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codicheyenne's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
I genuinely enjoyed reading this book and I'm so excited to have received an ARC for the re-publication of it! I appreciated the pacing of the book and how the characters remained true to themselves even while growing. Millie was so easy to love and feel for. Her heart is so genuine and I really felt for her and how unable to be anything other than her kind, selfless self she was - even to her own detriment. Vicious was a "villain" I love to say suffered from the "he's just a boy" syndrome. (Other examples include Draco Malfoy, Jacks, Damon Torrance.) What I mean by that is he's a total jerk, hands down, but under that huge, standoffish persona, he's also a hurt little boy inside who needed an ounce of affection. I loved that while he was indeed a total jerk he was still lovable. I did find myself wishing he would just let himself cry every once in awhile though lol, I think it would help. I loved that there was no clear indication of the switch between enemies and lovers. It ebbed and flowed through time, distance and circumstance. I thoroughly enjoyed the dual timeline aspect as well. I'm excited to see what book 2 brings for Dean & Rosie.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Bullying, Sexual content, Violence, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Cursing, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Ableism, Body shaming, and Drug use
Minor: Alcohol, Abortion, Addiction, Pregnancy, Car accident, and Gaslighting
sienasummerrreads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-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? No
4.0
“It was always us and you know it.”
It’s 10 years in the future, and Emilia is living paycheck to paycheck trying to support her sister while working two jobs in New York. On a night shift waitressing she comes across a man that haunted her past. His family had control over hers and she was run out of the town…
When I tell you the MMC Vicious is a massive alpha hole and at the start, you question everything when reading. Wondering how it will turn around for you to fall for the MMC. This man is the biggest red flag walking but when you dig through the layers and brick walls the FMC Emilia starts uncovering a dark past and his true feelings. I am a sucker for a broken man and the grovelling at the end was delicious. She is his addiction but so is he to her. It’s a very toxic relationship and environment due to their past and present. I did enjoy this, but I did struggle with Vicious and his ways at times. I love how strong Emilia is in the present to put up with his behaviour over and over again and started to put her foot down against him.
The plot was great, excited to read about the other friends in the coming book. I’m so ready for Rosie and Dean. The audiobook is great and would recommend it.
If you love:
🔹Hate To Love
🔹Billionaire
🔹Past And Present
🔹Dark Past
🔹Secret Pining
🔹Perfect Amount Of Spice
Genre/Type: Romance 18+
APK: Kindle / Audiobook
Pages: 372
Audiobook Length: 10hrs 4mins
Narrators: Savannah Peachwood and Christian Rummel - Dual
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Spice: 🌶️🌶.5
Series or Stand Alone: Book One in The Sinners Of Saint Series
Tropes or Themes: Hate To Love, Workplace, Billionaire, Forced Proximity, Secret Pining, Slow Burn, Bullying, Good Girl Bad Boy Vibes, MMC Alphahole, Possessive, FMC Personal Assistant, FMC Artist, Past and Present, Blackmail, Letters, Scars, Grovelling, Mine, Cursing, Playlist, Sexual Content, Praise, Dirty Talk, Tattoo Parlour Scene and Office Scene
Mentions: Past Child Abuse
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It’s 10 years in the future, and Emilia is living paycheck to paycheck trying to support her sister while working two jobs in New York. On a night shift waitressing she comes across a man that haunted her past. His family had control over hers and she was run out of the town…
When I tell you the MMC Vicious is a massive alpha hole and at the start, you question everything when reading. Wondering how it will turn around for you to fall for the MMC. This man is the biggest red flag walking but when you dig through the layers and brick walls the FMC Emilia starts uncovering a dark past and his true feelings. I am a sucker for a broken man and the grovelling at the end was delicious. She is his addiction but so is he to her. It’s a very toxic relationship and environment due to their past and present. I did enjoy this, but I did struggle with Vicious and his ways at times. I love how strong Emilia is in the present to put up with his behaviour over and over again and started to put her foot down against him.
The plot was great, excited to read about the other friends in the coming book. I’m so ready for Rosie and Dean. The audiobook is great and would recommend it.
If you love:
🔹Hate To Love
🔹Billionaire
🔹Past And Present
🔹Dark Past
🔹Secret Pining
🔹Perfect Amount Of Spice
Genre/Type: Romance 18+
APK: Kindle / Audiobook
Pages: 372
Audiobook Length: 10hrs 4mins
Narrators: Savannah Peachwood and Christian Rummel - Dual
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Spice: 🌶️🌶.5
Series or Stand Alone: Book One in The Sinners Of Saint Series
Tropes or Themes: Hate To Love, Workplace, Billionaire, Forced Proximity, Secret Pining, Slow Burn, Bullying, Good Girl Bad Boy Vibes, MMC Alphahole, Possessive, FMC Personal Assistant, FMC Artist, Past and Present, Blackmail, Letters, Scars, Grovelling, Mine, Cursing, Playlist, Sexual Content, Praise, Dirty Talk, Tattoo Parlour Scene and Office Scene
Mentions: Past Child Abuse
Check Triggers ⚠️ 💫
Kind Regards
All Round Romance Reader
Sienasummerrreads 💕📚
TikTok | Instagram | Goodreads | StoryGraph | Everand | Amazon | Audible Reviews 💫
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Body horror, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Physical abuse, and Child abuse
a_melville's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
sad
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? No
5.0
Vicious is a dark romance novel and it's the perfect mix of smut, romance, and plot. I absolutely adore Vicious. This book is about childhood enemies Vicious and Emilia, who turned into adults who hate each other.
Emilia is the FMC who grew up as the "Help" because her parents worked for Vicious's family. She grows up and goes to New York with her sister and works a few jobs to support herself and her sick sister. After not seeing Vicious for years, she runs into him and he gives her an offer she would be stupid to refuse. She is stubborn, smart, and isn't afraid to speak her mind. Especially when it comes to Vicious.
Vicious is the MMC and he is dark, twisted, and full of childhood trauma. He is a childhood bully who grows up to become a lawyer. He hates the "Help" from the first time they met, and he is not afraid to let her know that. However he still can't seem to let her get away from him, and he might just need her help.
The banter is simply to die for. The plot is interesting and tells a great story, and the world-building is good. It is easy to get invested early in the story. This book is medium-paced. I would say the spice is a three out of five. Love, love, love this book!
Emilia is the FMC who grew up as the "Help" because her parents worked for Vicious's family. She grows up and goes to New York with her sister and works a few jobs to support herself and her sick sister. After not seeing Vicious for years, she runs into him and he gives her an offer she would be stupid to refuse. She is stubborn, smart, and isn't afraid to speak her mind. Especially when it comes to Vicious.
Vicious is the MMC and he is dark, twisted, and full of childhood trauma. He is a childhood bully who grows up to become a lawyer. He hates the "Help" from the first time they met, and he is not afraid to let her know that. However he still can't seem to let her get away from him, and he might just need her help.
The banter is simply to die for. The plot is interesting and tells a great story, and the world-building is good. It is easy to get invested early in the story. This book is medium-paced. I would say the spice is a three out of five. Love, love, love this book!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Murder, Child abuse, Violence, and Sexual content
lillypad5455's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Very clever book, very crude at times, but great story development. The details follow through, it's very well planned out book, didn't feel predictable at all. Very very erotic, almost too much at times.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Sexual content
Moderate: Child abuse, Violence, Terminal illness, Classism, Bullying, and Death of parent
Minor: Car accident
emilyyreyy's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-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
4.0
It was spicy, yet had a lot of emotions attached to it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse
comamorcat's review against another edition
lighthearted
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Physical abuse and Child abuse
anncatherine's review against another edition
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Child abuse
spaghettii's review against another edition
dark
emotional
lighthearted
sad
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
Moderate: Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Car accident, Pregnancy, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship
samisreadinq's review against another edition
dark
sad
fast-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
I really enjoyed this one!! I seen this on booktok and thought it sounded really good!! I loved Emilia and Vicious. Although I will admit, vicious is a little problematic at the start. But it definitely gets explained why later in the book. I really enjoyed his charter arc and redemption. He deserves that after everything vicious went through.
My only real issue with this book. Besides the problematic elements of vicious as a character early in the book. I read this book for the smut. While the smut was written well. I kinda had higher expectations for it. I still enjoyed it though but the smut did leave me a little disappointed. But I think that’s more my fault than the book itself.
Overall I did really enjoy this one and I wanna read the rest of the series.
My only real issue with this book. Besides the problematic elements of vicious as a character early in the book. I read this book for the smut. While the smut was written well. I kinda had higher expectations for it. I still enjoyed it though but the smut did leave me a little disappointed. But I think that’s more my fault than the book itself.
Overall I did really enjoy this one and I wanna read the rest of the series.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, and Physical abuse
golden_like_dior's review against another edition
dark
emotional
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? It's complicated
3.75
Actually a good dark romance with some little things that personally annoyed me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Moderate: Blood, Car accident, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Stalking and Pregnancy