Reviews

Chained in Darkness: Acceptance by Nicholas Bella

bookish_notes's review against another edition

1.0

I’m done. I’m free of this series. I don’t see the point of continuing on with the other “seasons” for the characters. These books are just objectively very bad. The writing is terrible and the sex scenes extremely cringeworthy. The characters are all terrible even when Noel tries to do the right thing and have, oh, I don’t know, some sort of morals around him. It’s just non-stop torture and rape scenes in this series and I don’t understand the point of the series or why people love this series. It’s truly awful and one of the worst series I’ve ever read.

Trigger warnings for graphic torture, abuse, emotional manipulation, and rape scenes.

gothauthor's review against another edition

2.0

Okay

I honestly have mixed feelings about this series. If you take a glance at it, it is a sexed up vampire story about a Master trying to teach his new kid to submit. On the other hand, it's a lot like 1984 but with sex and rape. Theoden wants to completely break Noel so he can forge him into whatever he wants him to be. The fact that he succeeds actually leaves me pretty sad. I mean, of you have had your free will, even the freedom of your own thoughts taken away, what the hell else is there to live for? Apparently, mindless sex is the answer.
I want to like it but the underlying message is just too creepy.