I’ve been trying to think why I just haven’t connected with this book, these characters and it’s coming down to  a couple things. This book felt like a half send in the wrong genre. I’d consider myself a dark romance lover so I’m no stranger to a obsessive possessive MMC but in a dark romance it’s more extreme and unrealistic in a good way(like he’d be the hhead of a mafia family or an actual stalker lol) so Eli’s character just felt a bit cringe in this more serious setting. 

Don’t get me wrong this book had a few good touching moments and sentiments but mixed in with the absolutely truck load of smut they didn’t hit as hard. Usually if I’m wanting a truck load of smut I don’t also want touching sentiment. These are too different sort of books I like and this for some reason didn’t work for either catagory.

 Ok lastly if you’re going to pick up another Hazelwood book, and you should, go for Bride or Love hypothesis. Those are 5 star reads and if you actually want a MMC to bring the controlling in bed obsessed over the FMC then let me know cause I have real dark romance recs more entertaining than this 😂