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mila_readsmm's review
3.0
***3.0 rating***
"Jared owned him: his heart, his soul, and now his body. He belonged to Jared and Jared belonged to him."
Hello beautiful people!
"Jared owned him: his heart, his soul, and now his body. He belonged to Jared and Jared belonged to him."
Hello beautiful people!
liminalfruit's review
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
lfjm's review
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Fitting title. One really wouldn't call this a healthy relationship. Pure toxicity and madness. Gabe, a little brat and man-child, is totally obsessed with Jared, thinking that he owns him and is very touchy with him. Jared is in Love with Gabe since a very very unhealthy time. The two cant be seperated, but at least the two are very aware of their issues. Claire trying to to babytrap Gabe Was just as unhealthy. This twist of relationship dynamic makes me a little bit worried for the rest of the series.
magec4sage's review against another edition
2.0
The title is a bit of an understatement, none of the relationships presented in the book are healthy but I feel it’s kinda the point. In many reviews I’ve seen people go off on Jared and Gabe but not enough on Claire. Claire does one of the stupidest things ever and decides to try and trap a man with a baby, they are also not even married at this point. She’s witnessed Jared and Gabe together but thinks she can change Gabe and that’s where she missed up. I think I’m more mad at her because she brought a defenseless baby into the mix not to say Gabe doesn’t get smoke for not stepping up.
salmashesh's review against another edition
I had never been so wrong about my expectations going into a book... I never thought I would witness such train wreck with all this interest and devotion... And I never thought I would actually like this!?????
I just walked in clueless thinking I would get another smutty friends to lovers bi awakening thing, you know something light and mindless, but boy was I wrong....
A bit unhealthy... Say tons unhealthy, a whole locked down quarantine of deadly diseases. We have two of the most pathetic toxic inexcusable heroes who are just so dysfunctional and codependent that it was all soooooo good! Because listen...i realize the level of toxicity and pure madness of this shitshow of a relationship, but I kinda dig it, I just...live for this level of intensity and obsession and possessiveness...
Self care is dnfing this book, yet I couldn't stop until I finished it because the mess is just too good. And I can't believe I don't completely despise and hate such a terrible guy like Gabriel for being the most selfish undeserving asshole on the world, the guy literally ditches his gf and newborn baby to obsess over his guy in some "platonic" twisted way, he doesn't give Jared the chance to live or give him what he wants doesn't let him breathe, stuck in this madstate of denial and demiromantic heterosexuality until the end...
The slow burn isn't just slow...and it's not merely a burn... Not even a forest fire... It's a nuclear plant explosion, with fatal carcinogenic levels of irradiation.. That's what Gabriel and Jared's relationship is....
Yet I didn't hate disaster boi gab or doormat Jay...they were just endeared to me by their obsessive dysfunctional love, it was redeeming enough for me I guess... I'm such a red flag
Anyway I see the series took a whole different direction from the previous book, actually a whole different dimension, and presented this fully fledged story containing some fully complex characters and an actual developed plot that grows legs and arms and a whole set of sharp teeth to bite me in the ass...no complaints..
Still can't believe I was deceived like this
I just walked in clueless thinking I would get another smutty friends to lovers bi awakening thing, you know something light and mindless, but boy was I wrong....
A bit unhealthy... Say tons unhealthy, a whole locked down quarantine of deadly diseases. We have two of the most pathetic toxic inexcusable heroes who are just so dysfunctional and codependent that it was all soooooo good! Because listen...i realize the level of toxicity and pure madness of this shitshow of a relationship, but I kinda dig it, I just...live for this level of intensity and obsession and possessiveness...
Self care is dnfing this book, yet I couldn't stop until I finished it because the mess is just too good. And I can't believe I don't completely despise and hate such a terrible guy like Gabriel for being the most selfish undeserving asshole on the world, the guy literally ditches his gf and newborn baby to obsess over his guy in some "platonic" twisted way, he doesn't give Jared the chance to live or give him what he wants doesn't let him breathe, stuck in this madstate of denial and demiromantic heterosexuality until the end...
The slow burn isn't just slow...and it's not merely a burn... Not even a forest fire... It's a nuclear plant explosion, with fatal carcinogenic levels of irradiation.. That's what Gabriel and Jared's relationship is....
Yet I didn't hate disaster boi gab or doormat Jay...they were just endeared to me by their obsessive dysfunctional love, it was redeeming enough for me I guess... I'm such a red flag
Anyway I see the series took a whole different direction from the previous book, actually a whole different dimension, and presented this fully fledged story containing some fully complex characters and an actual developed plot that grows legs and arms and a whole set of sharp teeth to bite me in the ass...no complaints..
Still can't believe I was deceived like this
ntdan's review against another edition
3.0
6/10
both mcs are objectively horrible people
i feel so bad for everyone around them
both mcs are objectively horrible people
i feel so bad for everyone around them
natastrophe16's review against another edition
5.0
Love this series, whenever there's a new book it jumps straight to the top of my TBR list.
akr_reads's review
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75