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A Fate Inked In Blood by Danielle L. Jensen
slow-paced
4.0
As a chronic chaotic reader who never reads book blurbs, the only two things I knew going in was 1. Danielle Jensen wrote it (and I loved the Bridge Kingdom) and 2. it’s a Viking romantasy. I had no other expectations besides those two things.
A Fate Inked in Blood was fast paced in a way where events happened rapidly to move the story along but slow in a way where I wasn’t super invested until quite a bit later in the book.
I despised the FMC’s family and I was constantly mad that she made choices and sacrifices that were detrimental to her but helped her kin and they repaid her with cruelty. While I’m not normally someone who wants characters to make all the “right” choices or do “what I would do”, I was so annoyed by the end that she didn’t let her jerk relatives lay in the beds of their own making that I wanted to scream. MAKE THE SELFISH CHOICE GIRLIE POP!! They didn’t even blink before screwing you over!!! I wanted to shake some sense into her. I respect the loyalty but there’s only so much I can handle. I literally screamed out loud “NO DON’T DO THAT”.
Then of course we have the ending that made me gasp and screech like a feral raccoon. I’m so mad at the MMC for what he did but I was not surprised by the big reveal about the FMC at the end. I need book 2 in my grabby hands IMMEDIATELY.
Hopefully her family will finally get what’s coming to them so I can sleep peacefully again.
Spice: 🌶️🌶️
A Fate Inked in Blood was fast paced in a way where events happened rapidly to move the story along but slow in a way where I wasn’t super invested until quite a bit later in the book.
I despised the FMC’s family and I was constantly mad that she made choices and sacrifices that were detrimental to her but helped her kin and they repaid her with cruelty. While I’m not normally someone who wants characters to make all the “right” choices or do “what I would do”, I was so annoyed by the end that she didn’t let her jerk relatives lay in the beds of their own making that I wanted to scream. MAKE THE SELFISH CHOICE GIRLIE POP!! They didn’t even blink before screwing you over!!! I wanted to shake some sense into her. I respect the loyalty but there’s only so much I can handle. I literally screamed out loud “NO DON’T DO THAT”.
Then of course we have the ending that made me gasp and screech like a feral raccoon. I’m so mad at the MMC for what he did but I was not surprised by the big reveal about the FMC at the end. I need book 2 in my grabby hands IMMEDIATELY.
Hopefully her family will finally get what’s coming to them so I can sleep peacefully again.
Spice: 🌶️🌶️
Queen of Spades by Jillian West
fast-paced
5.0
“She’s an omega without any family to look out for her. I’ve used that as my excuse for some light stalking on more than one occasion…I have no problem being her monster.”
Oh man this was my first Jillian West book and wow I’m in love. I am not only obsessed with the shared High Roller Omegas universe, but also with the perfect blend of dark, quippy, swoony, and spicy that Queen of Spades achieved. I’ve already downloaded and queued up her other books that tie in.
“Why do traumatic moments always remind me of my family? I think I need therapy. Or Jesus. I probably need both.”
Annika is an omega on the run. She’s found herself at the High Roller Club with a new name and a new life. That is, until her past catches up with her and she quickly realizes that she may not have outrun it as well as she previously believed. I enjoyed the heck out of this story. The way this pack came together was MESSY and I ate it up with a spoon. The screams I scrumpt and the gasps I gusped are truly uncountable. There’s one particular alpha in Queen of Spades that was so incredibly unhinged I immediately put him and Diesel from Den of Vipers in the same category of outrageous MMCs. I loved the fact that this omega was not afraid to get in the middle of the action and protect her people. I’m in awe and totally obsessed.
📚 In this book you can expect:
• Heats, nesting, knotting, mating bites
• Scent match (the omegaverse fated mates)
• Organized crime related drama and action
• St@lking
• He falls first (and harder)
• Funny AF bromance and quippy banter
• High spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Oh man this was my first Jillian West book and wow I’m in love. I am not only obsessed with the shared High Roller Omegas universe, but also with the perfect blend of dark, quippy, swoony, and spicy that Queen of Spades achieved. I’ve already downloaded and queued up her other books that tie in.
“Why do traumatic moments always remind me of my family? I think I need therapy. Or Jesus. I probably need both.”
Annika is an omega on the run. She’s found herself at the High Roller Club with a new name and a new life. That is, until her past catches up with her and she quickly realizes that she may not have outrun it as well as she previously believed. I enjoyed the heck out of this story. The way this pack came together was MESSY and I ate it up with a spoon. The screams I scrumpt and the gasps I gusped are truly uncountable. There’s one particular alpha in Queen of Spades that was so incredibly unhinged I immediately put him and Diesel from Den of Vipers in the same category of outrageous MMCs. I loved the fact that this omega was not afraid to get in the middle of the action and protect her people. I’m in awe and totally obsessed.
📚 In this book you can expect:
• Heats, nesting, knotting, mating bites
• Scent match (the omegaverse fated mates)
• Organized crime related drama and action
• St@lking
• He falls first (and harder)
• Funny AF bromance and quippy banter
• High spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️