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elle_lit_zabeth's Reviews (868)
⭐️2.5/5 🌶️4/5 🌸18/20 📚96/240
🇺🇸 The chemistry between Haley and Daniel was good and their moments together were really sweet. I unfortunately don’t think it was the right way to write about mental health issues and living, surviving, and healing from toxic romantic and familial relationships.
🇫🇷 L'alchimie entre Haley et Daniel était bonne et les moments qu'ils passaient ensemble étaient vraiment doux. Malheureusement, je ne pense pas que ce soit la bonne façon d'écrire sur les problèmes de santé mentale et sur le fait de vivre, de survivre et de guérir de relations romantiques et familiales toxiques.
🇺🇸 The chemistry between Haley and Daniel was good and their moments together were really sweet. I unfortunately don’t think it was the right way to write about mental health issues and living, surviving, and healing from toxic romantic and familial relationships.
🇫🇷 L'alchimie entre Haley et Daniel était bonne et les moments qu'ils passaient ensemble étaient vraiment doux. Malheureusement, je ne pense pas que ce soit la bonne façon d'écrire sur les problèmes de santé mentale et sur le fait de vivre, de survivre et de guérir de relations romantiques et familiales toxiques.
❤️/5 🌶️4/5 🌸16/20 📚94/240
🇺🇸You don't really know what to expect from Winter and Azriel at first. It takes a while to get used to the writing style, which is quite different from anything I've read so far.
If you're looking for a dark, emotional, and romantic story that plays with forced closeness and forbidden love, set against the backdrop of the apocalypse, then this is the read for you.
If you're looking for a dark, emotional, and romantic story that plays with forced closeness and forbidden love, set against the backdrop of the apocalypse, then this is the read for you.
🇺🇸 To be quite honest, it was the 'laser tag' trope that drew me to this book.
I can't help it, my curiosity will get the better of me, that's for sure, but not today because this book has turned out to be a wonderful discovery. We follow in the footsteps of Savvy, the FMC, in her quest for a more stable and successful life.
Faced with the debts left by her father, she has no choice but to team up with his best friend to raise from the ashes the business her father left behind: a laser tag to which he had devoted his entire life.
The catch: Darwin, 18 years her senior, is also the man she was madly in love with 9 years earlier before a 'mysterious' event broke off all contact between them.
I'm not a big fan of clumsy, disaster-prone female characters, but I loved Savvy. Perhaps because the 'disaster' part is ultimately her distorted view of herself and not necessarily reality. I found her brave, clever, resilient, and passionate. She also has a very soft side, which shines through in her interactions with Darwin.
Darwin was also a very pleasant surprise. When you start a romance with a big age gap between the characters, you expect a certain type of male character and I was surprised to see that he breaks most of those clichés. The fact that he suffers from significant obsessive-compulsive disorder makes him a unique character and his development was incredible to watch.
His disorders are a real obstacle to his life, happiness, and relationships, so to witness how he overcomes them to be with Savvy was really great.
Faced with the debts left by her father, she has no choice but to team up with his best friend to raise from the ashes the business her father left behind: a laser tag to which he had devoted his entire life.
The catch: Darwin, 18 years her senior, is also the man she was madly in love with 9 years earlier before a 'mysterious' event broke off all contact between them.
I'm not a big fan of clumsy, disaster-prone female characters, but I loved Savvy. Perhaps because the 'disaster' part is ultimately her distorted view of herself and not necessarily reality. I found her brave, clever, resilient, and passionate. She also has a very soft side, which shines through in her interactions with Darwin.
Darwin was also a very pleasant surprise. When you start a romance with a big age gap between the characters, you expect a certain type of male character and I was surprised to see that he breaks most of those clichés. The fact that he suffers from significant obsessive-compulsive disorder makes him a unique character and his development was incredible to watch.
His disorders are a real obstacle to his life, happiness, and relationships, so to witness how he overcomes them to be with Savvy was really great.
⛔️DNF 🌶️4/5 🌸13/20 📚91/240
🇺🇸 Unfortunately, I couldn’t finish this. Despite the audiobook being great, I couldn’t connect with how DUMB the FMC was and how cliche this whole pregnancy was written.
🇫🇷Ce n’est pas un secret que j’ai aimé tous les livres de Jennifer Hartmann que j’ai pu lire jusqu’à présent. Malgré tout, celui-ci fait désormais partie de mes préférés de cette auteure. Malgré les sujets difficiles abordés et la grande différence d’âge entre les deux personnages principaux, elle a su créer une magnifique complicité entre eux et faire évoluer leur relation lentement mais sûrement, flirtant avec l’interdit et le taboo.
Older est bien entendu remplit de tension sexuelle et de délicieuse angst et on passe par toutes les émotions en regardant Halley et Reed outrepasser la raison pour céder à leurs sentiments.
La fin vaut vraiment toutes les larmes que j’ai laisser couler pour cette romance que je vous recommande à 100%.
🇺🇸It's no secret that I've loved every Jennifer Hartmann book I've read so far. Even so, this one is now one of my favorites by this author.
Despite the difficult subjects tackled and the big age difference between the two main characters, she has managed to create a wonderful complicity between them and make their relationship evolve slowly but surely, flirting with the forbidden and the taboo.
Older is, of course, full of sexual tension and delicious angst, and we go through every emotion as we watch Halley and Reed go beyond reason to give in to their feelings.
The ending is worth every tear I shed for this romance, which I recommend 100%.
