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Binding Breath by Adara Wolf

caiacassiopeia's review

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adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.25

Every single breath of yours belongs to me.

I enjoyed it.
It’s dark, cruel and comes with morally ambiguous characters and intense situations that might make someone feel uncomfortable. 
And that’s what I actually wanted in a dark-fantasy-horror-erotica 
The erotica part was okay for me, but I’m currently bad at vibing with anything 6ual.
Nevertheless the scenes were underlining the extensive cruelty and gave me the ‘no way out’ helplessness vibe I would expect from a dark story 

Can’t believe I’m saying that, but I read it for the plot. 

CW by author:
 Dubcon, noncon, mind control, breath play, tattoos, rough sex, violence

Tags: gay - dark - erotica - historical fantasy - witches - magic - morally ambiguous - mafia - prohibition - e2l - threesome - twisted hfn/hea - bonded - kink - mindcontrol - mindbreak (…)

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dosymedia's review

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dark medium-paced

2.0

The worldbuilding and character work were flimsy excuses to string together dubcon/noncon sex and since those scenes were never going to be the most compelling to me, I was agitated by the shallow treatment of every other element. That agitation was only worsened by clunky writing that neither evoked a sense of place nor character.

If you'd like a short, easy read of unlikeable dudes banging each other in vaguely alt historical setting with some risqué themes, this may be for you.

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walford's review

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3.0

2.5 Creepy/Hot? Definitely neither a romance nor erotica. An exploration of consent? Felt rather slight, even for the length, and the author failed to convince me that the narrator was a recent immigrant with a limited command of English. So, not sure what this book's reason for existing might be, but it held my interest in the middle of a sleepless night and I enjoyed it enough to wonder about Wolf's other books.

mabookyard's review

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3.0

My Rating : 3
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