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Not A Whisper by MT Addams
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
So I had been waiting for this book to come out ever since I read the ending of the first.
Maybe being a mood reader does have the challenges so when I started reading this book after maybe a month or two of it being out, I did get back into it, but felt slightly enthused.
Although I did find the overall story for both books to be good, I just felt slightly disappointed in my feelings about this book
I think it took me three months to actually finish this and I am happy that I did finish it. I’m just not happy that I couldn’t give it a four star or five.
And I think it has to do with the evil plans of the father and how they reacted to it. It just felt very Austin Powers, but serious. So it took me out of the enjoyment..
I recommend this book, yes! I recommend the duets because I think that these characters deserve to be known and I do love them!
Maybe being a mood reader does have the challenges so when I started reading this book after maybe a month or two of it being out, I did get back into it, but felt slightly enthused.
Although I did find the overall story for both books to be good, I just felt slightly disappointed in my feelings about this book
I think it took me three months to actually finish this and I am happy that I did finish it. I’m just not happy that I couldn’t give it a four star or five.
And I think it has to do with the evil plans of the father and how they reacted to it. It just felt very Austin Powers, but serious. So it took me out of the enjoyment..
I recommend this book, yes! I recommend the duets because I think that these characters deserve to be known and I do love them!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, and Death of parent
Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury
Head Above Water by CE Ricci
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Grief
Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent
Minor: Homophobia
Cooper by Nicola Jane
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Although this isn’t the worst MC romance that I’ve read it isn’t the best.
You think about the FMC would be and have more of a backbone, especially with what Cooper did to her and she does for the time being.
I just hate that it took something very traumatic and tragic for her to come around his thinking and get back together with him. He didn’t have to grovel because she was so shaken up about what happened to her. It just doesn’t seem right in the romance plot.
You think about the FMC would be and have more of a backbone, especially with what Cooper did to her and she does for the time being.
I just hate that it took something very traumatic and tragic for her to come around his thinking and get back together with him. He didn’t have to grovel because she was so shaken up about what happened to her. It just doesn’t seem right in the romance plot.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
Moderate: Gun violence and Violence
Rough by S.E. Green
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
This was way better than I expected, and some of the betrays hit me in the gut.
I didn’t think that their grovel was just enough, especially since it’s not a cheating type of gravel. It was mainly a misinterpreted betray.
I didn’t think that their grovel was just enough, especially since it’s not a cheating type of gravel. It was mainly a misinterpreted betray.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Sexual assault
Destroying My Ex by Jordan Silver
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Again, I didn’t expect to thoroughly enjoy cheating romance that was not our main character cheating.
This revenge was very crazy very unrealistic, but it’s fiction. The only reason I haven’t given it a five is because I wish she was more graphic with the intimate scenes and a little bit longer with explanations of how things were happening.
But overall GOOD!!
This revenge was very crazy very unrealistic, but it’s fiction. The only reason I haven’t given it a five is because I wish she was more graphic with the intimate scenes and a little bit longer with explanations of how things were happening.
But overall GOOD!!
Drowning in Lies: A Psychological Suspense Novel by E.K. Hart
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
For how short this was and how cringe the blur was, I thought this was going to be a very quick and bad read.
I was pleasantly surprised when I was really enthralled with what was going on in the story.
By no means is it believable in reality, but I was trying to figure out what was going to happen next and why certain things were happening.
Also having the romance be the back burner of the story was really good for me and it wasn’t a traditional happy ever after.
It did make sense with what the FMC was going through and how she felt after everything, but I am glad that she got her happy ever after.
I was pleasantly surprised when I was really enthralled with what was going on in the story.
By no means is it believable in reality, but I was trying to figure out what was going to happen next and why certain things were happening.
Also having the romance be the back burner of the story was really good for me and it wasn’t a traditional happy ever after.
It did make sense with what the FMC was going through and how she felt after everything, but I am glad that she got her happy ever after.
Oleander: A Great Expectations Retelling by Scarlett Drake
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
* I definitely don’t want to ruin anything for anyone especially this early, but if you want to read a great romance. That in stages leads more and more desperate for some kind of happy ending. Yet you have to go through this grueling emotional angst filled journey. Come the end of it, you realize that they chose you and has been choosing you since they subconsciously realize that they loved you.*
I was really happy to receive this ARC. I had been in almost a month long reading slump. This is so angst filled. You get invested in the character’s fill in the emotions that sometimes you’ll just end up tearing up or crying without realizing that it’s happening.
Jude has made me feel so much through my reading journey with him that when he was feeling the heartbreak was feeling it and crying.
I never expected the I don’t even know what to call it. If you should call it the twist in the end, but I didn’t expect how everything played out. The ‘Why would you?’..and ‘How could you?’…just kept coming up.
You definitely need to check the trigger warnings because as a story progresses, you start seeing things that suggest certain situations, but doesn’t outright say things until it does. I haven’t felt this way since reading, Darling Venom, for various other reasons that aren’t the TW of the book. But the very visceral emotion that I had as the FMC character developed.
My first paragraph might seem a bit dramatic, but I think that’s what this book has still in me because I want you to understand that this is going to hurt, but by the end of it, I hope, you’ll love it just as much as I did. So please read it!!!
I was really happy to receive this ARC. I had been in almost a month long reading slump. This is so angst filled. You get invested in the character’s fill in the emotions that sometimes you’ll just end up tearing up or crying without realizing that it’s happening.
Jude has made me feel so much through my reading journey with him that when he was feeling the heartbreak was feeling it and crying.
I never expected the I don’t even know what to call it. If you should call it the twist in the end, but I didn’t expect how everything played out. The ‘Why would you?’..and ‘How could you?’…just kept coming up.
You definitely need to check the trigger warnings because as a story progresses, you start seeing things that suggest certain situations, but doesn’t outright say things until it does. I haven’t felt this way since reading, Darling Venom, for various other reasons that aren’t the TW of the book. But the very visceral emotion that I had as the FMC character developed.
My first paragraph might seem a bit dramatic, but I think that’s what this book has still in me because I want you to understand that this is going to hurt, but by the end of it, I hope, you’ll love it just as much as I did. So please read it!!!
Lessons from the Depraved by Kinsley Kincaid
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Although this was short, it did take me three days to read it because of how outrageously the plot is.
I kept falling out of the story, because of some of the things that were being done to the FMC and her reactions to it.
But I am glad I read it!
I kept falling out of the story, because of some of the things that were being done to the FMC and her reactions to it.
But I am glad I read it!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, and Kidnapping