Haunting Adeline
2021 • 549 pages

Ratings254

Average rating3.5

15

Q-Anon fan-fic meets stalker “romance”. This book is extremely problematic, absurd, and lacks any character development. There's also zero romance - it's sexual assualt that turns into a forced “relationship” and eventually the stalked gives in to her dark desires and starts a relationship with her stalker. Yet it had sorching hot scenes and good buildup of sexual tension in a dark romance type of way.  

I hated Zade's entire exsistence, he's a terrible character and even more horrendously written. What I mean by that is he has zero personality, no backstory, and has contradictary motivations. Zade's entire purpose is rescuing the women and children that are trafficked by the Society. His desire to rescue and protect these victims is so high that he created an entire organization for this purpose. When it comes to Addie he becomes the same kind of sexual predator that he routinely murders - forces her to do things against her will, calls her baby girl, and inflicts fear into her. It's so cringy and uncomfortable.  

January 19, 2024