A review by poupimali
The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

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

4.0

This is a solid dark smut romance.
Really.
It is rough, spicy, kinky, with lot of plots.

Even if the pregnancy trope is an hard pass trope for me, this book obsesses me. 
This is a really strange reading experience.


I loath the trope pregnancy and it ruined my reading each time. Writting a really good dark kinky college romance doesn’t feet with twentyish young adult craving for a pregnancy. 

The second issue for me was for half of the book, the naivety of the FMC was too much. I was this closed to think that she was stupid… And out of nowhere she was able to stand up for herself.
It was about damn time, because she had everything in her hand to put their heads in their own asses.
And even after that, I still think the characters could have been so much more…

The pregnancy trope related to this naive character kills it for me.
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