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Twisted Love

Ana Huang

3.48 AVERAGE


Brother’s best friend
Grumpy x sunshine
Hates everyone but her
Billionaire CEO

Alex Volkov is an arrogant devil, a cold and calculated man with one motivation in life: revenge. His parents and sister were murdered when he was a child and from that point he didn’t have much of a childhood.
Alex is also a bloody genius. Like a hot genius who put his brain at work to make millions and who doesn’t lack social skills. So, the full package. - swoon-

Ava Chen is a wholesome person and a free spirit. She sees the best in everyone. Despite having so much trauma she could take a day off sometimes and no one would blame her. Her brain blocked off some of her childhood memories because of the intense trauma she suffered. Her mother passed away, her father was always closer with her brother.

When Ava’s brother goes to South America for his medical training, he asks his best friend, Alex, to keep an eye on Ava. They are the definition of opposites attract. Not necessarily a -enemies to lovers- in the strictest sense, but the angst is there.
dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

I struggled to finish this book, which was recommended to me by a coworker. 

It reads like a poorly written, self-insert 50 Shades of Grey fanfic that is missing a beta read.

Alex, the love interest, is a possessive, controlling, abusive creep and a terrible one-dimensional character whose only consistent trait is owning a credit card. Meanwhile, the protagonist, Ava, is constantly being demeaned and lacks any true strength or self-awareness.

It’s extremely cliché, predictable, overdramatic, no actually climax is provided, lazily written (cutting corners instead of building an actual plot), and the smut scenes were forgettable.

This book fit it's title well. The number of twists we had in this book was good. I felt like Alex and Ava were a great pair. The way they started and how each was able to bring out aspects of the other was wonderful to read about.

plot was predictable but not that much
BUT CANT WAIT FOR NEXT BOOK OMGGG BRIDGET AND RHYS HEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHHAAHHEAHHWHAAHEHA
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
lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced
adventurous emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The pacing was all over the place and the writing style also kept me from really getting into it. Some lines were just too cringey, and obvious things were always spelled out.

Oof this was kinda bad

2.5 ⭐️

this book could have been 100 pages shorter and it would have been 3.5 stars.

it was good and i was enjoying it untill he started STALKING HER. i was actually in pain reading the last bits of this book good god. the rest though? great.