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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
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emotional
funny
inspiring
sad
slow-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
Actual Rating: 3.75*
Other than the weird as hell plot twist that doesn't make any sense at 75% through, this book was sooo cute. I loved the couple so much. The chemistry between both main characters was on point. The ending was so cute too. Totally recommend.
Other than the weird as hell plot twist that doesn't make any sense at 75% through, this book was sooo cute. I loved the couple so much. The chemistry between both main characters was on point. The ending was so cute too. Totally recommend.
This series should be toxic. Because all their relationships are just that.
Vicious loved Millie.
Millie loved Vicious.
Yet Millie dated Dean.
Dean loved Rosie.
Rosie loved Dean.
Literally the entire book was just a big what the fuck. Rosie feels guilty for being with Dean when she knows that Millie never loved him. Rosie acting like an irresponsible child, yet kicking and scream that she can take care of herself. Dean shouldn't of been entirely to blame for her getting sick in the end. If she had told him to hold off on the trip he would of happily because he loved her. Not that he isn't somewhat to blame because that was a dick move, but come on. Dean's secret ate at me the entire time. It was irritating not to know what it was. And the out come of that secret.... Talk about trailer trash messed up. Poor guy.
At least it was a tad better than the last book and less back and forth too. Definitely well thought out. I'm glad it's over. Here's to hoping Trent's book is better.
Vicious loved Millie.
Millie loved Vicious.
Yet Millie dated Dean.
Dean loved Rosie.
Rosie loved Dean.
Literally the entire book was just a big what the fuck. Rosie feels guilty for being with Dean when she knows that Millie never loved him. Rosie acting like an irresponsible child, yet kicking and scream that she can take care of herself. Dean shouldn't of been entirely to blame for her getting sick in the end. If she had told him to hold off on the trip he would of happily because he loved her. Not that he isn't somewhat to blame because that was a dick move, but come on. Dean's secret ate at me the entire time. It was irritating not to know what it was. And the out come of that secret.... Talk about trailer trash messed up. Poor guy.
At least it was a tad better than the last book and less back and forth too. Definitely well thought out. I'm glad it's over. Here's to hoping Trent's book is better.
L.J.Shen – Twisted Love – Sinners of Saint Band 2
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Dean & Rosie
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Klappentext:
Vor elf Jahren brach Dean Rosie das Herz. Doch für eine zweite Chance ist es jetzt vielleicht zu spät ...
Rosie LeBlanc war ein Teenager, als sie Dean Cole zum ersten Mal begegnete. Es war Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Doch Dean brach ihr Herz, als er sich nicht für sie, sondern für eine
andere entschied. Nach elf Jahren stehen sich die beiden nun erneut gegenüber. So viel hat sich verändert zwischen ihnen, so viel ist geschehen. Doch ein Blick in Deans Augen genügt, und die Sehnsucht und das Verlangen sind wieder da, viel stärker noch als damals. Dean ist fest entschlossen, Rosie davon zu überzeugen, dass er seinen Fehler bereut und dass sie zu ihm gehört - für immer. Was er nicht weiß: Rosie ist krank. Sehr krank. Und für eine zweite Chance könnte es schon zu spät
sein ...
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Mein viertes Buch der Autorin und ich liebe nach wie vor den Schreibstil von L.J. Shen einfach sehr. Ihre krankhaften Protagonisten lassen mich oft sprachlos zurück und ihre gefühlvollen Passagen sind Gänsehaut pur.
Die männlichen Charaktere in ihren Büchern wirken oft verstörend auf mich, gleichzeitig aber ziehen mich ihre Geschichten an wie Magneten.
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Ich kannte Dean und Rosie bereits aus der All Saints Reihe und musste die Geschichte der Beiden ebenfalls lesen. Da ich versuche meine Rezensionen spoilerfrei zu schreiben ist es schwer für mich, euch die Geschichte von Dean & Rosie näher zu bringen.
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L.J. Shen ist so wandelbar und man merkt wie die Autorin in die Tiefe gehen kann. Ich habe mich in die Hotholes verliebt und
Dean und Rosie seit der All Saints Reihe in mein Herz geschlossen! Ich freu mich schon sehr auf den nächsten Teil der Sinners of Saint Reihe!
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4 ⭐️/ 5 ⭐️
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Cover und Gesamteindruck:
Ganz große Liebe für dieses Cover, ich finde es passt einfach perfekt. Der schwarze Rauch spiegelt für mich dass das Buch düster ist und ihre Charaktere darin ebenfalls. Ich mag die Schriftart, die gewählt wurde und das Buch passt perfekt in die Reihe!
Wie man es vom Lyx-Verlag gewohnt ist, Qualität von oben bis unten!
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5 ⭐️/ 5 ⭐️
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Dean & Rosie
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Klappentext:
Vor elf Jahren brach Dean Rosie das Herz. Doch für eine zweite Chance ist es jetzt vielleicht zu spät ...
Rosie LeBlanc war ein Teenager, als sie Dean Cole zum ersten Mal begegnete. Es war Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Doch Dean brach ihr Herz, als er sich nicht für sie, sondern für eine
andere entschied. Nach elf Jahren stehen sich die beiden nun erneut gegenüber. So viel hat sich verändert zwischen ihnen, so viel ist geschehen. Doch ein Blick in Deans Augen genügt, und die Sehnsucht und das Verlangen sind wieder da, viel stärker noch als damals. Dean ist fest entschlossen, Rosie davon zu überzeugen, dass er seinen Fehler bereut und dass sie zu ihm gehört - für immer. Was er nicht weiß: Rosie ist krank. Sehr krank. Und für eine zweite Chance könnte es schon zu spät
sein ...
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Mein viertes Buch der Autorin und ich liebe nach wie vor den Schreibstil von L.J. Shen einfach sehr. Ihre krankhaften Protagonisten lassen mich oft sprachlos zurück und ihre gefühlvollen Passagen sind Gänsehaut pur.
Die männlichen Charaktere in ihren Büchern wirken oft verstörend auf mich, gleichzeitig aber ziehen mich ihre Geschichten an wie Magneten.
.
Ich kannte Dean und Rosie bereits aus der All Saints Reihe und musste die Geschichte der Beiden ebenfalls lesen. Da ich versuche meine Rezensionen spoilerfrei zu schreiben ist es schwer für mich, euch die Geschichte von Dean & Rosie näher zu bringen.
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L.J. Shen ist so wandelbar und man merkt wie die Autorin in die Tiefe gehen kann. Ich habe mich in die Hotholes verliebt und
Dean und Rosie seit der All Saints Reihe in mein Herz geschlossen! Ich freu mich schon sehr auf den nächsten Teil der Sinners of Saint Reihe!
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4 ⭐️/ 5 ⭐️
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Cover und Gesamteindruck:
Ganz große Liebe für dieses Cover, ich finde es passt einfach perfekt. Der schwarze Rauch spiegelt für mich dass das Buch düster ist und ihre Charaktere darin ebenfalls. Ich mag die Schriftart, die gewählt wurde und das Buch passt perfekt in die Reihe!
Wie man es vom Lyx-Verlag gewohnt ist, Qualität von oben bis unten!
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5 ⭐️/ 5 ⭐️
Full disclosure...going into this, I was not expecting to love Dean.
I wasn't too excited to get to him after Vicious. He's a self described manwhore and then in this book the first time we see him and Rosie interact in the present, they're in the elevator and he's there with 2 random women going up to his apartment for a threesome.
However, Oh. My. God! I adored!!! Dean. Just loved him.
Dean, pretty much all the time, almost everything he does is for Rosie, these two together was magic, I had all the feels and emotions, that I honestly, wasn't expecting going into this. There were moments that were so funny and then there would be moments that just bruised my heart and then I'd be so annoyed with certain characters and then there'd be an explanation for why they acted this way and I'd like them again.
I love how Dean and Rosie treated each other. Dean didn't treat Rosie like she was sick and couldn't do anything. Yes, he was worried about her, but he treated her like a person, like she could do things and make her own decisions, while everyone else just saw her illness. And Rosie she took every part of Dean, the light and the dark and loved them both.
This is definitely going on my shelf as soon as possible. I'm absolutely getting a paperback copy and getting the ebook copy as well.
I cannot wait for Trent's book. So excited!
Second Read: December 2019
Still a 5 stars, still love Dean, still love Rosie, still sooooo annoyed and angry at her parents.
Listened to this on audio this time around and it was so good. The narrators are the same from the others in the series, I love the male narrator, the female narrator I like but she's a little too breathy for me but she's still really good.
I wasn't too excited to get to him after Vicious. He's a self described manwhore and then in this book the first time we see him and Rosie interact in the present, they're in the elevator and he's there with 2 random women going up to his apartment for a threesome.
However, Oh. My. God! I adored!!! Dean. Just loved him.
Dean, pretty much all the time, almost everything he does is for Rosie, these two together was magic, I had all the feels and emotions, that I honestly, wasn't expecting going into this. There were moments that were so funny and then there would be moments that just bruised my heart and then I'd be so annoyed with certain characters and then there'd be an explanation for why they acted this way and I'd like them again.
I love how Dean and Rosie treated each other. Dean didn't treat Rosie like she was sick and couldn't do anything. Yes, he was worried about her, but he treated her like a person, like she could do things and make her own decisions, while everyone else just saw her illness. And Rosie she took every part of Dean, the light and the dark and loved them both.
This is definitely going on my shelf as soon as possible. I'm absolutely getting a paperback copy and getting the ebook copy as well.
I cannot wait for Trent's book. So excited!
Second Read: December 2019
Still a 5 stars, still love Dean, still love Rosie, still sooooo annoyed and angry at her parents.
Listened to this on audio this time around and it was so good. The narrators are the same from the others in the series, I love the male narrator, the female narrator I like but she's a little too breathy for me but she's still really good.
4.5/5
I cried. A lot. Like tears streaming down my face.
I fell in love with Rosie in Vicious and just fell in love more and more as I kept reading. Her and Dean are truly soulmates, never seeing her as anything less because of her illnesses. This book is raw and emotional and so beautiful. The two of them balence each other out like nothing I've read before. Both of them battle their own deamons but refuse to leave each others side. Near the end of the book I practically lost it when I thought this was not going to be a HEA because no one deserves it more than these two characters. I was hooked from the start and sped right through this book because its that good. This book only stepped it up from Vicious and I will never not cry thinking of these two together.
I cried. A lot. Like tears streaming down my face.
I fell in love with Rosie in Vicious and just fell in love more and more as I kept reading. Her and Dean are truly soulmates, never seeing her as anything less because of her illnesses. This book is raw and emotional and so beautiful. The two of them balence each other out like nothing I've read before. Both of them battle their own deamons but refuse to leave each others side. Near the end of the book I practically lost it when I thought this was not going to be a HEA because no one deserves it more than these two characters. I was hooked from the start and sped right through this book because its that good. This book only stepped it up from Vicious and I will never not cry thinking of these two together.
How did I finish this in half a day? I just couldn't stop. It is so fast, fun, easy and sleazy.
Now listen, I don't condone this behavior. This man is ✨toxic✨. Duh. But I let my logical and critical mind take a breather with this book and I'm so glad I did.
If a man acted this way toward me in real life, I would gauge his eyes out with my thumbs. But in a book? Okay, daddy. Say less.
The representation of cystic fibrosis was so well thought out and descriptive. L.J. Shen did her research. As someone who lives with a chronic illness, I appreciated that she didn't shy away from the ugliness and also how hard Rosie worked to maintain her health.
I enjoyed it, okay? I can't defend myself. It's good.
Now listen, I don't condone this behavior. This man is ✨toxic✨. Duh. But I let my logical and critical mind take a breather with this book and I'm so glad I did.
If a man acted this way toward me in real life, I would gauge his eyes out with my thumbs. But in a book? Okay, daddy. Say less.
The representation of cystic fibrosis was so well thought out and descriptive. L.J. Shen did her research. As someone who lives with a chronic illness, I appreciated that she didn't shy away from the ugliness and also how hard Rosie worked to maintain her health.
I enjoyed it, okay? I can't defend myself. It's good.
Siguiendo con la lectura de la serie "Sinners of Saint" me he sumergido en la novela de Ruckus... con un resultado más bien agridulce. Si quieres ver las reseñas de los libros previos puedes leeras aquí:
0.5. Defy la historia de Jaime.
1. Vicious la historia de Baron.
En este punto le tocaba a Dean contarnos un poco su vida y la verdad es que se me ha hecho un poco larga la novela. Tengo la sensación de que ha ido alargando el misterio de Nina tanto tanto tanto... que al final me daba igual cualquier cosa. Cuando se resolvió eso apareció la segunda pregunta... cuya respuesta me sorprendió muchísimo porque no me lo esperaba, aunque luego todas las piezas encajan en cómo se comporta todo el mundo. Pero es un poco en plan de ¡que se acabe ya por favor!
Lo bueno es que es muy fácil de leer, mucho diálogo, las escenas de sexo están bien, no se enreda en cosas superfluas... pero aún así se me ha hecho largo.
Rosie era un personaje con mucho potencial por el tema de su enfermedad y me ha gustado pero no ha sido especialmente interesante.
Por otra parte el final me ha disgustado un poco porque tenía un punto muy potente con la enfermedad de ella... pero al final entre unas cosas y otras la autora ha decidido que el amor, como siempre, lo puede todo y se han pasado de frenada en el epílogo en mi opinión.
Además mirando el resto de libros me he enterado de que hay "spin-off" de los hijos de esta gente y la verdad es que no sé muy bien qué pensar de todo esto.
Sí que me he quedado con ganas de saber qué pasa con Trent, con la pequeña Luna y cómo va a hacer la autora para convencerme de un romance con tanta diferencia de edad así que, evidentemente, me leeré el siguiente de la saga aunque este no me haya gustado demasiado.
0.5. Defy la historia de Jaime.
1. Vicious la historia de Baron.
En este punto le tocaba a Dean contarnos un poco su vida y la verdad es que se me ha hecho un poco larga la novela. Tengo la sensación de que ha ido alargando el misterio de Nina tanto tanto tanto... que al final me daba igual cualquier cosa. Cuando se resolvió eso apareció la segunda pregunta... cuya respuesta me sorprendió muchísimo porque no me lo esperaba, aunque luego todas las piezas encajan en cómo se comporta todo el mundo. Pero es un poco en plan de ¡que se acabe ya por favor!
Lo bueno es que es muy fácil de leer, mucho diálogo, las escenas de sexo están bien, no se enreda en cosas superfluas... pero aún así se me ha hecho largo.
Rosie era un personaje con mucho potencial por el tema de su enfermedad y me ha gustado pero no ha sido especialmente interesante.
Por otra parte el final me ha disgustado un poco porque tenía un punto muy potente con la enfermedad de ella... pero al final entre unas cosas y otras la autora ha decidido que el amor, como siempre, lo puede todo y se han pasado de frenada en el epílogo en mi opinión.
Además mirando el resto de libros me he enterado de que hay "spin-off" de los hijos de esta gente y la verdad es que no sé muy bien qué pensar de todo esto.
Sí que me he quedado con ganas de saber qué pasa con Trent, con la pequeña Luna y cómo va a hacer la autora para convencerme de un romance con tanta diferencia de edad así que, evidentemente, me leeré el siguiente de la saga aunque este no me haya gustado demasiado.
Ruckus: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
L.J. Shen (Sinners of Saints #2)
L.J. Shen is a phenomenal author. She was the one to get me out of a reading slump after years but now? I'm so obsessed with her books it isn't even funny. A massive thank you to L.J. for that.
Okay so… this book broke me in ways I didn’t think I could be ever broken before. I’ve always been wary of the sister’s ex trope because it’s just odd to me that sisters could do something like that? But this… THIS BOOK. I don’t know how they were ever NOT together. They are the very definition of meant to be.
Rosie is literally one of my all time favorite characters. She’s strong and loyal and so kind despite being dealt one of the most unfair cards. Her parents lowkey pissed me off this entire book. I love that she doesn't let her sickness get the best of her. She's so determined and she loves fiercely–her sister, Dean, everyone around her.
Dean Cole has my entire heart. He is literally my favorite man of the Sinners of Saints AND All Saints High series. He's a different kind of alphahole but one you can't help but love regardless. The way Dean loves Rosie is what every single person in their life should strive to have. Personally, I will not be settling for anything less than what they have.
Their love story is so tragically beautiful. So unbelievably heartbreaking. I love them to death (literally).
Sirus x Earth forever.
L.J. Shen (Sinners of Saints #2)
L.J. Shen is a phenomenal author. She was the one to get me out of a reading slump after years but now? I'm so obsessed with her books it isn't even funny. A massive thank you to L.J. for that.
Okay so… this book broke me in ways I didn’t think I could be ever broken before. I’ve always been wary of the sister’s ex trope because it’s just odd to me that sisters could do something like that? But this… THIS BOOK. I don’t know how they were ever NOT together. They are the very definition of meant to be.
Rosie is literally one of my all time favorite characters. She’s strong and loyal and so kind despite being dealt one of the most unfair cards. Her parents lowkey pissed me off this entire book. I love that she doesn't let her sickness get the best of her. She's so determined and she loves fiercely–her sister, Dean, everyone around her.
Dean Cole has my entire heart. He is literally my favorite man of the Sinners of Saints AND All Saints High series. He's a different kind of alphahole but one you can't help but love regardless. The way Dean loves Rosie is what every single person in their life should strive to have. Personally, I will not be settling for anything less than what they have.
Their love story is so tragically beautiful. So unbelievably heartbreaking. I love them to death (literally).
Sirus x Earth forever.