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Lethal

Cassandra Robbins

3.54 AVERAGE

livia_lentner's review

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense

Strong character development: Yes

perusing_pages's review against another edition

2.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jmreadssmut's review against another edition

1.0

dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Giving it a 1 star for effort of publishing a book. even when it is this horrendous

The first 15% of this book were promising even though the writing is absolutely horrendous & basic. I actually enjoyed how "trashy" it was, until it started to feel like I needed to bleach my eyes.

The MMC is not a brutal president of a 1% motorcycle club, he is just a piece of shit hypocrite who insults junkies yet does coke and is literally always drinking, says "I don't condone violence against women" (black on white), yet insults all the women around him, treats them like cattle & "holes" (again, written black on white) and threatens the FMC with selling her to a human trafficking ring if she complains that he does not come home after a party... Yikes ! After 35% of the book where he treats her like absolute shite, being abusive, manipulative and grooming (he is in his 30 and she is 18), I thought "we are going to get some grovelling, there is going to be some character development and a turning point". NOPE. He is just a gas-lighter, absolutely awful man. And the way he kept calling her a "badass" when she is absolutely spineless and a total pushover + he snuffs out any complains she might have with violence and threats of rape was ICKy to say the least. Disgusting and barf-worthy to say how much I despise him.

The FMC is not even better. The internalised misogyny of the author shows. A LOT. That's actually the only personality trait of Eve, the FMC: she hates other women, insults them, sneers at them, degrades them... It's just bad all around.

She also "tricks" the MMC with pregnancy, and honestly I already hate pregnancy trope but when it is done in a manipulative way. I could excuse it if it was done well, or because of her age but the way it was written and brought up was just wrong and showed how awful of a person she is. They fucking deserve each other.

The way she kept saying "I felt so safe in his arms" after he literally threatens to put a bullet in her head if she "lets another man touch her" or threatens to sell her to be gang-raped was just disgusting and unbelievable.

There is nothing in this book that would make it good, there is no love, it's abuse and grooming only.
And the word "gypsy" is used so many times, it is so problematic !
AVOID

julesmarrie's review against another edition

1.0

dnf hated this book

reading_with_2_book_lovers's review

3.0

This was my first read by this author and it took me a little bit to get into but an ok story in the end.

trisarahjtops's review against another edition

Got to 31% and realized I didn't particularly care about the characters. One or both of them probably could have died and it would have made the story more interesting.

Not a huge fan of the

virgin trope and the mentions of the MFC being unable to get pregnant just made me think she was going to have a miracle surprise pregnancy (also not a fan of this trope).

The MMC comes across as very vulgar in a non-sexy way and the FMC seems a little flaky when she

can't seem to decide whether she should plan to run away or stay and just enjoy this newfound "freedom" as an apparent prisoner.

I went in looking for a trashy romance (in a good way, of course) but I just couldn't get into this one. It had promise but the execution wasn't there for me.

Content Warnings

kiiiaarraa_'s review

4.0

Honestly Blade has a gun to my head telling me to give this book 5 stars but we settled for 4.

I have so many issues about this book but I couldn't help but love it. If this book could be named something else it would be TOXIC because that's what it was. He was toxic and she was toxic. Just very toxic. BUT I loved it. Don't judge me!

Literally this man was all like 'if I ever catch you fucking someone else, I'll kill you' and I was swooning. And the smut MY LORD. so good. So. Good.