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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
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
adventurous
dark
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-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
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
I needed Thistle Maverick to belong to me; my toy to use however I wanted, to ruin in every way, knowing that destruction was mine to witness, to keep or share however I wished.
I think I lost count of the number of times I said, “OH SHIT!” while reading this book. If you’ve read Marie’s other OVs, you know she excels at writing broken characters. These are probably her best ones yet - everyone is damaged. Everyone’s hands are bloody.
Be prepared for a mind fuck. You won’t know which way is up, who is the villain (TBF, they all are….), and what’s coming next.
I was instantly hooked, right through that cliffhanger ending. Holy moly, that was a rough one! I am dying for Part II.
This is a mixed-burn and spicy why choose omegaverse romance.
Highly recommended to all you OV lovers!
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
I needed Thistle Maverick to belong to me; my toy to use however I wanted, to ruin in every way, knowing that destruction was mine to witness, to keep or share however I wished.
I think I lost count of the number of times I said, “OH SHIT!” while reading this book. If you’ve read Marie’s other OVs, you know she excels at writing broken characters. These are probably her best ones yet - everyone is damaged. Everyone’s hands are bloody.
Be prepared for a mind fuck. You won’t know which way is up, who is the villain (TBF, they all are….), and what’s coming next.
I was instantly hooked, right through that cliffhanger ending. Holy moly, that was a rough one! I am dying for Part II.
This is a mixed-burn and spicy why choose omegaverse romance.
Highly recommended to all you OV lovers!
gods i’m obsessed with how terribly insane they are
No one writes feral, psychotic, and still too adorable for their own good omegas like Marie Mackay. From Havoc, to Shatter, and now to Thistle, they just keep getting more savage and precious each time Mackay creates one.
Thistle has a ton of problems and no solutions. She’s known nothing but rejection, dismissal, avoidance, abuse, and abandonment all her life. Now she’s being auctioned off to the highest bidder because she killed her scent-matched alpha and she doesn’t think what time is left in her life is going to be pleasant at all… until she smells someone delicious in the crowd of bidders. She’d follow that smell to the pits of hell if they’d have her.
Once again, Marie Mackay doesn’t disappoint. There’s a reason I hop on any chance to review her titles early and why she’s an auto-buy for me and it’s not just because the spice is top-notch (in the case of this book it’s absolutely amazing, by the way!). Mackay loves to explore the dark, weird, and depraved side of omegaverse, but it’s always with just the right amount of sweetness threaded through some of the characters, taking the sting out of the bite. It’s a carrot and stick situation: Knox is duplicitous and manipulative, while Rogue is affectionate and generous. Knox grows more and more possessive of Thistle as the book goes on, while Rogue grows more and more feral for her. As for Thistle? Well, she just wants to be loved, cuddled, and have her brains screwed out constantly. Mostly she just never wants to be alone and will do anything to ensure that happens. And I mean anything.
Mackay has provided ample content and trigger warnings to go along with this book, and if you’re in any way a sensitive reader you’ll want to read them because Psycho Alphas is full of potentially triggering material. This book is definitely on the deep and dark side of omegaverse and is unashamed of how it depicts Thistle’s sexual wants, needs, desires, and kinks (even if she doesn’t understand what a kink is). These characters are all broken and may be capable of mending in book two, but this book ends on one heck of a cliffhanger I didn’t see coming.
I was provided a copy of this title by the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.
File Under: 5 Star Review/Book Series/Dark Romance/Romance Series/Omegaverse/Spice Level 3/Why Choose Romance
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Amazing incredible unhinged perfection. I think this might be my favorite of all of Marie’s works. If, like me, you loved Ice’s character in Forget Me Knot, then you need to read this!
I love Thistle. She may be a little unhinged and crazy but she has a good heart. She’s found a way to survive in a world that has done everything it can to break her. sometimes that means chopping a body up into little pieces but what else is an omega supposed to do in that situation? At times it’s difficult to read about everything she’s been through and to see how hard she struggles to hold all her broken pieces together. But it’s also so rewarding to see these alpha’s fall in love with her because of those broken pieces and jagged edges.
Rogue and Knox are both interesting characters and ultimately they are far more alike than either of them would like to admit. As the story progresses, we find out more and more about their pasts and each reveal only serves to ratchet up the tension. Is it weird that I kind of want them to end up with each other as well as Thistle? Maybe. What can I say, I love a good enemies to lovers bully romance. That being said, as much as I enjoyed both of their characters, I have to say that Bunny was definitely my favorite alpha!
Tropes: enemies to lovers•why choose•feral alpha•psycho unhinged omega•(stuffed) animal companion•touch starved omega •possessive alphas•forced proximity•morally gray characters