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Her Soul to Take

Harley Laroux

3.95 AVERAGE

dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Her Soul to Take seriously got under my skin in all the right ways. The writing pulls you in fast, and the tension between the characters were top tier. I’ll be honest that the whole demon concept freaked me out at first but that’s what made it so good. It’s dark, weird, a little unhinged, and I couldn’t stop reading. If you like your romance a little twisted and a lot addictive, this one’s for you.
dark slow-paced
dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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: Complicated
challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
dark mysterious slow-paced
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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: No
adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-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

The level of sarcasm that Leon possesses, is the level I aspire to be at everyday

And the award for the most overhyped book of the year goes tooooo…..

The first half of the book had me in it´s grip, but then it lost me. The plot was interesting and unlike anything I´ve read, but it felt underdeveloped and overshadowed by the romantic sub-plot (which also felt rushed and forced). I found the smutty scenes quite unrealistic (lol), and hard to follow. I had to stop multiple times to try to figure out what was going on.

I did not feel any connection with the main characters at all. Rae felt like a cardboard box, who did not have a personality, besides not caring about her own safety. The number of times I rolled my eyes enough to get a headache because of all the times she headed headfirst into something that could get her killed (only for her to be shocked by the potential danger). When she went to the Hadleigh´s party and WILLINGY took a drink from Jeremiah, AND DRANK IT, I almost DNFd the book. Honestly, in the end I did not care about whether she would make it or not.
Leon could have been an interesting character, but he needed a more developed backstory to get any form of sympathy from me. Honestly, the only character I liked was Cheesecake.

The ending felt too rushed, and it felt like it could have been more developed (or some of the stuff that happened could have been written out), and then, suddenly, it was just…over?