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Broken Bonds by J. Bree

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shaykay's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Broken Bonds! It's the start of this new crazy world, and I loved this first book so much. The first book, and honestly the second one, are my favorite of the series because I loved the school setting. This book is a slow burn and, frankly, a bully romance mixed with enemies to lovers, and I just could not get enough of it. Oli is fantastic, and she went through so much before this book started that we don't even realize it until later in the series when her secrets start to come out. Anyway, this one was a fantastic start to a really good series, and I really want to get a physical set of them.

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buildingourbookshelves's review

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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love3v07's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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jen_sten's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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amanda_reads_free's review against another edition

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This book made me cringe so much. I DNFed with only 100 pages left. I like the concept of the book but it just kept dragging on and nothing was happening. It was just a bunch of guys bullying the female MC. Also all the rape talk right away in the first couple pages threw me way off.

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sillih28's review

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challenging emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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liz21's review

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dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

I enjoyed some of the characters (Gryphon, Sage, Atlas, mostly Oli), but Gabe, North, and especially Nox were vile. I must preface this as saying that I don’t normally read dark romance, so maybe you’d be fine with this, but there’s a lot of things that are big no-nos for me in fiction and naturally in real life too. I like some of the characters well enough that I’m possibly interested in reading more, but ultimately feel like something Nox did.

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Nox rapes Oli but I’m getting a vibe that they might just brush it off as “she wanted it because she came,” which is horrible. Idk if that’s a normal dark fantasy / dark romance thing, but it’s not cool to paint it as something she didn’t want, but it’s “not really rape” because she didn’t—and couldn’t—say no in the moment despite saying no many, many times throughout the course of the book.

Ultimately, I’m still trying to decide if I want to read on because Gryphon’s character especially was really wonderful, as was Atlas, but I’m just struggling with Nox a lot.

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elauren113's review

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dark tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

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moggle's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Yelling when I finished it, looking forward to the next one. Super into it, would only recommend to people specifically though.

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estabonbon's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

TW: rape. I really hate how the author plays it off as its not rape.
The FMC character development is so good! I can't wait to see where this story goes!

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