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Review: Things I Wanted To Say But Never Did

 


Title: Things I Wanted To Say But Never Did

Author: Monica Murphy

Release Date: July 2021



Whit Lancaster burst into my life like a storm. Dark and thunderous, furious and fierce. Cold, heartless and devastatingly beautiful, like the statues in our prep school gardens. The school with his family name on the sign. He can do no wrong here. This is his domain.


He’s a menace on campus. Adored and feared. Hated and respected. His taunting words carve into my skin, shredding me to ribbons. Yet his intense gaze scorches my blood, fills me with a longing I don’t understand.


When I stumble upon him one night alone, I find him broken. Bleeding. My instincts scream to leave and let him suffer, but I can’t. I sneak him into my room. Clean him up. Fall for his lies. Let him possess every single part of me until I’m the one left a gasping, broken mess.


When he leaves me alone in the dead of night, he takes my journal with him.


Now he knows all my secrets. My hate. My truth. And he promises to use my words against me. I’ll be ruined if my darkest secret gets out.


That’s when I strike a bargain with the devil.


I’ll let Whit Lancaster ruin me behind closed doors instead.





Whit Lancaster runs Lancaster Prep. He is adored and feared, hated and respected. He is dark, cold, heartless and devastatingly beautiful. When Summer finds him broken and bleeding she tries nursing back to health. He possesses her, then come morning before sneaking away, he steals her journal. Now he has all her secrets in the palm of his hand. To try and prevent him from finding out her truth, her hate, and ruining her if her darkest secrets get out she strikes a deal with the devil, by letting Whit Lancaster ruin her behind closed doors instead. 

So, lately I have been in a reading slump. Weeks of not getting into anything, no matter how hard I try to push through. As much as I wanted to love this book, to love Whit Lancaster... I couldn't. It was a good read, and steamy. But I didn't really care for Summer Savage. And even though I usually love the dark and twisted bullies, I just didn't love Whit. 

Maybe it was just me, and I just wasn't into the book because of my mental state. The book wasn't bad by any means, it just wasn't for me at this moment.  3⭐ out of 5⭐


TW: sexual abuse, blackmail, near rape, death/murder. 

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