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👀Tropes: Dark Romance (really dark) with stalking, sex with interesting objects, slow(ish) burn set in a dual POV

☠️CW: Just... Copy/Paste from author website - This book ends on a cliffhanger. It is a dark romance that contains graphic violence, dub/non con and stalking between main characters, explicit sexual situations, kinks such as degradation, gun play, and somnophilia, and deals with subject matters such as child trafficking, child deaths, and human sacrifice.

📚Read Method: Physical book, Kindle eBook, Audible

📕Review: Daily. I think about this series daily. First read March of 2023, I don't think there has been a day since that I haven't thought about Zade and Addie. My second read is of Michelle and Teddy reading it to me, and it's even better than I ever thought. The panty dropping spicy scenes has me observing every word, questioning my sanity through every sentence. Repeating over and over, 'Zade is fictional, Zade is fictional'. In real life? No I don't want a stalker that doesn't listen to my wishes of not being touched. In books? You can scare me with any weapon you want and my legs will weep for you. I have explored new things in my personal life because of Zade and Addie, and it opened up a new genre of books for me, which I have enjoyed more and more. 

Now, I love Haunting Adeline, but I think the real growth, the biggest emotions, and the highest high comes from the FUCKING CLIFFHANGER that leads into the second book [book:Hunting Adeline|59050133]. I will never ever forgive [author:H.D. Carlton|18239774] for this heartbreak turned pridefulness and delight at Zade and Addie's relationship and story. (Trying to stay spoiler free)

💖Quotes:
"I'm going to make her fall in love with every single fucked up part of me. I want this girl to see me at my most depraved. I want her to experience the true darkness residing in my soul. When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there's nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you."

I really really don’t want to spoil anything because you have to spend the like two hours reading this. It’s a short sweet and spicy novella about a shy MMC and a confident FMC and every chapter is worth it. I laughed, I cried, I giggled, and I blushed. Get to know Shane and Elle on 10/10/23. You will not be disappointed.

Second read through because it came out on Audiobook. 
Jack Hesperus and Kingsley Rose bring the characters to life and it's so good. I will say, Jack does an amazing Shane (Maneater's MMC). It's exactly how I imagined them sounding. He does amazing voices and accents and you can tell which character is speaking because of it. I really really appreciate that.

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👀Tropes: Monster romance with high content of breeding, secret identity/anonymous sex, fated mates, fast spice, knotting, and size difference. 

☠️CW: Sexual Content, Cheating(main character), Cursing, Emotional Abuse, Gaslighting, Pregnancy/Surrogacy, Stalking, Dog Attack, Non-Consensual Marking Bite, Violence between MCs, Animal Death (for food), Birth, Birth Complications (brief), Premature Baby

📚Read Method: Kindle eBook - Advanced Patreon Copy

✨Initial Reaction: The content warnings are a lot. I realized it during reading and more while writing this review. I'm sure that many people will be concerned, as they should be. There are a lot of concerning big content warnings, but remember it's [author:Lyonne Riley|36465417]. 

✨Final Reaction: This. book. is. incredible. I really really really try to stay away from the tropes/content warnings involving cheating and active pregnancy (I'm fine with epilogue pregnancies normally) BUT I had to read this because of Lyonne Riley. And she FED us with this book. The trope and content warnings were handled very very well by the characters. Dee (FMC) and Russ (MMC) meet during a hard part in their life and learn to deal with heavy topics very early in their relationship, not always making the perfect decisions, but emotional ones and will need to deal with the consequences. I have cried, cried, and cried reading this book, both good and bad, and I'm so very glad to have read this book.

💖Quotes:
🍰 "Will he eat me out like I'm a cake covered in icing again?"

💢 "I can't believe I just did that. But I'm not just enraged by what he's done-I'm furious at myself, too, for falling for it. Why did he have to lie to me? Now I can't trust him."

🏞 "She has a knack for plants, just like she has a knack for nurturing everything in her life."

🤰 "She's mine. She's my girl, my daughter, and I need to meet her. I need to hold her, and learn who she is, and watch her become the best version of herself. I'm on the verge of tears when suddenly, a small wail fills the air. She's here."