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A review by ohshebookish
What Did You Do? by Jeneane O'Riley
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Woah. I thought it couldn't get wilder than book one...boy, was I wrong!
What Did You Do picks up after the end of How Does It Feel, so you're able to jump right in from that cliffhanger. Alternating between the past and present, we're also given another pov in addition to Mendax and Caly's. A lot more world building is done in this book (which sometimes felt like info dumping), context is added, and we learn much more about everyone's past, as well as, the events leading up to the present day.
How Does It Feel ended on a big plot twist and cliffhanger that left me reeling, but this book? Plot twist, after plot twist, after plot twist. Jeneane had me on the edge of my seat the whole time! Every time I thought I had something figured out, bam, think again. Even knowing that there was an unreliable narrator situation, I was still caught and shocked every time. You can't trust anything! Or anybody! Except Mendax, and he's the villain lol. This book really makes you debate the gray area of dark and light, good and bad. You will question who is the real villain throughout the whole story.
The spice was definitely turned up a notch in this one, and it was crazyyy. There's one scene that will blow your mind! If you thought Mendax was unhinged and dark in the first book, you haven't seen anything yet.
Something that I could've done without were all the scientific terms that Caly used unecessarily. It seemed forced and out of place, making the reading disjointed. There were also things that I felt popped up randomly, that didn't make sense or had no prior context, like it was just there for shock value. There were several character developments or situations that were contradictory to what we were previously shown, which threw me off at times. I'm very interested to see how and what questions will be answered in book 3, because you're still left with a lot after this one.
All in all, I highly enjoyed this book! This series has me sucked in, and I'm desperate to see how it will all end.
What Did You Do picks up after the end of How Does It Feel, so you're able to jump right in from that cliffhanger. Alternating between the past and present, we're also given another pov in addition to Mendax and Caly's. A lot more world building is done in this book (which sometimes felt like info dumping), context is added, and we learn much more about everyone's past, as well as, the events leading up to the present day.
How Does It Feel ended on a big plot twist and cliffhanger that left me reeling, but this book? Plot twist, after plot twist, after plot twist. Jeneane had me on the edge of my seat the whole time! Every time I thought I had something figured out, bam, think again. Even knowing that there was an unreliable narrator situation, I was still caught and shocked every time. You can't trust anything! Or anybody! Except Mendax, and he's the villain lol. This book really makes you debate the gray area of dark and light, good and bad. You will question who is the real villain throughout the whole story.
The spice was definitely turned up a notch in this one, and it was crazyyy. There's one scene that will blow your mind! If you thought Mendax was unhinged and dark in the first book, you haven't seen anything yet.
Something that I could've done without were all the scientific terms that Caly used unecessarily. It seemed forced and out of place, making the reading disjointed. There were also things that I felt popped up randomly, that didn't make sense or had no prior context, like it was just there for shock value. There were several character developments or situations that were contradictory to what we were previously shown, which threw me off at times. I'm very interested to see how and what questions will be answered in book 3, because you're still left with a lot after this one.
All in all, I highly enjoyed this book! This series has me sucked in, and I'm desperate to see how it will all end.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, and Child death