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Narrateur(s):
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Heather Verdugo
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Maxwell Hamilton
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Auteur(s):
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Saffron A. Kent
À propos de cet audio
In this dark western romance, a college student uses a false identity to exchange spicy letters with a prison inmate, only to be hunted down when the convicted cowboy is released—perfect for fans of J.T. Geissinger’s Pen Pal and the Yellowstone TV series.
It all began with letters. Every word he wrote etched itself into my mind, into my soul.
I had no choice but to fall for him. Was it really so bad that the letters were part of a penpal program … for prisoners? Or that they weren’t addressed to me?
It’s not as if we’d ever meet. It’s not as if I’d ever get to look into Beau’s eyes that yearn for the ranch he left behind. Or that I’d ever get to feel his work-roughened hands dominating my body just as he does my fevered dreams. What harm could there be?
Until one afternoon when I find myself standing in front of Beau—pretending to be someone I’m not. But the joke’s on me because for all my pretenses, his deception is much crueler … The hardened, dangerous, impossibly beautiful man is nothing like the man in the letters.
And it’s too late for me to run.
Content Guidance:
The contents of this dark romance book may be triggering to some readers. It contains explicit sexual content and a morally gray hero.
Trigger warnings: false identities, stalking/obsession, revenge/retribution, abduction, drugging, blackmail/coercion, forced marriage, violence, bondage, knife play, gun play, dubious consent, non-consent, off-the-page domestic abuse set in the past, off-the-page murder set in the past, parental grief
My issue with this story is the same one I typically have with most romance stories. The FMC drives me up a wall most of the way through. She had multiple opportunities to reveal the truth, get away, get out, and literally the only thing keeping her there was he's hot. No reasonable woman would ever just give in. Letters and connection or not. The second a reasonable woman found out he lied about who he was, he would have lost all credibility, and the entire connection or bond they shared would have been called into full question. Which, could have made for a fantastic story. I feel like the author wanted to find the easy way around it without having to rework her plot, which makes the FMC seem highly stupid or highly shallow and unrelatable. This is why, despite how dark Haunting Adeline and I Will Break You are, they're more believable as characters and more relatable. Both Amethest and Adeline literally resisted and actually tried pretty much every step of the way to escape. You could feel their desperation to escape the situation. Then there was a major event or turning point that turned them back towards their dark anti-heros. As twisted as Gigi Styx is, her FMC is believable. This story had so much potential to really dig down, but it got caught on the surface of something that could have been so great. She hides who she is all the way through for no real reason other than "I don't know why I said [...] instead". AND it happens repeatedly, with no reason other than "I don't know". Then, when she actually has a reason to capitulate in the form of her best friends brothers life on the line, that's when she actually tries. The "I don't know why" trope is a plot device that makes the story and characters feel half assed, and has been done to death. -1 star for FMC who does seemingly everything, staying, lying, laying out her soul for him to see when there's still a pretty good chance he'll kill her when he finds out who she is, without rhyme or reason, without worry that she doesn't know why, and then turns around and claims, over and over again that shes smart. -1 star for a FMC that just breaks out into random tantrums while her actual life is under threat, and other people are under threat, because no woman who's actually in such a helpless situation like that, fully isolated, weak, unable to run, drugged, defenseless and unarmed, would take a risk like that. So many possibilities.
Also, who in the hell lives on a ranch for literal YEARS and never once rides a horse, goes camping, or roughs it at LEAST once?
Would have been 5 stars, but.....
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fantastic
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So many twist and terms that I did not see coming. And I kind of like that to be surprised in a book and have unexpected. And there was plenty of spice to keep you entertained between the storyline, you know we love it. I will most definitely be keeping an eye out for a book two.
A fast paced dark romance, you’re going to want this one
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