Reviews with content warning for Adult/minor relationship - Rhapsodic

Oof ok, yall. I found this through BookTok, but it wasn't really my cup of tea. Now I absolutely adore fantasy-romance with spice, I've read some strange sh*t ok. But I found it really hard to get through this one. I enjoyed the characters, especially Callie's Siren, but the whole adult man falling for a teenage assault victim really creepy. I got absolutely nothing against age gaps (hell, you could make that gap 1000 yrs idc), but it has got to be between 2 consenting adults for me. Idk yall, I have to draw my line of comfortability even in fantasy fiction when it's fantastical creatures with fairy wings or d*cks for eyes. If you want to read a fictional romance with an underage character and a much older person/creature/whatever, by all means go ahead and read to your heart's content. I rather enjoyed the banter and spice in this novel between the MC's as adults and the lore/otherworld, so if your not turned away from the underage thing, go ahead, but I'm going to peace out after this one.

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delaneybull's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

0.25

Bad vibes.

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bookkatbaddie's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny slow-paced

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

5.0

My first 5 star book of the year and I’m SO excited to get the next one! This story has SO much potential to go so many places and I just love love love Callie and Des.

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gabburrit0's review against another edition

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dark mysterious 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

2.0

the cast was fun n interesting. i think that this idea is very reminiscent of the year that it was published which was peak angst Tumblr because this book transported me the hell back to 2016 with the mention of the "keep calm" poster. I think that the inclusion of Caly being SIXTEEN while Des is like at least 2000 years old is also v reminiscent of what time this was written in. I can appreciate that Des was like "we can't do anything sexual" when Caly was 16 but if we're setting boundaries like that, why are we dating this girl n bringing her all over the world on mini dates??? it's all or nothing, dude, you can't pick n choose.
it also got really dark at the end of the book which I didn't super love because it felt like I was reading a completely different book in the last quarter. I went ahead n looked at the next books in the series n I just know I'll never be in the right headspace to read the rest of it cause the SA/implied r*pe was tooooo much

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