Gooti

reddit promised me a delicious dark romance, and well it really wasn't :(

i usually like this author's work, but this was disappointing. the beginning was well written, the frustration she had w adam and the reasons why she couldn't just walk away, but that was it though.
derek, after hearing her sob story, for some reason, instantly loves her, and worships the ground she walks on. like ok, u like a challenge, but she wasn't even much of a challenge? and then he's not even slightly smart or cunning enough to actually manipulate her & play games (usually my favourite part of dark romances), he's just straight up “yo i wanna be w u 4eva.”

towards the middle, i was just skipping stuff because it was the same old, derek pushes and she's scared, but he thinks that she thinks its hot. like ok we get it, u guys like sleeping w each other. but there's no more substance

coming back after two rereads in just 2 months. dUDE I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH. everything in this book is perfect. like this is what i want every historical romance to be like.

suCH AMAZING WRITING. the most lovely heroine ever, like i could completely get where she was coming from and she was so smart & witty w the hero, oof. and the duke??? god, if men like this truly exist, i'll wait a lifetime for one. i can write 5000 word essays on how much i love and adore the duke, his cunning intelligence, his honesty w the heroine, his admiration of her.

thank u god & reddit for recommending me this.

i really really enjoy the author's writing style. it just suits contemporary romance so much. i liked the heroine & the hero separately, they seemed like well fleshed out characters and i'm surprised there's no sequel to this because the author could've done more w them. there was surprisingly pretty healthy communication & the mcs made sense.

what didn't totally convince me is why & how they fell in ‘love'. like yeah they were hot but what else? still an enjoyable read, couldn't put it down :)

i cried so much. and i laughed so much. i LOVE and adore dean & i wish i could keep in a little pocket and carry him everywhere.

read this during a time where i really needed to smile and feel better, and this book did all that & more.

everything was so so cute. and also realistic. no one was demonised. just a really really feel good book.

what a ridiculous book. made me cry so much, which is how i know a book is bloody good. questioned my whole life, because i could relate so much with kennedy. the writing was incredibly convincing, and i was fully immersed.


I LOVED IT. i cried while reading all the flashbacks. one of the sweetest & most heart wrenching love stories i've ever read.

AAAAAAAA

I LOVE THIS BOOK
literally everything and everyone in it.

hilarious heroine & hero. and both of them were super self-aware & honest about their flaws. and they were just so good together!!!

very very wholesome romance. the mystery i couldn't care less about. but the couple was just one of my all time favs.

nazar na lagein

what utter trash. like would've been a fun-ish book if written well. but nah. the girl had a ridiculous amount of guys chasing her, and i genuinely couldn't see the charm in her which compelled them.

also all the guys were not one-dimensional, but somehow still boring. and i couldn't root for any of them, or didn't find any of the other suitors believable enough to actually think, “oh, she might end up with him.”

it was also super obvious who the stalker was. so the suspense wasn't there either.

did find reid's monologues at the beginning funny, lol. the whole thing about liking men (??) or their death, was a fun bit. so one star for that.

have v mixed feelings about this. there was too much unnecessary politics & business bullshit that i skimmed over. i loved matt. i HATED the father & the daughter constantly pushing his shit personality under the rug. the father just sucked too much for me to enjoy the book. the whole step-grandma bullshit also just felt kinda misogynistic? like ofc she's the villain, and not the father who probably stressed out his daughter enough into having a miscarriage.

loved the premise & beginning so much. it was genuinely so promising, and i was like dayum, this is gonna be my favourite book of the series! merikh was a 10/10 character, and his viciousness to get what he wanted was just chefs kiss.

my fav part of the book was when rae found out he wasn't what he seemed, and he did that whole malicious chuckle thing. wow. i was like at the edge of my seat, because how tf would these two fall in love.

even the whole build up to go to the temple was nice, and it made me understand and appreciate the characters a lot.

after the whole village/temple visit thing, the book kinda fell flat for me. rae, supposedly being super genius mad scientist, just didn't seem to have a lot of power, but i was like oh maybe she's just not familiar w earth. but when they went back to the elvish realm, she was still treated like a child?? like no one listened to her, or told her anything of importance. and i genuinely just felt bad for merikh, because she had built up the realm so much in his head, but the people there were kinda stinky too yk.

i was disappointed w the end so so much. i waNTED desperately for their to be a confrontation w jazbez and rae, and i really wanted merikh & jazbez's friendship & bond to be explored. i lOved the whole elder sibling trauma stuff too! there was just so mUCH potential. wouldn't have minded this book being even longer. but nah, the ending felt rushed. rae, my girl, disappointed me with not defending merikh strongly enough, not even trying to help bring merikh's family to the elvish realm, or even trying to help the humans out. she just became this wishy washy, self righteous character who felt so much for the people, but really did fuckall to help anyone who was not her species. and merikh kind of just became this losery whipped dude. i mean i love those characters too, bUT merikh was just so much more interesting earlier. couldn't he have kept a lil bit of his personality

loved the heroine, 10/10. and surprisingly, really cute relationship with the hero's mom. vv adorable. the beginning especially was so solid. everything was believable & cute.

also liked the fact that the hero wasn't like the best at everything, or like the coolest dude in his entire lineage. refreshing.

solid book. 10/10 writing style which made me root for the characters. laughed out loud at some of the shenanigans way more than i would've expected. heroine was genuinely my favourite thing about this book. and omg, her mother in law, just a complete badass in the best possible way. docked one star because of how frustrating the other chick was & how ‘noble' & ‘dutiful' the male lead pretended to be.

ayo wtf was this now?

the author is great so the writing was obviously good bUT WHAT AN EW MALE CHARACTER

like the constant back & forth between wanting her & then acting like he doesn't or can't be with her was so so annoying, which made me so mad because i think i would've liked the book otherwise.

i liked jules, she was so cute and i wish we went a lil more deeper into her whole childhood and stuff, it was actually worth exploring. the guy, max, was hot. and that's about it. idk what was the rest of his personality, because that's all literally everyone was hung up on.

i just didn't seen any romantic development? it was all very oMg u're so hot.