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Stolen Heir by Sophie Lark

27 reviews

spatterson7's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Gun violence, Suicide, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

bellebookcorner's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Stolen Heir has a beauty and the beast vibes but darker and more ruthless set in modern time. 

 

I love seeing some of the artwork insides that portrayed some of the scenes here, it’s very beautiful! 

The pacing is a little bit slow at first to give room for the main characters to develop feelings towards one another. 

 

I do enjoy seeing Nessa’ character grow from the spoiled and innocent little girl to a more daring and confident kind of girl after meeting Miko. 

I like Nessa’s love for dancing, my favorite part is when Nessa and Miko dances together for the first time. 

 

Overall, it’s pretty enjoyable to read if you can suspend disbelief while reading this and just go with the plot. 

I would also highly  suggest checking out the trigger warnings listed below because some parts may be sensitive to some readers. 

Nevertheless, I’m excited to continue this series and read Nero’s story next! 

 

I received an advanced review copy for free through Netgalley, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Huge thank you to the author and publisher!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Sexual content, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Torture and Stalking

hanschub's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

i’ve only read two of the books in the brutal birthright series thus far, but i wish there was more to the individual stories themselves. although this was a fast read, some parts felt slow and there was definitely room for more character building/emotion discovery. i really liked this one, but it’s getting 4/5 stars because it’s lacking (?) a little. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Blood, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Torture, Medical content, and Stalking

notamouse's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

1.5

🌶️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

blissfullibrary's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

quietmarki's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I COULDN'T PUT THIS BOOK DOWN! Very toxic , but loved it :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

nineinchnails's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide

booksalacarte's review against another edition

hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

2.5⭐️ 3🌶️

Mafia dark romance
Beauty and the beast retelling
Enemies to lovers
Professional ballerina
Opposites attract
“Touch her and die”


The writing is really stilted int he beginning. Maybe it’s the dual first person POV. And it’s needlessly repetitive. Something said in chapter 2 is almost verbatim in chapter 6. 

The monotonous replay of a specific scene in the other POV in first person isn’t interesting, it’s boring. 

The characters are under developed. There is such potential, but their character arcs are rushed and their relationship arc hardly goes beyond Stockholm syndrome. Their on page interactions are very few, making their relationship seem very immature. There is very little on page tension because they hardly ever interact. 

But it was a quick and easy read.



Thank you NetGalley and Bloom Books/Sourcebooks for an Advanced Reader Copy of the ebook in return for an honest review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

ariana_m's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I enjoyed reading this a lot. I loved beauty and the beast themes as well as the little nods to the movie mentioned in there. Beauty and the beast is one of my favorite movies so I liked that a lot. I liked Miko and Nessa together. I loved the touch her and I'll kill you vibes, it never misses. I liked how he brought out her true feelings about things. Their relationship was really insta lovey/lust but I know that's the point. I really liked the relationship between Ness and Klara, that was really cute. Overall this was a really entertaining book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide

christikb's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Here's my shameful, horribly kept secret. I love alpha mafia men (in fiction only, I swear!). I love fairytales. And I am OBSESSED with these two things when put together. So it makes sense that I fell head over heels for Nessa and Miko's story. And even though Miko and Nessa's storyline is a lot Stockholm Syndrome-y and Miko is the least polished of the Brutal Birthright men and the transition from hate to love is a bit sudden, I am a complete sucker for Stolen Heir. SH is like what would happen if Beauty and the Beast and Swan Lake (the ballet) had an EXTREMELY SPICY, criminal baby and I was here for every second of it. I don't care about any flaw of this story, the prima ballerina and the tattooed Braterstwo leader who bows to no one except this tiny ballerina absolutely slays me. Major trigger warning on rape and suicide in the prologue (which is absolutely gutpunchingly heartbreaking).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Suicide