"Screaming, crying, throwing up.

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK. WAS. THAT. ENDING.

I’d like to recognize my bestie ✨Ayla�� who forced me to read this(I am eternally grateful). But also…wtf.

Iris and Roman are my new Roman Empire<333

0/5🌶��(it suggests some explicit content but never describes it)


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1. The Great War- Taylor Swift
2. Carry You Home- Alex Warren
3. Paris- The Chainsmokers
4. Down Bad- Taylor Swift
5. Nervous- John Legend

If you don’t like any of the songs I picked…I don’t care<33

Istg this was like a really fun fever dream😭
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&��ܴdz�;�� 1/5 stars

₊⊹⁀➴“I didn’t want him morally grey. I wanted someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it."

Okay, first of all, tell me which horny teenager wrote this? Because seriously, what even was this smh 🤦🏻‍♀

�� The story? Non-existent.
�� The characters? A mess.
�� The smut? Beyond cringy.
�� the chemistry? Hell nah.
�� The plot? Wait�� there was a plot?!

And don’t even get me started on the writing because, honestly, I’m so pissed. How did this book even get such high ratings? Did we all read the same thing? Because the math ain't mathing lmaoo 😭✋��

�� ABOUT THE BOOK

This story was an absolute CRINGEFEST from start to finish.

So, we have this girl who simps over a masked TikToker, because, let’s be real, we all have our moments (yes, I’m including myself here). She leaves thirsty comments under his posts, which, again, isn't anything out of ordinary. But then she decides she wants her hookup to wear a mask just like his to fulfill her mask kink And guess what? Her hookup just happens to be friends with the masked TikToker himself. And that is when the masked guy suddenly becomes obsessed with her.

Like�� what kind of insta-love nonsense is this?

And it only gets worse. Instead of, you know, meeting like normal people, this guy breaks into her house (yes, you read that right), and instead of calling the police like any rational human being, she just�� lets him stay. And from that moment on, the story completely falls apart.

Our girl here has zero functioning brain cells because she just lets this dude do whatever he wants without a single question. And before you even have time to process what’s happening, boom, she’s in love with him. Like, deeply, madly, unreasonably in love.

Everything happens so fast that I barely had time to comprehend what I was reading. One minute she’s simping online, the next she’s in love with some masked stranger who literally broke into her house. I have so many questions, but most importantly��WHO WROTE THIS AND WHY???

�� ABOUT THE CHARACTERS

╰����� JOSH

"This side was all ego. I wanted Aly on her knees for me, humbled and worshipping. I wanted to watch her crawl to me, naked, before kissing my boots and licking the flat of my knife."

IM DONE 🥴✋��

He’s basically every other dark romance MMC, just sprinkled with a bit of humor to make him seem “different.�� Like, sure, my guy has been through it, but he still cracks jokes and��wait for it—ASKS FOR CONSENT!

Wow, what a gentleman!!!!

GIVE HIM A FUCKING MEDAL RN 🏅

To everyone who called this man a green flag, I need you to take a moment, sit down, and reevaluate what a green flag actually is.

Look, I’ve read my fair share of dark romance, and I love a well-written one. But if there’s one thing I cannot stand, it’s when books romanticize the wrong things. And this book? It did that in every way possible.

"I was going to torment the fuck out of this woman, and it was going to be so much fun."

IM JS GONNA LEAVE THIS HERE 🥴

First off, his obsession with the FMC comes out of nowhere. One second, he’s just a masked TikToker. The next? He’s fully convinced she’s his and will do whatever it takes to claim her. And by that, I mean: stalking her, manipulating her, breaking into her house, gaslighting her, you name it, he did it. And we’re supposed to swoon over this?

"This woman was fucking mine, and if I had to mark every inch of her skin, I would. I’d never felt more feral in my life, like I could fight every man who looked at her, put a fucking collar on her neck and lead her around on a leash just to prove that she belonged to me."

E-X-C-U-S-E ME, IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE HOT!! 🤷🏻‍♀

Like, I know this was marketed as a stalker romance, but it was so badly executed that I physically could not look past it. And trust me, I tried. I mean, imagine taking a month to finish a 13-hour audiobook, if that doesn’t speak volumes, I don’t know what does.

And let’s not even start on his personality because, well�� he didn’t have one. It’s like the author saw Zade and said, "Let me make a Walmart version of him." So many scenes were just blatantly copied inspired by Cat and Mouse Duet,from him being a hacker to chasing her through the woods, to the whole stalking obsession. The only difference was that he wore mask that's it!

Like, Navessa, girl�� how obvious is too obvious??

"Step one: get Aly to drop her guard.
Step two: fuck her on this couch.
Oh, wait, no. I’d skipped a few steps somewhere."

LOOK HOW QUIRKY OUR MMC IS, BITCH STFU 😭🤌🏻

╰����� ALY

"We have the next two weeks off together.
Now that I know that, all I want to do is keep you locked in this house,
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“Smash. Next question.��

pls someone tell me why's this girl trying so hard to be genz like woman act ur age

First off, let’s address the obvious, this woman had zero functioning brain cells, and you cannot convince me otherwise. Like, genuinely, I was experiencing secondhand embarrassment with every questionable decision she made. Girl, what is wrong with you? Where is your self-respect? Where is your common sense? It’s like she saw red flags and said, “Omg, my favorite color!��

"Thank goodness we’d picked up the morning-after pill. Between my untrustworthy ovaries and the amount of cum I’d cleaned off my legs when we finished, doubling up on birth control felt necessary if we didn’t want to bring a little Josh into the world."

LMAOO WHAT EVEN 💀

Secondly, she was a trauma nurse �� a whole medical professional , yet the way she spoke and acted in a professional setting had me crying. Why do authors create adult characters just to make them behave like teenagers? I was expecting a competent, mature woman, and instead, I got someone who made me question how she even graduated nursing school.

"My body recognized him as its main supplier of orgasms. Sex hormones rushed into my veins, my hypothalamus giddily triggering the flood."

IM DEAD 😭

And then we have her personality, or should I say, lack of it. She was the literal embodiment of monotony. Like, where was the character development? Where was the depth? Her entire existence revolved around three things:

1. She lifts.

2. She has a cat.

3. She is obsessed with a masked man.

And did I mention she lifts? Because, apparently, she lifts. Like, since when did going to the gym become an entire personality trait? Wow, girl, you work out, how revolutionary. Please, girl calm the fuck down.

And don’t even get me started on her cringe-worthy dialogue. I swear, half the things she said made me physically recoil. She would just blurt out the most random, awkward lines, and I would sit there like, why did I just read that?

"Oh, God. Too late. 6��4��, muscle-bound, heavily tattooed, shirtless Josh cradling a baby in his arms. I could feel my ovaries back at it again, opening the floodgates and screaming, “GO, GO, GO,�� as they released every single egg in my body. If I had sex with this man in the near future, we’d have to double up on birth control."

LIKE WTF IS EVEN THIS OMG IM CRYING 🤧✋��

Authors, I am begging you, please give us genuinely badass, iconic female characters, not ones who pretend to be. Thank you! 😭🙏🏻

�� FINAL THOUGHTS

“I love you so much. I love being your prey. I love how easily you overpowered me. I love that your cock is almost too big. I love feeling it get even bigger inside me right before you come.��

WHAT KINDA LOVE CONFESSION IS THIS LMAOO 🤧

The writing was so painfully bad that it actually made me miss my Wattpad days, yes, it was that bad. Like, what even was this? The execution was a disaster, and I’m not even exaggerating. Honestly, the first half was somehow tolerable, but the second half? Oh, it completely fell apart. It felt over-exaggerated, unnecessary, and left me wondering, what was even the point of writing that?

And let’s talk about the INSTALOVE.My most hated trope for a reason. Like, where was the longing? The swooning? The eye contact that lingers just a second too long? And, most importantly, WHERE WAS THE STORYLINE? Look, I get that rom coms thrive on this kind of thing, but I have read some incredible dark romances that had their fair share of smut yet still delivered impeccable storytelling and flawless characters. This? This was not that.

I so badly wanted to love this book because I had heard so much hype about it, but wow, it failed miserably. And the only reason I even gave it a star was because of the narrators. They were the only thing that made this even remotely tolerable. If I could rate it lower, trust me, I would.

�� "Overall, if you enjoy cringy dialogues, insta-love that makes no sense, and characters with the decision-making skills of a brick, then this book might just be your thing! But let’s be real, don’t fall for the hype. This book didn’t deserve even half of it, and I stand by that 100%." 💌

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౨ৎ pre-read:
�� started - january 23, 2025

I’ve had this book sitting around forever, and hyped books always make me nervous lmaooo! 😭🫸🏻 but im desperately hoping it's as good as folks say 🤞🏻💋"

"It only took me three chapters to realize I had basically paid for my disappointment 🤦🏻‍♀️🫸��"