Shelby's Reviews > Torment: Part One

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This is the worst book I think I’ve ever read 💀💀 I don’t know how it can be recommended as a romance? It’s not 😭😭😭

And look, I like dark books, I’m all for the anti-hero, the pitch black morally grey guy getting the girl. But I draw the line at borderline peadophilia 😂 there is nothing romantic about two teenagers, two young men, lusting after a 9 year old. A CHILD.

And she’ll obviously end up with one of them in book 2. To each their own but that’s not the kind of story I want to read about 😅 there is no going back from that for either Keenan or Shay. It’s grooming, it’s gross, with neither ‘love interest’ having a single redeeming quality.

Where is it set? UK? USA? Because Mina calls her mum, m-u-m. But then she talks about being a senior in high school and calling the cops. Confused.
In one chapter in the past Mina is 9 years old, she tells us Shay is 14. In a present chapter she’s 16, and Shay is 23… Either Mina has amnesia and forgotten how old Shay is or the author messed up.

The writing good lord 🤦🏽‍♀️

𝙆𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨!
𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚!
𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙄’𝙢 𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙮

The italics and !!!!!!! 😭😭 The dialogue and inner monologue is some of the worst I’ve read. What 9 year old is thinking her 14 year old stepbrother is ‘attractive’ and thinks someone is ‘indisputably good.’
Other faves: bad-ass biker, chick magnet, sweetbutts, club ho’s 😭😭😭
AND THE OVERUSE OF NICKNAMES 💀💀 Sweetness,
Sunshine, Cutie 😩😩 Shay, a 16 year old boy is calling his kid stepsister SWEETNESS? 🤣 and Keenan, calling her hon?? Another 16 year old. Sorry I didn’t realise he was a bald middle aged man. My mistake.

I have nothing more to add, only that I wish this reading experience could be erased from my brain.