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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
I loved this so much more than I thought I would. It’s all gore and passion and damnation and salvation and blaspheme and LOVE in all capital letters through flaws and trauma. The prose is surprisingly gorgeous and not what I was expecting from this genre. Now I’m afraid I’ll never find another paranormal dark romance like this. My only beef with this story and what keeps me closer to 4 than 5 stars is how it’s told from a third person perspective but the men got so much more complex treatment from the author that Sadie ended up feeling flat as a character, almost like just a mechanism for Ridge’s and Wright’s development.
A lot of people raved about this but tbh idk how I feel abt it. The spice was definitely there and I love how she detailed everything, however the religion aspect + mystery demon kind of threw me off a bit.
dark
mysterious
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
A dead woman makes a deal with the devil, falls in love/lust with a werewolf (or two), and has wild sex. A good read for all the body-horror fans out there.
3.5 stars
This book…this book is batshit crazy. All kinds of fucked up. Aaallllll kinds of fucked up. But could I put it down? No sir, I could not. Not sure I’ll ever be the same again.
In a semi-sane sounding nutshell, a woman makes a deal with the devil to spare her life. With a one month timeline, she figures she probably won’t be able to hold up her end of the bargain so sets off on her travels, and inevitably ends up stumbling her way into her fated mate - who just so happens to be a werewolf. Not quite so crazy, right?
Wrong!!! Her werewolf is basically fucking feral and barely human. His baser instincts just want to eat her…and not just in the good way. Also in the literal way. Ah but he won’t do that, surely? Wrong again!
Ridge (aka Hannibal: the younger years) is ravenous for poor Sadie. Ravenous. And it turns out, she’s into it so…yay mild cannibalism?
But for all my “what the fuck did I just read” I genuinely was glued to the story. All the disturbing sex scenes were somehow so insanely hot. Emphasis on insane.
I’m really not sure how I felt about Sadie and Wright suddenly being in love and betraying Ridge so damned easily. Ridge is her mate. Mates are supposedly to be the only one they could ever want to be with, ever love, ever give themselves to whilst both are alive. Yet out of nowhere it’s ok for her to fuck his BROTHER? And Wright loves her even though he’s the one who was all “mates are forever and I’ll never be happy again”?? And the. Somehow Ridge is ok with Sadie and Wright being in love and being physical??? Makes no sense to me. For all the warnings of being possessive and instinctual and territorial…it just didn’t really fit with the rest of the story for me.
There were some other small inconsistencies - not that I can actually think of any off the top of my head now - and some of the grammar was a bit off being third person present tense. Something that I generally find harder to get into anyways.
Also, a lot of it felt very contemporary and that it was only set in the past so technology couldn’t ruin certain things. Like the whole “daddy” thing…I mean I don’t know when people started actually using that as a sexual term but it didn’t feel like it fit with this young woman in post world war 2 America, who was a virgin mere weeks ago, who refuses even to cuss…she’s calling her NOT MATE (because I definitely have an issue with this) daddy? And just so many other little idiosyncrasies that made it feel like a modern day romance but just without mobile phones or the internet.
Also also WTF the fuck was the creature? I feel like it can’t possibly have been the devil because they made it bleed. They hurt it. They basically banished it. And kind of with little effort in a way. So…what was it?
I’ve no idea how to rate this book.
Side note: I really enjoyed (in a weird, probably sick kind of way) how the shifting was described/written. It’s not the first book I’ve read where a man or a wolf literally emerge from the carcass or skin of its counterpart, but I find it a fascinating take all the same.
This book…this book is batshit crazy. All kinds of fucked up. Aaallllll kinds of fucked up. But could I put it down? No sir, I could not. Not sure I’ll ever be the same again.
In a semi-sane sounding nutshell, a woman makes a deal with the devil to spare her life. With a one month timeline, she figures she probably won’t be able to hold up her end of the bargain so sets off on her travels, and inevitably ends up stumbling her way into her fated mate - who just so happens to be a werewolf. Not quite so crazy, right?
Wrong!!! Her werewolf is basically fucking feral and barely human. His baser instincts just want to eat her…and not just in the good way. Also in the literal way. Ah but he won’t do that, surely? Wrong again!
Ridge (aka Hannibal: the younger years) is ravenous for poor Sadie. Ravenous. And it turns out, she’s into it so…yay mild cannibalism?
But for all my “what the fuck did I just read” I genuinely was glued to the story. All the disturbing sex scenes were somehow so insanely hot. Emphasis on insane.
I’m really not sure how I felt about Sadie and Wright suddenly being in love and betraying Ridge so damned easily. Ridge is her mate. Mates are supposedly to be the only one they could ever want to be with, ever love, ever give themselves to whilst both are alive. Yet out of nowhere it’s ok for her to fuck his BROTHER? And Wright loves her even though he’s the one who was all “mates are forever and I’ll never be happy again”?? And the. Somehow Ridge is ok with Sadie and Wright being in love and being physical??? Makes no sense to me. For all the warnings of being possessive and instinctual and territorial…it just didn’t really fit with the rest of the story for me.
There were some other small inconsistencies - not that I can actually think of any off the top of my head now - and some of the grammar was a bit off being third person present tense. Something that I generally find harder to get into anyways.
Also, a lot of it felt very contemporary and that it was only set in the past so technology couldn’t ruin certain things. Like the whole “daddy” thing…I mean I don’t know when people started actually using that as a sexual term but it didn’t feel like it fit with this young woman in post world war 2 America, who was a virgin mere weeks ago, who refuses even to cuss…she’s calling her NOT MATE (because I definitely have an issue with this) daddy? And just so many other little idiosyncrasies that made it feel like a modern day romance but just without mobile phones or the internet.
Also also WTF the fuck was the creature? I feel like it can’t possibly have been the devil because they made it bleed. They hurt it. They basically banished it. And kind of with little effort in a way. So…what was it?
I’ve no idea how to rate this book.
Side note: I really enjoyed (in a weird, probably sick kind of way) how the shifting was described/written. It’s not the first book I’ve read where a man or a wolf literally emerge from the carcass or skin of its counterpart, but I find it a fascinating take all the same.
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Cannibalism, Murder
dark
slow-paced