Haunting Adeline

Not usually my cup of tea, a lot of non consensual sexual scenes, girl and child trafficking.

I’d say about 50% is vivid sex scenes, but the stories behind it are good. A vigilante who rescues these women and children, an unsolved murder case.

Ends on a cliff hanger so now I have to read the next one to know what happens (even tho I figured out pretty early what the cliff hanger would be).

Very graphic so if graphic isn’t for you, I would not recommend. Definitely has triggers in it too for trauma survivors.

This book was really hard to get through at first but once I did I was so glad. I absolutely fell in love with the story and the characters. I immediately went out and picked up Hunting because I just couldn’t not continue. I’m really glad I did.

Very juvenile writing, characters, and plot for such mature content.

Rating and review this is somewhat difficult. I liked this a lot but I fully understand why many do not as this is very dark and have rather problematic things with it. I often nickname dark romance as horror romance as the content is usually highly, toxic, extremely unromantic in normal circumstances and disturbing at parts. But haunting Adeline did what I want in those stories. I do believe Adeline and Z has love for each other, even as it's unrealistic. Not a favorite of all time but intrigued to see what happens next.

I'm not the target audience for this and I still liked it. I'm not bothered by most of the content of the book.

Loved the setting, wish I had that damn house.

Enjoyed most of the characters. One seemed out of place but that's a very small section of the book. Everyone mentions THAT scene and yeah, it's intense. Personally I enjoyed the last one better.

My hot take, the mmc is a bit too heroic in quality. He feels like an action hero stuck in a romance book.

Read Satan's Affair first.

Personally I think I'll like gigi's story best.

Tony baby, what the hell did you get me in to lol.

This book was absolutely amazing and very sexy.

The book is really good, but the characters are better than the writing. The book is incredibly hyped on TikTok and parts of the story absolutely deserve that love and attention, but the hype does set the bar pretty high and I think that there are definitely parts - specifically from his POV - that come off a bit... Wattpad. That being said, I did go and read the prequel Satan's Affair and the sequel Hunting Adeline. I also purchased the standalone Does It Hurt? and will be watching the author carefully for Sibby's story. Because while the writing can and does sometimes fall flat, the characters are INCREDIBLE and absolutely worthy of coming back for more.

4.5⭐️

I usually HATE romance books but this one? I couldn’t stop reading! It’s so unique and written with so much detail (at times a little unnecessary). I loved that there was multiple aspects to this story and we got the perspective of both main characters. If you choose this for your next read make sure you buy the sequel with it because you will want to read it immediately after. My only flaw is that I did predict the ending almost to a T. I don’t know that most people would’ve been able to do that however I feel that most romance books, movies, TV shoes, etc. are predictable. Don’t let my predictability stop you from picking this one up and giving it a try!

I just couldn’t get into it.