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katiereadingcorner's review
5.0
An absolutely amazing book!
Remi is a new author to me and I loved her writing, this book was HOT.
Charlotte currently attends catholic school to ‘heal’ her of her sex addiction. However, whilst she is there a girl dies and she finds the body. Now she needs to figure out if it was suicide or if someone murdered her.
Unfortunately for Charlotte, a handsome man comes to St Catherine’s asking questions and he to wants to find out what happened. The problem being, the way Charlotte feels around this man is not helping her addiction. Especially when his mouth is full of sin.
This was an explosive story, with lots of twists and turns. I throughly enjoyed it.
Remi is a new author to me and I loved her writing, this book was HOT.
Charlotte currently attends catholic school to ‘heal’ her of her sex addiction. However, whilst she is there a girl dies and she finds the body. Now she needs to figure out if it was suicide or if someone murdered her.
Unfortunately for Charlotte, a handsome man comes to St Catherine’s asking questions and he to wants to find out what happened. The problem being, the way Charlotte feels around this man is not helping her addiction. Especially when his mouth is full of sin.
This was an explosive story, with lots of twists and turns. I throughly enjoyed it.
tj_darkreads's review
5.0
“Sex was never your addiction, angel. You were just waiting for me to come along and steal your every fucking breath and thought.”
Oh man was this a dark and twisted and all kinds messed up book and you can bet I am here for it all. I dont want to say too much you just have to read it and find out the whole story. It was sooo good.
Charlotte has been sent to St Catherine's an all girl catholic school where they send the tainted girl's of society. She thinks shes going to be getting help for her problem by being closer to God, but she soon finds out things aren't what they seem when she sees something she shouldn't have and in the process meets Arsen and they immediately feel an attraction she's trying to fight it and he's trying to drag her into it and boy talk about some hot af inferno heat anytime their around each phew explosive.
But thing's start taking a turn for the worse when Charlotte catches the attention of...that's all I'm going to say you just need to read it and find out what happens it'll definitely have you guessing. I cant wait for the next book.
Oh man was this a dark and twisted and all kinds messed up book and you can bet I am here for it all. I dont want to say too much you just have to read it and find out the whole story. It was sooo good.
Charlotte has been sent to St Catherine's an all girl catholic school where they send the tainted girl's of society. She thinks shes going to be getting help for her problem by being closer to God, but she soon finds out things aren't what they seem when she sees something she shouldn't have and in the process meets Arsen and they immediately feel an attraction she's trying to fight it and he's trying to drag her into it and boy talk about some hot af inferno heat anytime their around each phew explosive.
But thing's start taking a turn for the worse when Charlotte catches the attention of...that's all I'm going to say you just need to read it and find out what happens it'll definitely have you guessing. I cant wait for the next book.
marisakucha's review
4.0
Murder mystery meets dark romance
Murder mystery meets dark romance in this sinful standalone. The author did a great job entwining the two and ensuring that neither stole the spotlight, they work together symbiotically to create an entrancing story.
You’ll be on the edge of your seat the entire time wondering who the characters can trust. I did have my theories but I enjoyed the twists and turns that the author put us through before the revealing climax. I also really enjoyed the bonus epilogue that gave us a glimpse into the next novel in this world.
I feel like I don’t want to say too much about the book because it’s hard to describe everything without giving bits and pieces away. I will say, it is multiple points of view, read the trigger warnings since it is a dark romance and enjoy the ride.
Murder mystery meets dark romance in this sinful standalone. The author did a great job entwining the two and ensuring that neither stole the spotlight, they work together symbiotically to create an entrancing story.
You’ll be on the edge of your seat the entire time wondering who the characters can trust. I did have my theories but I enjoyed the twists and turns that the author put us through before the revealing climax. I also really enjoyed the bonus epilogue that gave us a glimpse into the next novel in this world.
I feel like I don’t want to say too much about the book because it’s hard to describe everything without giving bits and pieces away. I will say, it is multiple points of view, read the trigger warnings since it is a dark romance and enjoy the ride.
onepageatatime's review
5.0
This was one of my favorite books so far this year. There was a lot going on and a lot of steamy scenes, but my favorite part is the mystery. Charlotte is attending a catholic boarding school in hopes of healing her sex addiction. While there she stumbles upon the body of a girl and is told that she committed suicide. When the girl's brother confronts her about what she saw he swears that his sister was murdered, and they decide to look into it. This story is full of twists and turns, steamy scenes, and mysteries. I couldn't put it down.
emsbibliophiles's review
4.0
4.5⭐️
I didn’t really know what to expect going into this, I knew it would be dark & have more secrets with it, but wow the amount of secrets & lies this story held. I was captivated throughout & so intrigued to continue. I consumed this book within a day.
blurb: charlotte is a disgrace to her family which is not okay for them & they will do everything to right the wrongs of her doing. they want to “cure her”. so they send her off to St. Catherine’s academy for her to become a new women & not disgrace the McKinney name. but that can’t be that easy, in comes Arsen. a fallen angel. he wants answers so he asks charlotte for help, but he gets the real truth & everything begins to come surface. there’s a lot they don’t know & begin to unravel that could possibly tarnish St. Catherine’s & everyone within.
I loved these two throughout this book. Charlotte was put through so much throughout her life & she just was so misunderstood. Arsen was a beautiful portrayed tortured MC & I loved him. I loved them together. completely captivated from beginning to end.
Thank you Remi Rose & Peachy Keens for the ARC!
I didn’t really know what to expect going into this, I knew it would be dark & have more secrets with it, but wow the amount of secrets & lies this story held. I was captivated throughout & so intrigued to continue. I consumed this book within a day.
blurb: charlotte is a disgrace to her family which is not okay for them & they will do everything to right the wrongs of her doing. they want to “cure her”. so they send her off to St. Catherine’s academy for her to become a new women & not disgrace the McKinney name. but that can’t be that easy, in comes Arsen. a fallen angel. he wants answers so he asks charlotte for help, but he gets the real truth & everything begins to come surface. there’s a lot they don’t know & begin to unravel that could possibly tarnish St. Catherine’s & everyone within.
I loved these two throughout this book. Charlotte was put through so much throughout her life & she just was so misunderstood. Arsen was a beautiful portrayed tortured MC & I loved him. I loved them together. completely captivated from beginning to end.
Thank you Remi Rose & Peachy Keens for the ARC!
arisuaru's review
challenging
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
yessikachu's review
Spoiler1)
- “they did what any sane parents would have done. They banished me here, hoping to rid me of my addiction” is what charlotte said with her whole ass. i am riddle with a kind of anger that ought to drive me out of sanity. sex is not an addiction you stupid bitch. it is nothing shameful either. and your sextape being released is a direct violation of your human rights and it is despicable and you do not deserve to be made to feel as though you were the perpetrator. you were the victim. YOU ARE THE VICTIM.
- “I would undergo psychiatric care to rid me of this curse if I had to.” i’m glad you’re willing because after that much religious trauma and sexual trauma and seeing dead bodies and all the shit you went through because you do not exist above or beside your trauma - you’re going to need it. ALSO THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SEX ADDICTION. YOU ARE HYPERSEXUAL. LOOK IT UP. YOU HAD A PHONE AT ONE POINT IN TIME WHAT IN THE UNINFORMED FUCK IS THIS?? it’s so interesting the way both charlotte and arsen were hypersexual from the traumas they faced and their response was dickstain and cursed. it’s so proportionate and appropriate that i want to eat it /j
- “I choose to run that early because I don’t want to end up looking like an overweight pig.” she is also fat phobic because it wasn’t bad enough. casual fat phobia was also apparently necessary.
- “An all-male kind of scent” and what kind of scent would that be charlotte? i would like an elaboration with real words. scent descriptive words. or are you just one of those assholes that says stupid shit because you have to be a walking breathing living billboard for heteronormativity lest you realise that your personality is thinner than air.
- the usage of the d slur also completely threw me off guard. i didn’t realise it was coming and cannot see how it would be necessary or relevant. there were so many things priscilla could’ve been insulted with and lesbophobia apparently won this round. causal usage of slurs is also apparently necessary.
2) when she said this was real life and not a low budget horror film was when i knew that this was not real life and was in fact a low budget horror film.
3) arsen only seems to be able to get hard and say yah like a blowup doll. which is really all the character he got, not even a personality to go with it. ‘gorgeous’ packaging but what am i to do with an empty box? charlotte is also the typical archetype of women in these sorts of books; is always trembling / quivering / shaking as if she is about to piss her pants any moment now & is “oddly not terrified” of the angry man that only knows how to snarl or sneer or growl or some animal noise that honest to god i have never seen a human make.
4) still screaming about the whole they are astrologically compatible tidbit like PUHLEZE shut the fuck up. you wouldn’t understand a natal chart if it flung itself onto your face. i hope you both get uncontrollable diarrhoea.
5) “I knew his and Phoebe’s darkest secret and now it made sense why they hid it. He was an older married man while she was one of the young, damaged girls he taught. To society, it was taboo, but as twisted and perverse as it may be, whatever they had must have been real by the obvious affection they showed in their letters to one another. But what didn’t make sense now was him allegedly assaulting Phoebe. Was he really just a perv who preyed on younger women? Or was there something else going on?” WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALLEGEDLY? SHE WAS LITERALLY PREGNANT. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU THAT NOBODY BAT AN EYE AT THIS? priscilla should’ve ripped his FUCKING HEART OUT. the fact that mc’s immediate response was to defend what happened is fucking disturbing. THAT IS GROOMING. it is delusional to believe that it is only twisted and it is taboo. IT IS ILLEGAL. her immediate response to doubt it and question it is exactly how predators want you to respond. they want your doubt to gaslight even a dead victim into shame. this is precisely why they always win. also it is wrong for the person twice your age to be involved with you when you’re under 25 because your brain is still developing. this is the origin of the pain gap. furthermore, phoebe has experienced immeasurable abuse and is predisposed to the fawn response that causes her to romanticise the exact kind of shit that mr rossi put her through. it made her see what she needed to see to be able to take the trauma. that’s how it works. IT IS DELUSIONAL. IT IS WRONG. IT IS ILLEGAL. IT IS ANYTHING BUT LOVE. and if charlotte had one singular brain cell— i can’t even say anything to that. imagining her with brain cells escapes me.
6) when they finally fucked and she’s like “He knew pain, he knew what it was like to be different. We were one and the same. Lost, plagued by our defects, but we didn’t care.”
let’s clarify, she was horny and got taken advantaged of by her own peers; his entire fucking childhood is imprisonment and abuse. they are not the same. this is not to say that his or hers is worse than one or the other. it is to say that trauma is not comparable nor should it ever be and the corollary of that is they are not the same. they are not one. these are not “defects” and they both cared. a lot. just because that oxytocin that’s getting to your brain doesn’t mean you get to say shit. like haven’t you done that enough holy hell.
7) the fact that when annalise force kissed charlotte outside the club, the bouncer let them in because of the display was truly disgusting. it is so fucking lesbophobic and it truly disgusts me beyond reason that such an act is made to be seen as a power move since they’re viewed as beautiful or that it is acceptable to be subject to an audience - this is the same platitude as bars having ladies night because what the bar sells is not just 1 for 1 drinks or free drinks or themed night, they are selling the women’s presence. this is exactly what is portrayed in the span of that one agonising page.
8) the fact that arsen said “Once upon a time, I came here to find an easy, vulnerable woman that I could sink my claws and cock into for the night” like ?!? what the fuck?? i’m so upset. i cannot express enough how much of a piece of shit he is. can’t believe he is getting a fucking kid.
what upsets me is the number of people that raved about this book. this book is horse shit. getting through this was more patience than i have ever had in my entire life.
- “they did what any sane parents would have done. They banished me here, hoping to rid me of my addiction” is what charlotte said with her whole ass. i am riddle with a kind of anger that ought to drive me out of sanity. sex is not an addiction you stupid bitch. it is nothing shameful either. and your sextape being released is a direct violation of your human rights and it is despicable and you do not deserve to be made to feel as though you were the perpetrator. you were the victim. YOU ARE THE VICTIM.
- “I would undergo psychiatric care to rid me of this curse if I had to.” i’m glad you’re willing because after that much religious trauma and sexual trauma and seeing dead bodies and all the shit you went through because you do not exist above or beside your trauma - you’re going to need it. ALSO THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SEX ADDICTION. YOU ARE HYPERSEXUAL. LOOK IT UP. YOU HAD A PHONE AT ONE POINT IN TIME WHAT IN THE UNINFORMED FUCK IS THIS?? it’s so interesting the way both charlotte and arsen were hypersexual from the traumas they faced and their response was dickstain and cursed. it’s so proportionate and appropriate that i want to eat it /j
- “I choose to run that early because I don’t want to end up looking like an overweight pig.” she is also fat phobic because it wasn’t bad enough. casual fat phobia was also apparently necessary.
- “An all-male kind of scent” and what kind of scent would that be charlotte? i would like an elaboration with real words. scent descriptive words. or are you just one of those assholes that says stupid shit because you have to be a walking breathing living billboard for heteronormativity lest you realise that your personality is thinner than air.
- the usage of the d slur also completely threw me off guard. i didn’t realise it was coming and cannot see how it would be necessary or relevant. there were so many things priscilla could’ve been insulted with and lesbophobia apparently won this round. causal usage of slurs is also apparently necessary.
2) when she said this was real life and not a low budget horror film was when i knew that this was not real life and was in fact a low budget horror film.
3) arsen only seems to be able to get hard and say yah like a blowup doll. which is really all the character he got, not even a personality to go with it. ‘gorgeous’ packaging but what am i to do with an empty box? charlotte is also the typical archetype of women in these sorts of books; is always trembling / quivering / shaking as if she is about to piss her pants any moment now & is “oddly not terrified” of the angry man that only knows how to snarl or sneer or growl or some animal noise that honest to god i have never seen a human make.
4) still screaming about the whole they are astrologically compatible tidbit like PUHLEZE shut the fuck up. you wouldn’t understand a natal chart if it flung itself onto your face. i hope you both get uncontrollable diarrhoea.
5) “I knew his and Phoebe’s darkest secret and now it made sense why they hid it. He was an older married man while she was one of the young, damaged girls he taught. To society, it was taboo, but as twisted and perverse as it may be, whatever they had must have been real by the obvious affection they showed in their letters to one another. But what didn’t make sense now was him allegedly assaulting Phoebe. Was he really just a perv who preyed on younger women? Or was there something else going on?” WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALLEGEDLY? SHE WAS LITERALLY PREGNANT. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU THAT NOBODY BAT AN EYE AT THIS? priscilla should’ve ripped his FUCKING HEART OUT. the fact that mc’s immediate response was to defend what happened is fucking disturbing. THAT IS GROOMING. it is delusional to believe that it is only twisted and it is taboo. IT IS ILLEGAL. her immediate response to doubt it and question it is exactly how predators want you to respond. they want your doubt to gaslight even a dead victim into shame. this is precisely why they always win. also it is wrong for the person twice your age to be involved with you when you’re under 25 because your brain is still developing. this is the origin of the pain gap. furthermore, phoebe has experienced immeasurable abuse and is predisposed to the fawn response that causes her to romanticise the exact kind of shit that mr rossi put her through. it made her see what she needed to see to be able to take the trauma. that’s how it works. IT IS DELUSIONAL. IT IS WRONG. IT IS ILLEGAL. IT IS ANYTHING BUT LOVE. and if charlotte had one singular brain cell— i can’t even say anything to that. imagining her with brain cells escapes me.
6) when they finally fucked and she’s like “He knew pain, he knew what it was like to be different. We were one and the same. Lost, plagued by our defects, but we didn’t care.”
let’s clarify, she was horny and got taken advantaged of by her own peers; his entire fucking childhood is imprisonment and abuse. they are not the same. this is not to say that his or hers is worse than one or the other. it is to say that trauma is not comparable nor should it ever be and the corollary of that is they are not the same. they are not one. these are not “defects” and they both cared. a lot. just because that oxytocin that’s getting to your brain doesn’t mean you get to say shit. like haven’t you done that enough holy hell.
7) the fact that when annalise force kissed charlotte outside the club, the bouncer let them in because of the display was truly disgusting. it is so fucking lesbophobic and it truly disgusts me beyond reason that such an act is made to be seen as a power move since they’re viewed as beautiful or that it is acceptable to be subject to an audience - this is the same platitude as bars having ladies night because what the bar sells is not just 1 for 1 drinks or free drinks or themed night, they are selling the women’s presence. this is exactly what is portrayed in the span of that one agonising page.
8) the fact that arsen said “Once upon a time, I came here to find an easy, vulnerable woman that I could sink my claws and cock into for the night” like ?!? what the fuck?? i’m so upset. i cannot express enough how much of a piece of shit he is. can’t believe he is getting a fucking kid.
what upsets me is the number of people that raved about this book. this book is horse shit. getting through this was more patience than i have ever had in my entire life.
fairyyeah's review
3.0
Charlotte is enrolled in St. Catherines, a school for troubled girls where everything is not as it seems. Arsen is the brother of the murdered student Phoebe, who is found dead by Charlotte one day. It isn't long before the two begin to work together, despite their initial distaste for one another and the attraction they both try to deny.
This is a dark romance with cultish vibes, but it's also so much more than a romance novel. I truly felt more captivated by the mystery than the blooming relationship between Arsen and Charlotte, wanting to know what exactly the truth behind Phoebe's death was. That's not to say, however, that the romance was secondary to the plot. If anything, the two were intertwined so well and went hand in hand. There were times when I felt like I was in the book trying to solve the mystery with them, looking for clues and anything offputting, and then in a flash, I would be reading about the main characters getting hot and heavy. I loved the relationship between Charlotte and Arsen and how much they eventually come to care for one another.
I loved how this book was full of suspenseful twists and turns, and I can't wait to read Verity's book.
*ARC received in exchange for an honest review
This is a dark romance with cultish vibes, but it's also so much more than a romance novel. I truly felt more captivated by the mystery than the blooming relationship between Arsen and Charlotte, wanting to know what exactly the truth behind Phoebe's death was. That's not to say, however, that the romance was secondary to the plot. If anything, the two were intertwined so well and went hand in hand. There were times when I felt like I was in the book trying to solve the mystery with them, looking for clues and anything offputting, and then in a flash, I would be reading about the main characters getting hot and heavy. I loved the relationship between Charlotte and Arsen and how much they eventually come to care for one another.
I loved how this book was full of suspenseful twists and turns, and I can't wait to read Verity's book.
*ARC received in exchange for an honest review
kaly_cano's review
5.0
My god was this book filled with the perfect combo of murder, mystery, lies and so much steam
porshuhhhh's review
4.0
OMFG.
This was dark done in a delish way. The things Arsen said the Charlotte had me
This was dark done in a delish way. The things Arsen said the Charlotte had me