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Her Soul to Take by Harley Laroux

26 reviews

asunachidory's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

FORCED myself through this. What should have been a weekend read took nearly two weeks! Read on recommendation.

Rae: Gradually became a depthless, shallow character as she repeatedly and numerously ran down the path least travelled directly into danger over and over again until she was little more than dumb bitch with a pain fetish.

Leon: Held the damn relationship development together with quick witt and banter, right up until he turned on a penny and started referring to Rae as “Babygirl” ad nauseam. And it was indeed nauseating.

It read like an episode of Sabrina with the Eldrich Terrors and BS Girl bossing.
Justice was served by side characters. The most relevant death went wholly unexplained. And the entire 300 odd pages felt like an excuse to just stereotype Leon into this demon BDSM Sub/Dom pigeonhole that totally retracted the plots impact for me.
Went into this expecting “Good girls” and instead got “Slap me til I climax” again, ad nauseam. Not my cup of kink. Completely skipped the spice scenes later in the book.
Will not be picking up the sequels.

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mortibella's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I’m not into the masochistic sex stuff. So some of that I had to skim.

Also, I hate when men call women “baby girl”, especially in a sexual context. The author started using this term 75% of the way into the book and then used it constantly for the rest of the book and it was so off putting that it cost this a whole Star.

Nonetheless, I found the story compelling and was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this book. The writing (with a few exceptions) was solid and the spice was top notch ( and would probably be even more so for those S&M lovers).

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lulzpanda's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

5.0

This book had me reeling and I could not put it down. I laughed, I cried, and everything in between. There are story holes, bug those lead to the other 2 books in the trilogy telling someone else's story. This worked for me, I had no issue with the unanswered questions. It's not as dark as I thought it would be, but it's a 5/5 on the spice meter. I'm excited to start the next book!

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kiani1369's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

First things first, Leon is an amazing character and I loved his growth throughout this book. He truly was a great character and I really enjoyed him. The spice in this book is literally hot with a capital H. I didn’t think that I would like that type of spice, but it was very very good.

Now to the things that I didn’t quite like about the book and there might be some spoilers here, I really thought that the main female character was really weak and not described well. I think that she deserved a little bit more character building on the authors part, but she just was a flat character! Raelynn was just not a very strong character, and it wasn’t relatable for a demon to fall in love with her! Her weakness and naivety made her unlikable.

Overall, I truly enjoyed this book and the plot line. I really loved that it was a new take on good versus evil and it really did make me want to read the other two books in the series. I definitely would recommend it to anybody that likes a little bit darker book that has a demon fetish.

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srosa037's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense 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

5.0

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lisa07xie's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

I ate this book up! It had everything mystery and romance! My first demon/cult book and definitly not my last because I loved this book it was dark and just kept me captivated the whole fricking time! I would recommend it if you like dark romance because the romance was so good and spicy like really spicy!

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