Trigger Warnings
For everyone brave enough to ride the handle.
For all girlies who obsessed with mask man online and have a dark desire to turn your fantasy into reality, this is the book for you.
Now I must tell you first, by reviewing Lights Out, I’m not trying to compare this book to any other book, I just want to share my personal experience of my reading journey, and to make this review as visualized as possible. I want my reader to see and feel the same thing I’ve experienced first hand. Nothing more.
If someone asks me for a book recommendation, something dark but not too dark, something heavy but also kind of fun to read—Lights Out is going to be the very first book that comes to mind. It has a stalking trope but very light and very easy to read. I laughed too much at 3 in the morning while reading Lights Out and ended up hurting my stomach in the process, more than once or twice. But it was so worth it.
Lights Out isn’t just another typical stalking book where the male lead character stalks their girls. I believe what makes Lights Out different is because it has mutual stalking. The way these two idiots stalk and fall in love with each other is hilarious.
Aly is a nurse who has been obsessed with a content creator on instagram “the.faceless.man” for ages. She left perhaps hundred comments, saved the video, memorized the routine of when the account will post new content. She represents all the girls who follow creepy guys who post thirst straps on their instagram and fantasize about them. I mean… if the guy has good lighting, knows exactly how to tease us girls and cruelly ends the video preciously right before the good part is exposed, leaving our mouth and throat dry, who wouldn’t fall for them, right? I know I would.
It seems like another harmless crush. Falling and fantasizing about someone online, not knowing them in real life, leaving the imaginary rent free in head. But little does Aly know, the faceless man she’s been obsessed with, she has met him, she just didn’t realize who he is. The popular faceless man is her ex-hook-up roommate. Josh. And the best part? He’s been falling for her since the first time they met. Josh is the definition of he falls first and falls harder. It’s so adorable.
I don’t know if I should feel relieve or regret reading Lights Out after Haunting Adeline. What do you mean I laugh and giggle the way Josh stalks Aly? Zade makes Josh looks like Disney charming Prince. And I know I’m forever ruined. Sure, Josh is a tech genius. He’s smart. Perhaps a little twisted with his stalking obsession. But fundamentally, Josh is just a golden retriever puppy with a giant body and warm marshmallow personality. He is sweet, soft, funny, chaotic, and literally walking green flag. Perfect book boyfriend. He buys Aly security tools to keep her house safer (after he broke in), he picks up Aly at the hospital after her long night shift, he even warms the seat and has a snack ready for her, he even becomes friends with Aly’s cat. I mean, that’s dedication, right? Josh sets up another unrealistic standard for men. I too want to get picked up after an exhausting day at work. And I want someone who loves my cat as much as I do. Is it too much to ask for?
Josh isn’t the only one who stalks Aly, to be fair, Aly stalks him too, as best as she can. Not everyone is a tech genius. It doesn’t take long for Aly to discover Josh’s secret and the faceless man's identity. She is smart. And there’s nothing that I love more than seeing women in men's field. Honestly we should have more of this. Why is it always the man who stalks first? Why can’t us women make the move too? I love Aly’s boldness so bad I wish I had that kind of courage.
The stalking part is fun and games. But what’s better is the part that was written on the cover—The couple who slays together, stays together.
Now, some of you may already guess what that means. Me however, not that smart, I didn’t realize its meaning until the very scene was exposed in my hands. I remember when I read this scene, I was on a phone call with my (sleeping) boyfriend, I had to hold out a laugh and my stomach hurted so bad. It was a fucking GENIUS. Another level of genius. It’s like Navessa wrote the whole book around that one sentence. “The couple who slays together, stays together” I still can’t get over the fact how brilliant that line was. I don’t think I ever will.
I don’t want to dig too deep and spoil the fun more than I already am. But I strongly believe everyone who reads that scene will also burst out laughing as much as I did. Navessa tells us in the trigger warnings that Lights Out is a dark, rom-com. At first I didn’t understand, nor did I believe her. How does something as heavy as dark romance also be a rom-com? No way. That’s impossible. Thank God I have never been more wrong in my entire life.
The whole book is pure rom-com with a little splash of dark romance. I discovered my new kink while reading Lights Out. It definitely changed my world upside down. I thought I’m as kinky as shit. Turns out, I’m just a simple boring typical vanilla girl. The things I’ve read… Jesus Christ. I would never be the same.
Lights Out is a book written by woman, for women, to women. I would do anything to read it for the first time again. It’s beautifully written. So effortless. And yet captured my heart from the first chapter until the last page. The internet doesn’t do the justice of how Lights Out good is. All it’s been saying is the knife scene. I thought it’s going to be dark and twisted, even disturbed. But the truth? It’s so arousing. Better than I expected. As long as Aly enjoys it, I enjoy it too. If Navessa’s goal is to make her reader horny, she definitely succeeded. Great Job Navessa, now how the hell am I supposed to do with my newly kink unlock? I can’t just ask my boyfriend to create that scene with me. I’m going to traumatize him for life. I can’t go back to watch porn either. Not when the book is hundred times sexier and more aroused than porn video. Thank you so much. I’m so ruined.
10/10
Beautifully written. Brilliant character’s background stories. Great plot twist. As funny as hell. I believe I had shredded my chapped lips multiple times while reading, took me several days to recover, but totally worth it. I would do anything to read Lights Out for the first time again. Lights Out really represents us girls who obsess with mask men online and have a secret desire to live in fantasy. I know Aly did. And I envy her. I am now obsessed with mask men too. The only difference is I have an actual boyfriend in real life. Maybe I can ask him to wear a mask for me? Let’s hope I won’t freak him out.
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