Vera’s Reviews > Pennies > Status Update

Halfway through. and I'm flying through the book. It genuinely doesn't feel like I'm reading, it's so effortless...but I don't love the book in any shape or form. Just can't tear my eyes away.

Oh no.
Are you telling me, she tried to kill Alrik and fight him, but just in an exposition type of way, so we can't even experience it? Whhhyyy....why skip over the good bits

The backstory is not weighty enough for me to commiserate with the heroine. Stop blaming your mother for a start. And I honestly don't think 3 weeks is enough to wipe out 18 years of upbringing. I do think Pepper Winters is an excellent writer though (previous works) but yet again, I'm perplexed by the subject matter...maybe the intention? I'll continue

Is 3 weeks enough to break someone?
She sounds like someone who's been prisoner for 3 years, not 3 weeks.
I wonder what they did to her...

Chapter one, and the female lead is blaming her mother for being a target? "Oh, fuck you, mother, for instilling self-esteem into me, looking after me well and protecting me from the horrors of the world. It's all your fault I got kidnapped by a prostitution (I think it's prostitution, some details are vague) gang."

I have to read further to comment, but my hackles are already up