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The Emperor

RuNyx

4.13 AVERAGE


Had soooo much potential but DNFed at 66% bc it had a surprise pregnancy and I refuse to deal with that

I HAVE NEVER, IN ALL MY YEARS OF LIVING, GONE THROUGH A BOOK THIS FAST!!! Did it affect my work and hindered me from doing day to life activities?? Yes. Did I ditch my social life in order to read it? Yes. Was it worth it? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY YES. 10000% YES.

I have no idea what the author puts in these books but this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever had the pleasure of reading. I literally wished the concept of sleep didn't exist and wanted to tape my eyelids open just so I can finish it.

DO NOT PICK THIS UP IF YOU HAVE OBLIGATIONS!!! You'll be addicted. I can't wait to start book four of the series and meet Daddy Alpha. Although, I doubt anyone will EVER EVER compete with Daddy Dante "The Wall" Maroni...
adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Dante and Amara are actually perfect. Her obsession with him from the start I was all over and then when she was older and he became obsessed back. I didn’t really care for the part about her sister but I knew why Runyx did it but she just seemed to pop up all of a sudden. Amaras little mum was so lovely as well. Dante is such a ray of sunshine in all of these men.
dark mysterious sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Stumbling across this series felt like a mystery all its its own like the author. 
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Can I tbh I’m so torn. 4-4.3/5 region. I thought this would be my fav couple but sometimes I really disliked Dante lol. He just seemed somewhat immature in some ways idek how to describe it. Also sometimes he was so cringe and would say like fierce warrior princess… I really liked Amara and my heart broke for her many times. I just think a little too much was going on in this book once it got to the present time (I loved the growing up sections). But the amount of subplots or character connections was getting too much. I think I’ll continue the series but I def need a break cuz I’m getting bored. However I loved Vin and hers friendship and Tristan loving Xander like a son.

Spoiler summary:
Amara and Dante’s love story where she grows up with a crush on him but then sees him bury a body and starts to avoid him. He noticed and asked her why and starts being intrigued, she then gets kidnapped, tortured and raped for 3 days before Tristan and Dante find her. Then it goes over the years of her being exiled and a 7 year hidden relationship with Dante cuz he says they need to play the long game of chess. Finally his dad dies so he goes to find Amara and turns out she’s pregnant. They both get kidnapped and she loses one of the babies. So now they go back to Tenebrae and prepare to get married as they reveal more shit about Mr. X, Nerea, and the syndicate (all evil) and Alpha (good).

Haha 10 year old Amara caught Dante kissing a girl

Awww young Vinny is her best friend

Who tf is Damien. I didn’t know Dante had a little brother

Jajaja she manifested him before bed: “Amara giggled at the thought and tasted his name for the first time on her lips.
Yes, she decided. He would be her first kiss.”

Aw little them training at 16: “You know I’m not going anywhere, right?” Dante mumbled through the fabric over his mouth, and finally, after a year of drilling, the younger guy spoke.
“Piss off.”

Oh my god he was the one that found his mother dead with her wrists sliced

Them meeting at 11 and 16 cuz she ran into him: “Stop calling me that!”
Amused, Dante bowed his head slightly as he would to a lady. “My apologies, queen.”
She liked that, he could tell.”

“I’m eleven,” she declared proudly. “It was my birthday last month. I told my ma to send some of my birthday cake to you.”

Little crush: “The girl blinked once, before giving him a little smile, almost shy. “You have really pretty eyes,” she told him. Before he could respond, she turned away and ran down the hill”

“He gave her a little wink, watching her flush and quickly look away, and he wanted to laugh in the middle of the shitshow”

13 yr- Aw her and Vinny are so sweet as besties: “He’ll be everything dark and you’re afraid of the dark, remember? You don’t belong in that world. You deserve better.”

13- “Breathing out through her mouth, Amara rested her head on Vin’s shoulder, finding comfort in knowing he was someone who knew her, loved her as fully as she did.
“Will you be dark too, Vinnie?” she asked him quietly, wondering about where his fate was taking him. If his training, his father’s life was anything to go by, it wasn’t a good place.
“I don’t know,” he sighed. “But I’ll never be dark for you.”
Amara smiled slightly. “I’ll love you anyway, you know.”

His younger brother is on the spectrum

UGH HES 19 AND IS DATING THE GIRL HE KISSED AT 16 NO. NO EXES UGHH

GIRLFRIEND OF 3 YEARS?!?! I’m sick.

Ok phew: “He cared about Roni, felt affection for her, definitely loved having sex with her, but he wasn’t in love. Roni was a way of rebelling against his father, and she knew it too,”

Boy that’s yo wife: “He knew the girl had a crush on him. She had a habit of staring at him whenever he was in the vicinity. It was flattering but it only amused him. She was too young, and he already had a girlfriend.”

On her birthday she wanted to bring cookies to his house by herself
sad tense medium-paced
challenging dark emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No