Jessica 's Reviews > Hooked

2.5 stars

This is a dark romance inspired by Peter Pan and I was so excited to read this. I've heard great things and I love dark romances. Unfortunately, it really felt like this was trying too hard to be a dark romance. It had all of the right "things" but they felt very surface level and I couldn't really fall in love with the romance. Hook is a crime boss and he hates Peter, who hurt people he loved. To get back at Peter, he decides to go after Wendy, Peter's daughter, and have a relationship with her. Wendy was such a flat character that had literally zero depth to her. She was rich, had a job at a coffee shop, and cared about her brother. That's it. She lets all of the men in her life throw her around and never demands to be treated fairly. Ugh. Then, Hook come in the picture and walks all over her and accuses her of some awful things, realizes his mistake, and is immediately forgiven. That was so annoying. From the beginning this was pretty insta-love and then the ending happened so fast and gave no real satisfaction. It's just sad this one didn't work out because it had all fo the elements to be an amazing dark romance. However, when put together as a story, everything just fell flat.