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Caught Up: Into Darkness, Book 2 by Navessa Allen

180 reviews

smutloverdelight's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Navessa Allen knows how to write her characters. I think I loved this one more than Lights Out! Much more spicier in this story and more intriguing with Lauren’s line of work. I love the confidence she portrays in herself. Also the banter between all the characters was superb! I think Taylor had to be my favorite character! I think it left on a cliffhanger so I’m excited to see what’s next!!!

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tiff_nay717's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Well! Let’s add another book to my list of 5⭐️ because this was actually a perfect read for me! Fun, funny, sweet and spicy! Literally hit every check box for me. I am in love with the way Navess writes her characters and how she explored kink play in her stories. It’s such a fun escape from reality.

I can’t believe the stink people have been making about this book. They act like Navessa Allen owes us something. Just saying, if you skip this because it’s not a remake of Lights Out… you’re the one missing out.

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ccricket's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Liked

Let’s be real the sex scenes in this are top notch and somehow better than the first 🥵
I really liked the kink exploration and it felt like the author really did her research. It was one of the only things in the book that felt genuine

Disliked

Another terrible MMC name 😩
Not a fan of guys with anger issues 🤢
I kinda wish it were all new characters unconnected to the first book
Felt like it was trying way too hard to be modern and cool and edgy
Not the third act break up 🙄

I don’t want to compare this one too much to the first one bc I don’t feel like that’s totally fair, but imo this one fell short in pretty much every way for me. Everything just felt kinda forced and disingenuous, from the humor to the ‘plot’ to the character’s personalities. A lot of it just felt very how do u do fellow kids, look how quirky and fun my character are 🥴 it wasn’t terrible and at least there were minimal typos, but aside from the obscenely hot sex scenes

the fucking confessional booth oml

and the scattered scenes with Josh and Aly, I didn’t really enjoy this one too much.
Also was that last page supposed to hint that

the next book would be about Tyler

bc absolutely fucking no 🤢

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lauren_lovestoread's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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n_malin_p's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I absolutely love this author and her books. I'm already looking forward to Tyler's book.

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rdaacvhiesl's review against another edition

3.0

funny sad tense medium-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

The best thing about this book was Navessa's writing style. She does a great job at infusing every character and relationship with unique qualities. I didn't particularly love the plot of this book though. It absolutely revolves around Junior and Lauren's relationship, but the sprinkling in of all the side characters and side quests made it hard for me to be invested. It was easy to see the conflict coming from a mile off and had this been by any other author, I would have DNF (I really, really hate the miscommunication trope). The celebration of and respect for sex work was a pretty cool theme throughout.

Story moral: let people find their own happiness and consider yourself lucky if you're along for the ride.

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read_with_tiffanie's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark funny hopeful 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

This book is darker than the first book (Lights out), but that shouldn't be a deterrent to reading it. Just be prepared for it if you've read the first book and are expecting the same book with a different font. you will not find that here.

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spookyyzoeyy's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional funny 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: Yes

I loved this more than the last book. It was freakier than the last book, and it was more intense. I liked the mafia and Italian ties, and it was nice to see parents in therapy.

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savannahsshelf's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

This was sooo fun!! Such a great read! I really enjoyed junior and Lauren and seeing them and their relationship loved the spice it was frequent and really good. This wasn’t as funny as book 1 and I enjoyed that book overall more this was still really good can’t wait to read more from this author!

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sophiarogney_'s review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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