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🖉 Rating: 4/5 🖉 Spice: 3/5 🖉 Plot: 4/5 🖉 Primary Genre: Paranormal Romance 🖉 Blurb:   In this paranormal spicy age gap romance, a successful horror author whose novel is being adapted into a movie clashes with the actor cast as the male lead, all in a cozy mansion filled with ghosts, from the author of Best Hex Ever. Rosemary Shaw’s ability to see the dead has never scared her. In fact, it’s secretly inspired most of her horror novels. Now at twenty-nine, Rosemary is an acclaimed author, and her most successful book is about to be a blockbuster movie. The film set is in a beautiful manor house in the English countryside, and it’s no surprise there are ghosts hanging around. But ghosts are something Rosemary can handle; she’s not so sure how to deal with her infuriatingly handsome leading man, who is all wrong for the role. Ellis Finch is a longtime Hollywood heartthrob with a secret of his own. He’s tired of playing the action movie hero and would much rather be gardening ...

  Buy on Amazon Rating: 4/5 Spice: 5/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Dark Romance Trigger Warnings: Please check the author’s website before reading here Blurb: You Can Never Escape The Town The Legacy The Legends Are Your Responsibility Welcome to Port Canyon This is a Very Taboo Dark Romance The Good: * This book is just fucking funny. The dual POV is perfect and both MCs have hilarious thoughts. You may not get a comedy vibe from the blurb/cover but this was actually really lighthearted and amusing in my opinion. * The MMC. aka the FMC’s dead uncle, is completely unhinged. He’s a complete bully, an asshole and possessive. He’s got severe mommy issues and a very twisted sense of humor. So, ideal for a dark romance MMC. * While this is a romance between a niece and her dead uncle, it doesn’t feel so gross because 1. They never met because he died before she was born 2. He died at a young age so they meet at a time that they’re at the same age The Meh: * I mean, I cou...

This review is later than I would have liked but I’ve been down with the sickness (COVID) since Wednesday night. This strain is a really nasty one. Today (Saturday) is the first day that I haven’t slept all day in awhile so I must get to work! Rating: 4/5  Spice: 3/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Dark Romance Trigger Warnings: Please check the author’s website before reading here Blurb: I’ve always held back my darkness. But for her, I’ll unleash it. All of it… I never lose control. Just one moment of happiness might bring forth the evil that taints my blood. So, I stick to satisfying other people’s fantasies with my kink dating app. That’s how I found her. Regan Everglow is sweet. Deserving of all the beauty this life has to offer. But she’s known darkness, too. Her control was stolen from her years ago. Now, she’s ready to take it back. And I’m going to help. I wish I could say my intentions were pure. But they’re not. Truth is, I’m obsessed with her. I’d stalk her to the ends of the ...

  Buy on Amazon Twisted Kings MC #2 Rating: 4/5 Spice: 3 Primary Genre: Dark Romance/MC Romance Plot: 4/5 Blurb: Ghost lied to his club to protect me, putting a target on both our backs. Trouble is… I didn’t know I needed saving. Or that I was still being haunted by my past. Now my loyalty to the Twisted Kings is in question, and the only man who can protect me is a tall, tattooed biker with a taste for revenge and a vow of abstinence. Ghost is haunted. He’s reclusive. He ignores me at every turn, and I’m certain I mean nothing to him. Until I discover Ghost has been watching more than surveillance through the clubhouse cameras. He sees everything.And I’m his favorite subject. Author's Note: Ghost is a dark MC romance with a morally grey hero, heavy subject matter, mature content, and explicit scenes. Content/TWs (which contain spoilers) can be found on author's website. 18+ Standalone with HEA guaranteed The Good: * Strong found family themes. I assume that’s with most M...

  Buy on Amazon Halloween Harvesters #1 Rating: 4/5 Spice: 5/5 Primary Genre: Dark Romance, Traumance Trigger Warnings: Please check the author’s website before reading here Plot: 4/5 Blurb: If you don't stop, you'll live. If you do, you know what will happen. So for the love of all things unholy, don't stop. -Dalton and Rayna The Halloween Harvesters This is a similar hitchhiker themed romance but is more horror. It won't be in the series with the regular dark hitchhiker romances (Ride or Die Romances). Ride AND die! Tropes: Unhinged fmc and mmc More innocent mmc damsel in distress insta obsession enemies to lovers dark humor/banter mask kink (they both wear masks) The Good: * Call me crazy but I guess that I enjoyed the shock factor of this spicy little book. I thought that I had read everything in a dark romance and let me tell you, I was seriously wrong. * This felt more like a horror romance than a dark romance to me. If you like horror/scary stuf...

  Buy on Amazon Love on the Vine #4 Rating: 3.5/5  Spice: 3.5/5 Plot: 4/5 Primary Genre: Romance Trigger Warnings: Explicit language, sexual content Favorite Quote: Breakups were like bruises. Eventually, they become nothing more than some discolored flesh and a memory of the ache you’d once felt. But in the thick of them, when your skin was still mottled black and blue, pressing on them meant only pain. Blurb: Since her recent breakup, Ella Delatou has buried herself in work. Between her job at the local flower shop, Blossom's, and her family's winery, she has plenty to keep herself busy. If only the busybody townsfolk of Apple Blossom Bay would leave her alone long enough to let her fully move on. Liam Danvers has been working for Chateau Delatou winery as its head vintner for five years—and has been half in love with Ella Delatou for nearly as long. The first time he laid eyes on her, he knew she was the one. Only, he didn't move fast enough, and she wound up in a r...

  Never After #1 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Spice: 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 Primary Genre: Dark Romance Trigger Warnings:   Please click here to visit author's website Favorite Quote: “Feelings don't just go away, they merely shift and change as your soul breaks, molding themselves into the cracks.” Plot: 4/5 Blurb: A fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan. Imagine Hook is a straight up mafia type drug dealing ganster and Peter Pan is a millionaire mogul who will destroy anyone if it serves him. Modern day Hook and Wendy end up in a situationship involving copious amounts of hooking up. Hook spends the majority of his time trying to take Wendy's dad (Peter) down. Lots of people get tortured and murdered. Tinker Bell is now Tina and so much more evil than Julia Roberts played her. The Good: *James/Hook has some incredible character development throughout the book. It's not ridiculously unbelievable either.  *There were several parts of the book that got me in the feelers. Ru's story...

Purchase My Rating:  3/5 Stars Primary Genre: Dark Romance Blurb:  Who am I? I've forgotten the answer to that question long ago. Ever since I ran from that house, so desperate to escape, I left with only the clothes on my back and socks on my feet. After that day, I've only ever walked in stolen shoes. Could I be a girl who is searching for the meaning of life in faceless men? They were all so forgettable. Until he came along. He took me under a waterfall and made me forget my name, and in return, I took his instead. Enzo Vitale. An enigmatic man that will only ever love the deep sea. Or rather the predators that inhabit it. Turns out, he's not so different than the monsters he feeds. He lured me onto his boat like a fish in the ocean, seeking vengeance for my crime. Had I realized his intentions, and that a massive storm would leave us shipwrecked, I would've ran. Now, I'm a girl who's seeking refuge in a decrepit lighthouse with a man who loathes me almost as...

Purchase ACOTAR #4 My Rating: 4/5 Primary Genre: Romantasy Blurb: Goodreads Choice AwardWinner for Readers' Favorite Fantasy (2021) Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta. Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other. Meanwhile, the treachero...