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nikkiswiftielibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault
shargrave81's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol
Submissive/dominate type relationship with extreme sexual scenes, medium/fast paced, was drawn in right away!!bnoelle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol
kollieollie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Biphobia
Minor: Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Suicide, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
lapetitetulipe's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
0.25
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Addiction, Biphobia, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship
rushxsoubi's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Stalking
bootsmom3's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Sexual content and Toxic relationship
Minor: Emotional abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Rape, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
naaytaashreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
OMG, I LOVE THIS READ.
It took me a day to finish this.
Once I start, I couldn't stop.
The read sends me on an adrenaline rush with curiosity, love, sex had character development.
Slyvia Day knows how to write a romance to make us fall in love, tear us apart, make us cry, laugh and also read on about important issues.
Find me, Gideon, because I want to hug him, love him and he can make me his.
I am so curious about his childhood, history, trauma and character development.
The secrets he keeps definitely kept us and Eva on our toes but at the same time, we all just want him to feel love.
Eva was such a queen.
I love she is not really a docile female character that just falls in love and needs saving.
Her back story of her history, abuse and trust was a good balance with Gideon.
She is a badass, feisty independent queen, although sometimes I tire of her running away every time but I get it.
I need to see more of her character development and for her to take charge or her jealousy.
“I have one type: Eva Lauren Tramell. That’s it.” I rolled my eyes.
“Okay. Whatever.”
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
alekatja's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.25
The prose was still terrible: "I wasn't surprised by my roommate's emphatic pronouncement."
There was virtually no plot, no conflict that the main pairing has to work through together, definitely no conclusion (I get it’s part of a series but this felt like it ended mid chapter) and their relationship had no build up. I typically like more medium to slow paced books and a slow-burn romance – so the exact opposite of this book. Well, can you call it fast paced if nothing happens? Anyways I don’t gravitate towards insta-lust. I like when the characters are attracted to each other, of course, but not when the main character gets so hot and bothered she can’t formulate a sentence, can only think about fucking him and can’t stop thinking about him even though they’ve met once. And I especially don’t like when the love interest’s (if you can call him that) approach to starting a relationship, even just a sexual one, is “because I want to fuck you, Eva. I need to know what’s standing in my way, if anything” during their second meeting.
None of the character were likable and not in the sense of anti-hero or morally gray characters, no they were all just assholes with no redeeming qualities. At least they were hot. There was not one unattractive person in this book, everyone was a model, from the people working in the office, to the personal trainers, to probably the fucking doorman. Also the relationships lacked any semblance of chemistry, I have no idea why they liked each other besides that they’re hot and she has a „tight cunt” and he has a „heavy, thickly-veined length”.
Eva isn’t all that bad … in the beginning. Besides her penchant for describing everything in excruciating detail, she seemed like a likable, driven character, with already set and stable relationships with friends and family and a job, that would hinder her life revolving about the dude when she met him, but no. As soon as they meet every waking thought seems to be about him (Gideon) and to make matters worse they work in the same building so there goes any semblance of a private life outside of the relationship. Well after the first three chapters any likability Eva had went out the window. She has no backbone. She says one thing and is convinced to do the exact opposite in the next two sentences and it’s all downhill from there. Eva gets jealous, that’s fine, everyone gets jealous sometimes. She gets irrationally jealous often and doesn’t know how to properly deal with it, that would also be fine IF it lead to character development in any sense (spoiler: it doesn’t). For all her talk of therapy, she has terrible coping mechanisms and no idea how to handle any issues that arise. We see her go to therapy once, but not for her, for her mother (another unbelievably unlikable character that I’m not going to go into further detail to. Short version: gold digger, trophy wife with control issues and she's a stalker). Eva should be going to therapy twice a week. I haven’t been violently sexually assaulted as a child for multiple years
“Is this hard enough for you?” He broke the drawstring of his pants pushing them down to expose the heavy, thickly-veined length of his erection." Ah fuck, nevermind.
"When the tip of his middle finger slid gossamer-soft over the pucker of my anus"
"He put the slightest pressure against my sensitive rosette, barely pressing.”
„His finger rimmed my anus over and over, pushing his semen into the puckered hole, a soft growl escaping him as it flexed in a silent plea for more. The next time he pressed against the ring, I pushed out and he slipped his fingertip inside me. The feeling of penetration was shockingly intense." And then she drips cum on his parents hardwood floors and it’s apparently the hottest thing he’s ever seen.
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence