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A review by smakinde
Hooked by Emily McIntire
2.0
Alright alright alright… let’s talk about it.
I’m still new to dark romance/thriller-whatever this is considered, so you may take this with a grain of salt.
Things I liked:
The MMC is Hook(Captain Hook)
The FMC is Wendy, her dad is Peter-his assistant is Tina Belle(lol). Peter’s business is called NevAirLand and the group that Hook runs with is called Lost Boys. That was all cute and it wasn’t as cheesy as I anticipated it to be.
Now. The first part of the book was a little slow and really be expected. Obviously getting to know the characters is always a little slow, but it didn’t really pick up alot until the middle/end of the book.
Wendy is pretty naive and it’s cool to see her come into her own by the end. She kills her dad… oh and she kills Tina Belle too, so I thought that was a little different than what we were lead to believe. I love that she lovers her brother so much, spoiler alert—her and Hook share the brother(she has the same mom as her brother and Hook has the same dad as the brother), so that felt strange HAHA.
Hook or James, is fine. He reminds me a bit of the MMC in Haunting Adeline and I hated that book series, so I was turned off right away. He’s obviously got a lot of trauma and while his mission has been to kill anyone who has hurt him or his family(they all died in a plane crash set off my Peter) he’s pretty much an idiot. Okay maybe that’s harsh… but like he finds out that someone is trying to ruin his business, kills his business partner and so he freaks. When he finds out that a woman has been a part of it… he just thinks it’s Wendy?? Like you didn’t think to ask what the woman LOOKED LIKE?? Men… I digress.
Peter is straight up awful. He is never home and while we learn that his Jon, isn’t his son, but really his dead’s wife’s child with their best friend(yes this is hooks daddy), he basically has Wendy raise him. And when push comes to shove, Peter does nothing to defend his daughter, but does everything to control her.
Was it fun to read? Yes. I needed something different than what I normally do, but I just couldn’t get over some of the ick lines and Hook just annoyed me half the time. 2.5 3⭐️⭐️ it is.
I’m still new to dark romance/thriller-whatever this is considered, so you may take this with a grain of salt.
Things I liked:
The MMC is Hook(Captain Hook)
The FMC is Wendy, her dad is Peter-his assistant is Tina Belle(lol). Peter’s business is called NevAirLand and the group that Hook runs with is called Lost Boys. That was all cute and it wasn’t as cheesy as I anticipated it to be.
Now. The first part of the book was a little slow and really be expected. Obviously getting to know the characters is always a little slow, but it didn’t really pick up alot until the middle/end of the book.
Wendy is pretty naive and it’s cool to see her come into her own by the end. She kills her dad… oh and she kills Tina Belle too, so I thought that was a little different than what we were lead to believe. I love that she lovers her brother so much, spoiler alert—her and Hook share the brother(she has the same mom as her brother and Hook has the same dad as the brother), so that felt strange HAHA.
Hook or James, is fine. He reminds me a bit of the MMC in Haunting Adeline and I hated that book series, so I was turned off right away. He’s obviously got a lot of trauma and while his mission has been to kill anyone who has hurt him or his family(they all died in a plane crash set off my Peter) he’s pretty much an idiot. Okay maybe that’s harsh… but like he finds out that someone is trying to ruin his business, kills his business partner and so he freaks. When he finds out that a woman has been a part of it… he just thinks it’s Wendy?? Like you didn’t think to ask what the woman LOOKED LIKE?? Men… I digress.
Peter is straight up awful. He is never home and while we learn that his Jon, isn’t his son, but really his dead’s wife’s child with their best friend(yes this is hooks daddy), he basically has Wendy raise him. And when push comes to shove, Peter does nothing to defend his daughter, but does everything to control her.
Was it fun to read? Yes. I needed something different than what I normally do, but I just couldn’t get over some of the ick lines and Hook just annoyed me half the time. 2.5 3⭐️⭐️ it is.