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A review by sammy234
Slut by Jettie Woodruff
2.0
I can't tell you how disappointing this sequel was.
The first book in the Twin Duo was suspenseful and sharp and smart. This book was too disjointed to be any of those things. It was simply put, an extreme mess.
Too much was happening at once so that major revelations never got resolved. The alpha male villain male lead/love interest had a complete personality transplant so you could rest assured that he was a good guy by the end of it.
I think that a lot of the time, authors start their stories off dark and controversial, and then they just don't follow through because it's definitely safer not to. Not everybody likes reading controversial, dark novels.
I was never given a true reason why Paxton was the way he was, but I could of dealt with that if he hadn't suddenly turned into Mr. nice guy. It was so unbelievable and I didn't understand it. I came here for a dark romance but once again, a dark romance has turned into a play by the rules mushy gushy soap opera.
I also didn't understand Gabby. At all. She only had one concrete emotion throughout the whole book, and that was that she loved her children.
Everything else that she felt could change in literally one page.
She loves her life. No, wait. She hates it. She's running away forever. No, wait. She could never leave. She hates her husband. He's the devil. No, wait. He's such a dream boat. She's angry about something. She'll never get over it. No, wait. She'll have sex and suddenly it won't matter.
Everything was so back and forth. It was tedious.
Lastly, the thriller aspect of the first novel was completely absent here. I pretty much had all the information when I began this story. I got a couple of reveals (if you could even call them that) but they don't even inspire any interest. They are predictable.
So overall, this book deserves only two stars.
The male lead wasn't a villain anymore.
The female lead was a total flake.
And everything read like a soap opera instead of a high stakes mystery thriller.
The first book in the Twin Duo was suspenseful and sharp and smart. This book was too disjointed to be any of those things. It was simply put, an extreme mess.
Too much was happening at once so that major revelations never got resolved. The alpha male villain male lead/love interest had a complete personality transplant so you could rest assured that he was a good guy by the end of it.
I think that a lot of the time, authors start their stories off dark and controversial, and then they just don't follow through because it's definitely safer not to. Not everybody likes reading controversial, dark novels.
I was never given a true reason why Paxton was the way he was, but I could of dealt with that if he hadn't suddenly turned into Mr. nice guy. It was so unbelievable and I didn't understand it. I came here for a dark romance but once again, a dark romance has turned into a play by the rules mushy gushy soap opera.
I also didn't understand Gabby. At all. She only had one concrete emotion throughout the whole book, and that was that she loved her children.
Everything else that she felt could change in literally one page.
She loves her life. No, wait. She hates it. She's running away forever. No, wait. She could never leave. She hates her husband. He's the devil. No, wait. He's such a dream boat. She's angry about something. She'll never get over it. No, wait. She'll have sex and suddenly it won't matter.
Everything was so back and forth. It was tedious.
Lastly, the thriller aspect of the first novel was completely absent here. I pretty much had all the information when I began this story. I got a couple of reveals (if you could even call them that) but they don't even inspire any interest. They are predictable.
So overall, this book deserves only two stars.
The male lead wasn't a villain anymore.
The female lead was a total flake.
And everything read like a soap opera instead of a high stakes mystery thriller.