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Eternally Damned by January Rayne

shannonreese's review against another edition

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2.0

This book started out great and promising! It sucked me in and then went down hill.

There are too many inconsistencies, and its frustrating how the inconsistencies kept repeating themselves.

The amount of over explaining, and then over explaining the same thing over again was making me upset. Why would a vampire who doesn't know this other person and cant figure out what they are over share on everything he is? And why would you over share to your GRANDFATHER you were doing the bed sheet tango?

She has to get this house put back together and is having trouble and then all of a sudden the male MC is like yeah I can get a months worth of repairing done in an hour, why did he wait so freaking long to help?

Some of the spice was great until it became the same thing or just got weird.. the amount of times "virgin blood" was used during the dirty just made me feel icky...

It was annoying that she was poor and all of a sudden her grandpa saves the day and says "Surprise! I've been rich this whole time, here take this money!" What? And then it's like "my whole family is dead" PSYCH they were just chilling in a mud puddle...aye?

The bad guy was dying, just finish him! Why turn him and risk something worse?! Its like when a villain has the hero and has a long monologue before taking action so the hero wins - but in reverse.

I wanted to like this book, I really did, someone posted a clip of a chapter on TikTok and I was excited to read it! I was pretty disappointed.

panda801003's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • 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

brookieworm's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

faithexox's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

3.5

brooklynnv's review against another edition

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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? No

1.0

I think the plot could be interesting if it was executed differently. There was no tension in the romance. The two protagonists were both basically obsessed with each other the first time they met on like page 40. She was also a virgin but acting like a porn star with him the whole time?
Like the main character experiences a devastating loss and then is fucking the dude’s brains out like 5 minutes later
And the sex scenes are super un-sexy. The author uses words like “cavern” for mouth, “mounds” for tits, and “globes” for ass. Overall, the spice is wattpad level writing. The narration is middle grade level or below. It was hard to picture a lot of what was being described, and so much of the book was cliche.
”A single tear ran down his face as he looked back at her.” bro, give me a break. “Pa gave me exactly the money I need to pay for the estate, and he has MORE! We were dead poor but now we’re suddenly millionaires!”
it was shit like that that made it hard to read. Everything was handed to them, or everything was unrealistic in a way that pulled me from the story. 

kkfrecker567's review against another edition

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

easmith29's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

phoenixprestige's review against another edition

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emotional fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This was another book I was sucked into reading because I saw a set of quotes from the book on TikTok and they lived rent free in my head until I actually read the book. Unfortunately, this is one of many that failed to live up to the hype created by those quotes.

Even taking that out of the equation, the story was just fine. I liked the setting in the old, creepy house. The characters are fine, but their reactions are always too over the top to really be believable. It comes off a little Wattpad-y. Very hot and cold, 0 to 70 at a second's notice. The pacing of the story is a little weird too.  I wish the secret society of creatures and the details of the creatures themselves were a bit better fleshed out. But that's what sequels are for, I guess. 

fortysuspects's review against another edition

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dark funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

casmr's review against another edition

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I couldn’t get into the story line. Just wasn’t for me