Review | Haunting Adeline

by H. D. Carlton

Title: Haunting Adeline

Author:: H. D. Carlton

Genre: Dark Romance

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Spice: 🌶🌶🌶🌶

Please read the content/trigger warnings before starting this book!

Reading this book does not, in any way, mean I support or condone any of the dark subject matter in real life. This is a work of fiction and should not be misconstrued as anything other than a story.

Haunting Adeline is the first book in the Cat and Mouse Duet by H. D. Carlton. It is a very Dark Romance.

This was absolutely the darkest of any dark romance I’ve read before. Adeline, oh girl Adeline, so stubborn and naive. For a girl who lives in a haunted house, not being too afraid of a stalker is understandable. I do love the fight she put up to not fall for Zade. So many times the FMC just give in so fast. I liked that it took a while for her to give in. Zade was absolutely batshit crazy with his obsessive, possessive, stalker tendencies. He was equally as stubborn as Addy, maybe more. I really liked how he wanted her to see and accept his dark side, rather than hide it and get her to fall in love with a fake “good guy” persona. The subject matter was definitely dark but I think it related to the story as a whole. Could it have been left out? Yes. Would the overall feeling of the book still have been the same? No. I think it really added a sense of urgency to the plot.

Check out the second book in this duet: