Reviews

Morally Ambiguous by Odessa Hywell

syniya's review

lighthearted 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

cinnamon's review against another edition

3.0

I was actually a little disappointed in this book. It felt a lot less like an incest book and a lot more like a standard romance but the blockade to their getting together is DNA alone, not 18+ years of being father and son exclusively. I don't know quite how to explain it. It read like someone uncomfortable with incest writing an incest romance.

It was a decent story, and the characters were all right, but I had hoped the obstacles to their romance would be more significant than "we're related by blood." Plus the whole

Spoiler

rape-by-deception

that Eren did to Atwood, who actually had been previously

Spoiler

raped

was a lot and felt really unnecessary. Like a way to make sure the characters would have sex instead of letting the story play out in a slower way.

cinnamon's review

3.0

I was actually a little disappointed in this book. It felt a lot less like an incest book and a lot more like a standard romance but the blockade to their getting together is DNA alone, not 18+ years of being father and son exclusively. I don't know quite how to explain it. It read like someone uncomfortable with incest writing an incest romance.

It was a decent story, and the characters were all right, but I had hoped the obstacles to their romance would be more significant than "we're related by blood." Plus the whole

Spoiler

rape-by-deception

that Eren did to Atwood, who actually had been previously

Spoiler

raped

was a lot and felt really unnecessary. Like a way to make sure the characters would have sex instead of letting the story play out in a slower way.