sirin zhari (rin)

Haunting Adeline: the romanticization of traumas that unfortunately many women suffer. You know when you mix Wattpad, an average BookTok girl, and a teenager with sexual fantasies about a girl? Well, Haunting Adeline is the result. I don't even see it as a book, but rather as a diary in which the author captured all her DISGUSTING (yes, DISGUSTING) fantasies on a few pages. Trees die to give us pages to write with, by the way. But hey! The book also has its good points! For example, when... I also got really emotional during the part... But DEFINITELY my favorite part was... Now, on to the bad points. Grab your popcorn. The romanticization and normalization of misogyny. Can 'dark romance' books (because this shit isn't dark romance) romanticize and sexualize the most nefarious, disgusting, and inhuman things like abuse, harassment, rape, etc.? As someone who's had a stalker, stalkers are NOT hot. If you want to know what it's really like to have a stalker, you should play the 'Parasocial' game. Seriously. This book is pathetic. Literally. I've never seen more cringeworthy shit in my life. First of all, I don't understand how they throw insults around in 'serious' moments. Oh, and DON'T GET ME STARTED on the dialogue. How the fuck do you call your partner 'little mouse'? As if real life were Character Ai. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN BY 'taste your juices'??? Please, someone hand me the gun. This book makes no sense. Let's see, Zade is a "hacker" that supposedly neither the CIA nor the FBI have, he manages to dismantle an "organization" that sells children for abuse, kills the head of that organization... and then Addie is raped? It's outrageous. And, like, no family member, close friend, or ally of the organization is looking for him? And this brings me to my next point: the entire "plot" (which there isn't) is too convenient. The characters contradict each other over and over again, and no character makes sense. Let's take Addie, the protagonist, as an example: she hates her stalker (Zade), but she feels something calling her, an undeniable attraction, like a magnetic force. Dear Addie, that "magnetic force" is called "script convenience." Everyone knows each other. It turns out the protagonist's best friend (who, by the way, is unbearable) is also a hacker and also works for Zade. It just so happens that Zade's friend's father was a friend of Addie's great-grandmother's husband. Then, conveniently, the "Elite" or the "Illuminati" want to kidnap Addie... It's boring.