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Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann

dark emotional tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes

4.0

Still Beating follows there story of Dean & Cora as they navigate through being enemies to something more. 
Dean is engaged to Cora's sister Mandy, on the faithful night Cora calls him for a ride home from the bar. Cora and Dean prank, and tease and bicker one another, but when Dean shows up to help Cora out, everything between them changes in a blink of an eye. 
They wake up chained in a basement together, now having to rely on one another to survive. But as the hours turn to days & the horrors of that dark basement transpire, the lines between them being enemies begin to blur. 
This was a dark, emotional but beautiful story of Dean & Cora relying on each other to survive. It may have been dark, twisted and dirty, but it was emotional, raw & there was beauty in characters coming together after experiencing the horrors & near tragedy that they survived. 4⭐ out of 5⭐. 
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