Review: Still Beating

 

Title: Still Beating 

Author: Jennifer Hartmann 

Release Date: December 2020

WARNING: This is a dark romance. This book contains subject matter that may be sensitive for some readers, including rape, as well as strong language and explicit sex. 18+ only. Please read responsibly. 

When Cora attends her sister’s birthday party, she expects at most a hangover or a walk of shame. She doesn’t anticipate a stolen wallet, leaving her stranded and dependent on Dean—her arch nemesis and ultimate thorn in her side. 

And she really doesn’t anticipate waking up in shackles in a madman’s basement.

To make matters worse, Dean shares the space in his own set of chains.

After fifteen years of teasing, insults, and practical jokes, the ultimate joke seems to be on them. The two people who always thought they’d end up killing each other must now work together if they want to survive.

But Cora and Dean have no idea their abductor has a plan for them. A plan that will alter the course of their relationship, blur the line between hate and love, and shackle them together with far more than just chains.

Still Beating follows there story of Dean & Cora as they navigate through being enemies to something more. 

Dean is engaged to Cora's sister Mandy, on the faithful night Cora calls him for a ride home from the bar. Cora and Dean prank, and tease and bicker one another, but when Dean shows up to help Cora out, everything between them changes in a blink of an eye. 

They wake up chained in a basement together, now having to rely on one another to survive. But as the hours turn to days & the horrors of that dark basement transpire, the lines between them being enemies begin to blur. 

This was a dark, emotional but beautiful story of Dean & Cora relying on each other to survive. It may have been dark, twisted and dirty, but it was emotional, raw & there was beauty in characters coming together after experiencing the horrors & near tragedy that they survived. 

4⭐ out of 5⭐. 

4🌶️ out of 5🌶️. 

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