How do I just move on with life after these books?! 😭😭😭💥💥💥 I have so many questions. While reading, I had crept up to around 90% and became irrationally nervous that it was almost over, because the ending was so emotionally overwhelming for me. I saw it coming but I didn’t want to, at the same time! After having spent hours upon hours with these characters, I wasn’t ready for it to be over. That is truly a sign of an extremely gifted writer, especially because I do not read much MC romance and I’m naturally a picky reader. These books blew me away!
If you’re a reader looking for a non-cookie cutter romance storyline with characters that are flawed, broken and in a setting which feels real and with characters that do not resemble caricatures, along with forbidden elements in the storyline and you have an open mind to reading the “other side” of romance…meaning a story that exists in a “gray area” of romance, where “the rules” have been thrown out and you want an emotional journey, I highly highly recommend you read these books! These are not your typical dime a dozen romance stories, these are an experience!
Hands down, I felt like these books were a great investment of my time and emotions, even when I was feeling emotional or sadness for a character, I couldn’t help but question just how this author made me feel like this when for example, I should be angry at the character! Wow!!! I may be still in recovery, but it’s a good recovery! I feel like someone who is getting off the rollercoaster at the end, like “hey guys, I made it!!!” )pats self) “I’m okay!!!” 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Lol 😆 It’s so difficult to find stories with complex plots, characters that are not clearly just good or bad and books that aren’t all just gooey and sweet. I found love, sympathy, sadness, raw grittiness, pain and peace within these pages, even though it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows, sometimes you need a gloomy day of rainfall and some turbulence to remind you of better days, forgiveness, learning to look between the lines, this story made me feel SO MUCH AT ONCE! I’m still not ready to let these characters go! 😭
I think the best way to read this series is to go in blind and be prepared for a realistic, emotional story that does have a happy ending. It may not be exactly in the way every reader would want, but I appreciate the author with how she handled these characters with regards to the story she told and although the ending had me in emotional knots, I agree that for this particular story, I think the author did well with how it was handled. I love stories like this! I wish all stories could bring out my feelings and make me want to keep reading nonstop, like these books did.
As for the breakdown, I’m not sure what to say other than there are similar themes as the first book. This one follows the heroine -Mina - whom is becoming more of a fixation in Shay’s life. In this book, all bets are off pretty much. Mina is still fighting her desires to keep Shay at peace with himself and make everyone happy, avoiding conflict after dealing with her trauma she had suffered in the last book. The heroine is constantly having to deal with all of this and she’s still trying to maintain a semblance of normalcy as a young women but is finding the club and the drama with Shay, even at school, is constantly making her question this new lifestyle but alas she is stuck for the most part. This story is about those who are fighting silent demons and how what you are born into or whatever given situations put you in that life, can change you and alter how you see the world and how you view what you are capable of deserving based on that which you’re stuck living with. This story is so much more than that though. I loved the storyline, characters, pacing (nothing ever felt like filler to me) I would absolutely love if this author wrote another story in this world. The end is a bit open for interpretation, so hopefully maybe the author will have another chapter set in this world in the future! Either way, I’m stunned by this debut and I am very much looking forward to more!
5/***** emotional daisies!!! 💐🥂
Breakdown:
•MC Romance
•Emotional storytelling
•Kinda love-triangley
•Realistic, flawed characters
•Gritty, raw, powerful story
•Dark romance
“Loving someone since childhood” trope
“I would kill for you trope”
•redemption story arc
•Stepbrother romance
•characters dealing with their own struggles/battles
•Love sometimes isn’t just black and white
•Bullying themes/triggers/gang violence/suspense
•Slight age gap
•JP/Controlling/Obsessively devoted Hero
•HEA (which is up to how you view it)
•heroine’s POV (with two chapters at end dedicated to Shay 🖤 and another character who is more or less an unknown/observer)
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I finished this book…but really this book finished me.
📖 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 📖⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Let start with honesty. There were definitely a few times in this book where I was a bit uncomfortable with some of the situations. But that’s all part of taboo, isn’t it?Shay and Mina’s story is so complex. I was on the fence with Shay throughout both books. But god my heart just reaches out for him. Shay’s darkness breaks my heart.Keenan. I fell in love with him since the start, and that hasn’t changed. He’s the most selfless person.Those who know me best, know that’s books that break me, instantly own my soul. This book broke me.💭𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗤𝗨𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗦💭💭“𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘷𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦.”💭“𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦. 𝘈 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦.”💭𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘢! 𝘜𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘴.
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