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The Awakening by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham
4.0

I went in with 0 expectations as I’ve heard this series is MID

It’s a duel pov with the two sisters and I’m struggling to tell who is who, I genuinely had to make a spread sheet on who has what power, who’s in what house etc. 

The whole controlling, power dynamic, non consensual thing annoys me and it irks me the wrong way. I think there is a way of doing “bullying romance” correctly but there’s some fine ass lines of sexual assault and “bully romance”. 

Is the writing fantastic? No but am I obsessed? Yes

I had whiplash of emotion from beginning to end