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Inevitable by Shain Rose

5 reviews

lauraschuhmann's review

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slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Finished the whole book and while I loved it at first it was just so slow and the actually love part was lacking. The end the fmc FRUSTRATED ME. It just didn’t feel like a real ending to me because there was just too much back and forth. I also spotted some spelling and plot mistakes. Like that there were two body bags at some point and then the one girl lived with her but then didn’t and a few other things that didn’t make sense. I’m not going to actually rate it because I don’t like dragging down the start but it was probably like a 2 or 3 stars because there were certainly some aspects that I loved but her childish behavior and their righting really got on my nerves. this book and story had so much potential :(

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culzean's review

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75


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whatjasread's review

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

2.5

• bloody well hate miscommunication man, why couldn’t he just tell her the damn truth about the prison visits
• characters are so immature, they overthink everything and refuse to communicate
• jax was so damn toxic, so pushy and refuses to listen to what brey wants I am not here for it
• I’ll allow it for the spicy scenes
• but lord what happened with Jay that character development came out of nowhere
• could definitely have been 100 pages shorter, super repetitive and so much unnecessary conflict
• i enjoyed the vibes but the relationship felt a little too toxic and restrictive for me rather than 'protective' possessive

TWs: Domestic abuse, panic attacks, alcoholism, bullying, foster care (mentioned), homicide, fire, suicide, claustrophobia, mention of rape, vomiting, cheating

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zeebookdragon's review against another edition

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challenging emotional tense medium-paced

1.5

A lot of this was problematic to me. The characters constantly behaved in a way that contradicted themselves. There are significant plot holes. Everyone felt one-dimensional. Then there was the actual relationship between Aubrey and Jax. Not at all healthy or appealing. Aubrey is constantly trying to set solid boundaries and Jax could not care less. The 1.5 star rating was for the beginning of the book which started off with such promise.

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emilyvreads's review

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medium-paced

1.5

So, this terribly abused girl escapes her abusive home in a highly traumatic way, then gets with a guy who is as equally as manipulative, possessive, and provoking as her father, but he's hot so it's fine? Through most of the scenes with them together I was either rolling my eyes or making a vaguely disgusted face

The big secret that is the reason for the ongoing tension with them also wasn't that big of a deal? 

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