This is bad. Like it's really bad. Think bad fanfiction on watpad 20 years ago.

They've included EVERY trope, like everything they could think of has been added in. The characters are absolutely horrible, especially the many men. How are we supposed to root for anyone who's that awful? There's several quotes which are lifted from other fandoms like Twilight almost exactly. The dramatised audio is distracting and a bit rubbish. And don't get me started on the character who wouldn't stop speaking in a bad spanglish.

This said, I've totally ordered book two from the library. This is utter trash but it might just draw me back...

Necromancer FMC follows her sister into a demon run haunted house/torture competition. With the promise of a wish granted by the demon who runs it for the last person standing at it's end, her sister is hoping to save their home from the bank.

With death and gore at every turn and learning her newfound necromancer magic on the fly, Ophelia enlists the help of a sexy ghost.

It's a different take on the dark romance smut books about and all the better for that. If anything though, the plot was a side point in Phantasma. The smut was on point.

This said, certain things in the story felt very rushed and the reveals were crammed in and not explained for a swift ending. Certain plot points were completely forgotten about where they needed to be explored but I'm hoping these will be explained in the next book (which is about the FMC's sister). The OCD descriptions are definitely uncomfortable for those who might be triggered by them.

Would I read it again? Most definitely.

If I hadn't had this as a book club book, I wouldn't have finished it.

Wannabe influencer FMC bad mouths the cupcakes in her BFFs favourite cupcake shop having not even tried one. The owner gives her one to try and despite it being great, she still leaves and is very rude. After turning a slimy guy down on a reality TV show (who the public loves) her rich parents cut her off. Rich grandmother arranges her a job saying she can have access to her trust fund if she works six months. She owns an American Football team and said job is with one of the players - who happens to be the guy from cupcake shop. Minor hijinks ensue.

It's the sort of book which would be a good palate cleanser romance read inbetween other books but the rich girl/trust fund angle mixed with dull characters let's it down.

Furthermore, why add that kind of plot twist in at 90%? It definitely made the book worse.

Adding her leaving and returning in so late 'for herself' mitigates the reason why she was doing so too. He didn't chase her, she broke his heart. But all is okay within a couple of months and pages)?

Sigh.