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Haven by Rebekah Weatherspoon

12 reviews

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

3.5

💬: “So you're just a quiet, cranky, brooding mountain man?”
“Something like that.”

Weatherspoon, Rebekah. HAVEN: Beards & Bondage (p. 88). Rebekah Weatherspoon Presents. Kindle Edition.

📖Genres: erotica, BDSM, romance, contemporary romance, dark, thriller, interracial romance

📚Page Count: 256

🎧Audiobook Length: 07h 28min

👩🏾‍🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - 3.5/5
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TW -

blood, cursing, death, death of loved one, gore, grief, gun violence, hate crime, injury/injury detail, murder, panic attacks, stalking, sexual content, violence

Haven by Rebekah Weatherspoon is the first book in the "Beards & Bondage" trilogy. Haven is about Shep, a grumpy nature photographer who lives out in the woods in Northern California and Claudia, a fashionista from the city. Claudia takes a trip out the Northern California wilderness for a week long get away, but the trip ends in mayhem and Claudia is tasked with trying to survive the night. With no where else to run, Claudia ends up at Shep's door and she's desperate for help. Shep saves Claudia but now both of them are forever changed. To help with the healing process, Shep and Claudia begin a week long sexual relationship, one that includes BDSM session after session. Claudia learns how to be the perfect submissive, and Shep dominates her wonderfully.

This started off really strong with a thriller element and even though

the thriller element dies down towards the middle of the book

, the book still kept my attention for it's duration. I do think the characters could have had a little more development, but this is an erotica so we got more spicy scenes than character development.

I'm unsure of how to rate the spicy scenes, they were good but I didn't love them. I appreciated that they used a condom in every scene, because the two had just met. The scenes didn't move me in a way that I wanted them to. Keep in mind that all the scenes are BDSM related in some way. I'm giving it three chilies 🌶️🌶️🌶️ out of five chilies

Overall this erotica was okay, I wish there was a better balance between the romance and spicy scenes. I'm giving this 3.5 out of 5 stars.
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - 3.5/5 Stars

I listened to this on [ChripBooks.com]

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kloughlin's review against another edition

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dark emotional 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

4.0

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deidrelj's review

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adventurous dark emotional sad fast-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

4.0

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mvertel's review

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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? It's complicated

4.0

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fatkidatheartreads's review against another edition

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dark emotional fast-paced

3.25

I really liked the premise of the story but something about their relationship felt a little rushed and underdeveloped. Considering it was a BDSM one, I think a lot more conversation and easing into it would have been totally necessary especially considering they were both suffering from PTSD,and she was grieving, had anxiety and panic attacks. Her mind space wasn't ready for that kind of relationship and I think he should have worked a little harder to make her comfortable and ease her into all that.
But what do I know? Lol.

Also why was she and Miles targeted? What happened there?? I had almost forgotten that this all happened. We should have gotten more information on all of it leading to the two main characters meeting.

I'm hoping I get to read the rest of the books in this series soon.

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martamae77's review

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emotional fast-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

3.75

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maylatte's review

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emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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dropshift5568's review

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challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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aqtbenz's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad 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? No

3.0

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bookishplantmom's review

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emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I’m beginning to really like this author. She writes impactful stories with great banter and most pleasing of all very emotionally intelligent characters. I love the parts where the dialogue is also about larger social issues and sex positive education. Looking forward to reading more tor this author for sure

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