A review by hailey2646
What Lies Beyond the Veil by Harper L. Woods

adventurous
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

0.0

I genuinely don’t like leaving bad reviews for books without listing some positives but I can’t with this one.

The characters were rather boring and repetitive. No one had a single ounce of character development.
This is the first book in my life where I hated every single character that was introduced.

On top of that the Main character lets her love interest be semi-abusive to her the whole time. He was also extremely misogynistic. She acts like he’s giving her a choice which is repeatedly said in the book when he does not respect her privacy in the slightest. Also once she’s “his” touches her constantly without her permission. It’s disgusting, and I get that
He’s bad in the end, but it should’ve been highly known before that by how he acted. how this book normalized immediate abuse made me so uneasy. There was no build up, it was just there.


This book tried to have all the loved tropes of 
-touch her and I’ll kill you
-strong /independent protagonist 

It was not there. 

All in all, nothing was fleshed out enough. For a long book, it was barebones and Extremely predictable.
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