A review by shaykay
If You Dare by Harmony West

dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I was obsessed with the cover, not going to lie, that's what pulled me into the first book. It is a dark romance and the MMC is bullying her to run her off. He doesn't want her on campus anymore due to blaming her for his sister's death. Then the FMC is dealing with grief. She blames herself and thinks she deserves him to hate her and bully her. It gets really dark because he takes things so far and I kind of wish we had more of the college/hockey vibes because it was really easy to forget where we were at. Then everything was just suddenly fine and these two needed to have more conversations and work things through together to get to the place where they were healing together. It just got a bit too much for me. It is an emotional read because we are dealing with a lot of grief and heavy content. I don't think I'm going to read the rest of the series; I might read the next one just because it's Luke's book but then the next one is Trey's and he does not need a redemption story! Bad guys can stay bad guys and don't need redemption, and Trey is one of those that just does not deserve an HEA. 

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