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Beta Read
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 🌶🌶🌶/5

TW - breaking and entering, stalking (ex fiancé), attempted murder and attempted sexual assault (by a sc), gun violence, off page murder (recounted), serial killer (sc, mentuined), an FBI manhunt, incarceration, gambling addiction (ex fiancé), kidnapping, handcuff use (both sexual and not), police being useless, dead animals (mentioned), fire (mentioned), threatening behaviour from an ex fiancé including physical / gun violence and the threat of rape, absent parents (past, mentioned), drunk driving (by a sc) resulting in death of a parent (past), rape (sc, mentioned), car accident and subsequent injuries (mentioned), bullying (past, recounted), financial insecurity (past, mentioned), alcohol consumption, bribery, panic attack (past, mentioned), pregnancy (mentioned)

CW - panty kink, hyperspermia, CNC, bondage, somnophilia, public play, cum marking, choking, spanking, unsafe sex, edging

Tropes - rich FMC, meet ugly, forced proximity, on the run, some fake dating, possessive

Representation - aromantic sc

Octavia has done it again 🤩. This was genuinely such a fun read and Octavia is SO good at writing banter, I found myself snorting and giggling fr when I was reading this book.

Joey (FMC) finds herself in a sticky situation and does her best to get away from it just to find herself in an even stickier situation when enter stage left Killian (MMC) joins the party. Now, Killian is one of my favourite names for a MMC so I had all the grabby hands when he makes his first appearance.

I'm one of those readers where I personally love when the FMC takes a sharp left in life and isn't screaming crying and throwing up at a situation that calls for it and instead just rolls with it. I KNOW it's not realistic but I'm not reading for realism and Octavia delivers on this every single time.

The forced proximity and threats did wonders for these two lmao and they ended up being really good together. They hit some bumps but never faltered and I was here for it 🤩

Scale:
⭐️ - would've DNF'ed / continued out of spite
⭐️⭐️ - shit, but whatever
⭐️⭐️⭐️ - meh, could've been better
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - lit 👅
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - loved it, inject this shit into my veins 🤪

🫑 - no smut
🌶 - no point
🌶🌶 - mediocre at best
🌶🌶🌶 - standard smut, hot
🌶🌶🌶🌶 - 🥵 okay, some CW
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 - fuck me 🥵🥵 CWs / filthy with a side of filth - see Poison / Room Twenty-Two: Hide and Seek/ The Naughty List / The Naughtier List