C.M. Stunich

Well, this was kind of underwhelming.
It seemed very promising but it never went anywhere.

Many people complained about the cursing and there is indeed a lot but I actually don't think it was too much in general. Just the placement of "Fuck" in particular was sometimes totally out of place. It's in sentences that don't carry any meaning that justifies it. It's weird. I almost didn't notice it at all anymore by the end. My brain just filtered them out completely.

The far bigger problem is that this book couldn't decide what it wanted to be. It tries to come across as an adult, dark and gritty retelling (Retelling is too strong a word here. Maybe "Alice in Wonderland themed" fits better here). But it ended up closer to straight-up erotica with an allice in wonderland kink or role-play or whatever.

The amount of sex isn't actually excessive but there is nothing else going on in her mind except for some "horrible past memory" stuff. mild: And apparently she probably will end up with every single one of the guys she lusted after in her harem.
It's hot naked men all the way. Constantly. I have no idea how these guys even managed to have their schlongs out so much without just going naked. One of them literally walks around with his pants down sometimes. And even in the rare moments, she isn't surrounded by semi-naked men she just won't shut up about the hot guys around her.
In the entire book, there is a single guy she doesn't lust after that says something. I didn't check this diligently, maybe I missed one or two somewhere but even if I did this tells you a lot.
It's just too much. (There are two females that have dialogue besides that one guy.)

All these attempts to be dark and gritty feel out of place and forced especially towards the end. You can not have the MC constantly swoon after all the guys and be dark and gritty at the same time if your MC isn't pretty fucked up. If she enjoyed having sex covered in her enemies blood or something like that this could've worked as dark and gritty. But she is way too innocent to have her priorities fucked up like that, hormones or not.
It's one of those cases: innocent mc, swooning after guys, dark and gritty. Pick two. I don't want to go as far as to say it's impossible to have all three but at least in this case it just didn't work.… (más)