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#18 BOOKSIRENS READ: FORBIDDEN BONDS


📖BOOK TITLE: FORBIDDEN BONDS 

📖AUTHOR: ROSE FRESQUEZ 

📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: 
#131stBookOf2024 
Thank you to Booksirens and Rose Fresquez for granting my request to read this e-ARC and provide my honest opinions.

I think the author really wanted to make Fred's and Lucy's relationship feel forbidden enough for us, the readers, to root for them. Think this: the village poor boy who is eighteen and is supposed to get married, whose family believes in polygamy, and whose father has a longstanding feud with the city girl's father; the city kind of rich girl who is eighteen and does not plan on getting married any time soon, strongly believes in monogamy, cannot and will not be a traditional wife, and is aiming to be a career woman and is still in school.

So you see what I mean when I say the author really tried to make the love story forbidden; is forbidden even the right word? No, I got the right words, Out of Reach.

Fred and Lucy's love story is out of reach, and throughout the whole book, I was not rooting for them.

Overall, I did not enjoy the love interest in this story, the overbearing parents (fathers in particular); once I stopped rooting for our MCs, I lost interest in the story.

📖RATINGS: 2 STARS ⭐⭐

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  1. TemiMarch 19, 2025 at 6:18 AM

    Just looking at the cover alone, I'm already interested but reading your review I don't just know

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