707 reviews for:

Pretty Monster

Sheridan Anne

3.78 AVERAGE

anne_11_k's review

4.0
dark funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

juniper329's review

2.5
adventurous dark medium-paced
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
dark medium-paced
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rlt_reads's review

3.75
challenging dark funny slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bookishlee18's review

3.0
dark funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Fun and funny stalker romance with some heavy topics. (Domestic abuse, child abandonment, SA, trafficking, murder) I liked that I wasn’t 100% sure who the stalker was - I liked to be kept guessing! I didn’t like the ending so much, but maybe book 2 will fix it ?
dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

what utter trash. like would’ve been a fun-ish book if written well. but nah. the girl had a ridiculous amount of guys chasing her, and i genuinely couldn’t see the charm in her which compelled them.

also all the guys were not one-dimensional, but somehow still boring. and i couldn’t root for any of them, or didn’t find any of the other suitors believable enough to actually think, “oh, she might end up with him.”

it was also super obvious who the stalker was. so the suspense wasn’t there either.

did find reid’s monologues at the beginning funny, lol. the whole thing about liking men (??) or their death, was a fun bit. so one star for that.

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nevilla's review

1.0
dark medium-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: Yes
slow-paced

This was bad. I can’t believe it has so many good reviews. It seems to be written by someone who hates women. It glorifies violence against women. And the whole premise is…pretty stupid. It didn’t give thriller vibes,
despite the murders.
If it was something on AO3, I might have had more patience for it. Hell, I know I would have. (Shout out to the poor writing and how many times a sentence starts with “Hell…”.) I normally love reading things that are pretty bad or poorly written, because I tend to find something fun in it but this was just not it.