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[New Post] ARC Review: Dark Princess by Tracy Lorraine

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Title: Dark Princess

Author: Tracy Lorraine

Page count: 313

Published: July 28th, 2022

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Tracy Lorraine brings you a new dark mafia, high school bully romance story set in the Knight’s Ridge Empire world.

I was playing with fire. I knew that.

I’m the one who lit the match.

But the possibility of getting burned still wasn’t enough to stop me.

I wasn’t only dancing with the devil.

But his brother… and our enemy.

Everything was going to come crashing down around my feet… it was inevitable.

I just never expected it to happen quite so fast.

Dear reader,

Dark Knight is the second book in Calli and Batman’s story, the fourth trilogy in the Knight’s Ridge Empire series. If you like your alphas dark and your romance full of angst, then you’re in the right place!

This was intense keeping you on the edge of your seat not knowing which way you were going to go next. Calli has grown a lot since the last book she is coming to the dark side which is amazing. I know that this only has one more in the series but I never want it to end it’s so freaking good and addicting. I knew that this was going to be a doozy of a cliffhanger but HOLY that was not what I expected. I’m now itching to get the next one to know how it ends because WOW is it ever going to be good.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Bound to Darkness by J.L. Beck and Monica Corwin

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Title: Bound to Darkness

Author: J.L. Beck and Monica Corwin

Page count: 263

Published: April 28th, 2022

Publisher: Bleeding Heart Press

Genre: Contemporary Dark Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

They call me a playboy.
Society’s pretty pet.
What they don’t know is I’m so much more.
My only directive was to keep her hidden, and safe.
After everything she’s been through I’m the last person to offer comfort and care.
I have little experience with either. Both of us have been broken by our pasts.
But mine is catching up to me, and I would deal with it as I usually do: with total decimation.
But that puts her in the crosshairs, and that’s unacceptable.
Old wounds are peeled back for both of us, and it’s time to face the darkness or she’ll never be able to find the light.
As for me, nothing but darkness waits.
It’s what I want.
It’s what I deserve.

This is the first of this series that I have read.
Rose is at Kai’s house for protection after being attacked and to heal. Kai agrees to protect Rose but in the mists of it, he never imagined he would start to catch feelings for her. The loyalty and caringness that he shows Rose is just swoon! He helps her heal and find her strength again after all she’s been through. This was a dark, raw, real read that kept me on the edge of my seat in anticipation of what was going to happen.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Beautiful Fiend by Lola King

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Title: Beautiful Fiend

Author: Lola King

Page count: 455

Published: May 1st, 2023

Publisher: Valentine PR

Genre: Dark, BDSM, Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

She only wants one thing; to leave their broken town.
He only wants one thing; her.

When you were born on the North Shore of the Falls, that’s where you stay. There is no way out, no fairy-tale-like escape, no hope. Our broken town has always been at war. Two gangs fighting to take over the shithole we’re all stuck in. I only know one girl who wants to leave this place. Me.

I’ve always been a tough, North Shore girl. Fighting is in my blood, survival in my DNA.
But two years ago, Caden King broke me, and he has proof of it.
Now he wants to blackmail me into doing a job for him. The kind that puts my chance of escaping the North Shore at risk. The kind that means betraying my own crew.
He’s on me at all times, his dangerous mind always working on ways to torment me further.

Caden is wicked, unhinged. The North Shore Kings wear his name because of the vicious ways his family has been leading their crew.
Everyone always says there’s no point in fighting him. He has that madness in him that blurs the line between right and wrong. Now he’s got his hold on me, and I have nothing and no one to protect me from him.

There’s no way to win.
No way to escape him.

I’m left with no choice but to do exactly what I’m told.

This book is approximately 130k words in a series of four interconnected standalones. Beautiful Fiend is a dark enemies-to-lovers romance intended for readers over 18. It contains non con and dub con detailed sexual scenes that some readers may find triggering.

This is a new author to me and WTF that was a roller coaster that I wasn’t expecting. I don’t know what I was supposed to expect but DAMN this was just above and beyond. I was in the mood to read a dark and twisted book and this one is one that had excided all of my expectations. It reminded me of Harley Quinn and Joker dynamic. Billie and Caden are in rival gangs, they both want to get out and see what else life has to offer them. I have read some dark and twisted books but I think this one is the cake topper, this was all kinds of dark and twisted things that are NOT for the faint of heart. This book is a MAJOR trigger warning and be sure to check before you read.

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[New Post] ARC Review: Reckless Dynasty by Tracy Lorraine

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Title: Reckless Dynasty

Author: Tracy Lorraine

Page count: 300

Published: June 2nd, 2022

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Dark, NA

Received: From the author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 5/5

My life has been full of half-truths tangled in lies—I’d been to hell and back more times than I could count.

But nothing could have prepared me for the fear in her voice, and then the sight of that building going up in flames.

After the way I treated her, the way I hurt her, I’d earned that pain back tenfold. I deserved to lose the only bit of light in my dark, twisted life.

Neither of us have survived the suffering only to have it end this way and I refuse to believe that our time is done. It can’t be. Because she was made for me—the only good thing that came out of my past.

And the first chance I get, I’m going to make sure she knows exactly what she means to me.

No more lies.
No more pretending.
Just the raw, honest truth.

I can’t live without her and I’ll spend the rest of my life proving to her that she belongs with me.
That the life we were born into might have left us damaged, but it made us stronger.

And when she claims her rightful place amongst us, I’ll be by her side and together we will rule this reckless dynasty.

But first we have to survive…

Dear Reader, Reckless Dynasty is the third, and final book in the Reckless trilogy in my Knight’s Ridge Empire series.

This is a second chance at love which is my absolute favourite trope, getting the chance to meet Toby and Jodie seeing them get that chance at writing the wrongs that had happened with some emotional moments along the way and that just made them stronger in the end. The chemistry between these two is electric it kept me glued to the story. Knowing that this book was the conclusion to these too made me read this in one sitting and savour every minute. I was dying to know how it was going to end. Now that I know, I’m speechless. Each book gets more intense with every that happens, I can’t imagine what other crazy moments she’s going to be doing next. I just know that I’m going to love them.

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