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Wretched by Emily McIntire

36 reviews

readyforit's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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

4.25

4.25⭐️4.5🌶️
I really liked this book! Probably my favorite so far in the series and I read it in one sitting! It’s mostly enemies to lovers, has plenty of touch her/him and die moments, knives/guns to the throat. This is a wizard of oz retelling, kind of, where the author uses some names and ideas from the movie. However it’s more of a dark mafia romance where the FMC, Evelina (although they say Eveline in the audiobook), is the brains of the operation. I LOVED her character! This author really shines with her villain characters in this series, and Evelina makes me support women’s rights and wrongs. Evelina is the morally gray villain, and the youngest sister who often gets left behind. She suspects her older sister Dorothy of murdering their oldest sister nessa many years ago. Her father lets her run the business but treats her like shit bc she’s a woman. She wouldn’t call him this but her only friend is really Ezekiel (zeke in the audiobook), since he seems to be the only one who cares about her. Evie and nick have a one night stand at a bar, riiight before he’s assigned to go undercover to try to get evidence of the westerly’s drug supplier (he’s a DEA agent). Nick is your classic, I never received love so I don’t believe in it playboy (representative of the tin man). Evie’s father decided to bring in a new guy to help push jewelry? And guess what? It’s nick. Evie is a deeply mistrusting and guarded person (for good reason), but as she and nick (he’s undercover with a different name though) go on missions, she opens up to him and they realize they’re more alike than they thought. He gets in over his head and they continue to hookup, even though his in with the family was supposed to be seducing dorothy. Nick has to decide if truth and justice are worth selling out the woman he loves. The spice in this book was good, very true to the characters as well. Both evie and nick’s character development was crazy compared to the first two books in the series. The ending is pretty perfect and HEA. The extended epilogue available on the author’s website was great too. I maybe could’ve done with less poetry lmao.

I also listened along to the audiobook and both the narrators were perfect for their characters! Once again there were a few changes between the KU ebook and the audiobook, but not as severe as scarred. There were a few names changed and one passage of Dorothy and nick out at dinner that was omitted from the audiobook for some reason. Overall I really liked this book and will probably reread in the future!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol

TW some pro-cop language, since the MMC is a federal agent

rreyesreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

gwheezey's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bem13's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

gracehannahh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.25

There is no redeeming qualities when it comes to Evie in my mind, that woman is off her rocker. I did like Nick, though, which made it more complicated. Also the spice hit well. 

Dark Romance, Enemies to Lovers, 3 3/4 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

anna_333's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

barbarianmissy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.5

3.5 stars! ⭐️ 

Very very very spicy, quick, and easy read! 🌶️ 

A cool alternate universe twist on the wizard of oz! Thanks Jessica for the recommendation! I loved slowly trying to figure out who each character represented in the original story! 

The only issue I had with the book was that I didn’t necessarily like or agree with how it ended. But other than that it’s a very wild ride! 

Side note: Even though the entire story is completely based in Illinois, I 100% read this entire mobster book in my head as Buddy the Cake Boss would. Hoboken style BABY! 🍰 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

oceancervantes's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

I have read previous books by this author and really loved them, I really enjoyed Hooked due to the ability to take an already made, widely known and loved story and make it your own which is what lead me to read this. However, this book had no real connection to The Wizard of Oz apart from some of the characters names, it's a kind of Mafia x FBI Agent love story whereas i was kind of expecting at least a little fantasy. The book was OK which is the reason for 3 stars but not something I would really recommend. I felt the characters were a bit bland, there was no build up in relationship so even as a love story it was fairly disappointing. The ending was a little flat so if you are to read this then I would definitely recommend reading the epilogue you can find online or in the physical book (I read it on the kindle).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

_courtreads's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Wretched - Emily McIntire

“Are you quoting Shakespeare to my pu$$y”

Wretched is a dark “retelling” of the wizard of oz. Eveline, our FMC, is a morally grey, trigger-happy bada$$, compared to the cinnamon roll MMC Nicholas. Whilst they’re polar opposite, she should be everything he hates, they could be each others downfall, you cannot tell me they were not meant to be. The reason I say “retelling” is because everything you know about The Wizard of Oz? Forget it. 

If you love;

✨Morally grey FMC

✨Fairytale Inspired

✨Age Gap

✨Kn!fe to Throat

✨Villain gets the man

I wanted an “easy” read/listen whilst I was doing something, and by easy I mean didn’t need my full 4 brain cells working at once. And this was that. Don’t take “easy read” as cute and fluffy, whilst this was cute in the darkest way, it was dark, possibly triggering for some, but for my blackened soul this was perfect. I don’t know how something so dark had my wanting to kick my feet. There were times my partner questioned why I was smiling to myself. 

The 🔫 scene, makes others look sane.

I loved this book, devoured it in one sitting, it had me feelings so many things. I think Evie is up there in my top 3 FMCs. If there’s something Emily knows how to do, it’s write a villain you can’t help but love. 

Genre; Dark Romance X Fairytale “Retelling”

Pages; 306

Rating; 4.5/5⭐️

Spice; 4/5🌶️

Series or Standalone; Interconnected Standalone (3rd in the series)

Tropes or Themes; morally grey FMC, cinnamon roll MMC, Age Gap, Villain gets the man, kn!fe to throat, praise, undercover cop x crime boss, enemies to lovers

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail