jreadsdarkromance's review
5.0
Retribution is the second book in the Vengeance Series, following Upon Blooded Lips. If you have read UBL, then you know that the darkness that was in that one is going to flow into Retribution. Michaella Dieter is a phenomenal writer and her world building and character building is absolutely amazing!
⚠️ Proceed with caution with these books, they are dark and definitely not for the faint of heart. Michaella's books are the darkest I have ever read and I am here for all of it. Give me more!!
Retribution is just as the title suggests, it's a story of revenge and vengeance, but full of so much sin. Growing up, Rebecca has suffered many forms of abuse and her soul has latched on to this and along with Trey, they will be the judge, jury and executioners. Trey is a dark, dark soul and it calls out to Rebecca's. The chemistry these two have is off the charts! They are two halves of a whole and their broken pieces fit beautifully together.
This may be a romance book, but to get to that, you have to go through the mess. These two work together to deliver their sentences to various people who have harmed them. It is bloody, it is gorey, it is absolutely justified.
This book has given me all the emotions. I cried quite a few times during this book (and still get teary eyed thinking about some of it). It takes a lot for me to cry, but with the emotions that are written into this book, you would have to be made of stone not to feel them. This one does end in a hea, but there is another book coming! I am so excited to see what happens next in Dutch's book.
⚠️ Proceed with caution with these books, they are dark and definitely not for the faint of heart. Michaella's books are the darkest I have ever read and I am here for all of it. Give me more!!
Retribution is just as the title suggests, it's a story of revenge and vengeance, but full of so much sin. Growing up, Rebecca has suffered many forms of abuse and her soul has latched on to this and along with Trey, they will be the judge, jury and executioners. Trey is a dark, dark soul and it calls out to Rebecca's. The chemistry these two have is off the charts! They are two halves of a whole and their broken pieces fit beautifully together.
This may be a romance book, but to get to that, you have to go through the mess. These two work together to deliver their sentences to various people who have harmed them. It is bloody, it is gorey, it is absolutely justified.
This book has given me all the emotions. I cried quite a few times during this book (and still get teary eyed thinking about some of it). It takes a lot for me to cry, but with the emotions that are written into this book, you would have to be made of stone not to feel them. This one does end in a hea, but there is another book coming! I am so excited to see what happens next in Dutch's book.
darkndtwistyreader's review
5.0
If you like to read extremely dark books and have absolutely no triggers, I would highly recommend Retribution by Michaella Dieter. It's deranged, and I freaking loved it!
Books don't normally make me cry, but this one made me cry like a baby.
I don't want to spoil the plot, but I will say the torture is gruesome, the revenge is bloody, and the sex is hot.
Books don't normally make me cry, but this one made me cry like a baby.
I don't want to spoil the plot, but I will say the torture is gruesome, the revenge is bloody, and the sex is hot.
morebooksforever's review
5.0
Talk about a complete mind fk!! Seriously be prepared to not know up from down there are so many twists and turns and WTF did I just read and NO that did not just happen…. But oh yes it mother fking did! This baby is dark raw gritty and utterly delicious throw in some psychos and my little black heart was loving life! The author will grab you by the balls from the first page and there is no chance that you are going to be able to put this book down until your done. Then you are still going to be thinking about it days later I know I sure as hell was! This is an absolute must read!
But on a SERIOUS note read the Trigger Warning ⚠️ before you dive this author seriously give you an entire freaking page about the Triggers!!
If you are good with that then proceed and hang on for dear life because you are in for one roller coaster ride with all the crazy!!!
But on a SERIOUS note read the Trigger Warning ⚠️ before you dive this author seriously give you an entire freaking page about the Triggers!!
If you are good with that then proceed and hang on for dear life because you are in for one roller coaster ride with all the crazy!!!
onbrand's review
5.0
Michaella debuted with Upon Bloodied Lips and then expanded on that world to give us Retribution and dare I hope for possibly more??!?!?! I have a feeling she has more stories in this world to tell, more characters demanding to be heard.
Retribution focuses around The Unseen, if you are confused who I am talking about then stop what you’re doing and go read UBL or do a reread. It’s important and plays a major part in this storyline and the overall ARC of the series.
This story was dark. Heed the warnings in the blurb but especially in the beginning of the book and if you are easily triggered this is probably not the book for you, but if you can handle it what a story was weaved. She takes real world things and twists them into a way that plays out like watching a movie in your head. Unseen was such an enigmatic character and there are still so many questions I have about how he came to be the Unseen. I highly recommend this book if you like the dark and the depraved.
Retribution focuses around The Unseen, if you are confused who I am talking about then stop what you’re doing and go read UBL or do a reread. It’s important and plays a major part in this storyline and the overall ARC of the series.
This story was dark. Heed the warnings in the blurb but especially in the beginning of the book and if you are easily triggered this is probably not the book for you, but if you can handle it what a story was weaved. She takes real world things and twists them into a way that plays out like watching a movie in your head. Unseen was such an enigmatic character and there are still so many questions I have about how he came to be the Unseen. I highly recommend this book if you like the dark and the depraved.
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