Roi Gates

I’ve discovered this book by two YouTubers and read the comments my god is this book so bad. I’ve also read reviews here the five stars, three stars and one stars (which got the most reads by me) and as somebody who just got out of her teenage years ever since it’s always disturbed me how I would see books like these get put out and aimed at teenage girls who will see these pedophilic incest sexual assault books be manipulated and groomed and preyed on that these are “spicy romance books” when in general these books are literally just a pedos fantasy and the unfortunate victims are the teenage girls the ones in the book and the irl ones. What also hurts me the most as a nerogivgent the main character is one and has so much trauma and she’s being taken advantage by these strange creep men while still being a child throughout the book 17/18. This is why people say no girl or woman need to be by a relative who are strangers if yall never meant. If the author actually cared and wanted too this could’ve been a psychological horror (which “dark romance” authors like this need to start doing) and it would’ve been perfect but no it’s all romanticized of every illegal shit Now I wanna call out a paragraph I saw that makes me question what people are even thinking in general. The reviewer says here who said “we all have fantasies, Fantasies are a very personal thing.“ so is a book that shows a neroguvgent 17 year old girl being taken advantage of by her creepy step relatives a fantasy? I am being fr rn is this a fantasy that’s suppose to be personal to the ppl who enjoyed this book? There’s alot of fantasies but if it’s one that crosses the major line like this you need major help It also disgust me how the sexual assault scenes are being called sumt or sxe scenes by the reviewers like what 💀💀. Now next I wanna point out the last sentence she says “ Let me stress again though - please take the content warnings seriously.” How about take problematic content more seriously because a book disguised as “dark romance “ when it’s all just what SA victims of girls and women who were hurt by male relatives seen as “romance” is very problematic and can hurt victims in general emotionally I also wanna point out this author used Frederick Douglas quotes and as a black person im tired. Speaking of me being black even tho this book dose not tackle on race I am unfortunately a racial feitsh fantasy. Knowing your existence is a fantasy to whoever oppressors you so your dark romance books aren’t ones where the leads are abusing the women or teenage girls that are strangely the love interest your ACUTAL dark romance books are where your two lovers can’t be with one another cuz the two kingdoms hate it, two crazy characters doing everything for each other, or your lover dose everything for you while not hurting you. I’m over it with barely legal characters or characters who’s seen as childlike (I think this would be pedo baiting?) being taken advantage of by grown adults and it’s displayed as “romance” and targeted towards teenage girls when its grooming and predatory.