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Hooked by Emily McIntire

54 reviews

vettechmama3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

This is one of my first books testing the waters of dark romance. I wasn't put off by the darkness surprisingly. But this book still fell a little short for me. Wendy was innocently naive most of the time, and I'm glad she found her voice, and we saw some growth from her. I loved her in the end. I liked Hook for the most part, although I have a hard time believing he didn't figure out the twist with how smart he seems to think he is. I figured it out pretty early on. The spice was pretty good, even with Wendy not being very experienced. Overall, a good Peter Pan retelling 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Death, Blood, and Gun violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Minor: Bullying, Drug use, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

graciegru's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.0

If you like smut in between gruesome torture and murder then this is the book for you. It’s not my cuppa tea, but to each their own. I felt like most of the book was sex. I wish there was more development from when Hook/James started to fall for Wendy. It felt like he switched  from wanting her for  revenge then loving her… just a little odd. 

 The end was nice and heartwarming, though so there’s a plus

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Infidelity, Murder, Abandonment, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Drug use, Torture, Toxic friendship, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Stalking

lethridge's review against another edition

hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Murder, Toxic friendship, and Kidnapping

Minor: Pregnancy, Abandonment, Bullying, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Death of parent

christinaskina's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This was not my cup of tea. It was salacious without substance and the shock factor was not done well enough to make me come around to liking any of the characters despite their serious flaws. I also didn’t buy the romance or chemistry between the main characters. And there was so much abuse and fucked up behavior, which I was prepared for going in, but all the complexity was so shallow it didn’t even count for me. Glad other people liked it! Wasn’t high enough caliber writing to get me invested.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

sydneys_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

i think this book was interesting! still lowkey shocked that Hook believed *enough* that Wendy was playing him to be a fool with her innocent act, cuz homegirl isn’t that good of an actor.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, and Sexual content

Minor: Bullying and Drug use

lindsykay12's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, and Murder

fairylass's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Murder, Sexual violence, and Gun violence

Breath play/choking, torture, mentions of SA of a minor,

itsawilddanni's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

4.0

This book…. just…. This book. 

It’s dark and severely twisted. Not for the faint of heart at all! But I loved it. It did go a bit too quick for my liking, which is why it’s 4 starts instead of 5, but think mafia, dual perspective, “don’t touch her”, “who did this to you”, “look at her and you’ll die”. There’s a LOT of sex, a LOT of violence, but if you’re into that, this should be a walk in the park! 

The further into the book you get, the better it is - so hold on through a couple of chapters at least. 

A cool concept that’s been executed well! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Drug use, and Death

Moderate: Body horror, Alcohol, Blood, and Gun violence

Minor: Bullying, Incest, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Rape

plusbian's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Absolutely delicious to read. Not a retelling per se but a lovely nod to the original story.

The characters were all developed with care (even the minor ones had a little side story) and the plot didn’t disappointed.

Dark and sexy and all kinds of wrong, this is a great start to the series. I already downloaded the second one for my flight tomorrow.

Ps: as much as the plot didn’t disappointed me it is fair to say it wasn’t without its flaws. Some of these scenes were just unbelievable but it is fairly tale inspired so I can’t really fault the story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, Gore, Bullying, Cursing, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexism, Addiction, and Torture

chip4201's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Kidnapping, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship