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Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

434 reviews

lettuce_dance's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

Personally I loved it, l just got back into reading and I have been looking for a similar book/series since. Have finished the series and unsure if I’ll find another book that grasped my attention as much as this did.

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celeezamae's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional tense medium-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

Wheeewwwww.. that is all.

Lmao jk, but I went straight into this one after Haunting Adeline bc of how addicting HA was but lemme tell you.. this one was on a whole other level.. 😭 Hunting made Haunting seem like nothing.. it was dark dark. 😩

I was physically sick reading like the first half of the book and had to put it down and step away for a second. 🚶🏻‍♀️
But ofc I was back tew it bc H.D.’s writing is crack lol. Giving it a slightly lower rating (4.5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨) bc some lines were getting corny & there were some things that were repetitive.

Anyways, be warned if you pick this up. Everything you don’t want to happen, happens. Read the TW (I did not.. oops) It’s so scary, bc it’s so real and that’s what makes this story devastating. But everything you go through and experience while reading this will be worth it 😭🙏🏽😩

HD is becoming one of my fav authors. She answers all the questions she knows readers are thinking of beautifully. 🖤

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roxellacherry's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

The sequel was even worse than the first book. Even more gratuitous and unnecessary graphic sexual violence.

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mailenlovesreading's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This was interesting before

Addie was saved

but things after that resulted in me losing interest and increased my dislike for Zade.

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alidigiacomo's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

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ciararenee26's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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elfyns_vps's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

- - - - ♡ Hunting Adeline
Rating Overall: ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

So after being a HUGE fan of Haunting Adeline, I was severely disappointed with 'Hunting Adeline.' I went into this book knowing

that Adeline was kidnapped and put into human trafficking and thus that meant there would be some time spent on her time in the house.

But what I did not know was that this part of the plot was going to be the MAJORITY of the book. While the writing itself was fantastic and I did truly enjoy reading about Adeline's

trauma being sex trafficked,

it was just not what I was reading this book for. It's tagged as a 'Romance Novel, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, and Erotic literature.' which I don't agree with. While the first book was definitely that, this book was far from it. We don't get to see the two reunited until more than half-way through the book and even then--their dynamic was not at all the same. It lost so much of its spiciness and I found myself bored throughout the entire book. I only gave it two stars because I enjoyed the writing and the exploration of Adeline's trauma and how it didn't dance around what was going on too much. I do wish that it wasn't written like,

yeah these last few months I've been raped a lot.

I honestly would have preferred to read at least one or two scenes so I can *really* feel for Adeline like I was there with her--I know H.D. Carlton would have been able to really put me in that room with her. But ultimately it was given so little stars because it felt like I was lied to in terms of what the contents of the book was going to entail.

TLDR; Less of an erotic book, more of developing then overcoming trauma. Less relationship focused than the first book.

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