Whitney's bookshelf: cringe en-US Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:16:39 -0700 60 Whitney's bookshelf: cringe 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Twisted Love (Twisted, #1) 55817097 He has a heart of ice...but for her, he'd burn the world.

Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can’t escape.

Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart.

But when he’s forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he starts to feel something in his chest:

A crack.
A melt.
A fire that could end his world as he knew it.

***

Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember.

But despite her broken past, she’s never stopped seeing the beauty in the world…including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn’t want.

Her brother’s best friend.
Her neighbor.
Her savior and her downfall.

Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen—but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both…and everything they hold dear.

Twisted Love is a brother’s best friend/opposites attract romance with a hint of suspense. It's book one in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.

WARNING: This book contains a possessive, morally gray alphahole; explicit sexual content, and profanity. No cheating or menage, but if you're looking for a traditionally sweet, loveable hero, this is not the book for you. Recommended for 18+. ]]> 360 Ana Huang Whitney 1
this book wanted to be twilight and after by anna todd SO bad. how you gonna write a "badass" main male character who needs a knife to eat pasta and also grand gestured at the end by SINGING at the main character's opening night of her art show ]]> 3.74 2021 Twisted Love (Twisted, #1)
author: Ana Huang
name: Whitney
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2021
rating: 1
read at: 2025/03/21
date added: 2025/03/22
shelves: to-read, the-worst, romance, read-in-2025, kindle-unlimited, cringe
review:
now what in the fresh hell

this book wanted to be twilight and after by anna todd SO bad. how you gonna write a "badass" main male character who needs a knife to eat pasta and also grand gestured at the end by SINGING at the main character's opening night of her art show
]]> Marked (House of Night, #1) 30183 Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1

After a Vampire Tracker Marks her with a crescent moon on her forehead, 16-year-old Zoey Redbird enters the House of Night and learns that she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx and has affinities for all five elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Spirit. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny—with a little help from her new vampyre friends (or Nerd Herd, as Aphrodite calls them).]]> 306 P.C. Cast 0312360266 Whitney 3 read-in-2024, cringe
the only reason i was able to enjoy this book is because i went into it with the expectation that it would be absolutely ridiculous, over-dramatic early 2000s teen writing, and it 100% is. this book is very dated and uses slurs, fatphobia, and slut shaming nearly on every page. and also randomly, a lot of the plot is centered on the protagonist's indigenous descent giving her extra spiritual powers, and it felt like using cherokee culture as a costume for their main character.

i wouldn't really recommend it as i think it aged terribly, but it was interesting to see all the branches off of twilight's success. i can totally see why i wouldn't have been allowed to read this as a tween because it was surprisingly mature with talks of blowjobs and religion and the challenges of being a teenager. it was quite addicting and i read it in a day even though the last half of the book really has no plot. however, the way the rest of the series is TWELVE BOOKS is not necessary

]]> 3.82 2007 Marked (House of Night, #1)
author: P.C. Cast
name: Whitney
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/04
date added: 2024/11/04
shelves: read-in-2024, cringe
review:
i'm obsessed with the fact that this book could have chosen anywhere in the world to build a dark, culty vampire boarding school and the authors chose TULSA, OKLAHOMA. like girl what do you mean you've been chosen to be a vampire and you have to escape in the night to go train on how to be a vampire and they have you sitting in spanish and drama class in the middle of oklahoma?!

the only reason i was able to enjoy this book is because i went into it with the expectation that it would be absolutely ridiculous, over-dramatic early 2000s teen writing, and it 100% is. this book is very dated and uses slurs, fatphobia, and slut shaming nearly on every page. and also randomly, a lot of the plot is centered on the protagonist's indigenous descent giving her extra spiritual powers, and it felt like using cherokee culture as a costume for their main character.

i wouldn't really recommend it as i think it aged terribly, but it was interesting to see all the branches off of twilight's success. i can totally see why i wouldn't have been allowed to read this as a tween because it was surprisingly mature with talks of blowjobs and religion and the challenges of being a teenager. it was quite addicting and i read it in a day even though the last half of the book really has no plot. however, the way the rest of the series is TWELVE BOOKS is not necessary


]]> <![CDATA[At First Spite (Harlot's Bay, #1)]]> 65962558 Bestselling author Olivia Dade welcomes you to Harlot's Bay in this delightfully sexy rom-com about a woman who buys the town's famous Spite House, only to realize the infuriating man she can't stand lives right next door--and their unwilling proximity might spark something neither can ignore.

When Athena Greydon's fiancé ends their engagement, she has no choice but to move into the Spite House she recklessly bought him as a wedding gift. This is a problem, for several reasons: The house, originally built as a brick middle finger to the neighbors, is only ten feet wide. Her ex's home is attached to hers. And Dr. Matthew Vine the Freaking Third (aka the uptight, judgmental jerk who convinced his younger brother to leave her) is living on the other side, only a four-foot alley away.

If she has to see Matthew every time she looks out her windows, she might as well have some fun with the situation--by, say, playing erotic audiobooks at top volume with the windows open. A woman living in a Spite House is basically obligated to get petty payback however she can, right?

Unfortunately, loathing Matthew proves more difficult than anticipated. He helps her move. He listens. And he's kind of...hot? Dammit.]]> 386 Olivia Dade 0063215918 Whitney 1
as much as i like reading books with representation of fat girls, this one came at the MAJOR expense of being unbearably unreadable. i hate to roast the main character because we did have a lot in common with our insecurities and depressive tendencies, but i really could not take her seriously because her dialogue was absolutely miserable. so overwritten, weighed down by memes and references that were sometimes decades old, and generally so unbelievable as a main character to the point where i was shocked that the main male lead didn't find her horrendous instead of attractive.

immediately when i read the one (and only...... and on page 300....) sex scene, all i could think about was how i was going to quote it WORD FOR WORD in this review because the main character's dialogue was absolutely diabolical. if i had to suffer, then so do you:

"You are the undisputed Champion of Head, long may he reign, and long may he lick. You can grab a condom and get inside the pussy you now own. Congratulations, by the way. The owner's manual will arrive in your inbox shortly."


HUUUUUHHHH??? who talks like that ]]> 3.71 2024 At First Spite (Harlot's Bay, #1)
author: Olivia Dade
name: Whitney
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2024
rating: 1
read at: 2024/09/09
date added: 2024/09/09
shelves: fat-rep, cringe, the-worst, smutty, read-in-2024, romance, from-library
review:
this book was NOT good and i think at this point i need to stop pretending that olivia dade is for me

as much as i like reading books with representation of fat girls, this one came at the MAJOR expense of being unbearably unreadable. i hate to roast the main character because we did have a lot in common with our insecurities and depressive tendencies, but i really could not take her seriously because her dialogue was absolutely miserable. so overwritten, weighed down by memes and references that were sometimes decades old, and generally so unbelievable as a main character to the point where i was shocked that the main male lead didn't find her horrendous instead of attractive.

immediately when i read the one (and only...... and on page 300....) sex scene, all i could think about was how i was going to quote it WORD FOR WORD in this review because the main character's dialogue was absolutely diabolical. if i had to suffer, then so do you:

"You are the undisputed Champion of Head, long may he reign, and long may he lick. You can grab a condom and get inside the pussy you now own. Congratulations, by the way. The owner's manual will arrive in your inbox shortly."


HUUUUUHHHH??? who talks like that
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