The first 75% or so of the book is 5 stars for me. The last 25% or so is more like 1-2 stars. The story, I found amazing, I waActual Rating: 4.5 stars
The first 75% or so of the book is 5 stars for me. The last 25% or so is more like 1-2 stars. The story, I found amazing, I was completely engaged and I loved where it went. The erotica part I enjoyed a lot, it was hot, very well and carefully done. I kind of would have liked a bit more on that though, because I loved it so much. However, the falling in love part and ending, completely through me off. I didn't like the resolution of the book at all. In fact, after 80% of the book or so, since I had realized where this was going to end, I had to stop reading. I had been reading obsessively and nonstop for 2 days up to that point, and then I just stopped because I couldn't take what was coming. It took me 6 days to pick it up again and braze myself for that resolution.
Big spoilers ahead and likely an unpopular opinion: (view spoiler)[I don't understand when, how or why she fell in love with Kaleb. It doesn't make sense to me and it also bothers me. Most of the interactions he had with Kaleb were abusive from his part towards her. They had no connection, intimacy bond, or sharing of themselves. Personally, I would have preferred an ending that wasn't your typical romance HEA with one of the male protagonist. For this story, it made more sense to me a different kind of ending, happy too yes, of course, but not the formulaic one that we got. Definitely, not her ending up with Kaleb. In fact, I don't think that the book needed to be a romance at all, it wasn't so for more than 75% of the book, why did it change so drastically? It was about family, about belonging, about growing up, learning about oneself and enjoying our sexuality, about passion and want. Why did it have to be about romantic love all of a sudden, specially with Kaleb? Really? Kaleb?! I didn't like that at all. Honestly, as a romantic end it would have worked better for me, if she had just ended up with the 3 guys living happily ever after in their isolated mountains. A kinky 4-ways polyamorous relationship would have been more romantic, and just fit better in this fiction to me, that for her ending up so abruptly with the bully and uncommunicative one and with whom she had the least connection of them all. (hide spoiler)]
This was the first book I read from this author, and I can't wait to read more....more
I enjoyed more the first part of the book, it was different, peculiar and intriguing. It definitely had all mActual Rating: 3.5 stars
I quite liked it.
I enjoyed more the first part of the book, it was different, peculiar and intriguing. It definitely had all my attention.
In the second part, the book (view spoiler)[(once she gets out of the apartment) (hide spoiler)] loses strength and it becomes one more book of many, it loses what made it special in the first place, which is a shame because it could have been much better if that conflict had been better resolved. That last part is what lowered my rating to 3 stars, it was too common and mediocre, not up to par with the rest.
But I will absolutely be continuing this series, Alessandra Torre has an originality and controversy in her stories that I find very appealing....more
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