breezie_reads's reviews
1055 reviews

I don't know why I didn't guess from the title that this would be sad, but the amount of times I cried took me by surprise. This definitely read like a classic, though, with all the flowery. dragged out sentences and descriptions. But I still loved every minute of it. I felt connected to Stephen and understood her in ways I haven't understood a character in a while. I'm not too happy with the ending, but I also feel like any other ending would have been worse.

Oh. My. God. The messiness? This book is a gift to the publishing world. And if Micah Nemerever wrote another one, I'd read it in a heartbeat. It's been a long time since I've read a debut novel that left me this flabbergasted.

These Violent Delights is a novel about obsession and the lengths people will go to to prove their devotion. It starts out with a bang and it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I devoured this audiobook and finished it one day because I just couldn't stop listening to it.

Paul and Julian are so wrapped up in themselves and each other from the moment they meet, and their relationship is volatile and toxic from the beginning. Neither of them are likeable people. They aren't supposed to be. But their toxicity and the messiness of their relationship, paired with Paul's inner monologue and self-hatred, is so addicting. For a slower-paced novel, the drama was constant and I could not keep a straight face listening to this because shit was just going down, all the time.

I will recommend this book to everyone. Especially if they want drama and are as obsessed with the concept of obsession as I am.

Rating this 2.5 stars because it was just okay, but there's too many complaints from me to justify giving it 3 stars.

You know how H.P. Lovecraft was SUPER racist even back in a time when being racist was the social norm? This felt like that for me. I felt like the author was trying way too hard to hit every single nasty stereotype he could think of and went out of his way to be exaggeratedly racist. You can write the book without all that.

He also babbled. Both with the descriptions and the dialogue. There was so much extra words being used it read like one of those essays in schools where you're just trying to hit a word count. Which also made it kind of boring. I ended up speeding this audiobook up to 2.5. I NEVER listen to audiobooks on 2.5 but there was so much extra wordage on the page, and the narrator talked so slow, that it was necessary. 

I'm also going to complain about the way he wrote the women, despite it probably being the normal viewpoint of that time period, but they were just there to further the plot. They were constantly abducted and in danger and in the way. Their sole purpose was to be abducted and to get in the way it seemed. Characters in books that exist for no reason other than to be an unnecessary plot point irritate me. Why'd you do them like that?

And circling back to what I said about the babbling - every single time Hawk-eye spoke? We don't need to be reminded every other conversation that he's a white man. It was redundant and got annoying after the third time. And then it just kept going. 

At least now I can say that I've read this, I guess. It was fine. Subpar, if you will.

I got this for free on Amazon and didn't realize it was part of a series, but it's one of those odd little short stories that takes place during another book in the actual story. Even with that, though, I didn't need any background to understand what was going on, and it made me interested in reading the actual series instead of just the three short stories I collected.

Rating this three stars because it was just okay to me. I was so excited to love this, but I didn't feel a connection with the characters, I didn't really care for the setting or for the plot. There was nothing here that kept my interest and made me want to read the second book. Which is shame, because this book was so popular when it came out, and it still is super popular. But it just isn't for me I guess.

Soft DNF. Can't concentrate and aren't making any progress. I'll come back to this when I'm actually in the mood for it.

Half a star added for intrigue in the Monstrel pack and Tsukune FINALLY getting consequences for Moka's blood saving him, but this installment was just gross after gross after gross. Teachers sexually assaulting students, other students sexually assaulting students, Moka's blood just being an easy plot tool to keep Tsukune alive. It's getting really repetitive, and repetitive is boring. I would love to know about the Monstrel pack, but they aren't the focus of this series so I probably won't know much, if anything, more than I learned in chapter 20.