Duplicity

[h.s] #1

by Happydays1d

"Smoking is bad you know." The placid voice spoke up from the distant dark corner, nothing seen but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry.

"It's the least of my problems." I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris fill my throat when I suck delicately.

He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer and closer to my eardrums until I felt body heat radiate against my back.

"And why is that?" His tone whispers against my ear, intimidating me as I saw his hands grip the railing in front of my body.

"Because you'll be the one to kill me first."


// Aven Brooks is hired to take photos for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite dreamed university. But when her lenses accidentally capture more than just sound checks and live performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a rock band.

Now she's terrified, and trapped.

Genres: Fan Fiction, Romance, Dark Romance, Enemies To Lovers, Fiction, Dark, Slow Burn

Reviews

[Kate Whitley · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is the holy grail of dark harry fanfics right now and if you disagree go argue with the wall 🙃

[Mreenal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Literally better than so many books I've read and it was a fan fiction.
I LOVE IT.

[ab · Rating 4 out of 5]

uh good but bad at the end

Edit ; im actually finishing it and its so good sry and im so with the no fixing thing its something I should’ve realized

[Noor 👾 · Rating 5 out of 5]

THE ENDING IS NOT ACCEPTABLE

jules fix their shit pls

[angela*:･ﾟ · Rating 4 out of 5]

remember to separate fiction from reality

[ava fountain · Rating 3 out of 5]

it’s actually so humiliating that I
a) read this
and b) thoroughly enjoyed it

[Andrea De Luca · Rating 5 out of 5]

So this took me longer than expected (to be fair it’s like 5 books put together).... but um ya still crying 😭😭 This book was legit crazy but so amazing 🍒 #suckerrrr

[Kelly Gillan]

not finished but all caught up i guess

[C · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay so this is way overhyped and for what ? I couldn't even finish it like c'mon why is it even a book now ? The grammar is way beyond awful , when the author can't distinguish the difference between "than" and "then" it's concerning ( English ain't even my mother tongue ) . And the MC Aven oh god I never hated a girl in my life this bad . I can't get the green shoes out of my mind . The whole vibes of this fic are a no for me , thanks .

[˚ ༘♡ kara⋆｡˚ · Rating 5 out of 5]

SOOO beautifully written and ALOT better than many books i've read. All of the scenes like daytona, vegas, and when aven was wearing the sundress is just *chefs kiss* julez has also been writing SOO beautifully especially around 2/3 of the book.

[Sonia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have never read any fanfiction as exciting as this one. I finally finished it, this had my heart racing and shit. I'm gonna start the next book now.

[Salmonella · Rating 5 out of 5]

in honor of duplicity being completed😭

[poppy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this more than I planned.

[alesia · Rating 4 out of 5]

looooook… i needed a break from sports romance and my friend has been begging me to read this for the last 6 years 😭 eventually!! peer pressure gets to me. 2,400 pages later.. here we are.

[Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

✰✰✰.5

➯ This was an amazing story. I was so interested at the beginning but then, the long chapters became a little unbearable. I gotta say the plot twists were interesting and well planned. I love the characters even though I don't imagine them as 1D yeah... it didn't felt right😭
I'm looking forward to the sequel!

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

NOTHING TO SEE HERE (This took me a week to finish so I’m adding it to my Goodreads as embarrassing as it is :$ side note this was one of the best ff I’ve ever read and I think I need therapy after those last two chapters… anyways ily duplicity Harry)

[dess · Rating 5 out of 5]

fuck. i have a headache.

[makenna jane! ★ · Rating 5 out of 5]

how am i supposed to read another dark harry fic when none of the others even compare to this one?

[Emma Roden · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m sorry but I take off one star because of the end…

Reread : okay it’s 5 stars.

[sydney ulanowicz · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was just like……. the most insane and addicting thing i’ve ever read on earth. i need to go stare at a wall for a bit

[Jen Mackenzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

TRAUMATISING BUT SO GOOD

[madi]

dnf this when i was like 13 LMAO

[Kennady Spurrier · Rating 5 out of 5]

ayo all my friends on here that don’t know i read fan fiction y’all better mind ur business about this one ok👁👄👁

[Natalia_loversland · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fanfiction. On Wattpad. I can't believe I ended up reading this, but it was pretty good? It made me feel things, for Harry and Aven --- a lot of the time it got heavy on material concerning mental illness and sexual things. Ohhh and the characters were very well developed and the plot was surprisingly, very creative. Anyhow, yes I really enjoyed the fanfic but I had issues with it:

-it was too.fucking.long. Which is disappointing in this case. In some cases, I love when a book is super long because I don't want it to end, but with this one...it dragged a lot. And a lot of times I found myself skimming through paragraphs. It was pointlessly long that I DNF'ed it at the 90% mark and didn't finish the whole fanfic cuz I just didn't care anymore. (it has around 94 chapters I believe and I stopped at chapter 84, and I don't plan on finishing it)
-The pace worked with me at first because Duplicity was a mystery as was Harry Styles and it was angsty because you were waiting for Harry and Aven to get together, but he was also kind of sociopathic. After the 50 % mark, the author is just adding random things to keep it interesting. Like Niall being stabbed and the guy with the skeleton mask --- Quincy, was it? And random stuff. Ugh, no. The plot went downhill.
- Maybe I was the only person that found it super strange at the amount of sex they indulged in. I like sex in books, but moderately, steamy and concise. (And I dig the beautiful and passionate intimate scenes as opposed to more erotic). Anyway, the sex scenes in this book were...unnecessarily descriptive. A whole fucking chapter on them thrusting into each other?? No thanks. Why not make it short? Also, me being that one person who is a hopeless romantic, there isn't any romance between Harry and Aven. There's just sex, secrets, moments of weakness, and shameless sexy flirting.
-I hated that one chapter I loved Harry and the next I wanted to kill the dude...my brain was going on a complicated train ride with this guy

I'm just gonna end it here because this can take all day. Bye y'all.

[Gin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listen, it’s not even finished but this book is a master piece. It gets so much hate for being a Harry Styles ff, or that it’s overhyped. In my opinion it’s not. Julez articulated toxicity, love and suspense beautifully. It’s a messed up fairytale. I could stop reading the book for months, years even, but I would still remember every single detail. It has a (Cupid’s) chokehold on me. Harry and Avens characters are not perfect, that’s what makes me fall deeply in love with them every chapter, more than the last. The characters are relatable to myself in ways I would of never expected. This will forever be my favourite read, Wattpad or real book. Wattpad creators get so much hate in the reading community. They create beautiful creations of work that are dismissed as they “aren’t real writers,” or “why are they posting on a website/app”. Wattpad writers are real writers. Julez’ work is just an example of such that blew up and she deserves it.


Update: 8/1/22

So, it took me two years to read. This is the best book imaginable. I was screaming at the last chapter. Aven and Harry brought me so much comfort. Best book characters ever. Their story is so heartwarming and heartbreaking. I love this book so much. I have re read it 3 times in total aside from the final 10 chapters as it was an ongoing book, but I know I will always come back to it and re read it.

[Ella · Rating 5 out of 5]

i am not ashamed for giving this book 5 stars. i genuinely love this book and that’s that😙 also stan aven😌

[Izzy✿︎♡︎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved it! ❤️
It took me a while to finish it, but it was amazing..
I would definitely read it again.
And I enjoyed every minute of it.
The suspense, the romance, the tension 😏
There were times I felt like throwing my phone across the room and cry,(I did once 🤫😅), I screamed too..
The ending was too sudden..
And that mystery character😭
That had me screaming 😱
Can't wait to read Complicity!
I hope they find each other again..😢
(Second reread 😮‍💨)

[Lilly Nordfelt]

i swear to god i read this ironically. if you can handle immense cringe/second hand embarrassment and very bad grammar/writing for the sake of entertainment, then read this it is so funny and unhinged i can’t even believe it’s real.

[avery]

bro just found out i can shelve fanfics….

[Sydney · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was Coachella 2016 (actually 2020 but you get the point). This was the vibe at the time...

I also never finished this bc the updates were taking too long 😭