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Eternally Damned by January Rayne

2 reviews

corallydeer's review

dark emotional hopeful 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

4.5

Honestly, I really loved this book! This was the first book in many years of a reader's rut that I could really get into a flow and just read for hours like I used to as a kid. This is definitely a fast-paced story, often feeling like there were easy spots where more exploration or depth could have been had. Still, the fast pace helped a lot with easing me back into a flow so I greatly appreciated the pacing even if things weren't as in-depth. I do also see what some of the other reviews said about the leads pretty frequently going at it, but I really enjoyed this as well since it never felt forced to me and seemed to really highlight the inherent sensuality and chemistry of the relationship being depicted. Plus they were definitely spicy and satisfying to read. If anything I would chalk this up to a mostly feel-good, spicy story with not a lot of super heartwrenching conflict or anything that was simply fun to read.

This will easily be a book I reread in the future and I'm psyched for the next ones in the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Stalking, Abandonment, and Alcohol

This is an erotica novel, so the sexual content is graphic and quite frequent (and also goes beyond vanilla acts towards the end). Due to the nature of graphic, paranormal erotica, there are also incredibly graphic bouts of death, violence, blood, gore, injury, and cursing related to battles between paranormal species. In addition, this book also greatly delves into grief and the loss of parent/guardian figures. In a more moderate context, the novel employs the pregnancy trope (though not in great detail and

towards the second half of the book

), the effects of long-term confinement, and murder within a family or social circle. Finally, in more minor contexts, the novel explores the effects of abandonment, briefly employs some stalking by the antagonist, and mentions cancer and alcohol in more off-hand situations.

lizzye33's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Vomit, Stalking, and Alcohol