Mimi

DNF 62%.

Initially this book was looking like the book that would get me out of my current book rut. I really dug the main leads’ backstory where they first met in childhood where MMC is an established bully, feared by everyone, only for new-to-the-town FMC to unknowingly cross him and attract his attention from then on

The FMC grows up fearing him, with a year of respite when he leaves town but then he returns. The writing and plot really sucked me in. Smut was also decent.

The book really went downhill when a lot of scenes were dedicated to the FMC’s friend, Willow. We read a lot about Willow’s romance with the MMC’s friend and her keeping secrets from the FMC, only for her to become mad when the FMC does the same. Needless to say, Willow annoyed me in this book.

The plot also took off in a weird direction with the MMC being a potential murderer and the FMC choosing to approach him to figure out whether he really is one.

And parts of the plot didn’t make sense. The FMC’s aunt knew Kieran Masters was potentially someone hurting her niece from her murmuring his name during a fainting spell. Yet when he visited their house in person, she immediately warmed up to him.

Or the FMC repeatedly trying to clear her name to the MMC because he’s so hung up on something he thinks she did, but he’s not willing to listen at all? The misunderstanding trope didn’t make sense at all here. But it’s all resolved when conveniently the true perpetrator confesses everything and his cousin’s girlfriend overhears everything from outside.

I do like reading body betrayal in dark romances but in this book the FMC really has no impulse control at all. She gives in way too easily

The writing quality also was poor further into the book. It just sounded very choppy.

This book had promise but afterwards I really had to force myself to try and keep reading

DNF 26%. The writing in this book is OK. I just didn’t like the characters, plot and romance in this and didn’t feel the chemistry between the leads.

The first chapter was interesting but after that it felt like the female lead was being unnecessarily difficult and playing hard to get, dragging the whole romance out. There is smut but it didn’t feel spicy and I found myself skimming

This was a book I could not put down for the first 60%. I just devoured it.

I completely dug the forbidden/secret romance between the female lead and male lead, with the female lead being the male lead's best friend's little sister. The female lead in this book has always had a crush on the male lead but even she did not expect the level of obsession she receives back from the male lead. I just loved that he could not leave her alone. He hires her as his personal assistant and day 0, he already has her sleeping over. When the female lead leaves a social evening due to jealousy, the male lead is immediately at her apartment demanding she returns with him.

Smut was also good.

The last 30% was just OK however and I skimmed most of it. Everything from the Paris scenes felt like a forced lead up to a cliche third act breakup. The male lead shares the female lead with some business associates, clearly specifying that they must not hurt her. It seems unrealistic that the first thing they'd try to do is hurt her, and film her.

The female lead's brother, to the surprise of no one, goes ballistic when he finds out about that his best friend and little sister are dating. However, what surprised me was how quickly the male lead gave up. In the first 60% he was controlling, his-way-or-no-way, but suddenly upon having to face the female lead's brother, he instantly becomes a coward and gives up. The female lead even tries to fight for him with her brother there but he breaks up with her. It felt like a complete change in character.

And what made it even more nonsensical is the male lead changes his mind in a week and all he has to say to the female lead's brother to get him to accept their relationship is that he loves the female lead and plans to marry her. That's all it took.

I was so torn on whether to downgrade this to two and a half star because of this. It was sitting at a maybe-reread rating but the last 30% disappointed me so much I wouldn't reread this book.

This author's writing is really good. She writes characters with great chemistry and I'd try a different book by her however

The first chapter of this seemed promising but unfortunately I didn't like the writing.

It felt really choppy and the scene changes abrupt I was getting whiplash at what was happening. This is supposedly an enemies to lovers but the transition from enemies was so sudden, it left me confused.

I didn't care about any of the characters and I really wasn't seeing any chemistry.

DNF 27%

This is a dark one.

Originally I thought this was going to be a 3 star book at least for sure. Writing was engaging, pace was fast and smut was good - lots of body betrayal with a sprinkles of forbidden teacher/student dynamics. The female lead is a student blackmailed into a sexual arrangement with her teacher to pass her maths class and afford her rent. There is dark poly/sharing/human trafficking in this book and the female lead had chemistry and smut with multiple male characters in this, so I was hooked working out what's going to happen and who the female lead would end up with.

From 30-50% the degradation/slapping/knife play gradually got a bit too much for me, especially since the female lead was hating what was happening to her.

It also annoyed me once I realized who the male lead was, it took until 57% for her romance with him to start. Yes, there were some cute and sweet moments between them sprinkled in before that point where they were both overly friendly but the 'more than friends' moments didn't start until over the half the book in.

The book continued to go downhill with more appearances of the female lead's friends. I really disliked all of them in this book and they actually made me want to DNF 70% where we started getting their perspective as well.

The plot became really illogical as well.

If Scott is not genuinely a teacher but someone pretending to be a teacher purely to lure the female lead, why would he remain as a teacher after successfully kidnapping the female lead? It made no sense he would stick around, allowing the female lead's friends to punch/kick/torture him and loudly proclaim his crimes at his place of employment, where any of the students or teachers could overhear and report him to police. Logically he would have disappeared like Jared as soon as his kidnapping job was done. Instead, he remains as a teacher for no reason at all other than allowing the friends to murder him and obtain the female lead's whereabouts.

I also struggle to believe these ordinary high school students, with no experience doing any of this at all and no lawyer/police parents to back them up, would be able to or have the courage to so easily obtain surveillance footage, stalk Scott and ultimately murder him.

I also felt like my impression of Rick, the male lead, went downhill when he continued to have sex with Madeleine, a cheerleader, despite claiming to love April, the female lead. Initially I was quite digging the star-crossed lovers dynamics between the leads where they both had feelings with each other but couldn't be with each other and the male lead was persistent despite this. But Rick eventually became a coward.

Things in the book did improve for me with the plot twist reveal that the main villain is actually male lead's father. But I hated that the ultimate ending was male lead running away for 4 years after his father kills himself in a car crash that leaves the female lead permanently disabled. Definitely ruined the book for me.

Unfortunately I don't think Jessa Kane's stories are for me - writing style and length-wise.

I loved the start and tropes in it. I love the idea of a bad boy who instantly becomes obsessed with a shy female lead to the point he'd move her in with him on day 1 and go completely insane that he can't find her, needing her by his side all the time. He hires bodyguards to watch her. He refuses to wear condoms. He'd genuinely rather die that live a life without her, and he really does go through with a suicide attempt.

The writing was just OK and the romance felt too fast and not fully explored. I could understand the romance from the male lead's side and I loved his obsession. But the female lead didn't question how fast it was going at all or freak out. This is supposedly a female lead who grew up in a monastery.

The story lost me completely when the male lead lied to his teammates about how much the female lead meant to him. It's such a predictable future conflict/third act breakup trigger that I just inwardly groaned when I saw it. I understand the book is short but I wish the story built towards something different.

For most of the book I was torn between 2.5 stars or 3 stars.

I liked both of the characters, the plot, the pacing and the romance. I really liked how manipulative the male lead was. He tricks her into spending time with him, tampers with her birth control and is completely shameless and not remorseful about it. And he gets away with it all in the end as well! The female lead never finds out. I love it when an author stays consistent with their characters from start to end. The male lead's jealousy in this book were the highlight and all scenes were utterly hilarious. For example, he's so obsessed with the female lead he burns all of her underwear just because her ex had seen her in them, even the ones she's currently wearing.

What really let the story down was the writing. It came across as very choppy. It didn't read like it flowed smoothly and some of the language choices were odd. For example, "extravert" was used instead of "extrovert". Marissa, supposedly a friendly face, called the female lead "infamous". It did improve in certain areas but the dialogue especially sounded cringe.

The ending ruined the book for me unfortunately. I was torn whether I might reread it someday but I hate it when a book has a cliffhanger ending that comes out of nowhere hinting at a future romance between their kids. Sometimes in works and it's cute, but in this book it annoyed me that we were romanticizing children out of nowhere I dropped half a star.

DNF 21%. I liked the idea of a duke that was so obsessed with a courtesan he’d track her down after she ran away and make her his wife, despite the social expectation he marry someone of similar standing.

However this book felt very slow and dry throughout. The punctuation also was odd in this book. And I wasn’t feeling any romance or chemistry between the leads either.

I really wanted to like this book.

The first chapter hooked me right away. I completely forgot how much I loved Mason and Linnet. Seeing how much Mason continues to adore Linnet, their energetic and cute children and even Cuthbert really made me feel warm and fuzzy. I totally did not expect twin girls and a terror of a son.

Then the story cuts to the female lead, Fenella who has received news from her sister-in-law that her husband is going to divorce her. She then rides to Oswald, hoping that he'd help advocate on her behalf and prevent the divorce only for him to force her to marry him.

Strangely this story had all the tropes I typically love reading, a male lead who forces the female lead to marry him, a manipulative male lead who tricks the female lead, a male lead who becomes utterly obsessed with the female lead and goes completely mad when anyone hurts her or he can't find her. However, I kept wanting to put this book down.

I really had to force myself to keep reading this book because the plot felt so dry. I did like the first smut scene, the glimpses of Linnet and Mason's happily ever after and there were so sections of dialogue I liked or found funny. But most of the book bored me and I just couldn't keep reading from 73% and had to DNF.

The whole Oswald being the spymaster plot weirded me out and Fenella going on walks in the morning and socialising with court ladies didn't interest me.

It wasn't like Mason/Linnet's story that had me cackling at Linnet's innocence, blushing at Mason's unhinged jealousy and fanning myself at all the spice.

I didn’t like this one overall unfortunately

The writing of this isn’t great. There are some extremely long sentences in this book that don’t make sense and are hard to follow. I also found myself not really caring about any of the characters in this.

The tropes in the first half of the book is what kept me going despite the writing. I do love a dark omegaverse with body betrayal, non con and an alpha that asserts his dominance over his omega. I ended up skimming through the text to follow the plot

The plot wasn’t great otherwise and bored me entirely in the second half. There are constant references to another woman, Moria and we have no context on who she is or what happened to her.

The cliffhanger ending was unnecessary and came out of nowhere. It completely ruined the book for me.

The smut was just OK and not spicy

This book is a long one. Initially the pacing felt slow and it dragged.

When the romance progresses between Brett and Bowen about 5-10% in, I started to get into the book. Primarily I start wondering who is Brett’s baby’s father and who is present Brett’s boyfriend.

The time jumps were very confusing in this book after a while. The flashbacks were so long I had to constantly go back to check what time period we are currently in. It might have been manageable if the flashbacks stuck to chronological order 1 year in the past but we had random jumps to college, high school and all different POVs.

When Brett actually cheated on Bowen, I started disliking her. I already thought she was an idiot for approaching Colson at work despite her fearing him but it was also disrespectful to Bowen, who had expressed concerns about her spending time with him.

What made it worse is Brett didn’t even feel bad or feel bad any time she cheated. She’d go home where Bowen would drop hints he knew she was cheating, she’d admit to nothing, though apologizing to him tearfully, then next day cheat on him again with no remorse.

I understand the author justifies it later on by making Bowen a bad guy. But at this stage of the book, Colton is a guy who mistreated her after asking her out, slept with her and took her out a couple of times in college, shot her with an actual gun, ghosted her for years then suddenly reappeared in her life stalking her, breaking into her house and scaring her.

Meanwhile, Bowen was her loving partner who she lived with 24/7 for months, had great sex with, fixed all problems for her, spoiled her with gifts and loved her enough she committed to having 4 kids with him

Brett had virtually no chemistry with Colson and had barely been with him romantically in the past either. They hadn’t lived together and Brett barely knew anything about him. She didn’t even know Colson had a sister and a step sister, despite Colson still being close to his sister. I wish Bowen was the lead and not Colson. It would have made more sense and made a more interesting book.

The book completely lost me when Bowen suddenly deleted Brett’s book, claimed Barrett hit on him and locked Brett in her bedroom. All of these seemed like out of character moments to enable Colson to get back together with Brett.

Brett’s author job is work from home and would not have taken her away from him. In fact, if she got her book published, she’d quit her job and be away from Colson. It made absolutely no sense Bowen would sabotage her book.

Barrett was one of Bowen’s biggest supporters. She was gushing over Bowen’s constant willingness to help her soft her problems at home. It made no sense Bowen would want to isolate Brett from her.

Supposedly Bowen is a skilled manipulator and serial killer. However, the author tries to convince us he kept a corpse, an incriminating letter from one of his murder victims and locks of his other murder victim’s hair unlocked in his home that Brett has full access to, instead of destroying any of it. Or at the very least, locking these away? Why he’d pretend he doesn’t know an Emily made no sense either when he was open with Brett that he had an ex girlfriend who ghosted him. It seemed like another out of character moment so Brett starts to doubt Bowen.

Bowen is cunning but supposedly would lock Brett’s bedroom door, assuming it’d keep her captive. He just leaves the house without tying Brett up to ensure she can’t escape, board up with windows, take away her car, guard her himself or even have surveillance in the room to monitor his captive. It made no sense he’d make her escape so easy.

Despite knowing Brett was at her friend’s place due to GPS tracking and wanting to recapture her after her escape, he just walked away like he didn’t know she was there? He waited days later after Brett had found the GPS and left the house to send police to retrieve her. Again, made no sense because Bowen could have just sent police the day he tracked the GPS

I ended up skimming through everything after 70% and there were so many unnecessary Evie flashbacks and a weird nonsensical fantasy arc with Evie's spirit so that Colson could find Evie’s body.

This is another book where I should have gave into my instincts to DNF early on but only finished to see whether it would improve and live up to the hype. Unfortunately the urge to DNF continued through the book.

Frustratingly, the foundations of this book is entirely reliant on miscommunication. This book would not even exist if the female and male lead talked to each other. Heck, all problems might have even been solved if they talked to any side character in their lives at all. It was just secret after secret where they kept it to themselves and told no one.

It annoyed me so much I ended up disliking both the leads.

The female lead is physically abused by one of her step brothers and hides this from her friends and her boyfriend, the male lead. The step brother, Chris, ultimately rapes her, gets his friends to rape her, causes her to miscarry and she continues to live at home and tells no one. She allows the male lead to think that she cheated on him.

What is nonsensical about this arc is despite her friends and boyfriend knowing about her bruises and her weirdness about any of them approaching the family home or meeting her family members or their inability to contact her while she’s at home, they don’t suspect someone at home is abusing the female lead.

The male lead even knows about Kyle being her step brother and it never struck him as weird he doesn’t know much about Chris?

2 years later, the leads meet again and there are yet again more opportunities for the female lead to tell the male lead or anyone at all, that Chris is an abuser and a rapist. The male lead is an accomplished hitman, and the female lead’s argument for still keeping this secret is she thinks Chris will kill him. Cue my eyes rolling here.

And the male lead who has an intense network who can find out anything about his targets, which include big bosses and highly protected politicians, can’t find out any information about who Chris is, despite having seen him at the gates himself and access to the female lead’s call log with him. The male lead also supposedly has been watching the female lead at her family home and stalking her enough to kill all her dates. Yet, still has no idea Chris is harming her.

The male lead’s refusal to even consider the possibility that the female lead didn’t cheat on him is also extremely out of character give how upset the female lead would have been in the aftermath and just how in love they were with eachother.

The male lead is being raped and forced to kill people by two villains, Bernadette and Archie, blackmailing the male lead’s family.

The male lead supposedly plans to kill Bernadette and Archie but does nothing for two years, not even a plan in place? He also tells his father, who is himself an accomplished murderer, absolutely everything yet keeps this from him? And conveniently this leads to more angst, plot and the cliche arc of the male lead choosing to leave the female lead for her protection.

The male lead has hired his own security team yet doesn’t have any protecting his own family? He’s rich but doesn’t have lawyers that can fight for his father’s sentence?

He hates Bernadette and Archie but has full trust in them honouring their word and leaving his family unharmed, instead of warning his family and friends that their lives are in danger?

Other plot arcs that made no sense was the male lead’s sister, Luciella, breaking up a relationship between her friend and her brother’s friend because she didn’t want it ruining the friendship dynamics. This is also why the female lead hid her relationship with the male lead.

Towards the end, Archie, a villain, takes a photo of the female lead’s (freaking the male lead out) and orders a hit for her murder.

Firstly, if Archie already had a team tracking the male lead, the team would already have photos of Stacey so the freak out was too late.

Secondly, if Archie really wanted to kill Stacey, the female lead, he could have gotten his team to kill her while they had no idea they were being tracked or even he could have shot her himself because they were oblivious to danger. Instead, Archie made himself known to the leads, walked away leaving them unharmed, sent a team to kill Stacey after essentially warning them he was coming after them, leading to a chase scene where Stacey escapes unharmed.

The book is littered with flashbacks in between, which I felt were unnecessary and disrupted pacing. i didn’t even care about the romance, I needed was the leads to talk to each other.

Unfortunately I was very disappointed by this book and hated it.

I was so excited by this book as it has been highly praised since its release.

Unfortunately I was massively disappointed by this. It's a long book and it felt long. There were so many points at which I wanted to DNF but again, I was curious about the hype so I kept going.

This is a dark stalker romance but surprisingly, (and I never thought I'd say this about a stalker who has murdered people and non-cons the female lead), the male lead is a loyal puppy who is repeatedly trampled on by the female lead and let's her walk over him for 80% of this book. The male lead dotes, pampers and spoils the female lead any way he can possibly think of throughout and the female lead is bitter, angry and throws it all back at his face every time. Even when she feels a sliver of happiness at how she's being treated by the male lead, she very quickly lashes out at him, verbally and physically abusing him.

Their relationship does improve slightly by the 40% mark. The female lead does start treating him better as she falls for him but she only lets the male lead experience a bit of affection, before she's bitter and lashing out at him again, and this continues for almost the entire book. Female lead is loving with the male lead-she's angry at the male lead for treating her well, hurts him and demands he stays away from her-repeat. The male lead even ends up with severe gunshot wounds with permanent hand injuries and back in prison for her.

I genuinely wanted the male lead to leave her as the female lead claims she wants, because she doesn't deserve his love. I felt so sorry for him.

The male lead had more chemistry with his therapist for most of the book and any smut in this book didn't feel spicy.

The last quarter of the book becomes plot-focused as it addresses the female lead's domestic violence situation. And I hated that plot. I already hated the female lead and found the pacing of the book slow and repetitive, but the plot of the last arc was an especially unlikeable read.

There is also a bit of femdom which isn't my thing.

I liked the dark romance plot of this but the writing was not good.

A rich lead singer in a band non-cons the female lead who trespasses on his property. He forces a pregnancy, and refuses to let her go and walk out of his life ever again. He goes to great lengths to insert himself in her life and loses his mind when she goes into hiding from him and he can’t find her or when she’s hanging around with other men. He’s manipulative and ultimately is successful in forcing her to agree to marry him.

The female lead is surrounded by cowards and even I felt frustrated on her behalf how easily everyone brushed off that she was raped and abandoned her: her brother, sister in law, roommates, friend/potential-lover.

Disappointingly, writing was very choppy and a lot of the scenes were not shown but told with all the closed door and lack of description making scene changes and flow hard to follow. The actions and dialogue of the leads were also at times non-sensical. E.g. it made no sense Dev wouldn’t believe Cathy’s story about her painting and the cows, when even Chris was backing up her story.

The dynamics between the main couple also felt wildly inconsistent from one scene to the next. Dev was superglued to Cathy one moment, then walks away and leaves her alone the next minute. Cathy hates him one moment but then feels like a couple with him the next moment.

I also wasn’t a fan of how the author justified the male lead’s actions in the end either to redeem him. It would have worked better if he was a bad guy that stayed bad

I’d be interested in reading a cliff notes of the plot of the next book as I do like the dark romance plot, especially with a baby in the picture and how Dev is going to keep Cathy from leaving him, but I would struggle through the author’s writing

DNF 50%. I do like reading dark smutty romance. Non con taboo relationships aren’t a trigger for me so I didn’t have an issue with this.

However, the writing in this wasn’t great. With this being 95% smut, there wasn’t any chemistry built between any of the characters in this book. Most of the smut wasn’t spicy and actually felt abrupt. There was only a somno scene that I did find spicy.

All the smut scenes fell flat and felt repetitive. At the 50% mark I jumped to the end to see if there was any plot progression, a happy family ending or anything that didn’t feel the same as the first half of the book, to make the rest of the book worth reading.

Unfortunately the ending didn’t redeem the book

This book was mostly OK, initially looking like a 2.5-3 stars but I really wanted to DNF from 70% and the book really did go downhill from there.

The spice in this was good, and there was some 'will they or won't they' tension before the main couple got together. Normally I don't dig a dynamic where the female lead pursues the male lead but it worked here.

The main leads were OK character-wise. I do dig an age gap romance from time to time but the female lead came across as too young in this book, which did give me the ick in this book, despite the male lead's actions towards her not necessarily being creepy. I also wasn't the fan of the male lead's history.

I hated every single side character in this book. Lola/Pete were unlikeable and felt unnecessary. The increased spotlight on them was what prompted me to lose interest and me wanting to DNF the book.

The female lead's mother and her best friend, Trisha, I absolutely hated. I really wanted the main couple to move away from the estate altogether. Given the female lead's tolerance of her mother's ex-boyfriends and her mother kicking her out of the apartment not caring where the female lead was going to stay, the mother really acted like an ungrateful brat. I hated the redemption of them at the end. It felt forced and I didn't buy it.

The male lead's reconciliation with his family at the end also seemed overly optimistic and unrealistic. It just felt like a forced happy ending.

Wouldn't reread this book.

This is the book that got me out of my book rut. The best historical romance I’ve read in a while and the best dark historical romance I read yet. The first 50% was deliciously dark I could not put it down.

Forced marriage, blackmailing, breeding kink with spice sprinkled in between in a historical setting.

Unfortunately after the 50% mark, the male lead becomes soft and I wouldn’t even call it a dark romance after this point. The plot post 50% was just OK. I assumed the male lead would murder anyone who hurt the female lead or at least blackmail, but he disappointingly isn’t a bad guy that stays bad in this book. The aunt and the female lead’s father are all just left alone. The book ends with the main couple fleeing to another country to avoid judgement, which felt anticlimactic.

I still don’t understand why the male lead had a duel with a side character when he was innocent; felt like an unnecessary plot arc.

I did like the book ended with a pregnancy after everything the female lead went through

I would read another book by this author

This book had so much promise for the first 20% and I was so sure it'd be at least a 3 star, likely 4-5 stat book. I love a controlling, manipulative MMC who blackmails a strong FMC into sleeping with him. She's terrified of him but her body betrays her. In this book. the FMC betrays him, putting him in jail and moves on with another guy. Throw in second chance romance where the MMC is still obsessed with the FMC, kills anyone who hurts her, forces a marriage, holds her captive, the FMC tries to run away only for MMC to catch her and punish her, refusing to give her freedom from start to end, breeding kink and secret child. All my favorite tropes in this one book and omg I was so excited.

But during the second chance romance phase, for such a strong FMC she gave up fighting too early. There was no fight at all after she married him. As much as I love body betrayal, it didn't work in this book and made the FMC into a weak character that was just obsessed with having sex with the MMC. The FMC is known as 'ruthless king' and has children she supposedly wants to go back to, but as soon as she sleeps with the MMC after the forced marriage, there is no fighting and no escape attempts. Her character was so disappointing. I love body betrayal and psychological manipulation in dark romance but there was no gradual brainwashing in this at all. The FMC just immediately caved. Her brother even came to rescue her to help her go back to her children but the FMC refused his offer.

I was so annoyed by this, I considered DNFing at the 30% mark but I decided to power through because Lola King's writing is good and I do like how controlling, unrepentant and manipulative the MMC was. Unfortunately it stayed much the same, with the same problems, and I probably could have DNF'ed. There is also some fem dom, blood play and forced nipple piercing which I wasn't a fan of

There are two plot twists at the end, the first where the FMC had orchestrated her own kidnapping, the second where the MMC knew about the existence of the twins in the first place but the FMC is so changed and weak for the MMC, it didn't redeem the book for me. All she did after killing the MMC was cry. I also was confused why the Luciano's would even help the FMC kill the MMC, only to revive him because it benefited them more to have him alive. That made no sense.

It also didn't make much sense that the MMC never tried to see the twins, despite knowing they were possibly his biological children

I wish there was an epilogue with the couple's future children but sadly there wasn't. Wouldn't reread.

I do like a good reverse gap dark romance from time to time and one where the MMC kidnaps the FMC is an added bonus. But a single mother school teacher with greying hair isn’t the type of FMC I personally enjoy reading about. The writing is decent though. DNF 37%

This book wasn’t terrible but I DNF 81%. I like the premise of a dark omegaverse and the alpha MMC purposely tricking the FMC into heat and breeding/holding her captive. I feel like the book when downhill after the heat though, which was about 20% into the book. The characters weren’t likeable or unlikeable, the smut didn’t feel spicy and the chemistry between the leads weren’t strong enough for me.

The book also started focusing on the plot after this, and the plot wasn’t great and I found it even less enjoyable than the romance. The FMC also stopped trying to escape, though I did enjoy the MMC grovelling.

The plot just couldn’t hold my interest so I ultimately DNF, even though I was so close to finishing the book

I’m not a fan of this one unfortunately. I was looking for a spicy omegaverse. There was some smut but I didn’t feel spicy, the names of the leads were a bit weird, I was confused about the world, and the writing didn’t draw me in. I would have DNF if it weren’t short.

DNF 55% I love a spicy second chance divorced couple romance. But this book is very plot-heavy on robots/AI/secret society and I just couldn’t get into it. The smut wasn’t really spicing and I wasn’t connecting with the characters either.

Sharing erotica with married MMC and FMC. The smut in this book didn’t feel spicy at all and I didn’t care about any of the characters in this book, probably because there isn’t any background given about them with this book being so short. Finished, primarily because of the length and wouldn’t reread

I wasn't a fan of the murder plot unfortunately and the smut didn't feel spicy, but I did like the age gap power dynamics and the breeding kink. The epilogue was the best part of the book. Wouldn't reread

I liked the premise of a dark omegaverse and a naive innocent FMC but the writing style of this book was so hard to follow I had to DNF 58% as I was confused what was happening. The sentences in this book just didn't seem to make sense grammatically.