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A review by virgo_reader
Where Violets Bloom by Daisy Jane
1.0
I have no problem with dark romances, psycho heroes, or stalkers… but where I draw the line? Cops who use their power in all-too-realistic ways.
When I realized in chapter 2 of this book that Van was a cop, I almost put it down. When he began to go full-on corrupt cop police brutality, I probably should have.
Example: him pulling over a guy for licensed expiration and saying, in respond to the guy asking why he had to put his hands on the dash, “Because I told you to, and I have the gun and you don’t.”
Another example: him stalking the heroine in uniform and in his police car.
It just felt so… icky. Because of course that can and does happen. I can suspend disbelief for psychos and stalkers but something about it being a cop made it all too real.
Also, they really tried to rationalize him stalking her and her (and her friend) being okay with it. Like, no. It’s never okay to stalk. So lean INTO the psycho. I want to read about a heroine who finds out someone is stalking her and fucks him up or turns it into a game. Not one who’s like, “I know this is wrong. But because you say you love me it’s okay.”
So, yeah. Apparently cheating and shady cops are my hard no’s on romance.
CW: domestic abuse (parent/child), neglect, stalking, violence, corrupt cop
When I realized in chapter 2 of this book that Van was a cop, I almost put it down. When he began to go full-on corrupt cop police brutality, I probably should have.
Example: him pulling over a guy for licensed expiration and saying, in respond to the guy asking why he had to put his hands on the dash, “Because I told you to, and I have the gun and you don’t.”
Another example: him stalking the heroine in uniform and in his police car.
It just felt so… icky. Because of course that can and does happen. I can suspend disbelief for psychos and stalkers but something about it being a cop made it all too real.
Also, they really tried to rationalize him stalking her and her (and her friend) being okay with it. Like, no. It’s never okay to stalk. So lean INTO the psycho. I want to read about a heroine who finds out someone is stalking her and fucks him up or turns it into a game. Not one who’s like, “I know this is wrong. But because you say you love me it’s okay.”
So, yeah. Apparently cheating and shady cops are my hard no’s on romance.
CW: domestic abuse (parent/child), neglect, stalking, violence, corrupt cop