Anne E ♡ emo + OTT Hs's Reviews > The Spare - Part Two

4-stars (this book & overall Duet) **SPOILERS**

Book 2: Good plot/emo/char dev/sex scenes/char development

Good exciting continuation of Book1, with 18yo popular senior H desperate to find 18yo senior h after her identical twin-sister (OW) told him that h left their house after a confrontation with their parents. When he found h & saw her bruises and scars, it was the moment of his great humility and grovel. Loved that big part of book2 was H's long grovel towards the wrong he'd done h and proving that he'd become a changed man because of her. Loved that h didn't mince word but told him that he was partly responsible for her getting physically abused by her parents. Also liked that h wasn't easily impressed by H's promises and actions. She was wise to be wary of his turnaround, given that they've only known each other for a couple weeks. She made him prove his worth without demand. h's character as brave/candid/simple/carefree/quiet became solidified in Book2.

Good character development for H too. Loved how he became OTT alpha-dominant with h and jealous-possessive & protective over her and he wanted to repeatedly show his claim on her publicly. Loved & thought it funny yet sweet how hurt & bothered he'd be whenever h called their romance “fake” and diminished their sex as a hookup or a friends-with-benefits thing. Their detailed bareback Sex scenes were hot, even the awkward yet rough de-virginizing of h. Their sex scenes showed H's increasing obsession with h and h's openness as well as their increasing closeness.

By 50%, their romance was quite solid and was only a matter of either 1 saying their ILYs.

By 60%, OW made more appearances with H&h and their group of friends, as she becomes their accomplice and trying to get out from their parents' inheritance greed.

By 94%, we get OW's POV as a prologue/teaser for her own book.

At the end, H told h ILY and proposed marriage at whichever date she'd marry him.

Sexual History:
18yo virgin h was homeschooled with her twin sister before they began attending their private high school 3.5 years ago. She didn't have any friend nor had she ever dated or been kissed by another than H since she isolated herself when she wasn't in classes pretending to be her sister. H was a player with casual hookups among the girls in their private school. He'd never had a GF until h. He'd de-virginized other girls before h but never took the care he did as he did with h during and after sex. He's never been as sexually voracious as he was with h.