Jennifer HartmannRomance · Contemporary Literature
Still Beating
Synopsis
Cora's night out takes a terrifying turn when she wakes up shackled in a madman's basement, only to find her arch-nemesis, Dean, in the same predicament. After years of mutual antagonism, they must now rely on each other to survive their captor's twisted game. Their abductor's plan aims to force them together, blurring the lines between their long-standing hatred and an unexpected connection.
How it reads
- Writing4.0
- Impact4.0
- Characters5.0
- Plot5.0
- Atmosphere3.0
Prose complexity 7/10
Spice level
3.0 avg spice
Content warnings (3)
ViolenceTraumaAbuse
Readers say (1)Fast · Dense · Tense · Dark
Readers flagged (3)
ViolenceTraumaAbuse
- The trauma felt painfully real, but it was the aftermath that got me. The guilt. The shame. The confusion. Trying to figure out how to keep living when nothing feels the same anymore. I was invested almost immediately. Every conversation felt loaded. Every setback hurt. Their relationships were messy and complicated in a way that felt so human. This book doesn’t romanticise what happened. It lets the characters carry it, and it makes you carry it with them. I closed the book feeling emotionally drained… and I mean that as the highest compliment.
- I don't want to say I enjoyed this book because by no means were the themes "enjoyable" but I did not want to put it down and was sucked in from the beginning Would I recommend this book to everyone? Absolutely not Was it a lot to process? Absolutely This is Definitely not for the faint of heart of heart there's a lot of darkness, it broke my heart over and over and over again Please read the trigger warnings for this book before you read it.