Arena♡'s Reviews > The Devil's Own

so the book started off great. better than great in fact but then cue chapter 5 which went something like this:

*Alejo and Sophia having one of their very rare intense talks*

Alejo: so i have an ex-wife and two kids whose lives i haven't really been a part of bc i was in prison at the time and i mean i am a big bad drug dealer so my wife didn't want me there and then she divorced me too

Sophia: omg that is so sad im sorry

um just wait a second here okay just give me a minute okay just um— wtf?!?

if im dating a guy, id like him to tell me at the beginning of our relationship that he has two teenage kids and an ex-wife, not after almost a year of being together. but obviously Alejo didn't get the memo bc suddenly he just dropped the kid bomb and im not kidding i read the page three times bc i thought he was joking and i kept waiting for him to yell April's fool or some shit but that never came..

but instead, one of the boy's did come. to live with them. and Sophia, our no emotion showing heroine just went like k its just a guinea pig not like its a teenage kid who's getting out of hand and my boyfriend's ex-wife left on our doorstep bc she couldn't handle him. cool cool cool. no big deal.

now listen, Tyler was a good kid okay nothing against him but the kid bomb felt so forced and out of place bc you just don't still us that halfway through the second book about Alejo's secret family. its just not done.

anyway, moving on to Sophia. She was an anomaly who was affected by nothing at all.

My boyfriend kid? no problem
A video of my boyfriend with another chick? no problem
I just shot someone? no problem
My boyfriend at a strip club? no fucking problem

Alejo has to just wink at me and fuck me till the daylight and idc

every fight, argument, disagreement they had ended in him fucking her into submission. it infuriated me to no end that every argument that they had ended like that.

honestly there was like no talking in the book. between the kid and Alejo? nothing i wanted the kid to rebel, Alejo to be frustrated, Sophia to be anything but so complacent, some drama and some angst but i honestly got no real feelings, just things being resolved on their own.

now the romance. ngl i was more invested in Niner//Ben and Luis//Layne than Alejo and Sophie. now this is not me saying i didn't like them bc despite all their faults, i loved them together. they bought out this other side to each other and they made a really good couple but i mean compared to Ninner and Ben? ehh also i need a book about Niner and Ben pls

so overall, pretty enjoyable. it was fast paced and gave a good end to the duet but im not sure if its something i'll re-read. i didn't hate the book, but i guess i just wanted more

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Fall from Grace ★★★.5
The Devils' Own ★★★