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Born, Darkly (Darkly, Madly, #1)
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May 05, 2021
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Read 2 times. Last read May 5, 2021.
So this was a Joker/Harley Quinn-esque, psychologist falls in love w a convicted murderer book. Tbh I didn't think I was gonna be into this just based on the fact that the antihero was incarcerated, cause I guess for me personally, fiction and romance wise it's just hard to respect a serial killer who got caught, yanno?
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But man this book proved me wrong. All that psychopathy restrained on a leash while he's chained up and trying to push London over the edge, while she is hella turned on but still trying to maintain a sense of professionalism was just... hot af. The tension between these two was fantastic.
The whole time I was reading this I just wanted to laugh at the beautiful irony of someone like London being a criminal psychologist. If you are fascinated by serial killers on a level that is not wholly academic👀 and you put yourself in a position to have unlimited access to them.... bitch you're obviously gonna fuck one of them one day. It's just a matter of time!! Like where is the self awareness, girl—
Anyway, I was liking this a lot until around the 50% mark. Everything that happened during and after Grayson's arraignment scene I felt very indifferent towards. The arraignment itself was anticlimactic and let's just say Grayson could take a few lessons in theater from Daddy Frank Castle👀
After that tho, London started to really annoy me. Girl was just wishy washy as hell. I liked watching her narcissistic, I-will-always-be-the-last-man-standing tendencies rise to the surface, but aside from that she was all over the place. And the tension between her and Grayson dissolved for me. I was over it by the end so the cliffhangery ending didn't entice me to read onto book two. The first half: four stars. The second half: two stars == 3 had potential stars🌟
everyone reading this:
But man this book proved me wrong. All that psychopathy restrained on a leash while he's chained up and trying to push London over the edge, while she is hella turned on but still trying to maintain a sense of professionalism was just... hot af. The tension between these two was fantastic.
The whole time I was reading this I just wanted to laugh at the beautiful irony of someone like London being a criminal psychologist. If you are fascinated by serial killers on a level that is not wholly academic👀 and you put yourself in a position to have unlimited access to them.... bitch you're obviously gonna fuck one of them one day. It's just a matter of time!! Like where is the self awareness, girl—
Anyway, I was liking this a lot until around the 50% mark. Everything that happened during and after Grayson's arraignment scene I felt very indifferent towards. The arraignment itself was anticlimactic and let's just say Grayson could take a few lessons in theater from Daddy Frank Castle👀
After that tho, London started to really annoy me. Girl was just wishy washy as hell. I liked watching her narcissistic, I-will-always-be-the-last-man-standing tendencies rise to the surface, but aside from that she was all over the place. And the tension between her and Grayson dissolved for me. I was over it by the end so the cliffhangery ending didn't entice me to read onto book two. The first half: four stars. The second half: two stars == 3 had potential stars🌟
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May 05, 2021 02:37PM
for me it was exactly the opposite lmao. I thought the second half was better🤔it was 3 stars up until that point for me. but it was prolly because I didn't like their sessions, they were kinda cheesy (the psychology part I mean) lmao, loved the sexual tension tho. Amazing review as always TJ😏
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@Anna i read your review and i also thought it was funny we were backwards about this book. i agree the psychology part was eh but there was just something about a man in handcuffs putting his hand up a reserved psychologists skirt that had me going👀👀 damn i did not know this was something i needed until rn
you just reminded me i actually started this only to take a pause at 17% because i was bored or smth. 😳 i really wanna love it tho so like would you say carry on with it sometime? 🤨 great review by the way, TJ!! 🖤
@K hmmm hard to say, i can't say i ended up loving it, but it is an interesting concept and relatively short so you wouldn't be losing much by finishing 🤷🏽♀️ thank you, K 🖤🖤
I remember liking this one but I do agree that the plot became sort of a mess in terms of pacing in the 2nd half. Plus the romance fanatic in me was all "ok ok, less introspection and more interactions between the two psychos please!" Plus I never ended up picking up the 2nd book so I think that says a lot too 💀
that court scene was *chef's kiss*
Do you think us read the second book, and great review💕
@Candy yeahhh i liked the twist in the second half where (view spoiler) but by that point i didn't really care about all her childhood stuff so i was kinda just checked out :/ and agreed it took the focus off the romance and lost any steaminess
@Kat amen 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
@Rn nahh i think im tapping out, im just not invested enough to continue 😔
in it goes into my pile of books to read thx tj 😀all in all, i do want to read more books like this so 👀
Ahhhh geez your 3 star review got me. As well as Anna's review. The first part 😍, oh my gotta see those restrained psycho vibes for myself lmaooo😭(I'm such a crazy bish plss) I love how you both provide me with psychotic type of shit
Yess, I remember being really invested with the "secret" London kept hinting at about her father, but by the time the whole thing was revealed... I was just meh about it. The final SAW type of game with the criminal was kind of interesting though... But hell, I rated it 4 stars but am now wondering why it wasn't lower 😆
Irunía I’m living for ur personality switches tho😂😂one moment you’re reviewing Russian classics and having intellectual discussions and in the next you go hehe MURDER😈 🔪
LOLOLOLOLOL, this whole paragraph had me dying -If you are fascinated by serial killers on a level that is not wholly academic👀 and you put yourself in a position to have unlimited access to them.... bitch you're obviously gonna fuck one of them one day. It's just a matter of time!! Like where is the self awareness, girl—
She really needs to up her self awareness game, smh.
Mareeva wrote: "Irunía I’m living for ur personality switches tho😂😂one moment you’re reviewing Russian classics and having intellectual discussions and in the next you go hehe MURDER😈 🔪"(sorry, don't know what you're talking about, I never engage in intellectual discussions 🤚)
@Elena glad i could help bring you over to the dark side 😏
@Irunía & Anna i'd love to take a peak into irunía's mind but i feel like it'd never let me back out 🤫
@Candy i def could see how this would be a 4 star book if i was in a giving mood lol
@Julia lmaooo i swear she was just waiting for the right one all this time smh
i read this too, but never got around to finish the 2nd book. so i ended up deleting this from my GR instead. i agree with your review, especially your assessment on everything in the 2nd half of the book. are you reading the next book?? great review!! <33
@Arini thank youuu 🖤🖤 no i don't plan to read the second book. when i got to the cliffhanger i was mostly just annoyed and rolling my eyes which wasn't a good sign to continue 😬
