ARC Review: ⭐ ⭐/5 stars. Spice: 🌶️. I have very mixed feelings about this book. I can't decide what's there to like at all, and this might be my first worst review. The story starts off with Hazel being appointed as an assistant to a famous writer Athena Quinn, and she's needed to move in with her in some secluded mansion on beach where she finds out that she's not there to assist Athena Quinn but to assist her assistant, Mr. Remington who is a very eccebtric and mysterious by nature. As the days go by, Hazel starts notice how things are off around her in the mansion and realises that there are indeed many secrets. It spans over a month and narrates how Hazel tries to uncover those secrets and get her answers. When I picked this book, I expected it to have some thrill in it given with the plot, but let me tell you there wasn't. It was just a whole lot of confusion, nothing more. I guess I just expected a lot from this book. The story feels scattered a lot. The tropes aren't really clear to me and there's no solid direction like where exactly the story is heading?!! Also, everyone seems like they were onto something suspicious except for Hazel. At first, I thought at least Hazel was a sensible character but by the end of this book, my thoughts for her changed as well. At least her best friend's character was better than hers though. It was pure chaos. Then there was Atlas Remington's character. I did not like his character at all. Throughout the story, he was rude to Hazel and then all of a sudden he fell in love with her. Okay, even that could have been digestible but why make him sound like a pervert/stalker who plans out everything in his life and stalks Hazel?! And, Hazel sounds very confused to me throughout the whole story, first, she hates Atlas, then pines for Hudson, and then goes back to obsessing over Atlas. Her thoughts gave me whiplash. One moment he's a Vampire to her and the next, he's the man she fell in love with?!! Does that make any sense?! The woman doesn't even make Atlas grovel & beg for her forgiveness!!! Even the plot twist wasn't shocking at all, I saw it coming from miles away, and to me, the signs were way too obvious. Big thanks to #netgalley for this book! 𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙀: 𝙄 𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠. 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙤𝙬𝙣.