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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
I knew this was a dark romance but I didn't expect it to go that dark - and I ate it up. I lived this book and can't really fault it, there was just something more I was looking for to make it a 5 star read. I didn't expect Violet to be into all this, especially after what Grey did to her but if a hot hockey stud was obsessing over me I would probably go with it as well!
medium-paced
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wow, this was actually torture.
My skin is still crawling with disgust.
I think the final straw was when the hero forced the heroine to suck his friend off, and guess what the author decided to write the heroine do...
If you thought it was walk away...
Nope. You are wrong.
Did she tell him no and tell him to go to Hell? Tell him to go fck himself and get herself the fck out of that toxic environment?
Nope. Wrong again...
She did it, yall.
Yep.
The heroine just... did it.
She just sucked him off because the hero said to...
I was sitting there like... um, what.
Sitting there imagining some asshole who crashed into me with his car and ruined my dancing career as well as my leg, who continually tortures me, and now was telling me to give his friend a BJ, and i just laughed so hard. Because I just know that anyone in their right mind would make sure someone lost a dick in that situation. If not the hero, then the other guy. If I was put in that situation, male appendages would be IN DANGER.
Common sense...
I am sitting there imagining what I would do, what anyone would do, and all of the scenarios I imagined included violence and me going off, but NONE of them included me actually going down on my knees to just... do it.
That was preposterous!
So, yeah, this is the kind of book this is.
Look, I ain't gonna judge you for the type of heroine you like to read, if you enjoyed this book...
But as for me, babes, I would rather rub my face onto concrete than read about a pathetic heroine who doesn't stand up for herself...
And this was the most critical case of No Backbone I have ever read!
Like really critical. As in, this heroine just acted like a robot. Every time the hero humiliates her, she just muses in her monologue about something or other, never even asks her "best friend" for help or anyone else. She just... takes it.
I found that to be such perplexing behavior...
Look, I will be honest... and say that as I am writing this review, I have only gotten about 30% through the audiobook.
But I have questions...
Was this specifically for readers with a humiliation kink or...?
Because I seriously wanted to vomit throughout...
Is that what all "bully" romances are like?
Cause I started reading another one in the middle of this one, and that also made me want to peel my skin off from disgust.
And the thing is, I'm not even mad at the bullying part. Bullies will bully.
The hero is meant to be an asshole and get redeemed, I guess.
But it's the way this author chooses to write how the heroine reacts to this treatment... that bafles me.
Like... what?
I hated her more than the hero because of how pathetic she was.
Who acts like this...? So nonsensical. Even someone who had the self-esteem of an abandoned dog would have reacted better than this trash heroine.
She was literally so awful.
Her leg was fked in the accident and she had to get physical therapy, but in my opinion, the only type of therapy that she desperately needed to take priority of, was the mental health kind.
Has this heroine ever heard of self-respect? Loving oneself, and I don't know, acting like a real human being, and not a plank of wood, or piece of gum at the bottom of one's shoe.
This was painfully embarrassing... and pathetic.
I did not enjoy this experience, and I don't believe I will finish this piece of trash.
And i don't think this author is for me, as I have seen some other reviewer say heroines like this is a trend in her work. So i will probably avoid her work from now on.
DNF...
My skin is still crawling with disgust.
I think the final straw was when the hero forced the heroine to suck his friend off, and guess what the author decided to write the heroine do...
If you thought it was walk away...
Nope. You are wrong.
Did she tell him no and tell him to go to Hell? Tell him to go fck himself and get herself the fck out of that toxic environment?
Nope. Wrong again...
She did it, yall.
Yep.
The heroine just... did it.
She just sucked him off because the hero said to...
I was sitting there like... um, what.
Sitting there imagining some asshole who crashed into me with his car and ruined my dancing career as well as my leg, who continually tortures me, and now was telling me to give his friend a BJ, and i just laughed so hard. Because I just know that anyone in their right mind would make sure someone lost a dick in that situation. If not the hero, then the other guy. If I was put in that situation, male appendages would be IN DANGER.
Common sense...
I am sitting there imagining what I would do, what anyone would do, and all of the scenarios I imagined included violence and me going off, but NONE of them included me actually going down on my knees to just... do it.
That was preposterous!
So, yeah, this is the kind of book this is.
Look, I ain't gonna judge you for the type of heroine you like to read, if you enjoyed this book...
But as for me, babes, I would rather rub my face onto concrete than read about a pathetic heroine who doesn't stand up for herself...
And this was the most critical case of No Backbone I have ever read!
Like really critical. As in, this heroine just acted like a robot. Every time the hero humiliates her, she just muses in her monologue about something or other, never even asks her "best friend" for help or anyone else. She just... takes it.
I found that to be such perplexing behavior...
Look, I will be honest... and say that as I am writing this review, I have only gotten about 30% through the audiobook.
But I have questions...
Was this specifically for readers with a humiliation kink or...?
Because I seriously wanted to vomit throughout...
Is that what all "bully" romances are like?
Cause I started reading another one in the middle of this one, and that also made me want to peel my skin off from disgust.
And the thing is, I'm not even mad at the bullying part. Bullies will bully.
The hero is meant to be an asshole and get redeemed, I guess.
But it's the way this author chooses to write how the heroine reacts to this treatment... that bafles me.
Like... what?
I hated her more than the hero because of how pathetic she was.
Who acts like this...? So nonsensical. Even someone who had the self-esteem of an abandoned dog would have reacted better than this trash heroine.
She was literally so awful.
Her leg was fked in the accident and she had to get physical therapy, but in my opinion, the only type of therapy that she desperately needed to take priority of, was the mental health kind.
Has this heroine ever heard of self-respect? Loving oneself, and I don't know, acting like a real human being, and not a plank of wood, or piece of gum at the bottom of one's shoe.
This was painfully embarrassing... and pathetic.
I did not enjoy this experience, and I don't believe I will finish this piece of trash.
And i don't think this author is for me, as I have seen some other reviewer say heroines like this is a trend in her work. So i will probably avoid her work from now on.
DNF...
Had to DNF about 20% through. I should have listened to the triggers, and reviews but it "was like" a new favorite book of mine so I dove right in only to find it was not only a little petty but definitely not my kind of book. It might be alright for others though
This book is trying to say it’s CNC but there still needs to be the initial consent.
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
I wasn’t sure about this book at the beginning, gave me some significant anger issues… but then!! I couldn’t stop reading! The plot plotted and the spice was SPICY. Solid first read by this author.
poorly written storyline
This was not a well-written book. It was immature and so unrealistic that it was borderline cringey. It’s not hard to write erotic scenes in a book and that’s about all it has going for it.
This was not a well-written book. It was immature and so unrealistic that it was borderline cringey. It’s not hard to write erotic scenes in a book and that’s about all it has going for it.