A review by renaes01
Dirty Monsters by Katie Rae, Zoey Drake

2.0

I was honestly expecting so much more from this book. I wanted it to be more angsty and more of a slow burn but there was instant lust between Wren and Ro. I wish there was more relationship development because they went from lusting each other to loving real quick. I also don’t think we saw the true struggle of addiction and trauma because Wren’s drug addiction seemingly disappeared and her trauma was never unpacked. I feel like we never actually got to see her heal which was disappointing and honestly sad. I also didn’t love Ro, he was pretty meh to me. I didn’t like how he spent a lot of time talking about how it was Wren’s fault that him and his brother got kicked out and didn’t understand why the parents gave them up. He also liked to say that he didn’t do anything too her (besides allowing her to be SA and wishing he did it first) and didn’t understand why she hated him too. Like you can maybe have that mentality when you’re a child but he was thinking that shit as a fully grown man. He did show remorse in the end but still. Mind you I have read some DARK romance where the hero does terrible shit to the heroine but they were written and redeemed in a certain way that Ro was not. The ending was also super rushed.