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Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh

84 reviews

emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Tell me ONE MORE TIME how small she is. How teeny tiny fragile eensy weensy little she is. Make her practically disappear. Gorgeous but also invisible.

Make the tiniest girl who ever girled (who is way too young but also maybe not) be mortally humiliated performing such tasks as walking, taking off a shoe, being greeted by dogs, and sitting down on a bus. Make her take not one, but TWO, embarrassing unplanned showers at the home of the boy she likes. Make sure she unintentionally exposes her body to him a lot. Her clothes must keep falling off or up or open or down. Tell us more about how much sex he has had, which is A LOT in case you were wondering, and how many orgasms he has had in the past few months, which is NONE. Tell us again how she’s never been kissed. Make it weird. Obviously assume none of these girls are having orgasms.

When Shannon and Johnny do communicate, make sure it is exclusively in apologies and/or projections (her) and grunts and/or groans (him). Make sure they never address anything directly but instead do all sorts to make things more confusing and to maximize misunderstanding. Do it for the plot! Make them have the worst, most useless friends who are willing to let them each straight up die rather than tell the truth to anyone about what’s happening. Make sure he guesses and guesses about her abuser, and still doesn’t think quite hard enough about it to ask why she’s afraid to go home.

Look: I was interested in their home lives. I was interested in her history of trauma and his fear of loss of self. I was interested in the whole plot, actually. I kept getting pulled along by the story BUT THEN it repeated, again, the same internal dialogue, the same childish self-sabotage, the same stubborn cycle over and over and over. And over. With literally the same language. On repeat. Forever.

It comes dangerously close to fetishization of victimization. It makes me uncomfy and it needed an editor. I don’t know if I’ll continue the series, but probably not. Is this just me? Maybe it’s me. But this is the first actual review I’ve written here, so I’m bothered enough to vent.

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Loveable characters: Yes

Deliciously Wattpad. Sloooooooow burn. A coming of age story revolving sacrifices of teenagers - love, growth, future. Shannon is small, broken with a history of being relentlessly bullied and an abusive father, and Johnny wants to be the one to save her (though he fights it because he has dreams he’s fought for his whole life). Cheesy at times, slow at others, but a beautiful story. 

No explicit scenes but mentions of mature themes (underage drinking, sex, strong language) 

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Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

“Now, tell me who made you cry and I'll fix it.”
 
I went into this one blind. I was not prepared for the emotions. I’m sure people on the plane last week were wondering why I was weeping reading my kindle, in the darkness that is long air travel. It’s a good thing there were announcements to keep me in the real world because this book will swallow you whole. A caution to read the content/trigger warnings before starting this Bully romance.
 
“I once read somewhere that we mature with damage, not with age.”

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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Second time reading 

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Diverse cast of characters: Yes
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