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Mayhem by Estelle Laure
4.0

Oh I am honestly confused what I feel about this book. I mean it was definitely a strange reading experience for me. And despite everything, I was anticipating where it was all going. The book talks about Mayhem Brayburn, Brayburn a family of maternal descendants where they have supernatural abilities.

There's so much that I want to write but I can't find words for it. I liked the rush I felt, thinking about how despite being broken, you can still live on being okay. I liked how somewhere the character of Mayhem developed. But there were many gaps that I felt needed to be filled. I would have liked to read more about the magical lineage and what the Paranormal Activities were all about. It just felt a little too rushed. that I feel should have elaborated more, it felt as the story was being rushed on. So basically I wished that the novel was stretched a bit more. But I definitely enjoyed the novel and especially the narrative.

The book discusses about Rape, domestic abuse, emotional and physical abuse, suicide, drive use, murder, death of family in past, traumatic childhood experience. The author has explained about this before the novel begins.

I was provided with an arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.