A review by whatthefridge
Take Me Apart by Skyler Snow, Brea Alepoú

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I’m torn about how I feel because on one hand I did enjoy the story and chemistry but on the other hand it felt a bit too saccharine for the subject matter. 

Enzo being autistic is explicitly stated. He’s mainly got the OCD flavor of it, but it was nice to see other symptoms of autism with him, including overstimulation and nonverbal meltdown. Admittedly this has made me crave seeing the positive aspects to autism too, but beggars can’t be choosers. 

I wish Enzo’s domination of Tex was more thorough. It felt almost vanilla how their dynamic mellowed out the longer they were together. 

Other, more minor issues I had:

- For someone like Tex, who has secret cameras in his apartment, he’s not paranoid at all about cameras in Enzo’s apartment. 

- Enzo has a thing about not letting people sleep on his couch, but he has a whole ass guest room. Why do Tex or Gin even consider the couch? Hell if I know. 

- One would consider that Gin would eventually come by Enzo’s apartment and discover that Tex lives there now. Terrible way to keep a secret relationship. 

Anyway I know I’m mostly nagging. This story was dark but also not at the same time. Sex scenes were hot. Good romp. 
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