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Dark Reign by Xavier Neal

4.0

Finally, we are getting the rest of Benicio and Chantal's story after a doozy of a cliffhanger in Dark Ruler. Dark Reign is such an appropriate title for so many reasons in this book. Benicio needs to find out who questioned his reign as head of his domain to take his fiance. He needs to re-establish his reign as the ruthless "Butcher," as he is known. Finally, he needs to rain (reign) down vengeance on whoever tried to cross him. He accomplishes all of this with his fierce warrior Chantal, his best friend Miko, and the rest of his loyal family.

This book is dark, but fun dark, if you can imagine that. The banter between Miko and Benicio, and Chantal is priceless. The handling of the Italian is smooth and does not distract from the story. And the plot moves along at a nice pace. I immensely enjoyed this duet, and I recommend it to anyone who wants a little dark spice in their life.