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Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Suicide attempt, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail
“I’ll make sure you always choose me as much as I choose you.”
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I know that RK’s MMCs are always a bit out there (to say the least) but I was just not a fan of Killian’s character. I feel bad for Glyndon for everything that she had to deal with because of him & because she has to put up with him for the rest of their lives. :(
I also wasn’t a fan of the way that Asher was portrayed in this book. I understand that past characters cannot all be perfect parents, but I also don’t think that they should be the main obstacle either?
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Torture
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Car accident, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood
Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Murder
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
(Some spoiler-ish elements below)
From almost the first page, I hated this book. Its list of trigger warnings is as long as my arm and I’ll cover most of them here. Glyndon (FMC) and Killian (MMC) attend competing colleges on a small island off the coast of England. He’s an American sociopath with a virgin kink; she’s a British art student with an inferiority complex. It’s a match made in the depths of hell.
The opening scene (meet not-at-all-cute?) is S.A at the scene of an acquaintance’s suicide. (I won’t refer to this scene as non-con or a cutesy name - it was assault through coercion). They return to school where he stalks her when he’s not indulging in raucous parties, secret societies, and underground fighting. He obsesses over her being a virgin. When they get down to it, it’s rough and dirty. I don’t have a problem with that but I do take issue with a lack of conversation around limits, safe words, and other practices to ensure a safe & healthy environment.
Naturally, they fall madly in love; she meets his parents and vice versa. They become engaged - he planned it all during some back door fun time - and they obviously lived happily ever after!
Things I liked: the annotations of the book club
Things I disliked: everything else
I bumped this up to 3 stars from my original 2 star review because someone who likes deep dark romance with young characters may enjoy it. The author is good at writing spice, and I could have enjoyed parts of the book if only the MMC wasn't such a tool.
Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
The main character Glyndon is a college student that is an artist who struggles with mental illness. She is closed-off and guarded with her feelings and doesn’t share the burden she feels, she is compassionate and supportive with her love ones as well as being self-sufficient and creative with her work. The love interest Killian is a obsessed, manipulative, smart and cold person. He represses the need to kill and hurt people with his own gain, to maintain control of his mind. He likes to torment people just for fun as well being cold, ruthless and remorseless.
This has an amazing friend group despite the other friends being literally psychopaths. Friends who has great humor and witty-ass comebacks as well as the great dynamic of how they all fit in the friendship. They also have a fun and safe atmosphere regardless of the intensity and cruel conditions they’ve been. The other characters that were introduced with possible romance storylines made me intrigue of their stories and characters more.
To conclude, I was very hooked and addicted to this whole book despite me being surprised of how intense it is, in the beginning. Lastly, it definitely has a great buildup of the intention of the characters and how well thought of on how everything took place.
Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail