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DID NOT FINISH
I finished this book but I can't rate it and I can't pretend I read it all because I skimmed the entirety of this book. Hard TW: The first half of this book - so like 200 pages - is about the heroine being in an incredibly abusive, increasingly violent relationship. I'm talking about many extremely graphic on-the-page domestic violence and extremely violent rape scenes.
The second half of the novel is her healing - but the threat of her abuser is always there, for reasons I won't spoil. It was impossible for me to get into a romance/ enjoy explicit sex scenes after reading the first half of the novel.
This book, from the cover to the description to the "forbidden love set in the explosive world of the NBA" headline completely misrepresents what the book is actually about in my opinion in a really irresponsible way. I'm all for having a character whose been through trauma finding love and re-discovering/ re-claiming their sexuality. But the extent of on-the-page violence in a romance-genre book that describes itself as a "forbidden romance"... was just way too much.
The second half of the novel is her healing - but the threat of her abuser is always there, for reasons I won't spoil. It was impossible for me to get into a romance/ enjoy explicit sex scenes after reading the first half of the novel.
This book, from the cover to the description to the "forbidden love set in the explosive world of the NBA" headline completely misrepresents what the book is actually about in my opinion in a really irresponsible way. I'm all for having a character whose been through trauma finding love and re-discovering/ re-claiming their sexuality. But the extent of on-the-page violence in a romance-genre book that describes itself as a "forbidden romance"... was just way too much.