Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - Dark Harmony

This book was great, but it felt as though all the plot missing from the prior three books was shoved into this one.

My biggest gripe with the book is that for all the scheming the Thief of Souls does, his last action of

removing the wards that prevents Callie from glamouring him

is complete and utter stupidity. It felt like his clever character was all but ruined in that moment. I liked that Des

outwitted the Thief by having the Shadows betray him

, but bad decisions? It just felt like a poor way to let

Callie have her revenge

.

Overall, I feel like the series has problems with pacing. It's a plot-driven romance, but each book varies in how much plot and how much romance there will be. This makes it feel like some books are all romance, some are all plot, and then some are a good mix.

It was enjoyable, but not so much that I would choose to re-read the Bargainer series.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.0

I was really excited to see where the story ends. The previous books set up a number of threads, and I thought the resolution was really well done. For a while, I thought it would go differently (but dont wanna spoil), and was pleasantly surprised about

how a siren can kill a god

. I wish Temper had a bigger role here (or maybe an additional story of her/Malaki?).

I found this book so captivating, I read the whole thing in a day. I'm unlikely to re-read the series, I think, but wholly recommend if you like the tropes (fae, fated mates, finding your own power, powerful heroine), like a bit of kink (esp in this book), and like to laugh (lots of pretty contemporary-sounding sass).

Didn't love the HP references (or the GoT ones...), but that is relatively minor. In general, I find that any mentions of companies/websites/books or series tends to age badly. Either you're binding a story to a specific decade, or you run the risk of a reference souring (like HP... and honestly, the GoT one as well, but S8 wasn't out yet when this was written...).

Lots of sex and violence, and I am here for a siren who gets turned on by being a bit sadistic. Good show for trying to make a character a little less likeable with her morally questionable deeds... still love them both, though.

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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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dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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katvou's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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karelidz's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

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

4.5

4.5 ⭐
My god, What-a-serieeees! Over all it was such a good time, I loved it so much, i think i would re-read it some time in the future.

This 3rd installment had a a lot more spicy scenes than usual, and in a way at some point I wanted them to change it up a bit for it to not be the same old thing, but nontheless it was still a VERY enjoyable read.

As a whole, I'd give this series 5⭐

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bedtimesandbooks's review

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adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.0

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