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A review by duchessrin
Consequences by Aleatha Romig
Did not finish book.
It's been a while since I've DNFed a book and I'm sad that it had to be this.
It is no secret that I like fictional psychopaths and dark stories as long as they're well-woven and mind-blowing.
At first, I was confused with Claire's behavior. The biggest question I had was why? Why would you say that you love the person who beat you up to unconsciousness and injured you so much it took you weeks to wake up and months to recover? That's just fifty shades of fucked up.
In my attempt to understand such mindset, I had to read an article to at least get a gist of a Stockholm Syndrome victim's mentality and suffice to say, she really did fit the profile. But she was also dumb.
When she decided to marry Tony, my patience was waning thin. When she started alienating her family, I decided to finally DNF this. Aside from the book being too long, it's hard for me to just “understand her situation” each time she got thoughts that were difficult for me to process as a normal person.
The writing was also too detached that contrasted and killed the dark atmosphere the book had.
Reading a book with a heroine I could not sympathize with, a hero I could never bring myself to like, and a prose that bored me most of the time, I finally decided it's time to stop.
It is no secret that I like fictional psychopaths and dark stories as long as they're well-woven and mind-blowing.
At first, I was confused with Claire's behavior. The biggest question I had was why? Why would you say that you love the person who beat you up to unconsciousness and injured you so much it took you weeks to wake up and months to recover? That's just fifty shades of fucked up.
In my attempt to understand such mindset, I had to read an article to at least get a gist of a Stockholm Syndrome victim's mentality and suffice to say, she really did fit the profile. But she was also dumb.
When she decided to marry Tony, my patience was waning thin. When she started alienating her family, I decided to finally DNF this. Aside from the book being too long, it's hard for me to just “understand her situation” each time she got thoughts that were difficult for me to process as a normal person.
The writing was also too detached that contrasted and killed the dark atmosphere the book had.
Reading a book with a heroine I could not sympathize with, a hero I could never bring myself to like, and a prose that bored me most of the time, I finally decided it's time to stop.