Can’t Tell You Why by Maribelle McCrea (Take a Vow Collection #1) (non spoiler review)

Date Started: May 16th 2024
Date Finished: May 17th 2024

Characters: Jarrod & Sarah

Rating: 4 🌟 s

Themes:
Clean Romance, 8 Year Age Gap, Insta-Love & Grief

Review:
This story reminded me of a Hallmark movie where guy and girl meet for the first time and fall in love, but before they can get their happy ending, a bunch of obstacles get in their way but then they grow stronger as people together and apart an then they realize that nothing in the world could stop them being together in the end which is how this wrapped up in a neat little bow. If you love stories like this then give it a try.

Disclaimer: This was also the first book I read by this author

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Synopsis:

He’s never met anyone like her, and she’s never been so smitten.When they meet by chance at a rooftop bar in vibrant Atlanta, their instant attraction is undeniable.Jarrod is a successful mergers and acquisitions lawyer who’s never had time for love; Sarah is a young woman with a broken heart from the loss of her high school sweetheart.In spite of their eight-year age difference, they discover a passionate bond that can’t be denied. As their relationship intensifies, they must confront obstacles that could tear them apart and make tough decisions about their love.Will their age gap and Jarrod’s demanding career be too much to overcome, or will they find a way to make it work?

Four Warned by Jade Royal (The Ekon Dynasty #1) (non spoiler review)

Date Started: May 10th 2024
Date Finished: May 11th 2024

Characters: Tina & the Ekon brothers
Rating: 1 🌟

Themes:
Dark Mafia romance, Reverse Harem

Review:
This was my first intro into the RH trope but the writing was all over the place and made no sense to me and not to mention it’s two days later and now looking back, this story is very unforgettable because I don’t remember anything about what happened in the book other than than the story which was rushed in my honest opinion. What I’m trying to say is that I don’t recommend this book to anyone, but if you think you will enjoy it than all means try it out.

Disclaimer: I got this for free during a stuff your kindle day.

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Synopsis:

My family was being blackmailed by the mafia. Thanks to my brother losing a bet he could never win. A forced marriage between me and the boss proved to be the only solution. Instead of playing the victim, I negotiated my own terms. I’d be his bride, but my family stayed alive and untouched.

What starts off as an agreement to save my family, quickly turns into something I couldn’t have prepared for. Someone had warned me that the Ekon brothers were ruthless and not afraid to take what they wanted. How far would they go to claim something they already considered theirs? Could they protect the empire they were building or would it all crumble before they gained enough power?

Beg Me Please by M Kay Noir (Femdom Origins Book 1) (non spoiler review)

Date Started: May 10th 2024
Date Finished: May 10th 2024

Characters: Danica & Dante

Rating: 3 🌟 s

Themes:
femdom, age gap (f 24/m 43), humiliation, bondage, violence (including firearms), pegging, illegal activities, kidnapping, murder & death. impact play, pain kink, light CBT, praise kink, overstimulation, masturbation, orgasm control & denial as well as off page mentions of death/murder of loved ones & also child abuse/neglect.

Review:
What can I say about this quick short little novella that ends in a cliffy? At times I was like what am I reading and other times I was like I’m enjoying this encounter/relationship. It was also fun to read a story where it was in reverse instead of the normal alpha dominates the female MC situation. If you love when female characters overpower the male characters give this one a chance. Cannot wait to one day continue this couples story in the future.

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When the bad guy wants to be called a “good boy”

The king of the underworld only bows to one – his fearless queen.

Dante Fera (43) is used to calling the shots. Knees tremble in fear when the boss walks into a room. But not Danica Matthews (25). No, she’s different – the one woman who can make *his* knees weak.

He would do anything to please her.
Anything.
If she’d let him.

A dark romance like any other, except for one what if *she* was the one calling the shots instead? He may throw her over his shoulder and kidnap her, but she’ll be the one controlling his pleasure – if he’s lucky.

How does an unlikely relationship naturally progress into a kinky dynamic?
Sometimes, accidentally…
Accidentally and passionately.

Beg Me Please is a slow-burn age gap, dark mafia gentle femdom romance short story. It is Book 1 in Femdom Origins series where popular romance tropes are imagined with the roles reversed. What if…?

Kinks Foot fetish , MDlb (age play), light CBT, nursing, impact play, pegging, and humiliation.

Content This book contains mature content and a trigger warning for violence. All scenes take place between consenting adults.

What is gentle femdom? Easy on the mind, rough on the body (consensually). Consent, communication, and trust – the pillars of a beautiful, kinky life. But make no mistake – just because it’s “gentle” on your mental health, does not mean your body won’t end up bruised and bound.

A Vengeful Occasion (The Fallen Kings #2) by Kristy Marie (non spoiler review)

Date Started: April 28th 2024
Date Finished: April 30th 2024

Characters: Tennyson & Spencer

Rating: 6 🌟 s

Themes:
Alleged murder, vigilante justice, descriptive intimacy, PTSD

Review:
This book was unhinged in the most beautiful way possible. And I loved how these two characters got a second chance after all they went through. Once again Kristy has a way with words that not many authors are capable of writing. Now I cannot wait for the next couple come in and most likely become a favorite of mine too.

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Urban legend.Ruthless Attorney.Hateful Billionaire.

Tobias Hale is surrounded by rumors, most of which are true. Underneath that three-piece suit is a cold, callous man who rules the courtroom with an iron tongue. Judges hate him with the same passion he hates me.He hasn’t always been that way, though.We were once star-crossed lovers who sat by the water’s edge—me wearing his jacket and him dreaming about a future far away from my family—a place where I wasn’t American royalty, only his queen.I never thought I would see him again.Years later, a chance encounter brings us face to face.The sweet and compassionate man I once knew is long gone. The man before me now is a vicious and calculated billionaire.Once upon a time, he was my fairytale prince.Now, he has become the legend everyone knows as Tennyson—my husband, my killer.A Vengeful Occasion is a second chance, romantic suspence standalone.

Secrets & Submission by W. Winters & Amelia Wilde (non spoiler review)

Date Started: April 5th 2024
Date Finished: April 25th 2024

Characters: Zander & Ella

Rating: 5 🌟 s

Themes:
Mental health Issues, Suicide (mentioned), bodyguard; Dom/sub; forbidden relationship; exhibitionism

Review:

Kiss Me:
I absolutely love this dark romance. It had chemistry and the love scenes were so steamy that I needed a cold shower to cool down. This ends in a cliffhanger so I can’t wait to see what happens next.

Hold Me:
This is the second book to Zander and Ella’s story. I loved how this book had a cliffhanger and cannot wait for the last one to wrap it up. Highly recommend.

Love Me:
I loved how things between Zander and Ella’s story was wrapped up. It was dark, but so good. Start this trilogy today cause you won’t regret it.

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From USA Today best-selling authors W Winters and Amelia Wilde comes a sinful romance with a touch of dark and angst that will keep you gripping the edge of your seat.

I should have known when I couldn’t keep my eyes off her that this would be a mistake.

I was hired to protect her, this woman who’s lost everything yet there’s an obvious fire that blazes behind her beautiful gaze. She stares back, daring and tempting me. It calls to a side of me that’s darker and longs to tame her.

We both have secrets, we both have a past we’re not ready to face. More than that, we both want to get lost in each other, falling into a forbidden game of control and power. Of submission and dominance.

The moment she agrees to my terms, I know I’ve crossed a line. One of many rules I’m willing to break. No one can know, not a soul, but secrets in the life I lead never last for long.

“From beginning to end my eyes were glued to the pages, the words took ahold of me and wouldn’t let go. These authors put together something that is suspenseful, emotionally charged, passionate, mildly dark… and so easy to get wrapped up in.” – Misty, (Reds Romance Reviews)

Secrets & Submission is the complete Love the Way You trilogy in one. One couple and one happily ever after.

A Fire in the Flesh (Flesh & Fire #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (non spoiler review)

Date Started: March 6th 2024
Date Finished: March 16th 2024

Characters: Sera & Nyktos

Rating: 6 🌟 s

Sensitive Themes:
Remember the themes from previous books in the Blood and Ash world

Review:
I finished this and what a great way to start off where A Light in the Flame left off on a cliffhanger. The journey the characters are still going on, keeps me continuing on with the Blood and Ash/Flesh and Fire world and I cannot wait for the last book in this series to come our. It also continues to make me cry, laugh and feel anger at the main characters as well as the side characters actions, But like I said I love it so very much. Highly recommend both series if you want to either continue or start them.

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The only thing that can save the realms now is the one thing more powerful than the Fates.
After a startling betrayal ends with both Sera and the dangerously seductive ruler of the Shadowlands she has fallen madly in love with being held captive by the false King of the Gods, there is only one thing that can free Nyktos and prevent the forces of the Shadowlands from invading Dalos and igniting a War of Primals.

Convincing Kolis won’t be easy, though – not even with a lifetime of training. While his most favored Revenant is insistent that she is nothing more than a lie, Kolis’s erratic nature and twisted sense of honor leave her shaken to the core, and nothing could’ve prepared her for the cruelty of his Court or the shocking truths revealed. The revelations not only upend what she has understood about her duty and the very creation of the realms but also draw into question exactly what the true threat is. However, surviving Kolis is only one part of the battle. The Ascension is upon her, and Sera is out of time.

But Nyktos will do anything to keep Sera alive and give her the life she deserves. He’ll even risk the utter destruction of the realms, and that’s exactly what will happen if he doesn’t Ascend as the Primal of Life. Yet despite his desperate determination, their destinies may be out of their hands.

But there is that foreseen unexpected thread—the unpredictable, unknown, and unwritten. The only thing more powerful than the Fates…

A Light In The Flame (Flesh & Fire #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (non spoiler review)

Date Started: February 14th 2024
Date Finished: February 29th 2024

Characters: Sera & Nyktos

Rating: 6 🌟 s

Sensitive Themes:
Remember the themes from previous books in the Blood and Ash world

Review:
I loved being back in this world with Sera and Nyktos and once again according to my rating this was yet another favorite of mine. I loved the action, the emotion and the love between these two main characters along with their court and that cliffy was something else. I seriously cannot wait to start book 3 A Fire in the Flesh to see how it continues on.

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The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill.

The truth about Sera’s plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos. Surrounded by those distrustful of her, all Sera has is her duty. She will do anything to end Kolis, the false King of Gods, and his tyrannical rule of Iliseeum, thus stopping the threat he poses to the mortal realm.

Nyktos has a plan, though, and as they work together, the last thing they need is the undeniable, scorching passion that continues to ignite between them. Sera cannot afford to fall for the tortured Primal, not when a life no longer bound to a destiny she never wanted is more attainable than ever. But memories of their shared pleasure and unrivaled desire are a siren’s call impossible to resist.

And as Sera begins to realize that she wants to be more than a Consort in name only, the danger surrounding them intensifies. The attacks on the Shadowlands are increasing, and when Kolis summons them to Court, a whole new risk becomes apparent. The Primal power of Life is growing inside her, pushing her closer to the end of her Culling. And without Nyktos’s love—an emotion he’s incapable of feeling—she won’t survive her Ascension. That is if she even makes it to her Ascension and Kolis doesn’t get to her first. Because time is running out. For both her and the realms.

Bunny by Mona Awad (non spoiler review)

Date Started: February 3rd 2024
Date Finished: February 8th 2024

Characters: Samantha & Ava

Rating: 2 🌟 s

Sensitive Themes:
look them up before reading the book

Review:
This was my very first book by this author in which I only decided to give into the hype because everyone was raving about how weird this book was and sure enough it was a wild and strange ride. I’m still having problems with putting my thoughts into words for this story after reading it and I guess I will say, it was just okay to me since it my first time reading something in the horror genre period, but overall I loved the reference to Mean Girls and from what I heard is that this book sounds like if it could be the distant cousin of Stephen King’s work, but still enjoyed it nonetheless. And another thing, reading is subjective and not everyone is gonna vibe with this author’s work but I say give it a try if it sounds like something you would enjoy.

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We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn’t we?

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort–a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.

But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies’ fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door–ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies’ sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision.

The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

The Fury by Alex Michaelides (ARC Review) (non spoiler review)

Date Started: October 6th 2023
Date Finished: October 19th 2023
(Read it early and it released on January 16th 2024)

Characters: Ellliot, Kate, Lana, Leo, Jason & Agathi

Rating: 5 🌟s

Sensitive Themes:
Look them up before you read

Review:
This book kept me intrigued from beginning to end even though it kept on going back and forth and in between. But in the end , I gotta say that I truthfully enjoyed it even though I’m not really that much into murder mysteries, but this one took me by surprise and I can definitely say that I will read more by this author in the future.

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Synopsis:
A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneous trip to a private Greek island is upended by a murder ― from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient.

This is a tale of murder.

Or maybe that’s not quite true. At its heart, it’s a love story, isn’t it?

Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex–movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island.

I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time ― it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press a celebrity; a private island cut off by the wind…and a murder.

We found ourselves trapped there overnight. Our old friendships concealed hatred and a desire for revenge. What followed was a game of cat and mouse ― a battle of wits, full of twists and turns, building to an unforgettable climax. The night ended in violence and death, as one of us was found murdered.

But who am I?

My name is Elliot Chase, and I’m going to tell you a story unlike any you’ve ever heard.

A Vicious Proposal (The Fallen Kings of Eden) by Kristy Marie (non spoiler review)

Date Started: January 17th 2024
Date Finished: January 25th 2024

Characters: Reese & Van

Rating: 6 🌟 s

Sensitive Themes:
foul language, mention of past abuse, alleged rape, parental death and descriptive sexual encounters.

Review:
Kristy Marie pushed the envelope with this one and I got to say that this is the best one she has written so far even though I am always saying that with every new book of hers that gets released, but this one really is amazing x10 (move over Tim becase Van Gogh just took your spot 🤪). So if you love dark characters especially psycho ones then I highly recommend reading this book. And by the way, I have to say that this is my first 6 star read of 2024 so far, hopefully by the end of the year this will still be one of my favorite books of the year.

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I knew him only as Van Gogh.
A tortured artist who owned the night as he moved through the shadows, cloaked in hate and madness.
He was a vicious vigilante—a serial arsonist who thrived on the fear he triggered with a single match between his tattooed knuckles.
We were told to lock our doors and stay inside.
I wanted to. I really did.
But then I saw his eyes, burning like embers as he watched me through the smoke.
And like the flames at his feet, I delighted in his attention.
I became his muse.
His passion.
His obsession.
His perfectly flawed flower.
But that was years ago.
Before my seaside town became his canvas…
Before the ashes of my enemies became his paint…
Before he hated me… and made me his wife.