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Vengeful Gods

Elliott Rose

3.92 AVERAGE

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-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

amandafitz's review

5.0
dark emotional mysterious tense 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: Complicated

mombie91021's review

4.0
dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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marciabrilhante's review

3.0
dark tense medium-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: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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hambongo's review

4.75
dark emotional tense 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

georgia_jones's review

3.0
challenging dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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edgybutfemme's review

4.5
dark emotional medium-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

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/ 5 - Featuring many explicit scenes with lots of detailed language. This book is heavier on the spice, but the plot is still there and doing something interesting. Also, it's at least a little kinky.
 
The Smut / Kinks include:
DP, DVP, somnophilia, non con/dub con, consensual non-consent, period play, forced orgasms, handcuffing, spanking, impact play, breath play, edging, degradation, voyeurism, sharing, chasing, masks, spit play, snowballing, toy usage.
Gosh, don't you love it when a book needs like a whole paragraph for kinks?

I am really enjoying this series of interconnected stand alones and I am very much looking forward to Poe and Em's full length novels! As with the novella Noire Moon (which is about Poe meeting her boys), you should definitely mind the trigger warnings on this one.

Though Fox, Ven, Ky and Thorne are not quite as kinky as Poe and her men, they are still very kinky and have quite a lot of sex in this book. All three men are walking red flags, but of course if you are like me that's a selling point. One of my favorite things about this why choose romance was that it is extremely polyamorous and all of the men have compelling romances with each other. In fact, even though the word isn't used, several characters even describe the feeling of compersion (feeling joy at watching your partner be happy with another partner), which made me extremely happy as a polyam person. I really enjoyed all the various dynamics, but I honestly think one of my favorites had to be Ven & Ky. They have serious grumpy/sunshine energy and were a delight to read. Also, I love that they already had a pre-established relationship before all four of them got together in this book. 

The only thing that kept this book from being a 5 star read for me was some particular quirks of Fox's perspective that I typically struggle with and primarily find in very heterosexual erotica. Fox would occasionally say things like "my ovaries start dancing with joy" or describing a guy as "pussy-nip". She tends to become a useless puddle around this guys, especially towards the beginning of the story. Some of the turns of phrase felt a little cringe-y to me (and I have, for the most part, tried to kill the part of me that cringes), but it wasn't prevalent enough to get me to walk away and she really grew on me as a protagonist over the story. If that doesn't bother you and the trigger warnings don't scare you off, I can still confidently recommend this book if you are an enjoyer of dark romance and properly red flag men!  I got this book for the hot and fucked up smut. For me, this book delivers and left me wanting to read more by this author, so I'm calling it a win!

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hexagonseoli's review

DID NOT FINISH: 34%

major side eye. criminal bombastic side eye.
what plot? the one where they kidnap her and assault her in the name of vengeance against her father knowing full well that she herself was also a victim of her father???? 
if you can't piece together a semblance of a plot maybe stick to the smut. 
oh wait. i forgot the smut was shit too.
there really is not a single redeeming quality to this book
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celisabeta's review

2.5
dark tense medium-paced