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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Synopsis:
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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Synopsis:

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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Synopsis:

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.

A Soul of Ash and Blood (Blood & Ash #5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (non spoiler review)

Date Started: August 21st 2023
Date Finished: August 27th 2023

Characters: Poppy & Casteel

Rating: 6 🌟 s

Synopsis:
Only his memories can save her…

A great primal power has risen. The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Bone—the true Primal of Life and Death. And the battle Casteel, Poppy, and their allies have been fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come.

But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could take her away from him. Cas is given some advice, though—something he plans to cling to as he waits to see her beautiful eyes open once more: Talk to her.

And so, he does. He reminds Poppy how their journey began, revealing things about himself that only Kieran knows in the process. But it’s anybody’s guess what she’ll wake to or exactly how much of the realm and Cas will have changed when she does.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout revisits Poppy and Casteel’s epic love story in the next installment of the Blood and Ash series. But this time, Hawke gets to tell the tale.

Review:
This is the first time I gave a review six stars but this one warranted this covetted rating because this book wrapped up Poppy’s Ascension into what she truly is but I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t or has started this series/world but though who have understand what I’m talking about by the end of this book, but anyways back to my review… I loved Casteel’s recollections of his and Poppy’s love story along with everything he said in the present day while Poppy was in stasis (inactive if you were wondering what it means) then how some the side charcters popped up from time to time in the present day to keep Casteel informed while he stayed with her as she slept. And sometimes some of the side characters would stay and listen to Casteel’s memories of said past as he talked to Poppy. And during the ending I was consistingly flipping the pages and being caught up in the action and learning something new about Cas that I couldn’t believe was a part of him all this time. And when Poppy awoke I knew she would (you have to read to find out what I mean). So overall, I enjoyed the new tidbits within the story that we didn’t know Cas just added that wasn’t in Poppy’s book (From Blood and Ash). And lastly, to Jennifer L. Armentrout, I want to say thank you for giving us this world with Poppy, Casteel and their friends because these characters will not be forgotten by me in the least and I may have to do a reread at some point because that’s just how much they effected me.

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