Reviews with content warning for Death of parent - Scarred

The book states that this is not a retelling, but it is so Lion-King coded that it's difficult to get past that. Dark romance that's Lion King with humans (but somehow not Hamlet).

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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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cristina_reading24's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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dearhaleynicole's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

Emily McIntire strikes again! Forbidden love, strong FMC, and “I’ll burn the world for you” vibes really made this one for me. I enjoyed "Hooked" when I read it last year, but I think I ended up liking this one more! I will say, I think I need to start reading the physical books. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of this as an audiobook. I listened up to about 30% as the audiobook but wasn't getting into the storyline as much. Nothing against the VAs, I just sometimes don't connect the voices well to the characters and it kept taking me out of the story. But when I switched over to my physical copy, I enjoyed it way more!

Also, side note: Emily is such a nice human! I actually recently picked up my copy of "Scarred" because she lives close to me and did a little signed art card drop at a local Target and I was able to snag one! The art that she had done of Scar & Sara B. by the fountain is ✨stunning✨ and I loved having that visual while reading!

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vreyna20_2004's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

After I read Hooked, I didn’t have high expectations for the ending. But boy was I wrong. Just like in Hooked I was invested from the get-go but not only did Scarred have a badass fmc but Tristan was so hot. James felt more edgy, and Tristan felt more realistic like a morally gray man and good lord did I fell in love with him. And yes, after Micheal died, Tristan did rule Gloria Terra, but he did something that I didn’t expect which was giving Simon the crown which just made me tear up. God, I loved this book so much. The ending didn’t feel rushed in actuality it felt perfect however I did feel as if Michael’s death just happened almost like the author wanted to get rid of him. I had hoped that Michael and Tristan would have a talk before he died but that didn’t happen. If it did, I would’ve given this book a 5 star. I also hated reading “milking” during the sex scenes but that’s just a peeve of mine. Other than that, I loved this book.

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hanschub's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

i adore slow burn enemies to lovers, but the old timey language and ideals bothered me (even though they were part of the time period). i’ll definitely be reading the other books in the series!

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brittanylee0302's review against another edition

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dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was significantly better than Hooked. The storyline, the characters, the audio narrators, the spice, everything improved. I really enjoyed Sara B's sassy attitude and her feministic personality despite it being the early 1900s. I had a hard time seeing a connection between Sara & Tristan before the church scene & felt there should have been more there. I also loved Tristan as a character. Honestly, the two of them were made for each other.

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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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