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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Incest, Blood, Death of parent
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-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
dark
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
Is it bad I wanted her to end up with Jake...
I would’ve dnf’d but decided to be an informed hater
Found myself defending this book to anyone I told about it, definitely a huge spicy rating from me but it was written so well I could get past all of the slight ickyness lol, was sort of easy to foreshadow the ending unfortunately
I'm sure for some people it's the pseudoincest that makes them rate this poorly. But trust me, it's the story. The story is just ... bland. An attempt was surely made for this to be *taboo* and *exciting*, but none of them are actually related (so whatever??), the decision of which guy she ends up with is so arbitrary and silly, and the "spice" is (with one exception) mostly just missionary-position rape. Not worth that hype.
I’m still trying to parse my feelings about this book. I think I have come to the conclusion that “age gap” is just not a trope I’m down for. I’ve seen this book raved about in so many of my FB book groups that I figured I’d finally break down and read it. I think 22-25 year old me would have enjoyed this book more than 36 year old me did. I suppose with age comes perspective. The whole “waiting till she was of age” by a grown ass 40+ year old man was just very much grooming and icky. While I understand the escapism of dark romance like Haunting Adeline, this was different. This felt like the glorification of domestic abuse. Kaleb abused her, and gaslit her and emotionally/mentally tortured her and she just ate it up.
Her uncle and her cousin… she’s a minor. Or barely not one. Hell no! DNFFFF sure as crap not reading the rest of this when I started to sense the fishiness