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Title: Gilded Ruins

Author: Chantal Gadoury

Page count: 295

Published: May 12th, 2020

Publisher: Parliament House

Genre: Fantasy Romance

Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 3/5

The Story Continues. . .

Summer and Darce are summoned by the order of Zeus himself to travel to the home of the Gods: Mount Olympus, where they’re to face even more ancient Gods and Goddesses.

Summer braces to confront her mother again, illuminating secrets about the truth of her tragic pasts, while also persuading Zeus to allow her to stay with the God of the Underworld, her true love – Darce.

Aboard Poseidon’s luxury yacht, Summer meets her mythological family, while also uncovering what exactly happened to her past lives – and the true roles her mother and Darce played.

When Darce and Summer suddenly find themselves separated, Summer must find her inner power and unite them together, before her mortal time runs out.

I absolutely loved the first book in the series, this one how ever I didn’t enjoy as much as I thought that I would. I thought that there was some details that could have been explored more.
If your into Greek mythology then you will enjoy this book.

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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.