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If I Stopped Haunting You
by Colby Wilkens
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
I wanted to love this one- I love horror and ghost stories! I love smut! I love BIPOC characters and authors and love some reality thrown in!
This book was fine. With a lighter romance like this, I'm usually done in a few days but this one took me three weeks to get through because It really dragged in places. I almost gave up but glad I didn't as the action in the last quarter was good (though the ending was only meh).
Wilkens did the horror/ thriller parts well. She can paint a creepy atmosphere! The smut was fun. The characters were insufferable. It was hard to believe the MCs were around 30 with the childish ways they carried on. The book could've used a bit more editing to really flow well, not unexpected for a debut.
I loved the fact that the MCs were Native and there was commentary on the struggles they had in the publishing industry, and I particularly connected with Pen’s feelings of being “not enough” as a mixed woman…BUT then I learned about the controversy about the author and it left an icky taste in my mouth. YES, she may have experienced all these feelings herself if she has lived her entire life thinking she is Native. I DO appreciate that she has now updated her information to reflect that she has no known Native ancestry and that she will no longer write Native stories. She did have important commentary to make, I just wished she had gone through the process before writing this book from this perspective.
This book was fine. With a lighter romance like this, I'm usually done in a few days but this one took me three weeks to get through because It really dragged in places. I almost gave up but glad I didn't as the action in the last quarter was good (though the ending was only meh).
Wilkens did the horror/ thriller parts well. She can paint a creepy atmosphere! The smut was fun. The characters were insufferable. It was hard to believe the MCs were around 30 with the childish ways they carried on. The book could've used a bit more editing to really flow well, not unexpected for a debut.
I loved the fact that the MCs were Native and there was commentary on the struggles they had in the publishing industry, and I particularly connected with Pen’s feelings of being “not enough” as a mixed woman…BUT then I learned about the controversy about the author and it left an icky taste in my mouth. YES, she may have experienced all these feelings herself if she has lived her entire life thinking she is Native. I DO appreciate that she has now updated her information to reflect that she has no known Native ancestry and that she will no longer write Native stories. She did have important commentary to make, I just wished she had gone through the process before writing this book from this perspective.