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A review by blvelances
Ghost by A. Zavarelli
1.0
after everything talia has endured i expected, hoped for a comforting story in her book. a good man who would care for her, instead of the toxic shit she got.
sure he has his problems, but that doesn’t excuse anything.
he’s 12 years older than her, tells her from the get go he ‘won’t be able to love her’ and insists on it. he has no consideration for her, calls her a whore (there’s no real acknowledgment in this book of the horror she has been through and certainly not from him), he’s trying to get her pregnant so that she won’t be suicidal anymore ??? i know this book isn’t a guide to help people who have been through trauma but COME ON! she’s in her early 20s, has been sold into slavery, was a sexual slave, was severely abused in various ways and before that was already struggling with demons - LET THE GIRL HAVE FUN? be in possession of her own body? let her recover without excessive sex and trying to get her pregnant ?
and i almost threw up when he stood in front of the monster who raped her and sold her and he feels POSSESSIVE that she’s slept with the guy before. i just gave up on it all
talia seriously deserved way better and even though it’s fictional - it didn’t feel good to me. women go through the worst shit in some books and it’s as if they deserved it. it’s not even about them it becomes about men. lucky she gets off on all the terrible shit in this book because mc didn’t stop once to ask her opinion
there is bo redemption for a man who keeps hurting her the way he’s doing. 200 pages before the end he’s holding her captive in a room with no means to communicate with anyone
women are supposed to be perfect little martyr, in books written by WOMEN. misogynistic women.
instead of all this suffering maybe the book should have focused on healing. and mack should have had a bigger part in the book, it would have only made sense
additional random thought : talia doesn’t get to be mad at him, or to be sad or anything - she gets deprived of that fairly quickly. alexei? he gets to be mad, irrational, lock her up (pregnant) for weeks, and it’s just the way it is. alpha. powerful. manly… seriously what kind of woman supports this
sure he has his problems, but that doesn’t excuse anything.
he’s 12 years older than her, tells her from the get go he ‘won’t be able to love her’ and insists on it. he has no consideration for her, calls her a whore (there’s no real acknowledgment in this book of the horror she has been through and certainly not from him), he’s trying to get her pregnant so that she won’t be suicidal anymore ??? i know this book isn’t a guide to help people who have been through trauma but COME ON! she’s in her early 20s, has been sold into slavery, was a sexual slave, was severely abused in various ways and before that was already struggling with demons - LET THE GIRL HAVE FUN? be in possession of her own body? let her recover without excessive sex and trying to get her pregnant ?
and i almost threw up when he stood in front of the monster who raped her and sold her and he feels POSSESSIVE that she’s slept with the guy before. i just gave up on it all
talia seriously deserved way better and even though it’s fictional - it didn’t feel good to me. women go through the worst shit in some books and it’s as if they deserved it. it’s not even about them it becomes about men. lucky she gets off on all the terrible shit in this book because mc didn’t stop once to ask her opinion
there is bo redemption for a man who keeps hurting her the way he’s doing. 200 pages before the end he’s holding her captive in a room with no means to communicate with anyone
women are supposed to be perfect little martyr, in books written by WOMEN. misogynistic women.
instead of all this suffering maybe the book should have focused on healing. and mack should have had a bigger part in the book, it would have only made sense
additional random thought : talia doesn’t get to be mad at him, or to be sad or anything - she gets deprived of that fairly quickly. alexei? he gets to be mad, irrational, lock her up (pregnant) for weeks, and it’s just the way it is. alpha. powerful. manly… seriously what kind of woman supports this