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A review by bisinluv
One by Paulina Ian-Kane
2.0
⭐️ 2.5 stars ⭐️
I love me a dark romance. This did not deliver. Let me explain why.
Point number one. One heavily reminded me of the Necessary Evils series by Onley James — a found family of crazy brothers who kill bad people. Kind of been there, done that. The writing wasn’t good enough for me to overlook the similarities or to make me believe I’ve never read these tropes before.
Numero dos. The characters weren’t all that likeable.
Raphael is way too over the top Alpha growly man, all mine mine mine, and it just got annoying after a while.
Michael doesn’t have much of a personality at all. Except for the blood kink, we don’t get to know much about him.
They were both very surface-level. I needed more angst, more deep-diving into their past.
Thirdly, the dialogues.
They were trying to come off as banter-y and fun, but to me just seemed overly forced and fake. All the brothers just kind of meshed together in my brain, making them even harder to follow.
My final, and worst for me, point.
The plot pretty much ended by the 60% mark. There was nothing more to look forward to, everything of interest had already happened.
The sex, the i-love-you and the I can’t love cuz *psychopath* but mine, the meeting of the bros, the gasp plot twist, the mini fight that was forgiven after some dicking. Boom, the story is done.
All that was left was the serial killer subplot, which honestly could’ve been intriguing if the author had expanded on it a little, but it was completely overshadowed by all the meaningless dialogues and info-dumping.
I also agree with other reviewers. Piglet is a horrible pet name.
I received a copy of this book from Gay Romance Reviews, and this is my honest review.
CW and tropes(spoilers):
- Psychopath “vigilante” MC vs forensic pathologist
- Gore, violence, death & torture
- Mentions of child experimentations
- Self harm
- Insta-lust/insta-obsession
- Blood kink, blood play & knife play
- Biting
- Spit as lube
- Frotting & Rimming
- Strict top/bottom
- Public sex scene
“I’m a monster,” he whispers brokenly. I give him my best cold-blooded smile. “You have no idea what a monster is, piglet.”
I love me a dark romance. This did not deliver. Let me explain why.
Point number one. One heavily reminded me of the Necessary Evils series by Onley James — a found family of crazy brothers who kill bad people. Kind of been there, done that. The writing wasn’t good enough for me to overlook the similarities or to make me believe I’ve never read these tropes before.
Numero dos. The characters weren’t all that likeable.
Raphael is way too over the top Alpha growly man, all mine mine mine, and it just got annoying after a while.
Michael doesn’t have much of a personality at all. Except for the blood kink, we don’t get to know much about him.
They were both very surface-level. I needed more angst, more deep-diving into their past.
Thirdly, the dialogues.
They were trying to come off as banter-y and fun, but to me just seemed overly forced and fake. All the brothers just kind of meshed together in my brain, making them even harder to follow.
My final, and worst for me, point.
The plot pretty much ended by the 60% mark. There was nothing more to look forward to, everything of interest had already happened.
The sex, the i-love-you and the I can’t love cuz *psychopath* but mine, the meeting of the bros, the gasp plot twist, the mini fight that was forgiven after some dicking. Boom, the story is done.
All that was left was the serial killer subplot, which honestly could’ve been intriguing if the author had expanded on it a little, but it was completely overshadowed by all the meaningless dialogues and info-dumping.
I also agree with other reviewers. Piglet is a horrible pet name.
“I named him Mr. Hottie while he chose… piglet?”
I received a copy of this book from Gay Romance Reviews, and this is my honest review.
CW and tropes(spoilers):
- Psychopath “vigilante” MC vs forensic pathologist
- Gore, violence, death & torture
- Mentions of child experimentations
- Self harm
- Insta-lust/insta-obsession
- Blood kink, blood play & knife play
- Biting
- Spit as lube
- Frotting & Rimming
- Strict top/bottom
- Public sex scene