Dawn
Threesomes with a doctor that could lose her license for screwing her patients (x2) is not my idea of a good time. This could have been a really cute romance, but this book is just not my vibe.
DNF. I couldn't finish this garbage. I liked the premise of this book but as soon as Zane raped Addie with his gun, I was pretty much done with the book. I held on until chapter 26, when I realized that it wasn't going to get any better. A woman falls in love with her rapist? Come on! And Addie makes women look bad, she really is a mouse; Weak, childish. Dumb.
I was expecting some BDSM or something dark, but none of this is consensual. I am disgusted, not just for the plot, but also because this got so many rave reviews on TikTok. Did we read the same book?? Women are swooning over Zane! I read/ tried to read this book because it got such amazing reviews. Zane is a misogynist manipulator who pretends like he has morals. Is this what “dark romance” is? Hard pass. I've read other dark romances and had no problems with dark themes and domineering men, but this “romance” is ridiculous. If Addie didn't just roll over and do everything he says or if she defended herself in some way, maybe the story would be more believable.
I don't know how I feel about this book. The dynamics of a rock band in the 70's felt very well developed, but the 5 band mates that were not daisy and billy were really left out of the plot. They were mostly a prop to support the idea of a band. The first half of the book was about rising to fame and EXCESSIVE drug use. It was so cliche I was bored. The second half was better, but the ending was pretty flat for me.
A 17 year old girl's parents die and her step-uncle, that she's never met, calls her out of the blue to ask her if she wants to come and stay with him and his 2 twenty something year old sons in an isolated cabin in the mountains. And I get creepy pedo vibes from the uncle who is in his late 40s. This girl is 17 and goes to live in a cabin in the woods with 3 grown men. I am not ok with this. It DOESNT matter that they aren't biologically related. It's just wrong. She is a child! No just no. DNF at chapter 4.
Make it make sense.....I was really enjoying this book until about 75%. This was fast paced and I really looked forward to finding out what happened and who-dun-it. This had some good twists in it, and I breezed through this in 2 days. It held my attention all the way through and it wasn't until the end that I was left with SO MANY QUESTIONS...
I really thought Geo was going to be the killer. But once it was revealed that Geo had given a baby up for adoption and this child would be a teenager by now, it wasn't hard to figure out what was going on. But after everything was revealed, I was left feeling slightly cheated. Dominic ends up being the 2nd serial killer, ok, I get that, but why would he kill his other fathers children and then say that he did it to hurt his mother??? These kids were his half siblings by other mothers. How would this hurt Geo?? Make it make sense? And what are the actual odds that the serial killer father that broke out of prison would actually come back at the exact moment when the son is trying to rape his mother? Calvin is now the hero? What? And when it's revealed that Geo is actually the one that chopped up her best friends body so it could be buried, Calvin is the one vomiting from disgust? I thought he was a total narcissist asshole that got off on controlling Geo? This plot had good bones but quickly fell apart for me at the end.
Girl, what is wrong with you? Unplug the landline, it's not that serious! The end was satisfying but the plot was pretty unrealistic. If you have a cell phone, do you rally even need a landline. If I kept getting creeper calls that freaked me out so much that I felt like I was losing my sanity, UNHOOK the phone FFS! Seriously! And I knew there was going to be gaslighting heavily involved in the plot. Very predictable. If there was no plot twist then what a boring story! Of course it couldn't have just been early onset dementia.
This was a SLOW read. I did not enjoy it. Nothing happens until 70% in. I pushed through to finish it hoping that it would get better.
I love the tv series based on this book so I thought I'd give the book a try. The book us almost always better than the movie, right? No. I liked the book but I didn't love it. The tv series was VERY loosely based on the book. It wasn't anything like I had expected. There were not as many characters in the book as in the tv show. The book was a little dry for my taste. There wasn't much of a story to base a whole novel on.
I loved this book!!!!! 5 stars. Something I will definitely re-read and wish I could read again for the first time! This would be a great book to turn into a movie!!! The audiobook narration was FANTASTIC!
I was so bored. The protagonist is a former movie star and she's telling her 3 daughters about her life when she was famous. They live and work on their orchard in Michigan? And the author tries to leave little breadcrumbs to get the reader curious but I'm just so bored, not engaged, and I just don't care about this actresses past. DNF.
DNF @ page 35. This was supposed to be an awesome suspense thriller “scary” story but by page 35, I was done. What year is this book set in? They reference My Space and Facebook as if they were both used in the same decade. And from page 1, what blog post is 8 pages long??? There's a janky old boombox on the dash of the car? Is this the 1980's? Again, what decade is this story set in?? The dialogue is extremely repetitive. The author makes sure we know that the car they are driving is a piece of shit. Over and over again. Even the clock on the dash doesn't work. (Eye roll). We get it! This doesn't propel the story for me by trying to over-show not tell the reader.
The author refuses to use the word “car” in place to Volvo. Did I mention that the author wants us to know that they are driving a Volvo??? The word Volvo appears in this 200ish page book 95 times! So many times! When threatening to throw yourself out of a vehicle, would you say “...I'm hurling myself out of the Volvo”? No one talks like that! You don't talk about a vehicle you're in as it's make, you would say “car” or “truck”, etc.
And who drives an hour out in the middle of nowhere to go to a party and somehow the bad guys are able to appear out of nowhere, no matter how many times you get away?