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Dark Harmony by Laura Thalassa

17 reviews

aya_neela's review against another edition

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slow-paced

3.0

FREAKING FINALLY! 

First things first, on the subject of the “grooming” aspect I only have to say this - some took issue with it whereas I didn’t because I was able to compartmentalize the story for what it was…a work of fiction. 

I’m a bit conflicted with this one. I really like most of Laura Thalassa’s work.

Her dialogue can be cringey and the repetitiveness is annoying (the number of times Temperance said B*tch was giving me a headache) but it can also be really funny.

The plots she creates are interesting and to an extent I like when authors give their characters a moment to breathe and meander from the main plot to enjoy themselves.

But when I say that I feel this book did not need to be nearly as long as it was I am not kidding. 

If half the scenes from the novel would have been cut out I would have enjoyed this so much more. 

I kept putting the book down because absolutely NOTHING was happening. 

Sure it was cute to see Des and Callie and the steamy scenes were hot and all but it was too much.

I get it! You guys love each other very much and I am so happy for you-now can we go kill the bad guy. PLEASE! 

And along with the unnecessary dragging out of the story, was also the drawn out r*pe and enslavement threats against Callie, or the outright mentions of r*pe against men and women. Even the number of times the Siren kept threatening to disembowel someone was excruciating because she never even followed through! Not once.   

Again I get it, Big Bad is very bad and we must hate him but he was honestly just an annoying pervert. 

I did appreciate the way his sick kink bit him in the ass so spectacularly. 

Besides that I’m just happy it’s done and that Callie and Des can have their ever after. 
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meghannreads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? No

3.75

I am a romance girlie through and through and it feels wrong to say this but I honestly wish we got more plot. It felt a big dragged out between these three books. I loved the romance too but I wanted a bit more from these books. However, second half of this book did make up for all of that though omfg 
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reads_all_the_books's review against another edition

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

4.0

Please check TW for this series before starting. 
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urbanka's review against another edition

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

1.0

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katvou's review against another edition

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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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karelidz's review against another edition

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dark 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? No

4.5

4.5 ⭐ 
My god, What-a-serieeees! Over all it was such a good time, I loved it so much, i think i would re-read it some time in the future.

This 3rd installment had a a lot more spicy scenes than usual, and in a way at some point I wanted them to change it up a bit for it to not be the same old thing, but nontheless it was still a VERY enjoyable read.

As a whole, I'd give this series 5⭐
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bedtimesandbooks's review

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adventurous dark 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

4.0

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stardust_heidi's review

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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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tiana_king's review against another edition

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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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hannibanani29's review against another edition

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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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