Corrupt (Devil’s Night #1)

I am beyond disappointed and frustrated that I bought this book without checking out the negative reviews. I was totally into the mystery, intrigue, sexual tension between the main characters. However after the repeated almost rape of the heroine/ kidnap of her mother/ burning her house down- all done by our \”hero\” and his friends, she actually continues her relationship with him. It is so unrealistic and appalling! I\’m not saying I\’m a prude by any means, it is just the way this story was written that leaves me speechless, and not in a good way. I enjoyed the author\’s other books tremendously, this one however, was way off.

Wow ,what can say about this book . Love this author ,but im starting to dislike how the guys always bully the girls . I dont understand why . This book is sick. Those guys are criminals,they should all be in jail. Michael,o my God,he didnt care if he liked her,he was going to destroy her,take all her money,let all of them rape her,they burned down her house,They most likely kidnaped her,was go to sexually abuse her ,and hours later she just sleep with him. Till last minute he was going to destroy her . And i was think on a 3 star till the moment she had a threesome with 2 of them.That was not a turn on.That was discussing,repulsive,1 minute after she confesses her love she opens her legs for another guy. WHAT?????? They were ,terrorists ,criminal,gang,rapist . They all should be in jail.THIS book is sick. I love this author ,i will say ,i read all her books ,but this one should be taked out of the market .

This was awful. Not because it lacked anything in particular, it just seemed to push the wrong boundaries. I understand that authors are always trying to find new and inventive ways to tell a story, but the \”shock factor\” is getting old. There will be spoilers, so be warned. What I liked: 1. I liked the main characters and the overall theme of the story–that things aren\’t always as they seem. 2. I love enemies to lovers stories. What I didn\’t like: 1. How could four 19 year olds honestly return to a high school town and think it\’s cool to party with high schoolers? Especially ones with absolutely NO parental boundaries? It makes no sense! 19 year old boys do not come back from college on a Halloween weekend and take only of-age girls to a party and have an oragie in catacombs of an old church. It\’s absolutely ridiculous and not plausible, unless you are the lamest 19 year olds playing basketball in college 2. Other than the ridiculous premise, I find it hard to believe that three years go by and all three boys who were arrested are released and have been planning to have revenge on a girl who \”got them arrested\”. Especially when one of them was arrested for rape. 3. What revenge includes burning down the poor girl\’s childhood home, making her mother \”disappear\”, and then basically gang raping her, which \”wouldn\’t really be rape if they force her to beg for it first.\” Corrupt isn\’t the word I would use. They then say the fire wasn\’t supposed to happen, but it\’s okay because Rika (the main character) says she didn\’t like the house anyway, so no hard feelings. And then we find out Rika\’s mother disappears for two months with no contact with Rika because she\’s in…*drumroll*…rehab! Which is a great thing because Michael (the main male) always loved Rika despite this three year plan of \”ending her life\”, so even though he\’s been a violent and terrible person, we should all have known better than to think he would have actually killed her mother. And Rika being scared for her mother was just juvenile and offensive (ummm no–it\’s not). 4. Forcing someone to beg for sex from four men is still rape in my book. Although it never happened completely, the four guys should not have been surprised that she fought back and stabbed one of them. Although, they deemed her a b**** for that. 5. The girl on girl action, and the later threesome were so unnecessary and bent boundaries for stupid reasons. It wasn\’t like any of these boundaries in this story actually furthered any way of thinking. It was all done as a way of getting back at each other. Just completely childish during adult moments! And Michael willingly lets Rika and Kai have sex and even hands Kai a condom while one of them takes her from the front and the other from behind! All to give Kai confidence again!! Wtf?! I seriously woke my husband up every ten minutes to tell him the next absurd thing that happened in the story. It was so bizarre. Save your money and time. Read Bully if you really want a good Penelope Douglas novel. It was more mature and less convoluted.

The characters in all this authors books always start off as self-important rich teenage jerks and end up self-important entitled rich young adults. The lead female is always victimised than quickly forgives the male who does this to them without so much as a sorry and having to do any work to show that they remorseful. Oh and they fall I love. I feel that this author does not like females with how their female characters are always weak pathetic people who think being abused emotionally is okay

I\’ll preface this with saying this is only my opinion about this book. I\’m always honest about my feelings and this one really didn\’t do it for me at all. This ended up being one of the most ridiculously convoluted books I\’ve read in a long time. Honestly, the more I read, the more it annoyed me until the point where it just became utterly stupid and unrealistic on every level. I can only suspend my disbelief for so long and this tested my patience far too many times. I ended up hating pretty much every single character in this book. Rika was so irritating. She was weak as hell despite everyone going on about how strong she was. I\’m sorry, but even though she was pissed off with the horsemen for what they were doing to her, she still let them do it. She went along with EVERYTHING! Like how is that a strong heroine? Also she just forgave Michael even though he never apologised for what he did. Like if you\’re going to write an antihero, you have to redeem him and Micheal never redeemed himself. I liked him in the beginning but after everything which went on in this book, I ended up thinking he was just as weak and irritating as Rika. I didn\’t enjoy the way the book played out. Whilst I didn\’t mind the back and forth with present and past, tell me why I had to wait until almost 70% into the book to find out why Kai, Will and Damon went to prison? Like Damon\’s was hinted at so I guessed it, but the other two?! It just made me not empathise with the characters at all. Maybe I\’d have understood Michael more if I\’d known earlier why his friends went to prison. And don\’t even get me started on the fact this was all down to miscommunication and a misunderstanding. I despise this as a plot device! I can\’t finish this review without talking about that threesome scene. There was zero reason for it to happen and the reasons given were quite frankly ridiculous. It wasn\’t even sexy or hot because the sex mechanics in it were so off, I ended up cringing. No lube is a HUGE no-no!!!! All in all, I just really didn\’t enjoy this. It took me forever to read as I kept getting annoyed and bored. The ending was just over the top ridiculousness and there was zero need for that epilogue. Whilst Penelope\’s writing was good, the character development was off, the plot was overly convoluted and quite frankly completely unrealistic and it just left me with a sour taste in my mouth. So I won\’t be continuing with the series because I can\’t put myself through any more of this. It\’s too bad as I was looking forward to this series, but it\’s just not for me.

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