A review by ariaadagio
Styxx by Sherrilyn Kenyon

dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Holy misogynistic retconning rape-filled torture-porn-palooza, Batman! Just barely didn’t DNF in the misery-laden first half of this tome. Glad I stuck with it, because damned if the Acheron Styxx reconciliation at the end didn’t do it for me. But I definitely could have done without the 700 pages of systematic (and repetitive) sexual, physical, and emotional abuse the author seems to have thought was necessary to make Styxx sympathetic enough for the reconciliation to happen. I also didn’t appreciate that this romance almost entirely lacked in actual romance. Styxx and Beth felt like an afterthought, even for the part where Beth *wasn’t* temporarily fridged.
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