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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
felt so juvenile for how much smut there is
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I felt like the story was lacking a bit and took forever to progress. It contained several intimate scenes but based on what I'd heard about it, it was rather tame. I'm curious to read the next one even though I felt a little let down.
slow-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
Maybe this is for someone, but it’s absolutely not me. This is a contender for worst book I’ve ever read and it’s my first 1 star of 2025. I almost DNF’d multiple times, but powered through simply so I could share a complete opinion. This reads like a sexual awakening moment triggered by Chamber of Secrets and then turned into a kinky fetish novel that somehow got popular on social media. The “plot” is repetitive, off-the-rails nonsense that only serves to link one sex scene to another. Whatever booktok account sold this to me as romantasy, was wrong. This is certainly not fantasy, romance, or romantasy! The FMC is insufferably irritating, whiny and confoundingly dumb. How either of the male characters find her so desirable is highly questionable. I enjoy a why choose trope, but this is packed with banana-crackers kinks in the name of “plot” and they don’t land with what I assume the intended impacts were. For example, the FMC must sleep with MMC’s dad in front of the entire community in order to prove herself and gets her pelvis shattered during sex, but loves it and keeps going for more immediately. The spice is there for shock value, it’s not arousing or enjoyable and worse, it’s not actually integral to the development of the characters relationships. The MMC’s lack any meaningful personality and are boiled down only to their desire for the FMC. The author seems to think that world-building means describing the main characters surroundings during sex. The relationships are toxic and abusive. Dialog is so clunky and juvenile it pulls you out of the genuinely insane plot to contemplate if an editor ever looked at this. This book is also about 350 pages too long. Someone please explain why this is getting a sequel!!??
I kept expecting Tem to become relatable. Or any of the characters to be redeemable. Lost me at non-consensual choking.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
If you’re looking for spicy this read hits the ground running. Most of it forwards the plot line (sometimes in a cringey way). It presents an interesting take on not trying to humanize ‘the other’ and instead embracing that otherness and letting it just be. The writing style is very engaging and I flew through the book, but definitely some uncomfortable themes too.
Content Warnings
Significant scenes/themes lacking consent