Midu Reads

I really liked this one but rated it just 2 stars because of how the heroine irritated me. She kicked ass but kept wallowing in self-doubt about how no one could ever love her. All the time, I was like, have you seen yourself? You survived “the basement” — she was tortured by her boss for three months in every way while unable to resist because of a compulsion he had placed upon her. I understood her rage and I understood how powerlessness she might have felt. But that feeling of not being good enough hadn’t been developed there in the dark. She had felt that way even before the trauma. Why? Just because the author thought she needed to be feminized for the hero to love her? I dunno; it just didn’t sit right with me. 

Another thing that irked me was how the lead couple kept rehashing the same conversation in every scene where it was just the two of them. Ugh boring!

I loved that the author showed us that self-preservation can make us selfish or doesn’t stop us from being jealous of the ones we love. For instance, the protag’s sister loved her but didn’t try to hard to undo the blood binding because that would mean facing that hell on her own. Similarly, the protag was jealous of the relationship that her sister had because she had never had one of her own. It didn’t make her become a bitch or anything but acknowledging that made me like her more.

Review of a book from another Vincent series

They say this one sucks the most. Do I dare?