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A review by idkaudrey
Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet
1.0
DNF @ 60%
I hated every single moment of this. I wanted to finish it so badly but I was literally skimming like 20 pages at a time.
This has pretty much everything that makes a book bad in my mind. The main characters have no chemistry, the dialogue is not well done at all, the plots (main and side) are boring, none of the characters were compelling and none got any attention other that our main two anyways, and it’s about 400 pages too long. Seriously. There is not a single justifiable reason for this book to be 754 pages.
I’ll start with what’s most memorable about this - the gore. It’s bad. There, I said it. Every torture/fight/human auction scene is written like the author asked a 14 year old boy to come up with the most fucked up thing they could. I mean, seriously, the torture was so out of the box that it wasn’t even scary anymore, it was just fucking stupid. Every time they cut to something like that I started skimming - if you read the first torture scene, you read them all.
In the same vein - all of Vlad’s little breakdown scenes are about 5 pages too long and they’re all IDENTICAL. Vlad freaks out. He Superman’s multiple people and murders them by either strangling them or hitting them really hard. Sisi basically goes “This isn’t you!” and he calms down.
I seriously have no idea how a book so packed with action manages to bore me out of my mind.
I was ready to give up at about 43% when! Bam! A break up! A massive betrayal and a pregnancy-then-miscarriage! Trauma between the two main characters! My favorite romances are second chances so I was excited. Maybe it’ll pull out in the end here.
Spoiler: it didn’t.
Vlad grovels, Sisi goes “no but see i have ~trauma~” he’s like “damn I didn’t realize and also I will literally never let you leave me” and she’s like “cool you’re forgiven”. The groveling wasn’t bad but the writing was so bland I just couldn’t get into it. Also the random cannibalism just made me roll my eyes, I’m so annoyed by this damn book.
Side note - do dark romance authors know that acknowledging your mmc is objectively bad does not absolve them of their actions? Like Vlad never tries to better himself as a person and constantly admits he’s fucking Satan, but you still get this vibe from the author that you’re supposed to like him cause he makes funny little comments. I don’t like him. He ate a man’s thigh right in front of the guy. He sucks.
If you couldn’t tell, I would not recommend this book.
PS - who’s the guy on the cover? It’s not Vlad since we know that nearly every inch of his skin is tattooed. Who’s that dude supposed to be?
I hated every single moment of this. I wanted to finish it so badly but I was literally skimming like 20 pages at a time.
This has pretty much everything that makes a book bad in my mind. The main characters have no chemistry, the dialogue is not well done at all, the plots (main and side) are boring, none of the characters were compelling and none got any attention other that our main two anyways, and it’s about 400 pages too long. Seriously. There is not a single justifiable reason for this book to be 754 pages.
I’ll start with what’s most memorable about this - the gore. It’s bad. There, I said it. Every torture/fight/human auction scene is written like the author asked a 14 year old boy to come up with the most fucked up thing they could. I mean, seriously, the torture was so out of the box that it wasn’t even scary anymore, it was just fucking stupid. Every time they cut to something like that I started skimming - if you read the first torture scene, you read them all.
In the same vein - all of Vlad’s little breakdown scenes are about 5 pages too long and they’re all IDENTICAL. Vlad freaks out. He Superman’s multiple people and murders them by either strangling them or hitting them really hard. Sisi basically goes “This isn’t you!” and he calms down.
I seriously have no idea how a book so packed with action manages to bore me out of my mind.
I was ready to give up at about 43% when! Bam! A break up! A massive betrayal and a pregnancy-then-miscarriage! Trauma between the two main characters! My favorite romances are second chances so I was excited. Maybe it’ll pull out in the end here.
Spoiler: it didn’t.
Vlad grovels, Sisi goes “no but see i have ~trauma~” he’s like “damn I didn’t realize and also I will literally never let you leave me” and she’s like “cool you’re forgiven”. The groveling wasn’t bad but the writing was so bland I just couldn’t get into it. Also the random cannibalism just made me roll my eyes, I’m so annoyed by this damn book.
Side note - do dark romance authors know that acknowledging your mmc is objectively bad does not absolve them of their actions? Like Vlad never tries to better himself as a person and constantly admits he’s fucking Satan, but you still get this vibe from the author that you’re supposed to like him cause he makes funny little comments. I don’t like him. He ate a man’s thigh right in front of the guy. He sucks.
If you couldn’t tell, I would not recommend this book.
PS - who’s the guy on the cover? It’s not Vlad since we know that nearly every inch of his skin is tattooed. Who’s that dude supposed to be?