My Rating: -āļø (yes, negative)
Now, I am about to write the harshest review that ever existed on my page, and I'm going to be brutally honest because this is my WORST book of the year.
Twisted Love illustrates so-called "love" between Alex, who seems to have appearances dazzilng enough to cast shadow on all of his red flags, and Ava, who is all happy and sunshine-y except that she suffers with flashbacks of her poignant near-death experience as a child.
First of all, this book is all about praising Alex's beauty and how all women bow before him; the author reinforced and validated this whole concept of lookism by making sure Ava fails to distinguish what is right and wrong and loses all her judging abilities despite constant illogical & rude behaviors from Alex just because of his freaking LOOKS. This made me extremely furious.
Also, this review won't be complete w/o mentioning the romanticized mental disorder. Ava, my girl... If you're having flashbacks and panic attacks whenever you're in water, please find yourself a psychiatrist instead of seeking a guy...!! As a person who suffered from panic disorder in the past, the fact that she had an extreme panic attack in the pool and ended up screaming, but was soon recovered in a few minutes in Alex's little š¤cuddlingš¤ session and casually proceeded to have an... intercourse... Is. Just. So. Stupid. I literally lost my words.
And I see where some of y'all are coming from. The coldhearted, indifferent, emotionless man with icy personality melts and surrenders in front of this happy-go-lucky, šsunshineš girl, and "I would kill this whole world for you" vibe... But isn't that every single clichĆ© that ever existed on wattpad? What's the difference?
The crazy sexual lust they feel toward each other disguised and embellished as "love"? Romanticizing this man that continues to commit domestic violence ever so casually and this "helpless" little girl running after him, shouting "I'm gonna throw away my self-worth to be with you!"?
I lost my crap when I got to the bed scene, which I don't even want to mention. I immediately stopped reading, and I'm never picking it up again.
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