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Silent Desires by Shona Knight
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it was ok
bookshelves: guilty-pleasures, realistic-fic, rh-why-choose

alright, this was really kinda awful. it’s like ghost bird x those kerry taylor books, but worse.

for one, it’s the same old story told time and again in the reverse-harem world - poor naive girl who has been locked in a basement for years on end, finally enters the real world and BOOM everyone and their mum is obsessed with her. why? we don’t know. oh and also she’s a genius with photographic memory who instantly understands all textbooks.

anyway, after being immediately bombarded by, oh *checks notes* SEVEN men, and despite facing torture and sexual abuse many, many times throughout her life, our main girl instantly feels “safe� and “protected� and has an “instant bond� with these random, 6ft tall (minimum), super buff, incredibly smart, shockingly good looking men, who will NOT leave her alone. EVER. there’s maybe one guy who’s a little tech nerd, and he’s still super good looking and can fight, of course. we’ve all heard this story before, yes?

and despite declaring that they’ll protect her forever, and are always on her side, all SEVEN of these men never notice the (very obvious) signs of a terrible home life, and also never succeed in actually protecting her. i’m almost certain she’ll get kidnapped at some stage in book 2 BECAUSE IVE READ THIS STORY BEFORE.

anyway. it was kinda bad. and there was a serial killer of course. and if all that isn’t bad enough, all the men think she’s 17 years old (and to be fair, in worldly experience she’s probably like 10) and yet they keep pursuing her and talking about how much they want her, despite a couple being her teachers/guidance counsellors.

this one killed me guys 😭 fun hate read though!
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Reading Progress

April 6, 2025 – Shelved as: realistic-fic
April 6, 2025 – Shelved as: guilty-pleasures
April 6, 2025 – Shelved
April 6, 2025 – Shelved as: rh-why-choose
April 9, 2025 – Started Reading
April 9, 2025 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Ioanna (new)

Ioanna It sounds like a mix of as many tropes as possible without considering how to mix them.
Is it the first time? No
Is it the last time? Unfortunately, no.


Darcey @Ioanna that’s exactly right, just the same old tropes and stories time and time again. Ah well :(


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