diamondsequallove25's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse
Minor: Pregnancy, Murder, and Suicide
lovealwaysadi's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, Blood, and Sexual content
Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Confinement
books4plants's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Child abuse
whatjasread's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
• I’m not even going to pretend to have understood the reasonings behind any of the “rituals”
• definitely needed to be longer, I need more slow burn angst
TWs: dubious consent, breeding, knifeplay, blood play, abusive parent (father)
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, and Sexual content
Moderate: Confinement and Physical abuse
Minor: Pregnancy
gabibooksit's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Together, they have to navigate all the unexpected attraction and figure out how to free Malachi and Mina from her father's trap.
Spoiler
This book is very spicy and involves MF/MMF/MMMF situations. Some content warnings that stood out to me would be: some light dubious consent, biting (like so much biting but it's SO GOOD), blood play, aggressive sex, VERY aggressive (but consensual) sex, loss of virginity. I believe that Katee Robert has CW listings for her books on her website, so check that out. This is the first in a trilogy and does end in a cliffhanger, but I do believe the trilogy will end with a HEA.I love all four of these idiots and want them to be HAPPY.
Graphic: Blood and Sexual content
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Pregnancy
darkravenz's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, and Sexual content
Moderate: Pregnancy, Torture, and Suicidal thoughts
alzu's review
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Domestic abuse
Minor: Pregnancy
starryorbit12's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
0.5
Romance erotica books are also supposed to have romance I it. All Mina has is this vague "connection" that is all tell no show because they fuck more than they talk. These characters barely know anything about each other, and they don't really bother to ask. Plus, there are several spelling errors.
The male leads are just flat archetypes of characters. They have some potential to be fleshed out, but it never explored. It never touched on how they know each other.
Spoiler
It is never touched on how Malachi got trapped. It is mentioned the last sacrificed killed herself and never mentioned again.Mina as a character internal acts like she is being empowered to make her own choices for once. In reality, she is simple going along with what the male leads want. She loses all rational thought when horny. She doesn't really do much. The sex and "plot" happen to her. She doesn't really actively make things happen. She is basically just your average female protagonist that's pitched as "strong" and "empowered" when she really makes no choices and seems to exist only in relation to her love interests.
At least the sex itself is good. The author can write excellent sex scenes. It is every other aspect of this book that has failed to impress. There is some room for for fleshing out characters by having relationship building and interactions outside of sex. It just seems that the author only cares about erotic portion of the book and nothing else. At that point, I might as well just browse Ao3 or Literotica and get sex of a similar quality that's free and takes up less of my time by not pretending there is more to the story than there is. This book is what you get if you stretch a porn without a plot tagged one shot into the length of a novel.
Plot and characterization does need to suffer because of explicitness. I don't plan to continue with the series.
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Trafficking
Minor: Pregnancy