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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book contains basically almost every trigger you could ever imagine. Incredibly dark. Read with EXTREME caution.
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Cannibalism, Sexual harassment
This book was a rough ride. Here's the required warning: do not read this book if you have any triggers at all. Multiple people, rape, child rape, snuff, drugs, etc. They're all in there, and they're all horrifying detailed. It doesn't matter what kind of triggers you have, if you have them, Ms. Honeycutt will push them.
The bad, because there are a few things:
The pacing can get a little slow and repetitive at times. Not to the point that I wanted to quit, but just to the point that I got a little annoyed. How many times can you read that the FMC gets raped and tortured before going, "Alright, that's enough. We get it." I guess that's the point though.
The actual writing isn't as crisp and clean as you could hope for. Maybe having a better editor would have helped.
The ending. This is the only one that really matters to me. Normally, if a book has a less than stellar ending, I can't give it a 5 star, but this book was just so fucking incredible, I couldn't give it less. The ending satisfies everything, but after a 6 book series of misery and loss and torture, I wanted one of those endings that leaves you at a loss for words. This wasn't that. It hit the buttons, and all the loose ends were tied up, but it's exactly what you'd expect.
The good: Brilliant idea and world building. Brilliant characters. They shined. You loved them, you hated them. I was so fucking invested. I read things that disgusted me and made me sick, but I kept reading because I had to know it was all okay. I had to know that when the dust settled, that fucking piece of shit was going to get everything he deserved, every bit of torture needed to come back to him. And fucking Anna was going to end up with the man she deserved.
The Life of Anna is the most brutal romance you will ever read. There isn't another book on the market that will make you care as much as this. There isn't another book that will make you want to save the pretty things before the world tries to shatter them this much. It will stay with you, and it will be the book that you tell people they could read but understand when they don't because a part of you, just that little bit, wishes that maybe you hadn't so that you wouldn't still wake up thinking about them a year later.
The bad, because there are a few things:
The pacing can get a little slow and repetitive at times. Not to the point that I wanted to quit, but just to the point that I got a little annoyed. How many times can you read that the FMC gets raped and tortured before going, "Alright, that's enough. We get it." I guess that's the point though.
The actual writing isn't as crisp and clean as you could hope for. Maybe having a better editor would have helped.
The ending. This is the only one that really matters to me. Normally, if a book has a less than stellar ending, I can't give it a 5 star, but this book was just so fucking incredible, I couldn't give it less. The ending satisfies everything, but after a 6 book series of misery and loss and torture, I wanted one of those endings that leaves you at a loss for words. This wasn't that. It hit the buttons, and all the loose ends were tied up, but it's exactly what you'd expect.
The good: Brilliant idea and world building. Brilliant characters. They shined. You loved them, you hated them. I was so fucking invested. I read things that disgusted me and made me sick, but I kept reading because I had to know it was all okay. I had to know that when the dust settled, that fucking piece of shit was going to get everything he deserved, every bit of torture needed to come back to him. And fucking Anna was going to end up with the man she deserved.
The Life of Anna is the most brutal romance you will ever read. There isn't another book on the market that will make you care as much as this. There isn't another book that will make you want to save the pretty things before the world tries to shatter them this much. It will stay with you, and it will be the book that you tell people they could read but understand when they don't because a part of you, just that little bit, wishes that maybe you hadn't so that you wouldn't still wake up thinking about them a year later.