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The Book of Azrael
by Amber V. Nicole
DNF at 80%
The first thing I'm going to say is this book is way too long. It literally could have been cut in half and you wouldn't miss anything relevant. I literally found myself skimming every paragraph and getting genuinely pissed off at how unnecessarily long the sentences were. SO much repetition. We're reminded of Dianna and Gabby's sisterly relationship so much throughout the book it make me wanna bash my head in. WE GET IT, shut up and move on!!! Also the MMC's sexual past was brought up a lot of times it got annoying. Just these small points being brought up over and over again. 800+ pages of the same shit.
Also, the book was advertised as a "female villain" and "true enemies to lovers". Let me just say NONE of that was well done in this book. Dianna is not a villain, it's even said in the book by Liam. And the "enemies to lovers" was so cheap it was painful to read. I enjoyed the first few scenes between Dianna and Liam, they were actually giving me the vibe they hated each other. But after they make their deal and are forced to work together, it just becomes dull. Their conversations were so robotic there was absolutely no connection between them. Most of their scenes together are just corny insults or Liam "glaring" at her. (I genuinely think the world glaring was used like 200 times).
Then at the 50% mark, out of NOWHERE, a switch literally flips in Dianna after Liam has a nightmare and she requests that they be friends from here on out. This was so infuriating and so so lazy. The author really had to force their relationship so she pulls this Wattpad core outdated trope. There was literally no build up either.. one nightmare and they're suddenly friends. Liam has all this trauma from his dad and it's interesting at first but gets super overbearing, like there's a PTSD flashback nearly EVERY chapter. At this point I'm over it but force myself to keep reading. They meet up with Dianna's friends, Drake and Ethan and stay at their mansion for a few days. This whole time Liam is super jealous of Drake and Dianna and its honestly really annoying and immature. Like he spends the whole time whining. Also Dianna picks out this black dress and Liam decides its too slutty and makes her a new one, and this idiot Dianna is swooning over it. Then they go make a deal with a Camilla and she asks for a kiss from Liam to seal the deal. And he actually does it?? Right in front of Dianna. After getting so jealous about Drake, he kisses another woman right in front of her.. talk about hypocritical. Dianna gets shot and he basically saves her life, cue to the underwhelming, overhyped sex scenes. Oops, there was no actual sex. After that I just dropped it cause I was done. I went into this expecting a REAL enemies to lovers but was met with severe disappointment. It just went downhill after the halfway mark.
The first thing I'm going to say is this book is way too long. It literally could have been cut in half and you wouldn't miss anything relevant. I literally found myself skimming every paragraph and getting genuinely pissed off at how unnecessarily long the sentences were. SO much repetition. We're reminded of Dianna and Gabby's sisterly relationship so much throughout the book it make me wanna bash my head in. WE GET IT, shut up and move on!!! Also the MMC's sexual past was brought up a lot of times it got annoying. Just these small points being brought up over and over again. 800+ pages of the same shit.
Also, the book was advertised as a "female villain" and "true enemies to lovers". Let me just say NONE of that was well done in this book. Dianna is not a villain, it's even said in the book by Liam. And the "enemies to lovers" was so cheap it was painful to read. I enjoyed the first few scenes between Dianna and Liam, they were actually giving me the vibe they hated each other. But after they make their deal and are forced to work together, it just becomes dull. Their conversations were so robotic there was absolutely no connection between them. Most of their scenes together are just corny insults or Liam "glaring" at her. (I genuinely think the world glaring was used like 200 times).
Then at the 50% mark, out of NOWHERE, a switch literally flips in Dianna after Liam has a nightmare and she requests that they be friends from here on out. This was so infuriating and so so lazy. The author really had to force their relationship so she pulls this Wattpad core outdated trope. There was literally no build up either.. one nightmare and they're suddenly friends. Liam has all this trauma from his dad and it's interesting at first but gets super overbearing, like there's a PTSD flashback nearly EVERY chapter. At this point I'm over it but force myself to keep reading. They meet up with Dianna's friends, Drake and Ethan and stay at their mansion for a few days. This whole time Liam is super jealous of Drake and Dianna and its honestly really annoying and immature. Like he spends the whole time whining. Also Dianna picks out this black dress and Liam decides its too slutty and makes her a new one, and this idiot Dianna is swooning over it. Then they go make a deal with a Camilla and she asks for a kiss from Liam to seal the deal. And he actually does it?? Right in front of Dianna. After getting so jealous about Drake, he kisses another woman right in front of her.. talk about hypocritical. Dianna gets shot and he basically saves her life, cue to the underwhelming, overhyped sex scenes. Oops, there was no actual sex. After that I just dropped it cause I was done. I went into this expecting a REAL enemies to lovers but was met with severe disappointment. It just went downhill after the halfway mark.