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havenotreadinyears 's review for:
Rebel Heart
by Elle Thorpe
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really, really wanted to love this series, just from getting to know Rebel in Psychos. But her this story felt pretty similar to Bliss's, down to the accidental (because you can't get yourself on birth control) pregnancy. I really disliked that storyline here. Throughout Psychos and the first two books of this series, Rebel showed she was more the auntie type than being a mother herself. It would've been nice to not have a series finale with a child. But nope, we got two even. Hell, all of them together can have their own day care center soon.
I felt there could have been so much more to this book. Dig deeper or stay a bit longer with certain storylines. The revelation of who killed the parents and why was like 5 minutes and then we were done with it. I mostly kept reading it for Fang and a bit because of Kian's and Rebels bickering. Vaughan and Kian grew on me, but I didn't love them. But still, at the end of three books I feel like I don't know them super well. Rebel was okay, which is was, because I wanted to love her, hell, I did from Psychos. But I feel like we only saw her horny, anxious or obsessed about revenge.
I also feel like these books could easy be put into two. Scrap some stuff, like POVs of people that aren't MCs of the series and make the page content "more high quality".
Oh and I am not a fan of the bonus epilogue that's a teaser of the next series. Yes, I get it, you want us to go read it. But it leaves you uneasy and that's not how you're supposed to leave a series like this. Add it as a bonus teaser at the end, but name of differently, so that people know what they are getting in to and can decide themselves if they want to read it.
I felt there could have been so much more to this book. Dig deeper or stay a bit longer with certain storylines. The revelation of who killed the parents and why was like 5 minutes and then we were done with it. I mostly kept reading it for Fang and a bit because of Kian's and Rebels bickering. Vaughan and Kian grew on me, but I didn't love them. But still, at the end of three books I feel like I don't know them super well. Rebel was okay, which is was, because I wanted to love her, hell, I did from Psychos. But I feel like we only saw her horny, anxious or obsessed about revenge.
I also feel like these books could easy be put into two. Scrap some stuff, like POVs of people that aren't MCs of the series and make the page content "more high quality".
Oh and I am not a fan of the bonus epilogue that's a teaser of the next series. Yes, I get it, you want us to go read it. But it leaves you uneasy and that's not how you're supposed to leave a series like this. Add it as a bonus teaser at the end, but name of differently, so that people know what they are getting in to and can decide themselves if they want to read it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Drug use, Infertility, Mental illness, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis