Haunting Adeline
Ratings254
Average rating3.5
read for swoon sisters book club live discussion: june 2022
so i enjoyed the plots in this book, the smut, and the atmosphere but all i could think about was how this was too long and how there are no saints did the serial killer hero better. zade was fun but idk i feel like some aspects of his personality didn't line up. i'm not itching to read the second book that badly even though it left off on a cliffhanger but i will probably continue anyways because it was a good time.
I had so much fun reading this book. I was scared half the time but fun nonetheless. It's a good read definitely not for everyone but it's was just the right amount for me. We had so many sub plots along either main romance and I feel as though everything executed well. I also love her writing styles it's literal perfection in my opinion. Overall just had a good time reading this in between doing work and school.
Zade is perhaps the best you can get when it comes to falling in love with a stalker. You may get your hands dirty, meet some questionable people, find yourself in less than ideal circumstances... but he'll always be there.
I've read this book twice (so far). I find Addie hilarious. She's stronger than she knows. The Mask she puts on for her book signing was entirely too relatable for me. I think Zade challenges her in a good way. He is her living adrenalin rush.
I think this book kicked off my love of stalker books. A new problem I didn't expect to have in life, but alas.. Here we are. You wanna murder for me? Let's get married.
Anyway, less about my own red flags. Make sure you read trigger warnings for this and the second book. You don't want to stop at this one, but book 2 is much heavier. Just know what journey you are diving into.
I went in pretty blind for this one. All I needed to know was that it was banned on Amazon, a heavy dark romance with some big trigger warnings, and my bookish friend Chelsea was all over it. Her recommendations are gospel to me. BUT ON TO THE BOOK.
Oh we've got us a dark one here, baby. I'm going to go ahead and give you the TW's I think apply to it now and you can choose if you want to keep going. So we've got murder, dub/cnc, stalking, torture, human trafficking, primal kink....I'm sure I'm missing something but I think you get it. In less exciting news it's a slow burn and ends on a cliffhanger lol.
If you're still here... I am a sucker for self aware, reckless women...which Addie is. She is an author who just inherited her grandmother's family home. She finds her GREAT grandmother's diary and finds out that her sometimes history does repeat itself.
Zade...I don't even know what to say about him other than he's a walking red flag AND I WANT TO WAVE IT. He takes one look at Addie at one of her book signings and that's that. The obsession begins. He will have her, forever, and she has no say in the matter.
I've yet again read a book that's hard to review without giving away spoilers but there are other things at play besides Z stalking Addie which I think make the book better because I personally don't want 600 pages of just that. Other things are definitely at play and I can't wait for book 2 to see how this all ends.