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Watch Me Fall
by Autumn Winchester
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Man, I had such high hopes for this book, but it was absolutely torture to get through it at some points, and not because of the heavy subject matter. It needs another round with a proofreader and copyeditor. I had a really hard time immersing myself in the book because of all the mistakes, including typos of every kind, grammatical errors, the author mixing past and present tense in the same sentence, misspelling names twice in a row, oh and the timeline. That shit threw me off for nearly the entire book. Ari is dropped off at conversion camp at almost 17 years old. Three ish months later, he escapes. The book then tells you '9 months later', but in actuality, there's a three year jump in time! What the fudge happened there. Suddenly Ari is 20, not 18, and has been homeless for ages, not a couple of months. Quite a significant mix-up.
Honestly, at some point it felt like someone had put the entire book through Google Translate, which is an absolute shame, because I really wanted to love this book. I'm all for a really traumatic backstory with hurt/comfort. If you're someone that can overlook a general lack of proofreading and editing, go for it. I am not that person, lol.
I think a lot of the books contents were done 'right', and I think it suited the story and characters well that neither Ari or Paisley wanted a sexual relationship (in other words, if you want spice, this isn't the book for you). The first five or six chaptes are pretty detailed in all the sexual abuse and torture, so definitely take a gander at the content warning and take care of yourself while reading. All the mistakes aside, the book deals with serious subject matters.
Book safety
Cheating: No
OM drama: No
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person single POV, from Ari
TW/CW: on-page rape, abuse, torture, neglect, human trafficking, bdsm club, anxiety disorder, panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts and ideation, conversion camp, hate crime, hate speech
Tropes & tags
Conversion camp, abuse, found family, homeless, anxiety and panic attacks, very mild age play, non-sexual relationship, hurt/comfort, casual intimacy, cuddles
Man, I had such high hopes for this book, but it was absolutely torture to get through it at some points, and not because of the heavy subject matter. It needs another round with a proofreader and copyeditor. I had a really hard time immersing myself in the book because of all the mistakes, including typos of every kind, grammatical errors, the author mixing past and present tense in the same sentence, misspelling names twice in a row, oh and the timeline. That shit threw me off for nearly the entire book. Ari is dropped off at conversion camp at almost 17 years old. Three ish months later, he escapes. The book then tells you '9 months later', but in actuality, there's a three year jump in time! What the fudge happened there. Suddenly Ari is 20, not 18, and has been homeless for ages, not a couple of months. Quite a significant mix-up.
Honestly, at some point it felt like someone had put the entire book through Google Translate, which is an absolute shame, because I really wanted to love this book. I'm all for a really traumatic backstory with hurt/comfort. If you're someone that can overlook a general lack of proofreading and editing, go for it. I am not that person, lol.
I think a lot of the books contents were done 'right', and I think it suited the story and characters well that neither Ari or Paisley wanted a sexual relationship (in other words, if you want spice, this isn't the book for you). The first five or six chaptes are pretty detailed in all the sexual abuse and torture, so definitely take a gander at the content warning and take care of yourself while reading. All the mistakes aside, the book deals with serious subject matters.
Book safety
Spoiler
Cheating: No
OM drama: No
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 1st person single POV, from Ari
TW/CW: on-page rape, abuse, torture, neglect, human trafficking, bdsm club, anxiety disorder, panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts and ideation, conversion camp, hate crime, hate speech
Tropes & tags
Spoiler
Conversion camp, abuse, found family, homeless, anxiety and panic attacks, very mild age play, non-sexual relationship, hurt/comfort, casual intimacy, cuddles