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Dark Harmony by Laura Thalassa

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kassidyreads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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hredifer's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The ending was incredibly rushed and there are a lot of questions I would have liked answered in the epilogue (namely, what happened to

Temper and Malaki??

). But overall the series was good. I think the ending felt a little underwhelming, but a happy ending is a happy ending, I guess. Definitely worth the read even with the ending.

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readyforit's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

3.75⭐️3🌶️(graphic scenes, but not very many)
I really loved the first half of this book! I love that we got more of Callie and des being happy and in love🫶 I won’t lie tho, this entire book had me anxious. Callie is constantly saying “we don’t get to have normal, we don’t get to be happy like this for long” like she’s always waiting for the other shoe to drop. It made me enjoy the happy parts of the book less, waiting for something to rip them apart or Callie to be kidnapped again.

I was a little disappointed in some of the twists we got in this book. There was so much foreshadowing thrown in our faces that by the time Callie (the world’s worst PI) figured it out I was like uhh yeah duh???

I hate to say it but I really liked the thief of souls, I was picturing him as Loki. I thought the ending was a little anticlimactic for something that had been building for 4 books to the Big Bad Villain™.

After reading the last book from des’ pov I was really missing it in this one. Callie’s inner monologue is still cringey to me! I know we didn’t get des’ pov bc it would’ve ruined the plot twist but I just loved reading through his eyes.

Overall, I really liked the series and can see myself rereading in the future! The audiobooks were all great too.

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sambam13's review

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dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Nothing exciting happens until the last three to five chaptor of the book.

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jennn_3's review

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adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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aya_neela's review against another edition

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slow-paced

3.0

FREAKING FINALLY!

First things first, on the subject of the “grooming” aspect I only have to say this - some took issue with it whereas I didn’t because I was able to compartmentalize the story for what it was…a work of fiction.

I’m a bit conflicted with this one. I really like most of Laura Thalassa’s work.

Her dialogue can be cringey and the repetitiveness is annoying (the number of times Temperance said B*tch was giving me a headache) but it can also be really funny.

The plots she creates are interesting and to an extent I like when authors give their characters a moment to breathe and meander from the main plot to enjoy themselves.

But when I say that I feel this book did not need to be nearly as long as it was I am not kidding.

If half the scenes from the novel would have been cut out I would have enjoyed this so much more.

I kept putting the book down because absolutely NOTHING was happening.

Sure it was cute to see Des and Callie and the steamy scenes were hot and all but it was too much.

I get it! You guys love each other very much and I am so happy for you-now can we go kill the bad guy. PLEASE!

And along with the unnecessary dragging out of the story, was also the drawn out r*pe and enslavement threats against Callie, or the outright mentions of r*pe against men and women. Even the number of times the Siren kept threatening to disembowel someone was excruciating because she never even followed through! Not once.

Again I get it, Big Bad is very bad and we must hate him but he was honestly just an annoying pervert.

I did appreciate the way his sick kink bit him in the ass so spectacularly.

Besides that I’m just happy it’s done and that Callie and Des can have their ever after.

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meghannreads's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I am a romance girlie through and through and it feels wrong to say this but I honestly wish we got more plot. It felt a big dragged out between these three books. I loved the romance too but I wanted a bit more from these books. However, second half of this book did make up for all of that though omfg

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