A review by caiacassiopeia
Be Mine, Cruel Valentines by Brea Alepoú
adventurous
challenging
dark
fast-paced
2.0
Okay, the author is in general an insta-buy author for me,
because I love the spicy harem stories and kinks they wrote so far!
But I expected something else.
This is a Dark MMMM Bully Romance
but the bullying had only a short appearance in the prologue.
the authors note stated that they don't speak spanish.
I don't speak spanish either but I knew what they meant with "(...)puta"
In another review I saw the explanation how to use the terms correctly and it would've been such an easy change if they used a native spanish speaker to adjust this.
idk why it wasn't used
The anti-cupid-voice, which was a note from the author, should infuse the lust/love into the characters
I thought this might have a bigger part in the story and thought this was quite cool, but aside of one/two "sentences" it kinda ended there and wasn't adressed in the book. So if you haven't read the note, you would maybe get confused.
The obsession was entertaining, but the cruelty was (again) just a short plot point, and the side-character who was "the new lackey" was never mentioned again
I know this might sound harsh but these points are the main reason for the low rating.
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reading the authors previous stories, the Gay-Harem Dynamic came almost always with some polycule/polyamory and it was my own fault for assuming, so I won't take this into my rating, but I thought it might be necessary to mention!
This was a strict 3 tops one bottom Harem/Poly Concept and while they had foursomes, they were all revolving around Ramsey and the 3 Tops saw themselves more as "brothers"
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Tags are based on my personal impression/opinion and don’t have a 100% reliability.
If you don’t know if a book might be something for you:
Read reviews, ask questions and be a responsible adult.
Tags:
1st-person age-gap anal-play blowjob bully bullying college dark degradation dirty-talk first-love first-time foursome gay gay-harem humiliation kink marking masochism multi-pov murder mutilation piercings primal-play rough6 stalking toxic violence virgin (...)
There was a kink in the epilogue I just don't enjoy, the kink wasn't mentioned (as far as I know)
I haven't taken this into my rating, but find it necessary to mention
I enjoyed the humiliation, primal play, pain play and so on, but I couldn't lean back and enjoy because my mind was always revolving around the points that didn't add up for me.
because I love the spicy harem stories and kinks they wrote so far!
But I expected something else.
This is a Dark MMMM Bully Romance
but the bullying had only a short appearance in the prologue.
the authors note stated that they don't speak spanish.
I don't speak spanish either but I knew what they meant with "(...)puta"
In another review I saw the explanation how to use the terms correctly and it would've been such an easy change if they used a native spanish speaker to adjust this.
idk why it wasn't used
The anti-cupid-voice, which was a note from the author, should infuse the lust/love into the characters
I thought this might have a bigger part in the story and thought this was quite cool, but aside of one/two "sentences" it kinda ended there and wasn't adressed in the book. So if you haven't read the note, you would maybe get confused.
The obsession was entertaining, but the cruelty was (again) just a short plot point, and the side-character who was "the new lackey" was never mentioned again
I know this might sound harsh but these points are the main reason for the low rating.
---
reading the authors previous stories, the Gay-Harem Dynamic came almost always with some polycule/polyamory and it was my own fault for assuming, so I won't take this into my rating, but I thought it might be necessary to mention!
This was a strict 3 tops one bottom Harem/Poly Concept and while they had foursomes, they were all revolving around Ramsey and the 3 Tops saw themselves more as "brothers"
---
Tags are based on my personal impression/opinion and don’t have a 100% reliability.
If you don’t know if a book might be something for you:
Read reviews, ask questions and be a responsible adult.
Tags:
1st-person age-gap anal-play blowjob bully bullying college dark degradation dirty-talk first-love first-time foursome gay gay-harem humiliation kink marking masochism multi-pov murder mutilation piercings primal-play rough6 stalking toxic violence virgin (...)
There was a kink in the epilogue I just don't enjoy, the kink wasn't mentioned (as far as I know)
I haven't taken this into my rating, but find it necessary to mention
Spoiler
sploshing (sex where food is involved) is one of my few hard-pass-kinksI enjoyed the humiliation, primal play, pain play and so on, but I couldn't lean back and enjoy because my mind was always revolving around the points that didn't add up for me.