Tempt by Mary E. TwomeyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Mental Health Triggers
If you or someone you love suffers from mental health issues and reading about this situation and the emotions and experiences suffered by a character relating to this area cause you difficulties, you may want to miss this book. There are a lot of issues raised around mental health in this book and it was heart rending stuff. This author captures the raw emotions of going through a mental break and reading about a character’s experience of that may hurt if a similar situation is still raw.
There are other issues around abusive behaviour, which has been a recurring theme throughout the series, but the thing that made me the most uncomfortable is that when the reason the abusive behaviour was taking place is removed how are you supposed to treat the abuser. Are you supposed to forgive them because it wasn’t the same person abusing you? I found this a very sticky area to read about.
I also came out of this book not particularly liking any of the men in October’s life, with the exception of Ollie, her brother. They are all emotionally absent and cause October a great deal of pain because of their weaknesses. Every time October tries to understand and forgive and sometimes I want to shake her whilst shouting in her face ‘you deserve more than this’. In some areas October is tremendously strong, and it’s usually when she’s trying to protect others, but she does let people walk all over her, because she always puts other people’s feeling above her own. This frustration with October and the guys she is involved with is why I’ve dropped this down to 4 ⭐️, it’s not because it’s any less well written, it’s just I’m annoyed with the characters. I’m sure the next book will redeem them, it’s just sometimes you want the characters you love to be happier in every book.
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