A review by ccricket
Caught Up by Navessa Allen

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

3.5

Liked
  • Let’s be real the sex scenes in this are top notch and somehow better than the first 🥵
  • I really liked the kink exploration and it felt like the author really did her research. It was one of the only things in the book that felt genuine 
Disliked
  • Another terrible MMC name 😩
  • Not a fan of guys with anger issues 🤢
  • I kinda wish it were all new characters unconnected to the first book
  • Felt like it was trying way too hard to be modern and cool and edgy
  • Not the third act break up 🙄

I don’t want to compare this one too much to the first one bc I don’t feel like that’s totally fair, but imo this one fell short in pretty much every way for me. Everything just felt kinda forced and disingenuous, from the humor to the ‘plot’ to the character’s personalities. A lot of it just felt very how do u do fellow kids, look how quirky and fun my character are 🥴 it wasn’t terrible and at least there were minimal typos, but aside from the obscenely hot sex scenes
the fucking confessional booth oml
and the scattered scenes with Josh and Aly, I didn’t really enjoy this one too much. 
Also was that last page supposed to hint that
the next book would be about Tyler
bc absolutely fucking no 🤢
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