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sup3r_xn0va_maya's Reviews (406)
This was just okay. It wasn't bad but it wasn't great. There were no trigger warnings and there's domestic abuse and sexual assault in the first chapter of the book.
I know for a fact that I like this author's other series better, "The Butcher and the Violinist".
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
This is a dark romance written by a Black woman with a Black female main character and a French male and a love interest. There were definitely many parts of this story that would have creeped me out or unsettled me if anybody I had known or even I had been involved in those situations.
So, on the one hand, I'm completely against a lot of the things that are happening in the story in the ways that the male love innterest operates in general.
On the other hand, I'm really think I finally see with the dark romance girl as you're talking about when they say they love their mafia romances! If I suspend my belief and live in the land of disillusionment, then this was hot. In fantasy land only, not the real world.
Touché, Kenya Wright, Touché.
Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail
PROS -
- Most of the spicy scenes were good
- The fighting scenes were good
- The story premise is good
CONS -
- It was less than a month before she....<spoilers>WAS ALREADY PREGNANT! I can kind of ignore the instalove with ZERO chemistry because of the Fated Mates trope, but instantly PREGNANT?!
🗣 HELL NO
- By the epilouge, she was
They then talk about abstaining from direct intercourse bcuz FMC says she doesn't immediately want a 3rd child, BUT THEN the FMC says she doesn't want to abstain in that way hinting that she loves his body too much to abstain afterall. He also, at one point, tells her that she's very useful to the clan bcuz she's a breeder *COUGH*, I mean...bcuz she's mother to the first hybrid shifters in however many years and because he plans to make sure she keeps giving the clan more hybrid shifters in the form of children she births for him 😬🫠
- The entire story was so rushed that I couldn't properly enjoy anything that was happening
- The "romance" was very filmsy. There was no real chemistry between the main love interests. There was nothing between the love interests other than The Fated Mates trope and lust.
TW - Harming someone during sex
- The spicy scenes were mostly good. There was the first one that had a ick moment, though 😮💨😬
FINAL RATING -
While reading, I kept wavering between a rating of 2 - 3 Stars. I think I'll choose 2.75 Stars, and I'll say that the fight scene, the spicy scenes, and the small amount of world building saved this from being 2 or 2.5 Stars. I really wanted to like this more. I will continue with the next book in the series and I'll how I like that one.
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
I don't want to read about a Roman leader enslaving a woman and making his sex slave "to save her."
I don't want to real about sexual assault or sexual violence.
Also, the author didnt include Trigger warnings.
The premise seemed like a cool concept because I LOVE Shifters romances, but I can't deal with the enslavement stuff. That's not romantic and that's not consensual intimacy, she's enslaved.
This was disappointing.
Graphic: Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
edit// I've read two novellas by this author, and both were thriller/suspense with content that can definitely be considered disturbing and sensitive, but Ive noticed that I haven't seen any trigger warnings in the books. Maybe I need to check the website?
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This would have been a four or four point five star review if the author did not keep insinuating that people with mental illness, people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction, and/or people who are promiscuous, are inherently, evil or bad.
I'm not religious, so I ignored all the religious connotations about how certain people are evil because they don't have God within them. Because it was evident that the main character and the main character's mother did not have very much God within themselves,
Other than that, the book was really entertaining for like a thriller suspense, and honestly, the surprises and twists just kept coming, so that was enjoyable.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Blood, Death of parent, Gaslighting
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, War