Reviews with content warning for Rape - Haunting Adeline

Ew.

No, no, no, no, no. Where's the eye bleach when you need it?

I can't believe I read the entire thing. I only did it to try and figure out what the heck Bookstagram likes about it. And even after enduring the entire flipping thing, I can't think of a single aspect.

Gross.

Like actually gross. And I like some kinky stuff. But this? No.

I'm not a fan of literal r@pe over and over. No. That isn't dark fantasy.

What a joke.

Carlton needs to learn three things:
1. Physical arousal ≠ consent.
2. GUNS 👏🏼 ARE 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 BODY 👏🏼 SAFE 👏🏼
3. She should never write another 'romance'. Or pick up a pen again.

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ent0mbed's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

0.25

⇢ 0.25 star

DNF - 58%

“All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.”

I knew I would hate this book before I bought it — honestly I only got it so I could talk shit — and I was proven correct.

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I would like to start by saying am all for a good dark romance but this is just lacking the romance ( as well as consent ). The most romantic thing he did was leave roses for her. Like that is literally it.
DARK ROMANCE = ROMANCE WITH DARK CONTENT!!

And I do not want a single person saying ‘it’s just fiction’ because these things happen in real life. And when fiction starts to taint your real life values it clearly is no longer ‘just fiction’

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⇢ Adeline —

Her character has literally no personality whatsoever .

She admits to what Zade doing to her being SA, yet her character continues to be with him. She is quite literally just a lump of flesh that does whatever he wants. I am so fed up of seeing shallow female characters within dark romance.

I also hate how ‘perfect’ she is. Like having a good pair of tits, ass and a flat stomach. Don’t get me wrong I wish I had allat, but it’s like does it have to be that way ?

⇢ Zade —

Zade rescues people from human trafficking rings. And for what ? Because he has some god complex.
How can you be that hypocritical as well. He’s just as shitty as the men he tortures.

Also I feel his whole sex trafficking saviour thing is literally added so we can say one decent thing about this man.

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NOW FOR THE SMUT …. It was crap!

Truth be told I only read this book for the spice — as I heard much about it — and it was appalling. Like I wrote better in my Harry styles fan fiction as a 12 year old, sorta appalling.

First of all, the gun scene. I’m my opinion it had potential if Adeline actually consented to any of it … oh and if it wasn’t terribly written.

And as for the famous — very over hyped — house of mirrors scene.
The concept is hot and heart racing … but the execution was boring. I felt no thrill when reading that scene. Infact I was tempted to just skip it because I got bored as fuck.

Even worse was the dirty talk. Utterly horrific. I had to put the book down so many times because I cringed so hard at it.

“As much as I hate to say this to you, I am no stranger to a woman’s pussy and what it feels like when it weeps for me.”

EWW! If a man ever said that to me I’d dry up like the Sahara desert in an instant. This man is supposed to be some sex God and is saying shit like THAT.

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And lastly is my opinion that this Book is pretty much just Q-anon smut. For example Zade literally going by Z … like Q!

Finally, I always would end a review with ‘no hate’ but honestly I take that back for this review. Because if you can write a book and romanticise this shit in it I have no respect for you

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rebeccaxpaige's review against another edition

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3.75

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olivia_k_wood's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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novellearts's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This just didn’t really do anything for me. I think the MC was too submissive for my personal preference and the whole book was so unrealistic. I found myself constantly wanting Adeline to fight back more and put Zade in his place but didn’t really get that from this book. I guess I’m tired of the man being in charge and wanted to see the roles reversed more.

I also found the gun scene incredibly cringey / unrealistic because how could that even feel good? And so many of Zade’s lines made me roll my eyes.

The talk of him being “too big to fit” almost made me roll my eyes out of my head..

The other thing that put me over the edge were the constant talks of “you’re going to have my babies” nonsense. *Gag.* Really not my thing, at all.

I won’t mention the rape, stalking, and refusal to accept “no” as an answer since it’s all listed in the trigger warnings, but it just wasn’t for me. I didn’t find it attractive and I certainly didn’t find Zade attractive. I definitely wouldn’t have been playing along with his nonsense and I refuse to believe that anything he was doing could’ve been *that* satisfying to achieve the response from Adeline that he did.

I’m also confused how he could be so big of a contradiction. He fights to save women and girls from men doing horrible things to them, but yet he stalks and rapes a woman he “loves?”

I don’t mind the dark romance, but I don’t think I care for the woman being so submissive and I honestly didn’t like any of the characters except maybe Daya? Cringey and unrealistic. I enjoyed Satan’s Affair much more than this.

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msmagoo502's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad tense

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

Problematic requires a large suspension of belief and morality just nope

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