Monday, July 10, 2023
Barbarian's Mate by Ruby Dixon
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Wings in Captivity by C. Soto
Blurb:
Grimm is an assassin, a ghost in the night, coming to gift souls for the Reaper!
Once he sets his eyes on Tara, his spirited butterfly, he knows he must capture her and put her in his own cage.
While Tara is on the run from one monster, she catches the eye of another.
With the games they play, in the end, who will have captured who?
WARNING: This is a Dark Romance, captive story. Trigger warnings include but are not limited to: dubious consent, strong language, violence. Intended audience 18+ only.
You are warned....get your fans ready, clutch your pearls, this is a steamy review.
Wings in Captivity by C. Soto is a quick smutty read. To read this book you'll need to be ok with reading about kidnapping, bondage, torture...fair warning. As smutty reads go, we get into the thick of it quite quickly. Grimm is home on an assignment, living in his small town where he gets some privacy and reprieve from his demanding job as an assassin. As a general rule, women in his small town are off limits...however when he sees Tara he recognizes many things in her. She isn't from this town, and she's hiding from someone. He kidnaps her and begins to play his own games...and as she learns to live by his rules, she sees his more gentle side.
Thoughts: Overall this was a well paced quick dark read that kept the pages turning. There was an interesting storyline between the sex scenes that kept things interesting, and I specially enjoyed the overall character development. If you're looking for a quick steamy read and are ok with all the warnings then go grab this book.
Rating: 4 stars
Steam: Max! 10+
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Sunday, July 31, 2022
A Kingdom of Flame and Fury by Whitney Dean
Blurb:
At ten years old, Raven was mysteriously willed to be the next ruler of Seolia, a kingdom nestled within the realm of The Four Kingdoms.
Orphaned as a baby, she has spent fifteen years ruling over a kingdom she believes she did not earn all while hiding secrets: she possesses dark magic and she thirsts for blood.
Now at almost twenty-five years old and with a sudden addiction to stealing life, Raven must fight through her new procured darkness to save her soul, but when a mysterious stranger arrives in her kingdom, she starts experiencing vivid dreams that detail who she truly is. As she slowly starts to unravel her story, what she uncovers at the end of the spool will change the course of her life and her kingdom forever.
Thoughts:
There's some good things, and some bad things in this novel, and I think I have a love/hate relationship with it.
The good...this was a well paced book, with great world building. Raven's character and history I felt was fairly original, her not knowing her past or even why she had magic. We gradually get into her history...but I won't ruin it for you. It unfolds nicely. Also...I love a good romance triangle. We definitely get that, except...we always kind of know who is right for her. Missed opportunity...the beauty of an achingly good triangle is that both could be really good for our MC. Instead the author makes both of them kinda lame choices for her.
Queen...you don't need a man.