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Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Physical abuse, Torture, Car accident
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Blood
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Injury/Injury detail
(Some spoiler-ish elements below)
From almost the first page, I hated this book. Its list of trigger warnings is as long as my arm and I’ll cover most of them here. Glyndon (FMC) and Killian (MMC) attend competing colleges on a small island off the coast of England. He’s an American sociopath with a virgin kink; she’s a British art student with an inferiority complex. It’s a match made in the depths of hell.
The opening scene (meet not-at-all-cute?) is S.A at the scene of an acquaintance’s suicide. (I won’t refer to this scene as non-con or a cutesy name - it was assault through coercion). They return to school where he stalks her when he’s not indulging in raucous parties, secret societies, and underground fighting. He obsesses over her being a virgin. When they get down to it, it’s rough and dirty. I don’t have a problem with that but I do take issue with a lack of conversation around limits, safe words, and other practices to ensure a safe & healthy environment.
Naturally, they fall madly in love; she meets his parents and vice versa. They become engaged - he planned it all during some back door fun time - and they obviously lived happily ever after!
Things I liked: the annotations of the book club
Things I disliked: everything else
I bumped this up to 3 stars from my original 2 star review because someone who likes deep dark romance with young characters may enjoy it. The author is good at writing spice, and I could have enjoyed parts of the book if only the MMC wasn't such a tool.
Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Sexual harassment
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail