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Posted: 3 months ago
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Originally posted by: aryapdane

Yeah you're right about the mystery part. Would have liked more of it. I didn't want to mention it earlier coz I'm not a natural romance reader toh I thought ki meko hi lag raha tha bas. Glad to see you liked it too. But man, didn't you think the entire enemies vibe in the beginning was diluted coz the dialogues were so bad. And later when they were flirting, I was like this does nothing to me 😭😭

Bro, Anti Hero brought together every annoying trope together. Like how annoying was Collins. Phir I dislike Sister's Best Friend. Phir she was not financially unstable but planning for a kid aur behen ko Kit bhi nahi chahiye zindagi mein. Aur yeh dono purre book mein ladte hi rahe aur last mein, she's like I love you. Like hello?? Kab hua tumko pyar, madam?

I think I need to apologise for picking A Touch of Darkness coz man I was so annoyed with that book. Persephone toh maha annoying thi hi. But man, Hades ka characterization bhi bakwas laga meko. This is a hate crime against Greek Mythology Retellings.

Arrey no need to apologise yaar 😆 we all pick up duds sometimes. ATOD wasn’t my worst read of Augustsmiley36 I read one where ML and FL have 10 years gap and he considered her as her little sis when she was 6. I couldn’t erase this fact from my mind during the whole booksmiley22

All the Missing Pieces exactly, the mystery hook was good but romance part was done badly in this book. I read a couple of other books by the same author and she handled the romance better. This one sucked… Matlab enemies-to-lovers (which is one of my fav trope) ki jagah “slightly-annoyed acquaintances-to-random flirting” bana diya.

Anti-Hero I was waiting for some growth, some shift but it didn’t happen. It irks me when the FL ends up preggo after ONSsmiley8The unexpected pregnancy plot most of the time leads to sudden confession.

A Touch of Darkness 😂 hate crime against Greek mythology is the perfect way to put it. Persephone ki characterization toh mess thi hi, but Hades ko bhi ek moody, broody cardboard cut-out bana diya. Imagine you have literal Greek gods aur phir bhi tumhe boring banane mein success milti hai 😭

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