A review by kaitie_reads
Hooked by Emily McIntire

adventurous dark tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

I listened to the audiobook for this one. The narration is excellent, and the narrator for Hook (MMC)'s POV has an amazing voice 🔥. 

I'm honestly a little bit concerned about how much I loved this. It's no literary masterpiece, but I had the best time... outside of wanting to throttle Wendy at points in the story. She was a little *too* dumb.

With ample spice, a dark broody psychopathic MMC (who will burn the world for her), and fairytale references, it's a lot of fun. I semi-predicted the ending, but some twists and turns totally blindsided me, too.

Also, darling is now on my list of top pet names. I loved it in this book, where it's used as wordplay to reference the OG fairytale (and likely because of how Rupert Hawthorne says it, tbh). 

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𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓽𝓸 𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝓫𝓾𝓻𝓷?"
"𝓛𝓮𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝓰𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓼, 𝔂𝓸𝓾'𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓮𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓷 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮?" 𝓘 𝓪𝓼𝓴.
𝓗𝓮 𝓬𝓱𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓵𝓮𝓼, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓿𝓲𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓶𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝔂 𝓫𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓼.
"𝓝𝓸, 𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰. 𝓘'𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓽 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴, 𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓪𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓼.