Reviews with content warning for Toxic relationship - Addicted to You

Am I addicted to this series? Yes. But is it good? Meh. So far, the characters do not really have any depth. Yes, the main characters both have serious problems with their addictions and some with their families, but that’s about it. They both go to college/university and both kind of fail, so they do not really have any life outside of their relationship, since they do not attend classes. On the other hand, the series is more about their developing relationship and overcoming their addictions, I think.

Although their relationship started off weak and how deep they were connected was not really showing, I start to see how they are connected now. Mainly because of how often Lilly stresses, how good their “system works” and that they accept each other’s addictions. I do love the bantering, teasing and tension between Lilly and Loren.

Their addictions are portrayed pretty realistic, although sometimes I tend to get aggressions, when Lilly whines about her being bad due to her addiction. But I guess, that’s actually the case when you are addictive. So good there.

As already mentioned, they do not really have a school life or any life that does not concern themselves or their relationship. They both are rich, so they do not have to work and have everything they need which makes the plot pretty boring. But while I sometimes get annoyed by the fact, that they have all given to them, I think that it thematized often enough, how rich they are and what possibilities it opens for them. For instance, how they got into Penn University: through money and last names. Also, I do wish I was that privileged.

The main characters are not the picture-perfect people, with zero worries and a tremendous amount of money. But the only way to make them not picture-perfect is to give them an addiction, that’s their problem. Not, not being to pay the bill or having serious family drama, but an expensive alcohol addiction and sex addiction.

I feel like the authors wanted to write about people with no worries and who have everything, but then remembered, that a book like that would be boring and just added an addiction. Honestly, I would love to read a book once where there is literally everything fine and perfect, with no drama or worries.

The “plot twist” of the half-brother? Yeah, I could smell that shit pages away, before it was revealed to the characters and reader.

Since the book is only the start of a series, I think the characters will develop depth and I do hope, there will not be that much “devil’s-tango” in the next books.

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tense medium-paced

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

3.0

yikes this was definitly written in 2014

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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

4.0

4 stars because it was a bit slow in the beginning but when it picked up it got good. Also NO THIRD ACT CONFLICT!!! Lo and Lily are definitely not perfect but you can tell they love each other a lot. I can’t wait to see them grow as people!!

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challenging emotional tense fast-paced

3.0

“I’ll always be yours. No distance or time apart will change that, Lily. You need to believe that.” ❤️

Lily Calloway and Loren Hale have been best friends forever. They are from affluent families, huge comic book fans, and are both addicts. Lily is addicted to séx to the point where she waits in club bathrooms to meet random strangers. Lo is addicted to alcohol 🥃 to the point where he blacks out. They have always covered for each other’s addictions, but as their addictions become more destructive, the lies get harder and harder to keep up with….

This book straight up didn’t wow me, but I think when you start this series you have to treat this book as essentially world building. The spice is minimal. The pain of their addictions is very much apparent. Lily and Lo absolutely love each other, but they are enablers for each other’s addictions.

I LOVED the side characters — Connor & Ryke — they honestly were more like able. Lily’s family is very nosy and gave me Kardashian vibes since they are wealthy and up in each other’s lives.

I can’t wait to read more into this series though because I am intrigued with where this whole thing is going to go. I want to see where all of these characters are going to end up.

Read this if you like ⤵️

👫 Childhood Besties To Lovers
👩‍❤️‍👨 Fake Dating
👥 Forced Proximity
🎓 College Romance
💸 Trust Fund Kids
❓Who Did This To You?
📚 Series

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶🌶/5

Addicted To You by Krista & Becca Ritchie
Addicted Book 1

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challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

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ludetorrance's review against another edition

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tense fast-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

1.0

Connor Cobalt carried this whole book on his back, and that's a hill I will die on.

Lilly is a sex addict. Lo is a raging alcoholic. Both are rich and spoiled and decided during their last year of high school that they were going to fake date in order to help each other hide their addictions. But in their haze, friendship turned into more and maybe, just maybe, they can mean more to each other than their own addictions.

0.5- World building and background characters

0 - Plot

0- Main character

0- Love interest

0.5- Tension

0/3🌶

I didn't like this book. It was so tense fo absolutely no reason. Literally the first bad book of the year. The only good thing in that book was a) Connor Cobalt, b) Rose Calloway, and c) The tensions between Lo and Lilly. There wasn't even a plot. And I could like Lo, except that I'm too close to alcoholism to like alcoholics and the fact that his "wake up call" was Lilly literally almost getting raped while he was wasted, which everyone conveniently seems to forget. And don't even get me started on Lilly. She was such a horrible main character and really, it's so good that they didn't give her any friends because someone actually liking her would have been the least realistic part of the book.

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