They had the audacity to put a man on the cover of this book.

The one time I decided not to read the summary, I stumbled into a horror movie. I don’t have much to say about this, but I’m glad Kennedy Ryan got more thorough with trigger warnings in recent books. Cause why were there whole chapters of Iris getting abused and raped…. I’m not talking mentions; in gruesome detail. It was absolutely draining and I skipped them, but still! Then there was August. He was great but I didn’t give a damn about what he had going on. There were lives at stake! The book had great underlying messages and seeing Iris’s growth and survival was satisfying. I wish we’d gotten more of that but most of the book was her being trapped. I felt like I was being held hostage with her. Then when she finally walked out the house, it went pretty smoothly which threw me. That transition in the book was probably the weakest. We saw none of her plans to take Caleb down or nothing. She just summoned his team the next day and we were there. By the time she and August got together, I didn’t care much, unfortunately. We got so much detail of the abuse that everything else felt shallow because it wasn’t given the same attention, in my opinion. 

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