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Twisted Games by Ana Huang

45 reviews

lighthearted tense

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adventurous emotional hopeful medium-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

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adventurous inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Much better than the first book to me. The beginning of the book was very intriguing because I liked the troupe of body guard falling for his client. After the book settled in though it became slow paced for a little bit in the middle of the book but eventually picked back up. I liked the conflict of the romance, but the resolution was predictable. 

I wouldn't read this book if you are looking for good plot twists, while it has some they don't last very long for you to infer what might happen. Overall I liked that characters and their relationship and I didn't like slow pace in the beginning/middle parts. 

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emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I was trying to think of something to not like about this book. I very much enjoyed it.

I absolutely loved Rhys. I listened to the audiobook so I think that helped but that man is filthy in all the best ways and his care for Bridget is so beautiful. Bridget was a strong FMC but Rhys really stole the show. I wanted to know what he was thinking and planning and saying. The plot itself wasn’t bad or far-fetched. It made sense in the grand scheme of the book and was resolved nicely. This book isn’t literary genius but the plot was good, the characters lovable, and the smut so spicy.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

truly one of the best books ive ever read 

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dark mysterious slow-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

I didn't enjoy the first book, but decided to give the second book a try anyway. It was much better, but not good enough to convince me to complete the series.

This is a princess falls in love with bodyguard book, with the nice twist of her brother abdicating the throne for the same crime of falling in love with someone without noble blood.

I really enjoyed the tension and slow burn, and when the spice did hit, it hit really well. I personally found the sex scenes well written, and enjoyed the rough descriptions. However, that's not to say that this was without its flaws.

Like Twisted Love, there were a number of clichéd and contrived plots, but not nearly to the same extent. The villain may as well have twisted their mustache for how bland he was.

However, it was the cringy lines that docked the most points off for me.

"I know 79 ways to kill a man, and I can make 70 of them look like an accident. Understand?"

It was just ridiculous that this man, who had proper real life experience, would talk like this about someone simply touching her, as well as threatening to burn down parliament? Just too ridiculous.

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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: Complicated

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funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

I loved Bridget and Rhys story, they are couple goals, I never reread books but I can see myself rereading this one and the smut oh my gosh 🥵. 10/10 recommend 

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

I will say that this book had probably put me in a slow reading slump. Not that I didn't want to read, but I just didn't enjoy the premise as much as I did the first one. I felt like it had gone stale at some parts and slower at others, and tbh I just didn't enjoy it as much as I did Twisted Love. I loved the characters, of course, but just something about it didn't have the spark that Twisted Love gave me.

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adventurous emotional inspiring slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This books very much gives Princess Diaries 2 and I’m here for it! I was a bit nervous to read this one because I’ve heard the series gets better as it goes, but I’m not a big fan of a slow burn. But that really didn’t matter I loved it so much! I was obsessed with Rhys obviously and I liked Bridget more than expected too! Tbh I don’t know why I thought I wasn’t going to love this because it has consumed my every thought for the past 5 days! I think it would’ve been 5 stars if not for the classic 3rd act breakup type shit but I really wasn’t even that mad given the context lol

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