phedre 's review for:

Sutton Asylum by Kinsley Kincaid

1.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This could have been a great book, but the writing was atrocious.  The language is not how people generally speak or think.  It's very repetitive.  Some sentences just don't even make sense.  There were also formatting issues, but I can look past that.  Unhinged MMC and FMC, taboo, violence.  All the makings of a book I would eat up.  But this took me six days to read.  It's under 300 pages.  A book with all these tropes and trigger warnings shouldn't take so long.  But I was beyond bored.  It's rare I rate a book one star because I would have just DNFd it.  But I needed to see what I was missing.  This book had such good reviews and I waited a long time to be able to get a physical copy.  So disappointed.  Will not be reading more by this author.