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632 reviews for:

Isca

Jade West

3.75 AVERAGE

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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: Yes

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Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ .5
Plot: Woman with a primal kink meets a lost soul online to live out her fantasy
FMC: Depraved, Lost, depressed and kind
MMC: Loving, protective, lost and depraved
Angst: 2/5
Dark: 2/5
Spice:
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No

I was strangely captivated by this story. Was it dark and twisted? Very much so. The sex scenes were rough - my first experience of reading CNC - and I didn't find them particularly erotic or steamy. I'm not sure what made this work for me, but I think the coming together of two damaged souls resulted in a very poignant romance with lots of feels.
dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
fast-paced
dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I started this with the best intentions and admittedly around the 60% marker, I skim read the rest.

The plot should have guaranteed this book 5 stars but for the amount of things happening it felt quite rushed. This was only exacerbated by the fact that the book covers a few months of activity. The content didn’t give much space to process the time frame things were happening in and left it feeling a bit distorted.

I really wanted to love this story, it had everything I could have wanted in a book but it just didn’t hit the mark for me.

Great storyline. Dark but exciting. I couldn’t put this down. I don’t think Jade West can write a bad book!

I liked it, but didn't love it. It dragged on in places. I would not recommend it to anyone that doesn't like CNC.

The MCs meet online when the FMC posts wanting to be "bait" for "the monster" of her dreams. She finds it in the MMC.
“I’ll be your monster,” I whisper. “I’ll be every dirty fcking nightmare you ever had.”
They fill the cracks in each other's soul.
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway
Aside from the story, the author picked perfect quotes to lead each chapter.