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Lights Out by Navessa Allen

20 reviews

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

Here is what I liked about this book:
1. I liked the audiobook a lot. I think it was really well read and produced!
2. I liked the sense of humor between the couple, it was really cute and lightened the mood when it got a little dark.
3. I liked that there wasn’t the dumb third act miscommunication trope that drives me nuts in most romance books! This was refreshing and I wish more authors would do this. 
4. I liked that the two main characters spoke about going to therapy and how it was helpful and healthy.
5. I liked the jobs that the main characters had, they were both smart and independent.


Here is what I didn’t love (spoilers):
1. I didn’t love the writing style. It was basic. 
2. I didn’t like the mob subplot that was happening. I know something had to happen as the “cleanup”, but that wasn’t my favorite part of the plot.
3. I didn’t love that he was on TikTok, that was kind of cringey. 
4. I didn’t like a lot of the language the author used when describing the sex scenes. Like personifying Aly’s ovaries, that was dumb. It was also dumb when Aly said she needed the morning after pill even though she was on birth control because she can’t trust her ovaries and eggs with Josh’s sperm. Like ma’am, you are a badass trauma nurse, you know that’s not how that works. 
5. It was too long. 

Overall, it was a fun listen. It was definitely different than I thought it was going to be, and in a good way. 

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dark funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
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Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Great start of the year! Josh his humor is amazing.

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Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

A woman willing dates her stalker and then gets upset when he does unhinged shit. What the hell did you expect?!

Jacob Morgan narrating as Josh is what made this book for me. His delivery is hilarious and made Josh my favorite of the two main characters; especially when it came to his reactions with Fred.

Ally's connections to her estranged mafia family was wasted potential and was just used to clear Josh of murder. I wish Ally was just as unhinged as Josh (imagine if she was a mafia heiress), because without him, Ally is pretty boring.

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adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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dark funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Wildly entertaining, delicious, but very low-brow.

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Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hilarious
Butcher and blackbird minus gore
Such lovable characters 
Spicyyyyy

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dark funny 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

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

I literally only started listening because I like one of the narrators. But then I was hooked. I wouldn't say this is good persay, but rather compelling the way Chuck Paluhnik's books are. The characters are interesting and funny, there are parts that make me clench my legs together in a "dear god no never" way, and overall I would listen to another book in this series. 

I think enjoying this book is like enjoying some more lurid horror films in that you can like it and appreciate the characters and story for what it is while absolutely not endorsing it because it's, you know, fiction.

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