Review: The Life of Anna: The Complete Dark Story

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The Life of Anna: The Complete Dark Story The Life of Anna: The Complete Dark Story by Marissa Honeycutt
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Final thoughts:

I don't like it. The first three books were okay, bearable. The last two were honestly horrible. Anna disappoints me. She didn't grow her backbone at all. She was the same girl as she was at the beginning, except now, she knows how to get angry. She didn't have a character growth (actually no one in this book does). The men in this book, was puppets of their own sexual desires. I'm not happy to finish this book. Sometimes I feel happy when I completed a dark romance because it was over and I feel satisfied with it. This one? Incompleted climax.

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I'm gonna write this as I go.

Book 1: WTF.

Book 2: I'm honestly bored with the amount of sexual encounters this book has now. It's like I'm in this ennui state where I feel nothing at whatever that happened to Anna. (view spoiler)

Book 3: So... 'that' happened. Just a dash of happiness, then the author pulled out the jerk move and screamed 'psych suuuckersss!' on our faces. (view spoiler)

Book 4: At this point, you have to wonder, when is enough going to be enough. I have to admit that I no longer felt sympathetic towards Anna. I kinda hate her now and I just want this story to end. No one in this whole series behaved like normal people. That's a good thing because it made me feel like an outsider to the whole clusterfuck that happened in here. But also bad because I couldn't give a damn anymore about the characters. I also think this series could've been much shorter than 5 books. You could've done a trilogy and I might've been okay with it. Oh and hello plot hole? (view spoiler)

Book 5 : I hate it. I found it repetitive and if I was able to tolerate it in the first four books, I can't now. Not when it's the final book. Not when things are supposed to make sense and all the plots are supposed to wrap tidily. I also found the stupidity of the characters to be the worst point here. Characters that was supposed to be manipulative, cunning and smart, were being thwarted by the half-assed attempts of rescue by mediocre characters.(view spoiler)

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