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drealovesbooks's review
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Confinement
Minor: Gore and Rape
shinyfox's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
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? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, and Confinement
Moderate: Rape, Blood, Death, and Gore
Minor: Kidnapping and Pregnancy
abibea's review
emotional
hopeful
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? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, and Confinement
Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Rape
dezzella's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Confinement, Violence, Sexual content, Gore, and Murder
changeusernamel8r's review
emotional
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
HEA, M/F
3rd Dual POV
Standalone
Explicit open-door
Tropes/details: - MCs finding each other ugly at first
- MMC obsessed with FMC scent
- FMC bathing MMC
- FMC putting MMC head on her lap
- One bed
- Touch her and I'll kill you vibes
- FMC playing with MMC hair
- Pet name used: baby
- 3rd act breakup
- No epilogue
Kinks:Hand job, FMC and MMC oral, vaginal penetration, FMC teaching him how to pleasure her, squirting.
MMC description:Virgin, "Villain" but is good (morally gray), prtoective and very possessive, brutal but innocent inside.
- Physical: Between 7 and 7½ feet, grey skin, normal cock, dark hair, tail, fangs and claws.
FMC description: - Personality: Bossy, ex-teacher, constantly fussing over MMC, strong-minded, snarling.
- Physical: golden-brown hair, thin, pale skin, average height, gray eyes.
3rd Dual POV
Standalone
Explicit open-door
Tropes/details:
- MMC obsessed with FMC scent
- FMC bathing MMC
- FMC putting MMC head on her lap
- One bed
- Touch her and I'll kill you vibes
- FMC playing with MMC hair
- Pet name used: baby
- 3rd act breakup
- No epilogue
Kinks:
MMC description:
- Physical: Between 7 and 7½ feet, grey skin, normal cock, dark hair, tail, fangs and claws.
FMC description:
- Physical: golden-brown hair, thin, pale skin, average height, gray eyes.
I like her more than soft blankets, more than the best meals. I like her more than the fresh breeze on my face when we're outside. I would choose her over all of that.
She automatically leans over and puts her mouth on my sticks, eating, and I freeze, stunned. Her mouth was just on my sticks. She goes back to her bowl, and I quickly shove my sticks into my mouth, hoping to taste her. It just tastes like dinner, though. Disappointing.
He's adorable.
My opinion:
I loved the first 50%, and how Mina and Crulden got to know and trust each other. That was my favorite part.
Also I just loved Crulden with his naivety yet his possessiveness of Mina, and how she also took care of him and how both wanted to protect each other, he physically and she with her cunning.
I definitely have something for threatening, dangerous aliens who are very soft and a little naive on the inside.
I just wish we were shown more about them together when finally free. And their interactions lost focus at the ending because of them escaping their confinement, but they didn't even participate in that, it was conveniently solved.
And personally I didn't like the 3rd act breakup.
Last 30% of the book felt meh, I was really liking the book before that.
I'll still recommend this to someone who wants a little break from other books or genres.
CW detailed:
- Torture/Mutilation: On page but not explicit MMC is physically hurt and his finger is cut so he has scars and looks like someone else.
Is mention and given a little of detail how in a video a gladiator dismembers other competitors and rapes then kills and dismember a woman slave too.
- Sexual Assault: FMC is in not assaulted but is constantly mentioning how she is worried about that, so the threat and worry lasts most of the book.
- Murder: MMC kills a lot of the guards who keep him captive.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Sexual content, Death, Drug use, and Confinement
Moderate: Blood and Torture
Minor: Sexual assault
Sexual assault was to character off page and was not graphic.katiekeske's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This is a dark, monster romance between a genetically modified alien and a human slave. The male love interest, Crulden the Ruiner, is essentially a prisoner whose owner plans to use him as a gladiator. Crulden has no memory of who he is or his past. The same owner has enslaved a human woman to be the janitor of the prison block Crulden is kept in.
If you have triggers for r@pe, you may be wary of reading this. Read the content warnings at the beginning of the book. Basically, the love interest in this never harms Mina. Her owner has no interest in her sexually either. The main triggering event I would say isin a video that Mina watches of past Crulden the Ruiner r@ping and killing in the arena during a gladiator match. There is a plot twist that occurs later to help explain things.
I don't normally read dark romances, but this one was well done. The triggering event was pretty upsetting, and I wasn't sure how Mina and Crulden could get through it, but there is a plot twist that helps.
I liked Mina. She's a strong character that knows what she wants and is clever.
If you have triggers for r@pe, you may be wary of reading this. Read the content warnings at the beginning of the book. Basically, the love interest in this never harms Mina. Her owner has no interest in her sexually either. The main triggering event I would say is
I don't normally read dark romances, but this one was well done. The triggering event was pretty upsetting, and I wasn't sure how Mina and Crulden could get through it, but there is a plot twist that helps.
I liked Mina. She's a strong character that knows what she wants and is clever.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Violence, Slavery, Sexual content, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Rape
Minor: Classism
The rape and sexual violence occurs in a video that the heroine watches.caitlinemccann's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Confinement, Sexual content, and Blood
Moderate: Classism, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
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