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Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking
Anyway, overall I just needed more depth.
Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment
Reread and this book is still everything I want....no need.... in a dark romance.
š Unhinged MMC
š Virgin MMC who only wants her
š Taboo (step sibling)
š Stalking
š Somnophilia
š CNC
š DUBCON
š Spider play
I went through the concent warning like a shopping list making my favorite dinner....and man did I eat it up.
Malichai Vize is my favorite new metro psychopath who somehow belongs in prison and in thr dark secret pit of my mind.
Lord, help me. I am only human. I am weak and Malichai Vize is everything I crave in a dark romance MMC.
Graphic: Mental illness
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting
Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Stalking
Graphic: Death, Incest, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse
Minor: Murder
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, Stalking
Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent
I get it.. there are TRIGGERS. And if the TRIGGERS trigger your rating, then your opinion is not valid. But.. this doesnāt have anything to do with said triggers. (Although the brother-sister kink did end up getting to me by the end.)
I HATE OLIVIA. She is fully aware of her ābrothersā diagnosis and yet walks a very dangerous line with him? Heās not innocent but she brought so much of this on due to her actions towards him. Olivia had this WILD double standard, constantly laying blame on him and took zero responsibility. I thought in part two she would redeem herself, only to suck even more.
Oliviaās relationship with her dad and the way he treats Malachi makes ZERO sense. Malachi being beaten by their dad after he is the one who wanted to adopt.. but he isnāt not abusive to anyone else in the house? And maybe I missed it, but were they being fostered OR fully adopted. Why didnāt they just send him back? Because all of this doesnāt add up, I canāt understand the fathers actions. His character and the mom was very flawed. Alsoā¦ how in the WORLD would they been approved after this to foster another kid?! I know āitās just a storyā but.. make it make sense?
Malachi: I didnāt love his inexperience, I donāt think it fit in with the actions within the book (if you get where Iām coming from.) I found their ālessonsā to be slightly repulsive and just feel like I wouldāve been okay with it if it werenāt based on that. I think we couldāve had a very twisted MMC and still had the experience and made him the one that was more in control.. the tropes felt contradicting and it didnāt flow well.
PART ONE of this book almost caused DNF, the only thing that kept me on is before I hit pause on Audible, Joe Arden said PART TWO with Malachiās POV. Thereās no plot in part one, thereās random inserts between spice scenes, but it just didnāt have that flow. It felt like reading an outline that wasnāt turned into a story if that makes sense. IF YOU WANT CRAZY, THE ENDING OF PART ONE EARNED AN ABSOLUTE WTF JAW DROP.
PART TWO started off with some redemption. Joe Arden did and INCREDIBLE job in the audiobook portraying a psycho (except this eventually because too far-fetched for me) CHAPTER 12 was really the only part of this book I can say I loved, the torture scenes continued and although it was good, it started to blur and by the time she realized it was Malachi, they lost me again.
There is no cliff hanger, but I do know what the second book is about and unfortunately I donāt care to pick it up. A cliff hanger might have made me want to. Even when she runs back to him after ending her forced relationshipā¦ ALSO SEEMS UNNECESSARY BTW, the forced relationship tropes.. I donāt know, I wanted to see him burst through and really show her love but it was another weird moment that didnāt fulfill anything.
Okay long story short. It has okay quality, not much of a plot, and too many tropes that didnāt blend. It wasnāt enough to cause a DNF but it and enough for me to continue the series.
Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment
Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Sexism