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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
I think I went into this series with way too high expectations even though the hunter was a disappointment.I went in to this one hopeful but I finished the book and I was so disappointed. LJ needs to take a break or something because this series has been a major letdown. I cant believe this is the same author that wrote Sinners of Saint!
Sam was the worst character she has ever written. Dude was a trash copy of Troy. He’s literally the stupidest mobster I have ever read about.
Aisling. I tried so hard to like her and I think I would have liked her more if this book took place while she was 17. THE GIRL IS 27 like mam get it together drop this loser who doesn’t care about you.
The friendship between the girls sucked. Aren’t they supposed to be best friends??? That slumber party scene felt like strangers getting together it was so cringe I felt like they didn’t even know each other well.
Romance? FORCED. No chemistry whatsoever between the two main characters.
Steam? NON EXISTENT.
Plot? WHAT PLOT.
Sam was the worst character she has ever written. Dude was a trash copy of Troy. He’s literally the stupidest mobster I have ever read about.
Aisling. I tried so hard to like her and I think I would have liked her more if this book took place while she was 17. THE GIRL IS 27 like mam get it together drop this loser who doesn’t care about you.
The friendship between the girls sucked. Aren’t they supposed to be best friends??? That slumber party scene felt like strangers getting together it was so cringe I felt like they didn’t even know each other well.
Romance? FORCED. No chemistry whatsoever between the two main characters.
Steam? NON EXISTENT.
Plot? WHAT PLOT.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
I had high expectations for this book (unfortunately) and I was disappointed. I expected a forbidden romance, second chance but I didn't get any of that. The only good thing about this book was the final 20% when Sam finally decided to fight for Aisling. The revenge plot and Aisling's parents was boring! Gerald never cared about the kids but he supposedly cared about Sam when he was kid, serious I should believe that??? But I really liked Aisling, her work helping all those people and the way she tricked Sam and destroyed almost his entire revenge plan was priceless. When I finished The Villain I was really looking forward to The Monster because there were interesting moments of Aisling and Sam in The Villain but here there was nothing of Belle and Devon, no clues about their history and I finished the book without any interest in The Rake.
I have never wanted to give a book 0 zero stars more than this book
I actually didn’t like a single thing about this book. The MCs are annoying and cringy. The plot was nonexistent. The side characters were horrible. I want to have a book burning of just this book
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Aisling ‘the embodiment of desperation’ Fitzpatrick (h)
Aisling met Sam Brennan (H) when she was 17 years old at a carnival. Since the literal moment she saw him she somehow developed feelings for him?? They’ve barely spoken 3 words to each other and she’s like…
She wanted to be romantically involved with her after speaking a few words to him
I actually didn’t like a single thing about this book. The MCs are annoying and cringy. The plot was nonexistent. The side characters were horrible. I want to have a book burning of just this book
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Aisling ‘the embodiment of desperation’ Fitzpatrick (h)
Aisling met Sam Brennan (H) when she was 17 years old at a carnival. Since the literal moment she saw him she somehow developed feelings for him?? They’ve barely spoken 3 words to each other and she’s like…
I wanted to strip for this man, and I’d never wanted to strip for any man, for any reason, especially not romantic reasons—and I didn’t mean just my clothes.
She wanted to be romantically involved with her after speaking a few words to him
3 1/2 stars, imo the villain was better but that’s probably bc i preferred the tropes in it. this was still a somewhat decent book, considering it was written by lj shen
only reason i’m giving this two stars is because the ending was cute but this shit was horrible LIKEE everything just got so repetitive and boring with the same ‘sam hates aisling but he’ll use her for sex now aisling is upset” AND WHY THE HELL WAS HE KISSING HER AT 17 WHEN HE WAS LIKE 24. AND sam’s whole ‘women are whores i don’t like them’ persona was so weird. like it just changed randomly he didn’t even have any character development. the whole monster thing is annoying as fuck too, there is no need to be moaning “monster monster monster” in bed all because he calls himself one.
also persy being the biggest hypocrite like aisling isn’t her twin. like trying lecture her about falling in love with sam when cillian and sam are the same. AND sailor contributed absolutely nothing to this book she was always in someone else’s business.
AND the title of this book did not need to be mentioned so many times throughout the book.
ANYWAYS there was nothing good about this book except for hunter, cillian and sometimes sam!! ‼️
also persy being the biggest hypocrite like aisling isn’t her twin. like trying lecture her about falling in love with sam when cillian and sam are the same. AND sailor contributed absolutely nothing to this book she was always in someone else’s business.
AND the title of this book did not need to be mentioned so many times throughout the book.
ANYWAYS there was nothing good about this book except for hunter, cillian and sometimes sam!! ‼️
I have lots of thoughts for this one. I enjoyed a good portion of the book but towards the end I stopped. There were definitely good moments but I wish this was done differently. Potential spoilers.
Aisling’s parents took up too much of the plot. I get why we got so much of them, but I felt like it took time away from Sam and Aisling. There were moments especially towards the end where we were being told what was happening rather than seeing it and I wish we saw more of their journey.
I enjoyed when Aisling stood up for herself. I had a feeling she wouldn’t be as meek as we’ve seen but I wish she stood up for herself more with Sam. She let her walk all over her quite a bit and I would have loved to see more banter with them and her standing her ground.
The friendships. I really didn’t like how Aisling’s friends were treating her. They were condescending and treated her like a child when it came to her “relationship” with Sam. The series is named after their friend group so I would like to see more support of each other, I mean the same happened in The Villain.
Maybe because we didn’t get more page time with Sam coming to realize his feelings for Aisling, but it went from 0 to 100 real quick. One second he is so against marriage and children and then next he wants it all with Aisling ASAP. I would have loved to see more progression with his realization.
I don’t know, I enjoyed the middle for a while but felt like things were missing. Like Sam is a mob boss or whatever and we rarely saw that. I just feel like if it didn’t focus so much on the Fitzpatrick family we could have gotten more.
Aisling’s parents took up too much of the plot. I get why we got so much of them, but I felt like it took time away from Sam and Aisling. There were moments especially towards the end where we were being told what was happening rather than seeing it and I wish we saw more of their journey.
I enjoyed when Aisling stood up for herself. I had a feeling she wouldn’t be as meek as we’ve seen but I wish she stood up for herself more with Sam. She let her walk all over her quite a bit and I would have loved to see more banter with them and her standing her ground.
The friendships. I really didn’t like how Aisling’s friends were treating her. They were condescending and treated her like a child when it came to her “relationship” with Sam. The series is named after their friend group so I would like to see more support of each other, I mean the same happened in The Villain.
Maybe because we didn’t get more page time with Sam coming to realize his feelings for Aisling, but it went from 0 to 100 real quick. One second he is so against marriage and children and then next he wants it all with Aisling ASAP. I would have loved to see more progression with his realization.
I don’t know, I enjoyed the middle for a while but felt like things were missing. Like Sam is a mob boss or whatever and we rarely saw that. I just feel like if it didn’t focus so much on the Fitzpatrick family we could have gotten more.
this PAINS me to do. this is the first lj shen that i am dnfing and and i am dnfing it @35% horrible. I MEAN HORRIBLE. I feel shitty doing this because i was sent an arc but seriously this was trash. The beginning you had me i was so intrigued by sam’s story but after the little flashback i was constantly leaving my kindle app because i couldn’t read it. please save your eyeballs and skip this one. how did the same person write soooo many of my favorites and then pulls out this. Im starting to question my taste with the other books by her that i love and cherish. i HATE inconsistency with writers, i want authors i love and support so thoroughly to bring it each and every time because I ride so hard and promote the shit out if their books. anyways do yourself a favor and skip the monster by lj shen.
I'm pretty disappointed since I usually love her books, but this one I just couldn't. I'm sorry but she's pathetic since page 1, I haven't read any female characters with less of a backbone than her it was pretty embarrasing
I’m counting this even though I only got 76% in because I endured 76% of this book. It was not good.