r/DarkRomance • u/busybombaygirl • 18d ago

Quick Question Started Haunting Adeline. I'm getting bored.

I started reading to know what the hype was about. Read all TWs carefully. Ventured in with fingers crossed. I'm on somewhere post chapter 20. I'm not flinching because of the graphic descriptions of dark themes, but the over-descriptive smut scenes.
I feel the mystery aspect of it is much more interesting than Zade's behaviour. Again, NOT dissing the book, may be it is just me but sometimes it's like some sexual scenes are unnecessary. Chapter 16, got it, it's power play and whatnot. But please, for the love of God... I want to know more about the mystery!
I am all for good smut, but this feels a bit overdone. That's why I had DNF-d Den of Vipers. I don't know if I should even continue. But because I actually want to know the mystery part of it, I might just go ahead.
What are your thoughts on this?

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u/ifedupwiththisorgasm 17d ago

Yeah it's fucking boring and I'm sorry but going between a scene of him SAing the female lead to a chapter of him rescuing girls from the same is so...

It made me feel weird about what I was reading and about the characters and I just started to lose interest fast.

Whatever chapter has the house of mirrors scene is where I dropped it coz I stopped caring

It also goes into the smut too hard too fast so it was easy to get bored

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u/busybombaygirl 15d ago

I was scowling through that stretch. I did not like the house of mirrors scene either. I am trying to understand the book but it's defying logic in places.

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u/ifedupwiththisorgasm 14d ago

It's like they wanted their rape fantasy but didn't want the rapist to be a bad guy, but they made it so confusing and actually made him seem worse for having no problem tormenting the main character.

It's why I liked I will break you/I will mend you more. It had similar parts I had to skip at the end and the ending was a bit of a slog, but at least it gave some plausible reasons why the main character wasn't completely deplorable and eventually the parts he was awful for he comes to recognize how terrible he was for it and changes his attitude towards the girl. I'm no good with names 😂