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now_booking's review
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
This is good if you like dark romance because it’s dark-dark with dub-con, physical and sexual abuse, and all manner of mental health issues. Set in a sort of organised crime world, Posy is born into a disgraced family and tries to use sex to find the love and acceptance she was deprived of by her family. Psychopath, Dario, is enamored by Post and not sure why he fees the need to own her and keep her close, but he does. Sparks fly as these two broken people learn about love and acceptance while there’s a power struggle in their crime world.
For me, this was good. But I kind of felt that some of the dark, traumatic content was kind of maybe a little gratuitous in terms of violence. That said, I still thought this was really compelling and really well-constructed romance about someone with well-documented daddy issues and a psychopath falling in love and kind of underscoring the idea that everyone is deserving of love, not despite their issues, but even with their issues.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Grief, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Violence, Infidelity, Gore, Bullying, Sexism, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Child abuse
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