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Dark Harmony by Laura Thalassa

13 reviews

jelkebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Now that the couple has finally settled down I was quite excited to read this book. I thougt the world and plot within book one and two was incredibly interesting. It was just hindered by a romance that just kept giving me icks at every turn. So now, that the plot took the forefront I was hyped. Sadly enough, I ended up being quite dissapointed by this book.
In the first half I feel like we went on a couple of side quests I truly did not care for. I don't really see the point of them, and I think this book would have gone the same way without them. The second half felt dragged out, low stakes, and way too easily resolved. It just felt like such a letdown to me. The villain also lost all its interesting aspects as Laura Thalassa just decided to make him a horndog in this one. It made everything just feel so lame. There's also a couple of twists that I thought were incredibly obvious, but the main characters acted like they were the biggest revelations ever. So yeah, I just didn't have a good time reading this book.
I didn't hate it though. I especially liked Callie in this book. I feel like she embraces her darker parts in this book, and truly because the badass this entire series has been claiming she is. She had some truly epic moments in this book. There were still some decent plot moments as well, and even though the two main characters constantly have sex the romance also didn't bother me too much in this one. So yeah, a bit of a womp womp of an ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Slavery and Suicide

thelibraryskeeper's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

I have adored the Bargainer series and unfortunately I liked this one the least. It absolutely dragged until I was about 70% into it. I even had the audiobook cranked to 2x. I didn't see the big plot twist coming and I did love seeing Callie come into her full power and role.

But God it was overly sappy. Des and Callie yapping about how much they love each other and that they are mates was just wayyyyy overdone. Ugh. The epilogue was nice though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Slavery and Grief

covenofcrumpets's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

I love this series and will come back to it again and again. I already have multiple times. 

It does have some flaws and moments where I’m cursing Laura that she didn’t give more details for example with Temper and Malakai. What I’d give for a spin off novella just to learn more about Temper’s powers and her backstory as well as the relationship between her and Malakai. 

But ultimately Dark Harmony is an amazing ending to this series, it’s my favourite and an easy 5⭐️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Grief, and War

Minor: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

hanschub's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

i loved every minute of this series. the slight cliffhanger ending though… i want to know what his secret is. spoiler ahead (not for the ending):

part of me thinks malaki was trying to tell callie about what des was up to with the thief, but i can’t be sure if he truly knew. i cannot imagine how it would’ve played out if he actually did tell her, and i’m glad he didn’t.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Slavery, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

bangiebangs's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.0

I was really excited to see where the story ends. The previous books set up a number of threads, and I thought the resolution was really well done. For a while, I thought it would go differently (but dont wanna spoil), and was pleasantly surprised about

how a siren can kill a god

. I wish Temper had a bigger role here (or maybe an additional story of her/Malaki?). 

I found this book so captivating, I read the whole thing in a day. I'm unlikely to re-read the series, I think, but wholly recommend if you like the tropes (fae, fated mates, finding your own power, powerful heroine), like a bit of kink (esp in this book), and like to laugh (lots of pretty contemporary-sounding sass). 

Didn't love the HP references (or the GoT ones...), but that is relatively minor. In general, I find that any mentions of companies/websites/books or series tends to age badly. Either you're binding a story to a specific decade, or you run the risk of a reference souring (like HP... and honestly, the GoT one as well, but S8 wasn't out yet when this was written...). 

Lots of sex and violence, and I am here for a siren who gets turned on by being a bit sadistic. Good show for trying to make a character a little less likeable with her morally questionable deeds... still love them both, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Trafficking, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy

katvou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Blood, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

stardust_heidi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This series is…..

*chef’s kiss*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Rape

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Steamy

This was the spiciest book of the trilogy. I wish there’d been more chapters from Dez’s POV and that this book had been just a bit longer. All the revelations came out the last couple hours of the book. However it was a nice enough ending and I hope desperately the author returns to this series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Grief, and Stalking

Moderate: Slavery and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Rape, and Abandonment

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Pregnancy, and War

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.5

A majority of the book is great. But I found the twist with the Thief to be a little disappointing. I think it would have been better

 if he was just some maniacal fairy and not some over powered god

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Alcohol