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5 Sad It’s Over CROWNS
Hauntingly Beautiful. Completely Unexpected. Vaughn crept up on me, and broke me down. He owns my heart, and I never want it back.
Vaughn Spencer is more than I ever expected. I obviously expected some Vicious elements, he is his father’s son after all, based on his behavior in the previous books, but I didn’t expect the softer parts, the broken parts. Based on the title, readers know there is something that has affected Vaughn in a monumental way, and the way LJ Shen handled it and the fallout with Vaughn’s character was exceptionally well done. She handles it with care and respect, and I love how he loves Lenora, the way he shows her in the end, the heart he tears out of his chest and hands to her. He is one of the most vulnerable characters Leigh has created.
Lenora. Oh, boy. She is perfect for Vaughn, matched in every way. She pushes back, she is smart, and she is artistically driven. They communicated on another level in this book, fully opening up to each other as the novel evolved, and she was truly a heroine who loves her hero for who he is, what he has endured, and where he is now. She takes nothing lying done, and I was thrilled to see her holding his hand in the end.
Of course, Angry God wouldn’t be complete without Vicious and Emilia, and did Shen ever deliver for their characters. The way the love the son can be felt through the pages. I felt what they felt, I empathized with them, because LJ puts you there. She writes their scenes in a way that you have no choice but to feel it, every hard, angry, destructive moment. Even through all that, you could still find the love of the original SOS couple.
Like every single book in this series, Shen tackles major issues, topics, themes, and she did it with integrity and respect to the content. There are triggers in this book, for sure, but I am believer that literature (and romance is) should be a reflection of issues that we experience and plague the world, and sadly the issues in Angry God are rampant still today. Addressing these issues makes us more empathetic, more aware, more humane. Vaughn and Lenora’s story absolutely does that. The pain they suffer, the antagonism of a young romance as they stumble through their feelings, and the final HEA shows reader so many things - that light can bloom in the darkest of places, that love can shatter darkness and heal wounds, and that real family, blood or not, will love all your broken pieces and hold you together when you fall apart.
L.J. Shen started this journey with Vicious and it ends with his son, Vaughn, the 8th and final book (as of now) in the Todos Santos world. This series has brought us full circle. These characters and this world has taught me so much. I’ve grown, laughed, loved with this fictional people, and that is the power of a phenomenal romance.
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5 Sad It’s Over CROWNS
Hauntingly Beautiful. Completely Unexpected. Vaughn crept up on me, and broke me down. He owns my heart, and I never want it back.
Vaughn Spencer is more than I ever expected. I obviously expected some Vicious elements, he is his father’s son after all, based on his behavior in the previous books, but I didn’t expect the softer parts, the broken parts. Based on the title, readers know there is something that has affected Vaughn in a monumental way, and the way LJ Shen handled it and the fallout with Vaughn’s character was exceptionally well done. She handles it with care and respect, and I love how he loves Lenora, the way he shows her in the end, the heart he tears out of his chest and hands to her. He is one of the most vulnerable characters Leigh has created.
Lenora. Oh, boy. She is perfect for Vaughn, matched in every way. She pushes back, she is smart, and she is artistically driven. They communicated on another level in this book, fully opening up to each other as the novel evolved, and she was truly a heroine who loves her hero for who he is, what he has endured, and where he is now. She takes nothing lying done, and I was thrilled to see her holding his hand in the end.
Of course, Angry God wouldn’t be complete without Vicious and Emilia, and did Shen ever deliver for their characters. The way the love the son can be felt through the pages. I felt what they felt, I empathized with them, because LJ puts you there. She writes their scenes in a way that you have no choice but to feel it, every hard, angry, destructive moment. Even through all that, you could still find the love of the original SOS couple.
Like every single book in this series, Shen tackles major issues, topics, themes, and she did it with integrity and respect to the content. There are triggers in this book, for sure, but I am believer that literature (and romance is) should be a reflection of issues that we experience and plague the world, and sadly the issues in Angry God are rampant still today. Addressing these issues makes us more empathetic, more aware, more humane. Vaughn and Lenora’s story absolutely does that. The pain they suffer, the antagonism of a young romance as they stumble through their feelings, and the final HEA shows reader so many things - that light can bloom in the darkest of places, that love can shatter darkness and heal wounds, and that real family, blood or not, will love all your broken pieces and hold you together when you fall apart.
L.J. Shen started this journey with Vicious and it ends with his son, Vaughn, the 8th and final book (as of now) in the Todos Santos world. This series has brought us full circle. These characters and this world has taught me so much. I’ve grown, laughed, loved with this fictional people, and that is the power of a phenomenal romance.
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i think i actually loved this, because I can't stop thinking about it or Vaughn.
European art school. Enemies to lovers. Damaged hero. Blood play.
European art school. Enemies to lovers. Damaged hero. Blood play.
Angry God was a beautiful masterpiece, the audiobook was very good narrated and the story is one that you will keep forever. LJ Shen did an amazing story for these two, I loved the way she managed to tell the story with all the twists and things that happened in the story. A remarkable read.
I love you, Vicious, I ain't never gonna stop loving you, Vicious.
I am, once again, so dissapointed with L.J.Shen.
The story was all over the place, the relationship between Lenny and Vaugh? ridiculous, the whole "I bully you because I love you" so fucking stupid, please stop using that as an excuse to make you character a dick, Arabella's character was so annoying and she had no purpose in the story whatsoever, Poppy can choke!, public blow jobs and blood kink???????????? I don't even know what to say abt that, just no.
If anything, I learned a very valuable lesson here: I'm done with high school romances and teenagers talking and acting like 40 y.o, it's not hot, it doesn't make sense and it's dumb.
Also didn't love how child molesting and pedophiles were handled here, it didn't feel right. The fact that there's a WHOLE DETAILED RAPPING SCENE AND NO TRIGGER WARNING CAUSE SHE'S, and I quote, "GENUINELY CONCERNED IT WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BOOKS"?????? please say sike, this is not ok in any way and I really hope she starts using trigger warning when they're due, as everyone should.
Taking a break from Leigh's book for a while cause I'm just not loving her latest work unfortunately.
I am, once again, so dissapointed with L.J.Shen.
The story was all over the place, the relationship between Lenny and Vaugh? ridiculous, the whole "I bully you because I love you" so fucking stupid, please stop using that as an excuse to make you character a dick, Arabella's character was so annoying and she had no purpose in the story whatsoever, Poppy can choke!, public blow jobs and blood kink???????????? I don't even know what to say abt that, just no.
If anything, I learned a very valuable lesson here: I'm done with high school romances and teenagers talking and acting like 40 y.o, it's not hot, it doesn't make sense and it's dumb.
Also didn't love how child molesting and pedophiles were handled here, it didn't feel right. The fact that there's a WHOLE DETAILED RAPPING SCENE AND NO TRIGGER WARNING CAUSE SHE'S, and I quote, "GENUINELY CONCERNED IT WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BOOKS"?????? please say sike, this is not ok in any way and I really hope she starts using trigger warning when they're due, as everyone should.
Taking a break from Leigh's book for a while cause I'm just not loving her latest work unfortunately.
I'm not much on giving long reviews but I feel like writing one for once so...
This book was unexpected. I started it not knowing it had any relations to the vicious book. And I am surprised because I really enjoyed reading it. It sort of fulfilled all the things I thought were missing from the vicious book. It was surely not without it's flaws but I got past it.
Vaughn sure was his fathers son. The plot literally was the same but these two just fixed their shit younger.
Vaughn and Lenny were your typical train wreck damaged bad boy good girl pair with much darker emotions (couldn't get past the bloodsucking
This book was unexpected. I started it not knowing it had any relations to the vicious book. And I am surprised because I really enjoyed reading it. It sort of fulfilled all the things I thought were missing from the vicious book. It was surely not without it's flaws but I got past it.
Vaughn sure was his fathers son. The plot literally was the same but these two just fixed their shit younger.
Vaughn and Lenny were your typical train wreck damaged bad boy good girl pair with much darker emotions (couldn't get past the bloodsucking
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
fast-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
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was a good book, but the back and forth with the two main characters was a lot. Their relationship seemed toxic, which I know was the point, but the happy ending just didn't seem as fulfilling.
yes. absolutely yes. this is why i love lj shen. so emotional, yet funny, yet uplifting. i love seeing the hotholes and their girls be positive parents :,)
If I could give this book more than 5* I would, it would be like 100*.
From the very beginning I knew that Vaughn was deep, dark and that something had happened to him. As the story unfolded I could glimpse little snippets of what had happened, but when the truth came out I was absolutely furious on his behalf. The chemistry between Vaughn and Lenora was sizzling and I loved that she pushed back when he bullied her,showing that she was a match for him.
As the story went on and Vaughn began to show more emotion than he had ever done before I knew that he would get his HEA.
This book had me going through every emotion and had me unable to stop reading until the end.
From the very beginning I knew that Vaughn was deep, dark and that something had happened to him. As the story unfolded I could glimpse little snippets of what had happened, but when the truth came out I was absolutely furious on his behalf. The chemistry between Vaughn and Lenora was sizzling and I loved that she pushed back when he bullied her,showing that she was a match for him.
As the story went on and Vaughn began to show more emotion than he had ever done before I knew that he would get his HEA.
This book had me going through every emotion and had me unable to stop reading until the end.