Book profile
Hooked
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2021-09-07
- Rating
- ★ 3.5 · 368 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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A dark reimagining of the Peter Pan legend, Hooked follows a boy whose childhood innocence is stripped away, transforming him into a vengeful villain consumed by retribution. Haunted by his trauma ('an endless night of crocodiles'), he pursues revenge against those who wronged him. His plan involves taking a 'Darling girl' captive—refusing to let her go—as leverage against her father. The brooding, morally-gray anti-hero becomes entangled with the heroine connected to his enemy, setting up a twisted dynamic between captor and captive rooted in vengeance.
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- Anti-Hero: “He grew into a villain, the taste of vengeance on his tongue” source
- Dark Romance: “He grew into a villain, the taste of vengeance on his tongue” source
- Revenge Plot: “Craving to make his enemies pay for the misdeeds they had done” source
- Captive Romance: “Instead he found a Darling girl, and refused to let her go” source
- Tortured Hero: “stripped his innocence away. The hole inside making space for the devil to come and play” source
- Morally Gray: “He grew into a villain, the taste of vengeance on his tongue” source
- Forced Proximity: “refused to let her go” source
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