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Scarred by Emily McIntire

25 reviews

kylasmv15's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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bgarske's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

The sex is great, but takes a while to get there.
The twists!
Most importantly, the love is so, so beautifully written. Honestly, all the emotions are beautifully written.

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readyforit's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

3.5⭐️4🌶️
This book is kind of a hamlet/lion king retelling but again for the never after series, it seems the author is mostly using names and places and vague plot lines. I’d say this plot more strictly adhered to hamlet than hooked did to Peter Pan though. I like this book but I definitely liked hooked better. It’s a slow burn historical romance (light on history, heavy on romance), so all the spice is within the last 40% of the book.

I really liked Tristan’s character, as he’s the kind of morally gray for a good cause that I can get behind! He’s the kind of man who would burn the world or cut off a man’s hand for touching his woman. He’s definitely very possessive. He’s the definition of no grave could hold me down, I’ll crawl home to her. I loved his audiobook narrator as well.

One of the main complaints I have that is I listened along to the audiobook while reading the KU ebook and there are some major differences between the two. Some are minor like sentence structure (which can happen if narrators/editors don’t catch them) but also the ebook completely eliminated 90% of the lion king nods. For example, Tristan calls Simon “little tiger” in the ebook but “little lion” in the audiobook. The very end conflict is COMPLETELY different between the two versions and I’m not sure why?

Maybe the author wanted to have the FMC save the day.

This might be nitpicky but I really didn’t care for the narrator for Sara, I felt like she should’ve had a much deeper voice. She tends to pitch her voice higher, making her sound like a child. (She’s meant to be 21 and Tristan is 26). That might have contributed to my dislike of her character. I really feel like the FMCs in the never after series so far haven’t had much of a personality. I guess you expect that with Wendy, since she doesn’t have a huge personality in the movie, but we keep getting these fleshed out, deep MMCs and then they’re in love with women who have the personality of a fiber cracker. I’m still going to continue with the series but I probably won’t be rereading this one if I ever return to it! Also the extended epilogue available through the author’s website is just okay, you could probably skip that one.

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niamhrowanch's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

2.75

a lot better than the first one and the ending epilogue is so cutesy

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bergha1998's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

It wasn’t based on a specific fairytale like the last one, of if it was I couldn’t place it. The dynamic between Sara and Tristan was red hot, ate it up. All the other characters felt like they needed more character development. Like the bad guys were evil for the sake of being evil.

Dark Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Dom/Sub dynamic, 3 1/2 🔥

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barbarianmissy's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-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? No

2.0

This book wasn’t my fav.

I enjoy these books cause I find it fun scoping out who is which character from the source material (lion king in this instance) and when I figured out Sara B is Sarabi I cackled furiously. And also seeing some of the plot points mimic the source as well is enjoyable, like shoving Michael/Mufasa off a cliff - very fun. The incessant mention of “be prepared” - iconic. BUT I LITERALLY HATED TRISTAN/SCAR as the main character.

The character Tristan was SO SO SO incredibly narcissistic and viewed himself as a god for some reason? He got everything he wanted in the end even though he tortured his closest friends, his followers, and burned the entire city to the ground??? Like I’m sorry, if you torture me and burn down my home I’m not gonna bow down and give you a friggin crown. He’s one temper tantrum away from slaughtering the whole damned city.

I also don’t believe the two main characters were ever in love either? She was just a possession of his that he owned and he even BRANDED her for gods sake with “Tristan’s property”!!! She is not woody from Toy Story, you idiot. Also he was weirdly obsessed with drinking her BLOOD??? Like I’m #teamedward but Eddie drank it to LIVE, Tristian drank it for kicks. BIG DIFF! The spice was not spicing the way it was supposed to.

Like I understand he got bullied, and is nice to one kid once in a while, and taught you that you like weed, but this man is TOXIC AF SARA B!!!! RUN SARA B RUN!!!!

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beccisays's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This series is in the audible plus catalogue at the moment.

I much preferred Hooked (book number 1) but this was nonetheless a good audiobook. It’s a retelling twisted version of The Lion King, always fun when the villain you think you know becomes a sexy anti-hero.

I struggled to get into the flow of the story towards the beginning. By the end I was invested and glad I stuck with it.

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