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briast4r's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Gore, Murder, Kidnapping, Stalking, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, and Infidelity
Minor: Grief
foldingthepage_kayleigh's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, and Sexual content
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Stalking, and Kidnapping
Minor: Infidelity
hellowildflower's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Child death, Alcohol, Kidnapping, and Child abuse
Minor: Violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Suicide, and Infidelity
e11e_reads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Kidnapping, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Gaslighting, Blood, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Child abuse, and Murder
Minor: Stalking
viselik's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The book majorly sped up on the last 50%, the first 50% was still good though!
This book does have its issues which I'll try to sum up:
- Alex is kinda stalkerish and gives off creepy vibes. Even more so in the last 50%
- The singing scene was... uncomfortable to read.
- This book is leaning quite heavily on the fact you would read the next one, this can't be read as a stand-alone.
- At times to me it felt like I was reading a Twilight fanfiction.
Graphic: Gaslighting, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Drug use, and Drug abuse
cdoubet's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Bullying, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Stalking, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child abuse, Cursing, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, and Vomit
Minor: Infidelity
smb8701's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
it’s a good she falls first, he falls harder. which is my fave trope. he is obsessed with her fairly quick. also love. read this for your classic cold hearted MMC who becomes obsessed with the FMC who is fairly happy and but has a dark childhood. i couldn’t put it down and read it in like 2-3 days! <3
Graphic: Gaslighting, Violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Stalking, Gun violence, Cursing, Suicide, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Murder
effy's review against another edition
3.5
What I didn't enjoy about this book was the third act when the characters were in London. This portion was just the wrong length; it either needed to be shorter and just be an extended epilogue or it needed to be more fleshed-out and show us
Despite the weak ending, I mostly enjoyed this book and am looking forward to continuing the series.
Favourite quote:
She felt like heaven to my hell, the closest I'd ever get to salvation, and yet I still wanted to drag her into the depths of Hades with me.
Graphic: Child abuse, Murder, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Infidelity
nyx_999's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Seeing as this is my first ana huang book I can't say anything about the rest of the series but I'm not of to a great start lol
I hated how much I wanted her, and I hated that she wasn’t smart enough to run away from me while she still had a chance.
Though let’s be honest, it was already too late.
She was mine. She just didn’t know it yet.
This is not a bad book but the hype on booktok made me expect more than it is. The talk about the spice made me expect something bdsm (d/s) or at least filthy smut but it was more spicy vanilla. The book talks about some heavy themes but I would put it on the low spectrum of dark from my personal reading experience.
So cold and uncaring to the world, yet so warm and protective when he wanted to be. I’d known him for eight years, yet I hadn’t known him at all.
He wasn’t the man I thought he was. He was so much better, even when he tried to convince me he was worse, and I wanted him like nothing before. Not only physically, but mentally and emotionally. I wanted every shadow of his soul and every piece of his beautiful, multilayered heart. I wanted to pour into him every drop of light I had to give until he consumed me whole. Until I was his, and he was mine.
Now to the characters
Did you find the characters loveable?
Well even though Alex the love interest does some really fucked up stuff. The writing made it. . . Extremely forgivable, relatable almost but I didn't experience the same for ava in the writing. Which made it hard for me to sympathize, forgive or forget the stuff she did.
Talking abt what Alex did would spoil wayyy to much but I want to elaborate what I thought abt ava, reading the book.
So the book basically starts with Alex being a completly emotionles ass. He was described a robot at some point. So Ava and her friends decide to do an experiment.
They called it the "OE" (Operation emotion) basically testing him for various emotions for their own enjoyment. Which I believe is extremely toxic. People do and don't do stuff for reasons. We shouldn't test them for our own enjoyment. This Operation is the start of how the two get closer but no where in the book is it written that she confesses what she did. As if it wasn't wrong of her to do that. Meanwhile for every single thing Alex does wrong he needs to apologize and grovel. Ik a lot of authors do that but I really dislike it if not everyone in a relationship is equally held accountable for their wrong doings.
Their also other things which made me not immediately like her but this was the main thing seeing as this started everything.
All this is not to say that what she did is at the same lvl of what Alex did but like I said the book never mentioned her confessing what she did and therefore being held accountable in apologizing for what she did. Not that I think Alex would have been mad she can't do anything wrong in his eyes.
“I’d do anything for you. No matter how twisted or impossible.”
This book involves ⬇️
Grumpy x Sunshine ✔️
Neighbors ✔️
Possessive mmc ✔️
I wanted to keep her here, safe and cherished, forever. Fuck the rest of the world. It could burn for all I cared.
Enjoy 👀✨️
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Murder, Suicide, Alcohol, Death, and Violence
Minor: Grief, Mental illness, and Infidelity
__romancereader__'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Grief, Infidelity, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Kidnapping, Stalking, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Murder, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, and Sexual content
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Violence
This book has some sexual content and murder in it Warning it could be 18+😁 and all the content warnings are not all about the main characters