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Broken Bonds by J. Bree

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ashwood_15's review

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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fleetwitchmac's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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jumbledjess's review

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dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.25

Hear me out - I know I’m rating this a 3.25 and sometimes people can think that means bad bad, but that’s not the case for this one. I enjoyed this book and will absolutely continue this series because the tension and plot have me intrigued. While I’m excited to continue on in this world, there are some things that pulled it down for me. I would say the first half of the book is definitely trying to find its footing and repeats A LOT of the same things (words, interactions, internal monologue threads). For a book about relationships that involve having multiple partners this read YA (I know the characters are 19, so I did give them some passes) which was probably due to the amount of petty comments, cursing (and I curse a lot and even this felt like too much), and just sheer childishness by all of the characters. All that being said, I was able to look past it because the main plot of this story has so much potential and I NEED to know what happens. 
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phlipsie's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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nezimmer's review

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adventurous emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

It was like reading a shitty reality TV show. I hated these idiots so much but watching them struggle was so amusing. 
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s_holdthebus's review

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dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The bullying was way more abusive than I thought it was going to be, once I learned it was a bully romance. I didn’t mind most of it, but the constant “freaking” and “bitches” felt really juvenile. And the SA scene felt really gratuitous. We already knew the guy was an asshole, we didn’t need to go that far. It was a bit triggering for me. The end finally picks up when you learn about her gifts and they are cool, I just wish the whole book wasn’t “I ran away from my bonds (at 14) and now they hate me but I can’t share why”. 
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dani1012's review

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dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.75

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sbordo's review

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dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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pceldridge's review

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emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.25

This had an engaging premise, but it’s poorly written and the characters are one-dimensional. The first 70% of the book was very repetitive, and Oleander behaves like an immature child with poor self restraint and a potty mouth instead of a hardened refugee bent on saving the world. None of the main characters communicate well (IF at all), and whilst I normally don’t mind the miscommunication trope, this time it’s just lazy writing. If literally one of them had said “hey here’s how I’m feeling” or “why don’t we talk this out” the whole book would have been improved. 

I also thought the world building and plot were both lacking. We would randomly be told about the bond feeling or the revolution without any backstory or build up, which made the story choppy and the relationships didn’t build or progress naturally. It isn’t until 90% in that they really start describing gifts, which should have been built in at the beginning. You can keep some gifts secret whilst still giving some general structure to the magic system. There was no information about the men in the book either, just our FMC’s assumptions. It was a lot more of being told than shown how things are. This book is way more YA than I had expected or hoped. 
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e_rosemary's review

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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