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Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton

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the_goddess_nyx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I absolutely LOVED this book. It's was the perfect balance of suspense, darkness, and spice. Zade is absolutely crazy but was also kinda redeemable in a way. He truly cared about the women and children he was saving and took everything to heart. He felt personally responsible for them, which made him somewhat redeemable in my eyes. Zade fell so hard for Addie and was undeniably devoted to her. I loved how he waited for her to fall for him, even when he did it in a quite unconventional way (stalking and dubcon/noncon). I loved Ruby and how she would boss big, scary Zade around and he allowed it because she was caring for the survivors. I was gasping (from the suspense, what else?! 😆), blushing, and swooning all through this book. It is definitely going on my "to buy" list.

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newdream's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.0

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS.
I hate this from the bottom of my heart. If you genuinely like this book the way the author wanted us to like the book, then I cannot have respect for you. Calling this romance is WRONG on SO many levels. Our girl Adeline is one of the dumbest and the most unrealistic female characters I've seen in a long time. What woman that is in the right state of mind would fall in love with a stalker who terrorised her for months and r*ped her multiple times? How can our stalker boy Zade save hundreds of innocent girls from being hurt in ANY way, and then at the end of the day hurt another innocent girl whom he knows nothing about??? I mean WHO does he thinks he is to just see a random girl on the street and just claim her like she is some kind of object? Kill men who TOUCH HER. Because who is he to control her life so much? Who dies he thinks he is to not let her have any saying in who she is going to be with. He killed a man because she took him home. Oh I'm sorry Zade, are you jealous that Archie didn't have to force himself onto her like you did, instead she actually wanted to sleep with him? I can’t with this book. It's so so so bad. I liked the beginning because it was so spooky, but then they started calling stalking and traumatising a girl romance. No thank you.
Eidt: Oh yeah, the one star is for the pretty cover.

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bookishkitten3's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

The story is good but this really is a situation of rape. Both characters blatantly call it being forced and talk about no consent multiple times. Anyone trying to call this CNC really doesn't understand it.
There is mention that he wouldn't have done it if "her body wasn't singing for him" or whatever but I'm sorry some bodily reactions and functions happen despite the situation or trauma and that is just damaging. I really enjoyed the writing and story other than that and will probably finish the duet to see the ending. I will say I know he's morally grey and a freaking stalker so I wasn't really expecting him to act any differently than he does, it's the people glorifying his behavior I think that gets under my skin. If this had been actual CNC with verbal consent then it would have been a lot better for me lol

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coccobacille's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

It's twisted. Redest flag of them all. Don't read this if yandere ML is not your vibe. At first I thought there was a lot of dubious consent, but actually there is no consent at all. This is straight up rape. The ML is a hottie narcissist. I thought we were getting somewhere, but at the end, when jay said that he likes his women willing, Zade just laughed at him and told him that when a women say no, her body is actually saying yes. So, yeah. You have to be very grounded and mature enough to read this book.

As pleasure and pain are two sides of the same coin, fear and arousal are also two sides of the same coin. I really liked how the author worked around that concept. The cat and mouse game was good. The characters swear a lot and it annoyed me.

They were also a couple of cringey scenes. The forced proximity arc was my favorite.

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laura_is_fae's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

was just a pinky toe over the line for me

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paperbutsingular's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

1.0

If nothing else kept me entertained? My first one star finished read. I don’t care about the themes. It’s a book, it’s not real. Write about whatever you want. But just because you read does not mean you are able to write. And just because someone writes about sex does not mean it needs to be published. The worst part? The sex scenes are well written. It feels like the author is stumbling through the plot and quickly and obviously as possible to get to the sex. If the whole book had the level of care as those moments, it would be better.

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mwright_sci's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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cb_greig's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.5

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perth_is's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

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

1.25

this book made me want hit myself over the head with my phone. if you take the smut at face value, then sure, it was okay but the whole rest of the book had a plot that never needed to happen. Woman gets sexually assaulted multiple times after she says no but it’s all cool!! because her body is reacting!! and there is clearly nothing wrong with that :) Zade is a rapist who hunts down other rapists and acts like nothing is wrong and that he is above that. potential readers and actual readers, please don’t actually like guys like him. also how many times can this author use “your body weeps for me”
that phrase is cringy as hell.

overall, if you ignore the whole rape aspect, the smut was fine but if you wanted a good romance book, you’d be sorely mistaken.

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meg53's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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