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A review by allmadhere106
The Devil's Darling by Briana Michaels
3.0
2.5 stars. I was so interested in this series, but this installment missed the mark for me. While the second book ups all the things, this one wrapped up all of the various plots well enough, but in doing so, it loses a lot of the spice and fire. This is VERY plot focused, to the point where there isn't nearly as much sex/romance as the previous books. It made the book feel heavy and it took me far longer to get through than any other book in the series.
The POVs also get a little out of control for my liking. Sometimes it would switch POVs multiple times within the same page, and it got very confusing. We also added quite a few more characters, so it was something like 15 or so (the pack, Lucifer, the angels, Master, the woman, the other woman, other members of other packs, Kalfu, the Darkest Truth, etc.). I found it distracting instead of illuminating most of the time.
Overall, I still really liked the characters and I found that the plot was wrapped up in a pretty nice way. I'm not sure how we are going to get other books in the series though. I'm curious to see where it will go from here, but I'm not sure when I'll pick the next trilogy.
Tropes: reverse harem; dark fantasy/horror; feisty female Hound meets her pack of Hell Hounds (4 males); NOT a slow burn; crude language and much sex throughout; blood, death, murder, violence, gore, and characters in peril; sex with multiple partners at a time; BDSM, kink, toys, and a sex club visit; some M/M action, though not a lot; torture and mentions of history of torture; conspiracies and looming threats; character death and near character death; possessions.
Heat rating: NUCLEAR—explicit sex, indelicate language during sex, and graphic depictions of a sexual nature used to further the story; may also include light kink; not quite enough for an EXPLICIT level (5), but takes it a level past HOT (3).
The POVs also get a little out of control for my liking. Sometimes it would switch POVs multiple times within the same page, and it got very confusing. We also added quite a few more characters, so it was something like 15 or so (the pack, Lucifer, the angels, Master, the woman, the other woman, other members of other packs, Kalfu, the Darkest Truth, etc.). I found it distracting instead of illuminating most of the time.
Overall, I still really liked the characters and I found that the plot was wrapped up in a pretty nice way. I'm not sure how we are going to get other books in the series though. I'm curious to see where it will go from here, but I'm not sure when I'll pick the next trilogy.
Tropes: reverse harem; dark fantasy/horror; feisty female Hound meets her pack of Hell Hounds (4 males); NOT a slow burn; crude language and much sex throughout; blood, death, murder, violence, gore, and characters in peril; sex with multiple partners at a time; BDSM, kink, toys, and a sex club visit; some M/M action, though not a lot; torture and mentions of history of torture; conspiracies and looming threats; character death and near character death; possessions.
Heat rating: NUCLEAR—explicit sex, indelicate language during sex, and graphic depictions of a sexual nature used to further the story; may also include light kink; not quite enough for an EXPLICIT level (5), but takes it a level past HOT (3).