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A review by jessiereadsfantasy
Hooked by Emily McIntire
4.0
WARNING: If you are not into dark romance and/or mobsters, you may want to rethink reading this book. It contains very dark themes (detailed crime, unaliving, hand necklaces, references to substances, napping of people (if you catch my drift), etc.). Also, the villain gets a happy ending AND gets the girl. So if any of those things are triggering, please reconsider reading this book.
The storyline in this book is very clear and engaging. The writing is ok for the type of book it is. The book is a spicy read (highly descriptive and explicit scenes with many of the same lines) so I imagine one is here for the smut first and a decent story second. The plot twists were welcomed because it kept me turning the pages (and so did the smut, not going to lie).
The book is a retelling of Peter Pan only if everyone was in the mafia and Hook wins. Our FMC, Wendy Michaels, is a heiress who is trapped in her father's shadow. Que the daddy issues. While at a bar, she catches the eye of James aka Hook, our MMC, who instantly knows she is Peter Michaels's daughter. Hook decides to use Wendy as a cog in his plan to get revenge on Peter and seduces her, but falls for her which makes seeking revenge just a bit harder than expected. However, Wendy, though she appears to be the picture-perfect heiress, has her own darkness to grapple with, and that darkness becomes her ally as she comes into herself.
Evil is rampant in almost everyone in the book; however, the level of evil varies from character to character. You desperately feel for Hook as his origin story is revealed page after page and it is so incredibly dark, that you may find yourself, much like I did, justifying his less-than-legal actions. Sure, that does not make him a good person, but he isn't supposed to be. He is the villain after all. You would be hard-pressed to find someone who went through the same level of trauma that he did not to become a villain. Honestly, he was the only character I liked despite all of the red flags (which Hook is FULL of).
I did not like Wendy's character in the beginning, but I don't think one is supposed to like her until later on in the book. She is meek, often too consumed with what others think, and has random instances of a tough-girl attitude. This does play to the fact that she is 21 years old. I understand why the author developed her the way she did because it wouldn't make sense for the storyline otherwise. As the story progresses, had she remained as she was first presented, she would not have ended up with Hook. Both her and Hook's moral compasses become aligned and that makes their relationship work.
4/5; good storyline, good spicy read. Couldn't have wanted anything more from a spicy read. Would recommend and I am going to check out other books by Ms. McIntire.
The storyline in this book is very clear and engaging. The writing is ok for the type of book it is. The book is a spicy read (highly descriptive and explicit scenes with many of the same lines) so I imagine one is here for the smut first and a decent story second. The plot twists were welcomed because it kept me turning the pages (and so did the smut, not going to lie).
The book is a retelling of Peter Pan only if everyone was in the mafia and Hook wins. Our FMC, Wendy Michaels, is a heiress who is trapped in her father's shadow. Que the daddy issues. While at a bar, she catches the eye of James aka Hook, our MMC, who instantly knows she is Peter Michaels's daughter. Hook decides to use Wendy as a cog in his plan to get revenge on Peter and seduces her, but falls for her which makes seeking revenge just a bit harder than expected. However, Wendy, though she appears to be the picture-perfect heiress, has her own darkness to grapple with, and that darkness becomes her ally as she comes into herself.
Evil is rampant in almost everyone in the book; however, the level of evil varies from character to character. You desperately feel for Hook as his origin story is revealed page after page and it is so incredibly dark, that you may find yourself, much like I did, justifying his less-than-legal actions. Sure, that does not make him a good person, but he isn't supposed to be. He is the villain after all. You would be hard-pressed to find someone who went through the same level of trauma that he did not to become a villain. Honestly, he was the only character I liked despite all of the red flags (which Hook is FULL of).
I did not like Wendy's character in the beginning, but I don't think one is supposed to like her until later on in the book. She is meek, often too consumed with what others think, and has random instances of a tough-girl attitude. This does play to the fact that she is 21 years old. I understand why the author developed her the way she did because it wouldn't make sense for the storyline otherwise. As the story progresses, had she remained as she was first presented, she would not have ended up with Hook. Both her and Hook's moral compasses become aligned and that makes their relationship work.
4/5; good storyline, good spicy read. Couldn't have wanted anything more from a spicy read. Would recommend and I am going to check out other books by Ms. McIntire.