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Its a kinda dark romance/thriller. Really enjoyed the plot, it hat a few good twisted. The FMC was at times really funny. The MMC has mommy issues.
I did not like the ghost aspect of this story, as if the two MCs believed that the lighthouse is haunted... I also did not find the keepers backstory believable, it felt like there were continuen error. Did he have the wife befor he got to the island or after?

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.75

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Honestly, I don’t even know where to begin with this book. All I’m certain of is that Enzo Vitale has me wrapped around his fingers. You know, just everything about him screams ”I own you.” And honestly, I don’t hate that. I love how he’s pretty much the literal definition of morally gray. He goes from wanting to kill Sawyer, to then only just hating her, to then hating her and wanting to fuck her, to then wanting to protect her from everything, to then basically admitting that he was pretty much in love with her. When he finally kissed her. LAWWWDDDD I just got up and I screamed. Happy giddy screams. I love his type of character very very much. His sadomasochism? Absolute yes. Extremely fucking hot to me. Choking and hair pulling (which he likes to do) are one of my favorite things. So those being a major aspect in nearly all of their scenes, makes me extremely… excited, I guess I’ll say. Moving off of dreamy (to me) Mr. Vitale, I’ll reluctantly move onto Sawyer. I will start off by saying fuck Kevin. The fucker completely fucked her over. He raped her, abused, her, and emotionally abused her. Just because he was the golden boy and her parents didn’t believe her when she told them, makes this even more fucked. I was so so happy when she said that she killed him because he completely deserves it. I do think she is an extremely strong girl who went through a lot of shit (obviously). Like it was said in the book, she was just living on survival mode and she reacted like an animal who was scared. She lashed out and ran away because that’s all she knew what to do. I’m kind of surprised that Enzo was able to lure her out of that mindset. I honestly wouldn’t think that he’d be the one to do it, but it was refreshing, I guess, for him to be the one to do it. What went down at the lighthouse? Absolutely insane. . I got the heebie-jeebies from Sylvester, obviously, at the beginning. But what he actually did, just gives me goosebumps. I seriously don’t understand how somebody can be so sick in the head to kill his own wife, after his daughter just committed suicide, and enslave his other daughter to stay. The shit that he did to her is disgusting. We obviously know that he cut her tongue out as he said, and he also stitched her fucking mouth closed. That is just plain torture obviously. And just imagining the other shit that he could’ve done to her is insane. We can gather from context clues that he raped her as a punishment, and I’m guessing that he basically did more terrible things to her. I mean who knows what he did to his wife before he killed her. He is just so sick in the head. Oh my God, I can’t even think about the things that he would’ve done to Sawyer had Enzo not gotten out of the cellar. Enzo’s just like pure protective instincts over Sawyer make my heart happy. If his own life is at stake and Sawyer’s is too, he would without a doubt die trying to save her. I love that so so much. He is just literally the definition of a morally gray character. He wants to protect her from anybody else who can hurt her, but he wants to be the only one who can hurt her. He will kill anybody who wants to hurt her, but yet he wants to hurt her, too. do I understand it? Not necessarily. do I find it insanely attractive? Fucking absolutely I do. I’ll steal this line from Enzo in the book,“ Does it hurt baby?” After fucking reading this book, yes it does. It hurts because I’ll never have an Enzo Vitale in my life. That is so fucking unfair after reading about a man like him. Am I predominantly attracted to women in real life? Yes. Am I extremely attracted to morally gray men in books? Fucking yeah. Do I like the sweet and innocent boys? Sure that’s always refreshing to just have like a golden retriever boyfriend you know. But those morally gray men who will kill anybody who looks in your direction, yet also wanting to be the one to inflict immense pain on you is just MMMMM. All I can say is me likey Enzo Vitale a fuck ton.

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challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

i dont even know how to rate this. it was so unsettling yet i couldn’t put it down. this book made me feel so many different things that i need to process….

i again don’t care for the repetitive phrases like “shell of my ear” or them constantly saying they hate each other lmao. like we get it!!

the spicy parts were SPICY!!!!! but also some made my stomach twist. also, the graphic/gorey scenes were almost too much for me and i couldn’t get images out of my head.

i did enjoy the moments of sincerity and intimacy sprinkled in in the later half of the book. idk if dark romance is for me??? or maybe just not this dark.

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