A review by baexlee
Corrupt by Penelope Douglas

Did not finish book. Stopped at 35%.
I was prepared for a dark romance but this just took things too far. The main romantic lead had absolutely no redeeming qualities and honestly Rika was pretty annoying herself. She acts so naive to what’s going on around her (likely for the plot of the book to allow for a reveal) even though she realistically is supposed to be smart enough to get into Brown. The whole revenge plot is gross and poorly motivated, not to mention the unnecessary and disgusting rhetoric around drug addiction spouted by Michael - “Drugs are a crutch for people too ignorant to self-destruct on their own.” Like jesus christ tell me you have no empathy for human beings in a single sentence Michael. None of these characters were like-able enough to bother continuing, the book is trying to hard to be edgy and mysterious and it comes off tacky and slimy. 
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