recall if the heroine is on any kind of birth control? LMK if you remember!
How’s the consent? It’s not good – the hero manipulates and hides things from the heroine to cultivate the relationship he wants, stalks her, and does things without her consent. He’s a stalking, obsessive boundary pusher. So if consent is important to you I would not read this book.
Pregnancy/children in story? I don’t recall! I feel like the hero was more like some light breeding thoughts, wanting to keep her with him, but I don’t think she gets pregnant in the story?
21% (chapter 8) – 🔥 hero self pleasure in the shower
29% (chapter 12) – kisses, she dry humps his thigh – I think it’s interrupted by reporters??
39% (chapter 16) – 🔥 fingering/oral for her in the locker room,
43% (chapter 18) – 🔥 hero self pleasures while watching her sleep and marks her mouth with semen
Chapter 20 – 🔥 bj
Chapter 24 – 🔥 fingering for her
Chapter 25 – 🔥 missionary
Chapter 27 – mention of sex and another scene described but it’s rather short
Chapter 29 – the start of a sex scene (then my notes cut off so I’m not sure what else happened haha)
Chapter 30 – 🔥 oral for her, sex with bondage for her
Chapter 35 – 🔥 oral for her, (notes cut off so possibly more)
Chapter 36 – 🔥 sex
Chapter 37 – 🔥 her on top
Epilogue – 🔥 oral for her
Total chapters: 38 plus 2 epilogues (the second one is more of a set up for the next book)
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞 (I mean if you like super over the top toxic romantic behaviors 😆 This will be lower for a lot of other readers)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑 (kind of a mix, some are shorter)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: A bit
Perspective: first person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? slow to medium
When mains are first on page together: first interactions are through texts at about 11% in (chapter 4) but they don’t actually interact in person until about 26% (chapter 11)
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after for the mains
Epilogue: Yes, one takes place a little bit in the future, and a second one has more of a set up for the next book in the series
Format: listened to an audiobook from the library (Hoopla)
Why I chose this book: was in the mood for a stalker hero and found this on a list somewhere
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet hero and heroine
Should I read in order?
This is the first in Jane’s Pucking Wrong series.
Basic plot:
Monroe gets a wrong number text from Lincoln and it leads to so much more when she responds….
Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- hockey player hero
- independent, driven heroine – she’s got 2 jobs and going to school after escaping her foster home
- super obsessed, stalker hero – you’re going to have to be okay with some darker relationship elements – lots of codependent relationship themes, non-consensual acts while the heroine is sleeping, kidnapping
- class difference – he’s rich, she can barely make ends meet
- tattooed hero
- higher steam – at least 11ish full scenes with some bondage elements
Ages:
- heroine is 18, hero is 24
First line:
“Monroe, my pretty little girl.”
My thoughts:
I read this one because I wanted an over the top hero that was obsessed and I got it here! This one had a lot that I ate up – the obsessive hero, lots from his point of view, and the codependent relationship aspects I am ashamedly in love with in romance. But it was also TOO over the top for me in a lot of parts.
He does things just a bit too big for me to be even believable here – buying out a restaurant for the night, okay I can see that….but free tuition for the class for the whole year if she goes to his game and dinner afterwards? It just kept getting more extreme for me to the point that I was taken out of the story and kind of rolling my eyes. (view spoiler)
Still, I loved a lot of parts of this novel. I’d read more from the author I think. Loved the male narration but the female narration was truly one of my worst narration experiences ever. I feel awful saying it because I can only imagine how much work goes into narrating a book – but the female narration was spoken so immaturely with emphasis put on weird words in a sentence that was really hard for me to listen to. If it’s the same narration for the next book I will probably pick it up and read it even though I adored the male narration.
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating from me: 4 stars
Favorite book: This one by default
Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.
- I’m going to point out the age gap – it’s only 6 years but she JUST turned 18 and he is a 24 year old rich hockey player
- rape of, drug use, and death of heroine’s mother when she was a child
- child was in foster care since the age of 10
- the heroine is sexual harassed multiple (multiple! Like endless!) times
- the hero is a stalker – got a PI and finds where she lives
- the hero physically assaults someone that took the heroine on a date
- plenty of codependent relationship themes and nonconsensual/dubious consent acts – the hero jerks off while watching her sleep and marks her mouth with semen, the hero secludes her and ends a lot of her relationships and forces her to live with him, the hero kidnaps her when she threatens to leave him and chains her to his bed….you get the idea
- loss of hero’s brother and grief regarding the event
- abusive and toxic family themes
Author content warnings? Nothing mentioned on audio
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Safe sex:
How’s the consent?
Pregnancy/children in story?
21% (chapter 8) – 🔥 hero self pleasure in the shower
29% (chapter 12) – kisses, she dry humps his thigh – I think it’s interrupted by reporters??
39% (chapter 16) – 🔥 fingering/oral for her in the locker room,
43% (chapter 18) – 🔥 hero self pleasures while watching her sleep and marks her mouth with semen
Chapter 20 – 🔥 bj
Chapter 24 – 🔥 fingering for her
Chapter 25 – 🔥 missionary
Chapter 27 – mention of sex and another scene described but it’s rather short
Chapter 29 – the start of a sex scene (then my notes cut off so I’m not sure what else happened haha)
Chapter 30 – 🔥 oral for her, sex with bondage for her
Chapter 35 – 🔥 oral for her, (notes cut off so possibly more)
Chapter 36 – 🔥 sex
Chapter 37 – 🔥 her on top
Epilogue – 🔥 oral for her
Total chapters: 38 plus 2 epilogues (the second one is more of a set up for the next book)
dark
tense
medium-paced