Mine Till Midnight

Honestly, I'm pretty divided about this book despite the great ratings it's gotten on Goodreads so far.

THE BAD:

- Instances of non-consent framed as “desirable”. This book was first published in 2007 and it shows. It's hard to imagine similar plot elements being published by a socially savvy writer in more recent times
- Insta-love/lust is never a great plot choice in my opinion
- The third arc of the book took a rather strange turn, especially with Leo's storyline

THE GOOD:

- Unlike many romance novels where most characters (aside from the MCs) are just glorified background scenery, I appreciate that this book takes the time to develop the personalities, problems, conflicts, and backstories of the other characters, which really does a huge favour for the storyline
- Although MCs have an insta-love problem, they do spend an ample amount of time conversing with each other after that, and their subsequent chemistry isn't unrealistic
- The female MC isn't so much of a Mary Sue - we can see why people can get annoyed with her and her overbearing personality. She does acknowledge and, to a small extent, try to improve herself by the end of the book, although there could be more character development here (the same can't be said for the male MC)

All in all? It's not a bad book, and one of the more well fleshed-out romance novels that I've read. It's definitely going in for the melodrama rather than a light-hearted romance, but I enjoyed that there were substantial sub-plots that kept the story from being too monotonous and fixated on the one relationship between the female and male MCs. Goodness knows, I'm actually slightly more interested in one of those subplots (I have been enamoured with Win and Merripen from the start) than the main characters' story.