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campbellsgrl1512's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Spice: 🌶🌶🌶🌶 (Gun Scene?)
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I am in love with this series and Emily McIntire's books.
I read Wretched first because it was the only book in the series I had at the time.
When I was finished, I went and bought the rest in the series.
I LOVED Wretched. It slapped me in the face with its goodness, and what did I just read-ness!
I love the woman villain perspective, and she is just such a bad babe!
I've never read anything like it, although I am just getting back on the reading bandwagon this year.
This book & series is certainly helping keep me on the wagon.
I like that the romance wasted no time, and got right into it.
Since reading Wretched, I've finished Hooked, Scarred, Twisted, and on Crossed Now.
Wretched still has my heart as favorite! Can't wait for Hexed! Can it be here already!?
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I am in love with this series and Emily McIntire's books.
I read Wretched first because it was the only book in the series I had at the time.
When I was finished, I went and bought the rest in the series.
I LOVED Wretched. It slapped me in the face with its goodness, and what did I just read-ness!
I love the woman villain perspective, and she is just such a bad babe!
I've never read anything like it, although I am just getting back on the reading bandwagon this year.
This book & series is certainly helping keep me on the wagon.
I like that the romance wasted no time, and got right into it.
Since reading Wretched, I've finished Hooked, Scarred, Twisted, and on Crossed Now.
Wretched still has my heart as favorite! Can't wait for Hexed! Can it be here already!?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Death, Murder, Sexual content, and Torture
kenzie_simone456's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Torture
kylasmv15's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, and Misogyny
Minor: Drug abuse and Drug use
witcheep's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
Everyone is making dumb and impulsive decicions while reveling in dark deeds. I don't get how any of these people are able to keep up their cover identities.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, and Violence
Moderate: Drug abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Sexism, Misogyny, and Torture
Minor: Stalking and Death of parent
caitlin_plotsandpints's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I’m here for a good time not a long time.
This book was delightfully unhinged. A solid 3.5⭐️ that gets the goodreads round up. To start, this is VERY dark, so read your CW if needed. This was my third read for the Never After Series, better than Hooked but not as good as Scarred in my opinion. I liked that we get a dark FMC who corrupts our MMC, instead of the usual dark MMC.
Evie is chaos incarnate, with a rose gold gun and attitude to match, she does some very questionable sh*t. Our good boy MMC Nick just wants justice and the drugs/mobsters off the streets. But sometimes wickedness is oh too sweet and Nick finds himself in quite a tight spot (both metaphorically and otherwise 😶🌫️). What ensues is a delicious and spicy story that gives us a mafia/mob storyline with a lot of sexual tension and romance.
Like all of the Never After Series I’ve read so far these are shorter and perfect for satisfying that dark romance itch in a delicious way. Is it the most amazing story/writing of all time? No. Will I gladly devour any book Emily wants to write? Yes.
This book was delightfully unhinged. A solid 3.5⭐️ that gets the goodreads round up. To start, this is VERY dark, so read your CW if needed. This was my third read for the Never After Series, better than Hooked but not as good as Scarred in my opinion. I liked that we get a dark FMC who corrupts our MMC, instead of the usual dark MMC.
Evie is chaos incarnate, with a rose gold gun and attitude to match, she does some very questionable sh*t. Our good boy MMC Nick just wants justice and the drugs/mobsters off the streets. But sometimes wickedness is oh too sweet and Nick finds himself in quite a tight spot (both metaphorically and otherwise 😶🌫️). What ensues is a delicious and spicy story that gives us a mafia/mob storyline with a lot of sexual tension and romance.
Like all of the Never After Series I’ve read so far these are shorter and perfect for satisfying that dark romance itch in a delicious way. Is it the most amazing story/writing of all time? No. Will I gladly devour any book Emily wants to write? Yes.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Torture, Murder, Gun violence, Drug use, and Drug abuse
maryrosem's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Torture, and Sexual content
skb163's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Violence, and Sexual content
Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Drug abuse
Minor: Torture and Physical abuse
brittanylee0302's review against another edition
dark
emotional
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? No
4.75
So far in this series this is my favorite! The spice, the storyline, the characters, everything was nailed in this book! I was invested all the way through & im sad its over. I loved the cop & criminal & felt like these characters actually had stories that made them who they were. I thought the 'words' thing was a little weird & it had me confused at some parts but other than that I really enjoyed this!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Blood, Death of parent, and Torture
Minor: Cancer and Abandonment
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!
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!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Body horror, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Violence, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, Torture, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, and Addiction
Minor: Alcohol
TW some pro-cop language, since the MMC is a federal agentrreyesreads'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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cursing, Sexual content, Torture, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Blood, Murder, and Drug use