Dark Contemporary Romance, Dual 1st POV, Instalust, Royalty, Possessive Alpha Hole Morally Gray MMC, Reporter FMC
Pros
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Cons
The writing voice is very simple, like it’s been dummied down because he thinks his audience is stupid. The overuse of italicized words is criminal.
The misogyny - why are they referring to a fully grown, professional reporter as a "girl?”
The MMC reads like a romance cartoon character. Big & broody and ruled by his hormone rush upon seeing (not even meeting) the FMC. Seriously, what kind of "cold," "dictator, tyrant, monster" is so easily ruled by his feelings?!? And why is he already using the word "mine" before even meeting this woman? 🙄 He is so over the top & cheesy. I already can't take him seriously and it's only page 8.
The FMC perspective is so bad it’s basically offensive to women. He actually wrote woman saying, “a war criminal…a f*cking hot war criminal.” Followed by, “He’s hot with two t’s.” 🙄And then they proceed to have an incredibly disturbing conversation about how hot the war criminal dictator is & make some very unfunny comments about Saddam Hussein. I understand that later in the book we probably find out that the king is oh so misunderstood and a morally gray stand up guy, but this whole exchange was a deeply shallow & offensive representation of women. It gave the same vibes to when all those Booktok women were saying murderer Wade Wilson was hot. Just no. DNFing this insult to humanity.