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A review by levzies
Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Audiobook - Spotify
4 ✨
2.5 🌶️
Dark Romance • Stalker • Mystery • Trafficking
* As always with Darker Romances please check trigger warnings!! Don’t go unkowningly into something you know you’ll hate or aren’t prepared for.
I’ve heard so much about this duology and truthfully it was one I was prepared to skip until I found the audiobook available on Spotify premium. Whilst I’ve read my share of Dark Romances ‘the stalker’ trope just didn’t appeal at all however with soooo many raving reviews my intrigue got the best of me.
I thought this book would be a bit more like the Mindfuck series, serial killer who falls in love.
Likes
- well written (tad repetitive towards the end)
- love the eerie setting & the house vibes
- would make a great Halloween read
- Mystery within the story made it more entertaining. I had a peak of the book in stores & love how the Great Grans dairy entries were featured like a handwritten page.
- probably one of the best narrations you’ll ever hear!
- intriguing / Entertaining
Dislikes
- Zade behaviors is hypocritical.
- Conflicted with Zade doing a good thing by killing these awful people but toying / torturing Adeline at the same time. Sandwich that with the whole consent thing. It’s like Author is trying to justify Zade’s behavior like “he’s not that bad” look at all the children and women he saves but depraved in how he treats the women he’s obsessed with.
- the amount of drinking made me want to drank! 😂 I’m not a drinker but damn Addie and her friend have a drinking problem…
Hubby’s Quote - “I need a drink” , “he’s not in love, he’s obsessed with her”
This book isn’t as dark as you’d expect but I have strong feeling that will chance in Part 2 with Mouse being taken. Some scenes were ruined 🔫 because of social media. If you go in blind you might be a bit more surprised.
Excited to pick up another H.D Carlton book
4 ✨
2.5 🌶️
Dark Romance • Stalker • Mystery • Trafficking
* As always with Darker Romances please check trigger warnings!! Don’t go unkowningly into something you know you’ll hate or aren’t prepared for.
I’ve heard so much about this duology and truthfully it was one I was prepared to skip until I found the audiobook available on Spotify premium. Whilst I’ve read my share of Dark Romances ‘the stalker’ trope just didn’t appeal at all however with soooo many raving reviews my intrigue got the best of me.
I thought this book would be a bit more like the Mindfuck series, serial killer who falls in love.
Likes
- well written (tad repetitive towards the end)
- love the eerie setting & the house vibes
- would make a great Halloween read
- Mystery within the story made it more entertaining. I had a peak of the book in stores & love how the Great Grans dairy entries were featured like a handwritten page.
- probably one of the best narrations you’ll ever hear!
- intriguing / Entertaining
Dislikes
- Zade behaviors is hypocritical.
- Conflicted with Zade doing a good thing by killing these awful people but toying / torturing Adeline at the same time. Sandwich that with the whole consent thing. It’s like Author is trying to justify Zade’s behavior like “he’s not that bad” look at all the children and women he saves but depraved in how he treats the women he’s obsessed with.
- the amount of drinking made me want to drank! 😂 I’m not a drinker but damn Addie and her friend have a drinking problem…
Hubby’s Quote - “I need a drink” , “he’s not in love, he’s obsessed with her”
This book isn’t as dark as you’d expect but I have strong feeling that will chance in Part 2 with Mouse being taken. Some scenes were ruined 🔫 because of social media. If you go in blind you might be a bit more surprised.
Excited to pick up another H.D Carlton book
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Kidnapping, Trafficking, Stalking, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual assault, and Sexual content