Tea [semi-hiatus]'s Reviews > Hunted by a Shadow

Are Michelle’s books necessarily good? No. Will I keep reading them? Yes. They’re quick and light reads(even though it’s still dark romance). My brain does not need to do any braining while reading her books. I can’t explain it, I just enjoy them even though the quality is highly questionable.

This one was a miss though and the writing is not that great.. it’s cringey, repetitive and just bad.

✨Rage:✨

Destructive rage fills every inch of my being

The grim sorrow mixes with uncontrollable rage,

My sorrow blends with rage

My rage multiplies until it’s a violent storm,

With every ounce of rage I feel,

The grief that’s taken a backseat to my rage returns with a soul-crushing blow

The rage in my chest turns deadly and merciless, ….., pedestrians scatter out of my way, fearful expressions on their faces as they shoot glances at me.

My voice is soft but filled with a world of rage as I say,

My voice is hoarse and filled with sorrow and rage as I whisper,

The rage swirls like a tornado in my chest,

I shout, unable to control my rage,

When my eyes lock on my reflection in the mirror, all I see is the rage

There’s so much rage in his gaze

The only expression in his eyes is rage.

The flash of rage on his face

As he stares at me, the intense rage returns

My grief spirals until the deadly rage that was soothed by **** returns with a vengeance.

But with Skylar in my personal space, I’m finding it hard to control my rage.

The rage.

The uncontrollable rage I felt toward Skylar

rage detonates in my chest.

Rage flays me to the bone and strips me of all my self-control.

His hands are bloody, and the rage on his face is so dark

Renzo addresses the man behind the desk with rage simmering in his tone.

You’re seeing the pain, the rage, the fucking relentless thirst for vengeance.”

I don’t need you to over and over tell me what the characters feel. And rage is just one example of how bad the writing really is. Michelle does not know how to make you feel or belive in a characters feelings, she just tells you what they’re feeling. It feels forced, fake and ridiculous. And the romance part isn’t any better to be honest.

From Renzo’s side it’s insta love and you can not convince me Skylar fell in love with Renzo at any point. I feel like he was her only life line and she mixed up security and gratefulness with love. It felt inauthentic and rushed. You can’t make life alternating decisions right after you’ve been through something traumatising.
Every aspect of this was quite bad to be honest. I liked Skylar’s dad and Renzo’s friends, that’s it.

“You okay?”
“I’m just thinking about everything I have to do. Dad took control of my life after the car accident, and then you happened.”
“What do you mean by everything?”
“I need to sort out the bank accounts. I don’t have a cellphone. I want to start working again.”“I have to pack up everything.”
“I can do all of that for you.”
“You won’t mind?”
Does she want a boyfriend or a new daddy?

I realize she’s beautiful even though she’s thin as fuck.
With the weight she’s gained, she’s gone from pretty to strikingly beautiful.
Let’s not insinuante someone is more or less beautiful depending on their weight.

I also don’t like the man-woman deviation. ”The men will do this and we can do that” I get that the men are friends but if you don’t want your significant others company, why would you bring them at all?

2 stars