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Tasting Red (The Lost Girls, #1)
by

Holly Roberds (Goodreads Author)

(betts) ⚜'s review

Sep 03, 2024

it was amazing

bookshelves: dads-on-a-hunting-trip, retellings

5⭐ / 4.5🌶️

— vibezz
🍪 red riding hood retelling
🐺 forced proximity
🍪 bodyguard
🐺 found family
🍪 twists and secrets

mini blurb — ✍🏻
After a less than pleasing past at the Fairy Academy, Red finally has a new life, she attends a human college and lives a human life, with a job and friends, but suddenly a visit to his Grandma's house threaten to put all of this in jeopardy.
Brexley fought all his life to avoid all sort of attachment, in his experience, one's lead straight to a certain death, but when his job put himself in Red's sight he can't avoid the pull he feels toward his little red.

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omg where do I even begin.

I eat this up, couldn't even put this down for how eager I was to know what would have happened next kfvmdkf
best thing was I had no expectation about it and now that I've read it I'm so happy.

The story, I do not want to say much, you'll enjoy this one if you go through it blindly and discover little bits of it when the time comes..

Red, I love her, she's been through hell and back, she finally lives in peace in this new life she carved for helself, she finally has two amazing friends, she works a job that brings her confidence and she's studying in a human collage far away from all the chaos that was her (grandma's) life before.
Oh, she also has two fluff-balls of cute little bunnies that are to die for, I know them, I even saw them lmao.

Brexley is a lone wolf, where being lonely is a death sentence for his kind he learned to overcome it and be independent from everyone, where even being in dept with someone is frowned open he find himself in the very situation he wants to avoid.
The only option he has is to fullfill this obligation that put him in Red's life, both are reticent, she doesn't want him bc she's afraid to grow and develop feeling for him, and he want to stay away from her to safeguard his life.

What a joke 😂😂 it was exquisite to read about their reticence to work and be together, the *tension* 🤌 with them was to DIE for

Watch the TW because this is not a cutsey whimsical inspired retelling, it has dark themes and very spicy content for my delight ✨
Brexley is a perfect morally gray character, a little bit of an asshole and it was all highlighted by his "I want/I shouldn't", reading his inner thoughts was godsend 🛐

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Reading Progress

September 1, 2024 – Started Reading

September 1, 2024 – Shelved

September 1, 2024 – Shelved as: dads-on-a-hunting-trip

September 1, 2024 – Shelved as: retellings

September 1, 2024 –

9.0% "

I slap him right across the face, Brexley’s nostrils flare as his eyes darken dangerously, and there is a glimmer in them as if . . . as if he liked it.
I’m yanked back as he grabs my wrist. “You want to act like a little brat? I’ll treat you like one.”

xcuse meee 🛐🛐🛐"

September 1, 2024 –

16.0% "

A knowing smile plays at the corners of his lips, as if to say, “Hello, remember me? I’ve been inside you.”
Images slam into my brain.
His head between my legs.
The feeling of him pounding into me.
His hand clamping my neck, squeezing just right until I saw stars.

i'd have folded so fast istg"

September 2, 2024 –

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When I look up, I realize my nails turned to claws at some point and I’ve scratched four long deep gashes into her door. It looks like an animal tried to claw their way in.
They mirror the deep scars on my face.
I might as well have carved my name into her door.

September 2, 2024 –

35.0% "

“My, what a big dick you have.” The joke slips out before I can catch it. Echoing the first time we met.
“All the better to fuck you with, my dear,” he assures me, barely restrained mirth sparkling in his eyes.

idfjfdjvdlkfjvgldfkjb
i'm fucking gigglin' here"

September 2, 2024 –

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His face twists in a snarl, eyes sparkling in dark delight. “Oh little Red, now I’m going to have to eat you up.”

🫠🫠🫠"

September 2, 2024 –

54.0% "

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”

in my ✨ troy 2004) era ✨

September 2, 2024 –

68.0% "

“Wolfie,” she goads.
“Oh Christ,” I mutter.

September 2, 2024 –

68.0% "

“You make me want to. . . ” Her body sags against me. She’s out cold.
I throw back the rest of my drink. I’m a fucking bastard.
“Mate,” I finish for her.

I'M NOT OKAY, OKAY??"

September 3, 2024 –

82.0% "