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Not the fucking backsplash again.

Contemplating dropping this right now. “Backlash is hot.” 😑

So we just learned that this curse and hunger dates back to prehistoric times and we are supposed to believe that Adam just three years turned is the leader of the entire pack? Even if he was already a cruel and controlling person he couldn’t have possibly been the first of that nature the succumb to this hunger.

I wish there was no smut in this book. Not only is it not good but it slows the story down and feels incredibly forced. They’re hypothermic and need to share a single sleeping bag for heat but dying Eli is somehow not also hypothermic? I get screwing bc they might not get another chance but why are we forcing it in a way that just doesn’t add up. This book would be better without smut.

I don’t understand why the guys are all butt hurt about finding out Aubrey is FBI. She never lied because they never asked. Obviously they’re paranoid because there is a criminal element not yet explained but she never lied about a damn thing. Fuck Jensen for acting like she’s betrayed him, his betrayal was so much worse.

“Months of tension” really?! It’s been like a week.

Oh and by the creek they keep referring to “what happened last night” but nothing happened last night, it was two nights ago.

It’s a big pet peeve of mine when books can’t keep their own timeline straight.

I feel like I’m too far into this book with no real progress on the story. The entire spice scene I just read was so lame and so cliche that it made me feel nothing except annoyance that Aubrey is using soap to wash herself in a creek because even biodegradable soap should not be used that close to a water source.

I was really looking forward to reading this, I hope it gets better and starts actually progressing.

Weird how she did absolutely no research on Jensen and immediately headed this way to throw 100k at him and then spends her time asking questions- the questions she should have been asking before.

This story is uncomfortable because she is so honest about all of the ways she wasn’t a “perfect victim”. The way she tells the story makes you shift inside because it’s so inappropriate but from her past POV it wasn’t. It’s uncomfortable reading the details about her relationship with Jeff from her adolescent POV because she was somewhat convinced it was love. It’s an honestly that other victims get.

I can definitely see the resemblance to my dark Vanessa and I can see why Wendy Ortiz felt ripped off. I can also see why her book was rejected. It’s very raw and unpolished around the edges and it was way ahead of its time.

As a memoir on this subject I think at this point it’s brilliant. The best memoirs are raw and rough around the edges written by real and flawed humans who have a story to tell.

Period sex… this was weird af. Mostly because she had sex with silver and then the next day while still bleeding had a random quickie with miller and her period and blood is mentioned after the fact. So Cora is either free bleeding all morning because her quickie with miller or she had sex with a tampon in. I hate that I’m over things Cora’s period but get hung up on detail like this being missed.

Really enjoying this so far but I’m a little annoyed that everything is insta-love. All of these guys are just instantly obsessed with Cora, there is no slow burn they just go straight from 0 to 100 immediately. Alec is a slight exception story wise but by his own words it was love at first sight.

So far so good. Getting a little hung up on Alec’s introduction though. They were caught in the rain and he gave Cora his jacket then like five minutes later she’s refusing a ride home and everyone is just okay with letting her walk home in the supposed rain? There was no mention of the rain stopping. Just a silly detail I can’t stop thinking of.