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Twisted Love by Ana Huang

63 reviews

booksalacarte's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

2⭐️4🌶️

Contemporary Romance
22 FMC/26 MMC
Forbidden Romance
Brothers best friend
Grumpy/sunshine
Touch her and die
Millionaire tech guy
Trauma


Twisted Love tries to tackle popular tropes but ultimately falls short. They are rushed and underdeveloped. Instead of showing the progression of the relationship, we’re told about key moments off-page, which makes it hard to feel invested in the characters or their growth.

The characters are unrealistic, especially for college students. Alex is a 23-year-old tech billionaire, and Ava is a seemingly accomplished photographer—both feel more like caricatures than believable people. The friend group also feels overly perfect, with everyone being absurdly successful despite their age.

The pacing is uneven, with important emotional moments skipped over, leaving the story feeling shallow. While it has potential, the lack of depth and the reliance on telling rather than showing made the romance and character development fall flat.

I won’t be continuing with this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

ashleys_endless_tbrlist's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

This book was SO unexpected and not at all what I thought it would be. 

Was it a billionaire romance? Yes 
Was it little sister and older brothers best friend trope? Yes
Was it enemies to lovers? Yes
Was it grumpy sunshine? Yes
Was there spice? Yes
Did it discuss trauma? Yes
Did it discuss panic attacks? Yes
Did it involve a family member unaliving? Yes
Did it involve people unaliving others? Yes

And the list goes on… this book was more than just a romance with all of the tropes. This book was SO heavy and I urge you to check your trigger warnings. 

I really am so glad I finally started this series. It was such a pleasant surprise. Is it true it is being made into a Netflix series? I certainly hope so! 🥰

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

kgatz's review against another edition

fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

nowakatie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

so hey girl he’s abusing you!! I personally would not have let that slide!! hope this helps!!

real talk I'm so sick of authors romanticizing emotional abuse behavior. like he stalks her, love bombs her, manipulates her, threatens violence against any guy who comes near her effectively isolating her from having any male friends, and Josh is right to be pissed!! GET AWAY FROM HIM GIRL!! There’s a way to do overprotective that isn’t abusive but this was not that. Harmful for younger audiences by giving this couple a happy ending. ALSO, can we talk about the subtle pedophilia that’s going on here? He hates every single woman and can’t love them because they’re too adult and mature and emotionally intelligent for him, but then he finds this naive spunky happy girl who dresses noticeably younger and is four years younger than him and all of a sudden she’s the exception to the rule. HUH???? Anyways. Weird choices of stuff to romanticize here.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

christhequeenbee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Vomit

abi2xoxo's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.75

Good book. I liked the characters and the way they interacted with eachother! 
I liked Alex’s character and how his life impacted him and everyone around him.
I did find the whole thing a little cliche but that’s okay 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Vomit

readswithtayee's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

Twisted Love

🩵🌊📷☀️🧁🍪

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

💭Personal thoughts: let’s just start with the fact that I hate how this is marketed as a “Brother’s best friends” trope, when it’s nothing like that. Her brother cares but he’s not even in the story until the end. He’s literally gone most of the book. It’s very grumpy x sunshine trope and has dark themes. Check trigger warnings if needed. I love the aspect that she’s into baking, I love when characters have cute hobbies. If you read the synopsis, I enjoyed both issues that Alex & Ava had. Between their childhood traumas and how they go about it. Plot twist so be weary of reading spoilers!

🤔Yes, no, maybe? maybe… I enjoyed the plot and storyline. A bit too spicy for me but I enjoyed the storyline and romance more than my dislike of the spice. Would recommend more for smut lovers.

❤️‍🔥Spicy level:🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 | pretty spicy, kinda intense for me.

🧯Spicy chapters: 22,24,26,42 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Instagram: @readswithtayee

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, and Kidnapping

irisvdn's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Would be 5 stars but I really didn't like the

stalking

at the end

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

danique_reijersen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

 loved it:

the mystery, the murder, the secrets,

the drama, the romantic stuff. but i give it 4 stars cause of the smut (and im kinda scared my parents will read those parts lmao.), i didnt mind it but it wasnt my favourite part. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Gun violence and Vomit

antonia_oana19's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Vomit, and Death of parent