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A review by chaos_code
Even Villains Fall In Love by Liana Brooks
Did not finish book.
I honestly don't get it. How can this book have positive reviews?
Guy literally made a mind control horny machine to manipulate his wife. Like wtf? How is everyone ok with this premise? I thought it was going to be about a supervillain and heroine who fell in love and chose the domestic life, then hijinks happen. This story is disgusting. It should have a "noncon/dubcon" trigger warning. He's practically keeping her as a housewife and not letting her leave the house. He wants to increase the sex machine so she can't leave. Dr. Charm calls his mind control/sex machine the "Morality Machine." Then throughout the novel, he talks about all the different ways it affects Tabitha and all the ways it doesn't - like trying to justify that she still has free will.
I'm baffled. And just constant lust and sex almost every single chapter. It's not labelled erotica and it got so boring after awhile.
Even with this direct quote : " Even villains have standards, and no one can boast about forcing a woman. Brute strength doesn’t have the delicious flavor of well-performed seduction "...he's still messing with her mind. i guess that's the distinction? He's not physically r*aping her, so it's fine.
When the "Morality Machine" breaks, Tabitha comes back different. Dr. Charm sort of expected this but was like "oh it's fine, she would never leave." Tabitha is showing signs of abuse - mood changing, doesn't want to be touched (no shit!), etc. And instead of finding any remorse, he panics and wants to brainwash her into forgiving him. He still lusts after her even when she doesn't want to touch him at all. But everything is justified because he loves her soooo much. " But he’d known in his heart-of-hearts that a woman like her could never love a man like him... never have her admiration. Women like her wanted perfect men. Super men. Heroes, not villains." No, women don't want r*pists.
Also, what is with this dumb male/father incompetence: "There were boxes of things neatly stacked with matching lids. That probably meant something profound in the secret language of women, but he wasn’t even getting a mixed signal." So you're telling me that his kids are 5 yrs old, and he has no idea how to take care of them or feed them? And it just keeps doing that.
The villain's inner monologue is pretty arrogant and annoying.
I'm baffled. And just constant lust and sex almost every single chapter. It's not labelled erotica and it got so boring after awhile.
Even with this direct quote : " Even villains have standards, and no one can boast about forcing a woman. Brute strength doesn’t have the delicious flavor of well-performed seduction "...he's still messing with her mind. i guess that's the distinction? He's not physically r*aping her, so it's fine.
When the "Morality Machine" breaks, Tabitha comes back different. Dr. Charm sort of expected this but was like "oh it's fine, she would never leave." Tabitha is showing signs of abuse - mood changing, doesn't want to be touched (no shit!), etc. And instead of finding any remorse, he panics and wants to brainwash her into forgiving him. He still lusts after her even when she doesn't want to touch him at all. But everything is justified because he loves her soooo much. " But he’d known in his heart-of-hearts that a woman like her could never love a man like him... never have her admiration. Women like her wanted perfect men. Super men. Heroes, not villains." No, women don't want r*pists.
Also, what is with this dumb male/father incompetence: "There were boxes of things neatly stacked with matching lids. That probably meant something profound in the secret language of women, but he wasn’t even getting a mixed signal." So you're telling me that his kids are 5 yrs old, and he has no idea how to take care of them or feed them? And it just keeps doing that.
The villain's inner monologue is pretty arrogant and annoying.