Tropes include MMM, dubcon, stalking, obsessive/possessive, somnophilia, degrPhoenix’s Obsession- Kali Noir
3 stars maybe
I read an ARC of this story.
Tropes include MMM, dubcon, stalking, obsessive/possessive, somnophilia, degradation, etc etc.
Very wattpad, but not surprised. The dubcon in this book was veering a little too close to sexual assault for my liking. I was hoping this would’ve went in a different direction.
Not a complete story. Will be continued in a full length book I figure....more
Very good. Very different. But sometimes I really like stereotypes. Sometimes I just want the big scary dude to be the top. Props to this author for tVery good. Very different. But sometimes I really like stereotypes. Sometimes I just want the big scary dude to be the top. Props to this author for taking a different route and making the scary mafia men be bottoms, but sometimes my brain just wants that stereotype. Still loved it though. 5 gold stars. ...more
I’ve been looking forward to this book. I’ve been excited for it since Luck of the Devil. Angel and demon pairing? yesss. Enemies to lovers? yesssss. I’ve been looking forward to this book. I’ve been excited for it since Luck of the Devil. Angel and demon pairing? yesss. Enemies to lovers? yesssss. Fated mates? YESSSSSS. I was really excited for the fated mates bit. We haven’t got to do a fated mates pairing since Ferry and Leo. So I was mega excited. And she didn’t let me down at all!!! This was soooooooooo good!!! And now I am super excited for the rest of the books. It’s gonna be so good guys.
You know how the enemies to lovers bit goes. Add in the fact that Nox is a demon and Micah is an angel so we have the I hate you on sight thing because I was raised to hate you yeah yeah yeah. So we got that going. But with them being fated mates they have this extreme pull to each other that is just annoying. And what better way to get it under control than hate sex? Brilliant!! So yeah we got that and boy was it good. 10/10 really. Then they got to know each other obvi. We got to get to the lovers part of enemies to lovers. And it was really sweet. Micah and Nox both knocking down their walls and learning about each other was perfect. Micah is the most powerful angel in a millennia and Nox is like that’s my baby and I need to protect him. Absolutely sweet. I love that trope. No complaints at all about this.
My absolute favorite part of this book is mating doesn’t solve all the problems. Honest to god I had no idea how this was going to end. Usually I can predict but nada. I was like damn what’re they gonna do. It was great. She really outdone herself with this.
So so so so excited for this series. I’m excited to see all our friends from the previous books and excited to see what pairings she decides to do. This was such a win for me. ...more
this would’ve done numbers on wattpad. very over the top. very silly. very dramatic. but you know what? i was vibing with it. most of the time. the enthis would’ve done numbers on wattpad. very over the top. very silly. very dramatic. but you know what? i was vibing with it. most of the time. the ending was very extra wattpad. not my favorite but it fit the theme. honestly not bad for a debut. ...more
this series is so damn fun. and i love debriefing with martina afterwards and discussing our theories. i wish jaclyn would release a new book of this this series is so damn fun. and i love debriefing with martina afterwards and discussing our theories. i wish jaclyn would release a new book of this series daily and never stop...more
I’m going to be honest. Me and Cora don’t always get along. Sometimes her books just don’t do it for me. This one though? Oh yeah. She definitely did I’m going to be honest. Me and Cora don’t always get along. Sometimes her books just don’t do it for me. This one though? Oh yeah. She definitely did it. Probably one of my favorites. Cora definitely embraced mafia romance, and I am so here for it.
Here’s the juice.
Tatum was at this biker bar meeting a hookup, and he was doing some harmless flirting with the bartender. The homophobic guests of this bar didn’t like that, so they started attacking him. He locked himself in the bathroom and had to think quick of who he could call to come and help him. He called his bestie Angel because his hot dad is in the mafia. And hot dad definitely comes to the rescue. The sad part is that he was too late. When he got there, Tatum was beaten to a pulp. Anthony basically kills them all, and this starts a war with the biker gang. This book jumps right into it. I was sucked in from the start. Anthony takes Tatum back to his house and doesn’t let him leave. Man is OBSESSED. And you know what? We love that.
This had so many of my favorite mafia tropes. We had torture rooms (for the bad guys), jealous/possessive/protective men, bodyguards, shootouts, and so many more tropes that I would mention, but might be spoilery if I say it. Just know it was soooooo good. Like I am literally so excited for this series. There were so many new characters that were introduced that I absolutely love. Just wait until y’all meet Bane. I love that psycho.
The sex? THE SEX!!! Cora fed us well in this one. So much sex. So much good hot obsessive sex. I am so happy.
If you have read any books by Lark Taylor, some of her characters made an appearance in this. I was like omg we are in the multiverse what is going on. It was so fun I LOVED IT.
My only complaint is there wasn’t a really good “I love you.” It might not be noticeable to some, but I am super picky about my love confessions. I want a big one. Love was mentioned and it was definitely implied that they loved each other, but the words “I love you” were never said by both parties. It’s fine. I’m fine. We’re all fine.
In conclusion, I love this so much, and I hope you do, too. Hugs and kisses to everyone. ...more
Lark. Lark Taylor. Lark Elizabeth Taylor. (I just picked a middle name for her idk what her middle name is.) What will it take for you to not make me Lark. Lark Taylor. Lark Elizabeth Taylor. (I just picked a middle name for her idk what her middle name is.) What will it take for you to not make me cry? Is it something you enjoy? I’m not a pretty crier. I never have been. You like making me look ugly? You like making me fall in love with your characters and then ripping my heart out and look ugly because I have to cry over these sad back stories. You don’t even feel sorry at all.
I love being dramatic.
Okay so there is some truth to that. 1: I am an ugly crier. 2: There is sad backstories to this. But are you even surprised? This isn’t Ferry level sad to me, rest assured, but my god is it sad. Let me just start at the beginning.
Danny is our resident wolf shifter. He left his clan over 150 years ago due to something very bad. He would only come back to his clan if he took a mate (wolves choose their mates. It’s not a fated mate thing, which is honestly insane to me, but I was rolling with it). Riley is our resident fuckboy with commitment issues. He also has a sad backstory as well. Double whammy on the sadness. Danny and Riley are besties. Extreme besties. Very codependent besties. Codependency is one of my favorite tropes honestly. The possessiveness is big in that trope with humans, but throw in the fact that Danny is a wolf? Possessive x10. Amazing. Anyway Riley and Danny are all about the hookups. Not with each other. Although they did hookup years ago. And it was amazing, but they don’t talk about it because it was a one time thing. Also side note this takes place 5 YEARS after the end of the last book. I was not expecting such a time skip. It works but wow. Moving on to the hookups. Riley had a hookup with someone where he thought there could be something more, and he was like no way José we aren’t doing that. So his brilliant idea? Have sex with strangers. Total strangers. Like he will be face down ass up waiting and the stranger will come in and have sex with him and leave. They’ll never see each other or talk. Can you see why Danny couldn’t allow that? So Danny’s brilliant idea is he will be the stranger. It’s totally fine! Riley will never know! And that is how our two stupid fuckboys fall in love. The end.
Okay so more stuff happens, but that is the start of them coming to learn their feelings for each other. And then something happens and now Riley and Danny are mated and they have to go back to his pack. Which is a disaster, but you guessed that.
There was a lot of fighting and drama in this as normal with a book from this author. It was great though. I always love the drama. This one is different though because they were mated before it all started, so it’s not like mating will save the day. This takes some good old fashioned killing to solve the problems. We love violence.
The sex in this was good, but I knew it would be. Lark never leaves me hungry. We literally get sex in the prologue. Talk about sucking you in from the get go. Hehe sucking.
If you read books by Cora Rose, some of her characters made an appearance in this. It was so fun. Talk about a multiverse.
This book marks the end of this series. I’m so sad for it to end, but so so so excited for her to start her angel series. That first book will be so good I just know it. ...more
This is the first time in a long time that I’ve read an anthology in its entirety :D Here are my little reviews just for you pudding pop.
Picking You bThis is the first time in a long time that I’ve read an anthology in its entirety :D Here are my little reviews just for you pudding pop.
Picking You by T. Ashleigh
-cute. 5 stars
Cherry Ice by Addison Beck
-this was the cutest thing i’ve ever read. 5 stars.
The New Guy by Nicole Dykes
-i’m tired of kensley. 3 stars.
Cherry Picking by Becca Jackson
-My favorite one so far. Would’ve loved a full length book of this. 5 stars.
Until We Kiss by Loren Leigh
-Okay this one is my favorite one now. I love Loren Leigh. I wish she would write more books. They always make my heart feel too big. 5 stars.
Tucson Too Late by Sundae Leighton
-the back and forth in this is insane. also the ending?? what the flip was that. 1 star.
Demon In The Sheets by Lily Mayne
-This was really funny. I laughed a lot. i wonder if she’ll write more about this. also it reminded me of cora’s writing. but in a good way. 5 stars.
Always Been Me by Charlie Novak
-i love besties to lovers. 4 stars.
Rookie Moves by Jodi Oliver
-hot damn this was so good. excuse me while i go read other books by this author. 5 stars.
Smoke and Holes by Cora Rose
-I really liked this and i wanted way more of this. i’m just as surprised as you are. 5 stars.
All Shook Up by Sebastian Sharpe
-quite frankly i hated this. 0 stars.
The To-Do List by Lark Taylor
-best friend’s brother is one of my fav tropes but this wasn’t hitting it. the ending sucked. this just felt like a prequel for a full length book and man i hate when short stories do that. 3 stars.
The Sin Bin by Willow Thomas
-they barely said 2 words to each other and they were like i’m falling for him. okay weird. also i was hoping this would be a hockey story with the title but apparently that’s a rugby term too. 2 stars. ...more
this is a “i must buy the paperback” kind of book. so damn good. sooooooo hot, sooooooo funny, and sooooo sweet. i’m obsessed with this book. probablythis is a “i must buy the paperback” kind of book. so damn good. sooooooo hot, sooooooo funny, and sooooo sweet. i’m obsessed with this book. probably my top read of the year. ...more
can we talk about how dude went from being a virgin in 1 second and then in the next he’s fucking the other MC like a porn star. no buildup or nothingcan we talk about how dude went from being a virgin in 1 second and then in the next he’s fucking the other MC like a porn star. no buildup or nothing. like 0 to 100 in a couple paragraphs. it was great don’t get me wrong but i was like damn!!! and then there was basically no sex scenes after that. i needed more thanks. will read the second book though.
oh also i was not prepared for all the mental health stuff. i should’ve seen it coming because the signs were all there but it really caught me off guard. not in a bad way at all but i was like woah oh wow...more
there was crack in this. i read this in like 2 seconds. it was so hot, so funny. so sweet. i’m so freaking excited for this series. i wish she would rthere was crack in this. i read this in like 2 seconds. it was so hot, so funny. so sweet. i’m so freaking excited for this series. i wish she would release the rest of the books this week...more
This was good. I wanted something a little more, but I honestly can’t tell you what. I am so glad that this wasn’t over the top Cora though.
Also sideThis was good. I wanted something a little more, but I honestly can’t tell you what. I am so glad that this wasn’t over the top Cora though.
Also side note if you didn’t read the first book, this one can be a little confusing at first. I think it left off after the first one ended. I didn’t read the first one, so I was like what’s going on??? I had to phone a friend.
I am not sure if I’ll read the next one. Mitch sounds stupid and mean....more
I say this same thing every time I finish an Emmy book: damn does this girl know how to write romance. If you’ll need me I will be crying in the corneI say this same thing every time I finish an Emmy book: damn does this girl know how to write romance. If you’ll need me I will be crying in the corner because she said this is her last book of this series :((((((((...more
Keeping with the theme of writing bad reviews, here is another one.
This was so good. I will always read an mm student x professor romance. They are sKeeping with the theme of writing bad reviews, here is another one.
This was so good. I will always read an mm student x professor romance. They are so much fun. Also add in that the student is a stripper!! She made this specifically for me I swear. And there was sooooo much sex!!! I was so pleasantly surprised. This was amazing. Thank you and good night.
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Keeping with the theme of writing bad reviews, here is another one.
This was so good. I will always read an mm student x professor romance. They are so much fun. Also add in that the student is a stripper!! She made this specifically for me I swear. And there was sooooo much sex!!! I was so pleasantly surprised. This was amazing. Thank you and good night....more
I am going to be completely honest. I did not want to read this book. There was something about Toby and Blaise that didn’t excite me. I don’t really I am going to be completely honest. I did not want to read this book. There was something about Toby and Blaise that didn’t excite me. I don’t really know how to explain it. I just wasn’t looking forward to reading their book. I put it off for the longest time. But there is something that I was forgetting, and that was that this author doesn’t write a bad book in my opinion. I should’ve known I would like this. Not as much as the others, but we will get to that.
I’m trying to think how to tell you what this is about without spoiling events from the previous books. Blaise and Toby’s relationship spans over three books, so there are events in this book that are big points in the other books. Did that make sense? IDK. Let me just try my best to explain, and if it doesn’t make sense then you just need to read all the other books. Sorry I don’t make the rules. So Blaise does something really bad and really stupid. Because of it, he’s full of guilt and grief. His mental health is not the best at all. I would check trigger warnings before reading this. So he’s not doing well. Toby notices this and knows that he can help him. They enter a Dom/sub agreement. Not a relationship. They sign a contract and everything *sigh*. But yeah they have this contract wrote out where Toby will help Blaise get back to his normal self at the end of 12 months and that’s it. He will be all fixed and they’ll go their separate ways. No feelings whatsoever. LOL. Spoiler alert, doesn’t work that way. Lots of stuff gets in the way. But what fun would it be if things went as they’re supposed to.
The sex in this? Amazing. I always love a good Dom/sub dynamic. Especially when the Dom is this little twinky (vampire too YUM) and the sub is this big dude. We don’t get a daddy dynamic sadly, but this is amazing as is. Their titles are Master and boy if you were wondering. But yeah, sex was fantastic. There was this voyeurism scene at the end that was especially delicious.
Like I said at the beginning of this review, this wasn’t my favorite out of all the books. Only because I wasn’t a big fan of all the recap of the events. But, I also know that this book wouldn’t be possible if that didn’t happen. Blaise and Toby have been in their relationship during all these events so we need to see them again from their perspective to know how things were going on with them. You are pretty much in the dark about their relationship in all the other books, so this needed to be done, even though I didn’t particularly care for it. That’s my only argument really. And it’s a pointless argument at that since I know why it’s done. So yeah.
This wouldn’t be a book by this author if she didn’t include sad moments. She lives to make readers cry. It’s what keeps her going. Not coffee, just the tears of her supporters. But yeah, sadness x10. I was sad all throughout this book. From the beginning with Blaise’s mental state, the middle when Blaise and Toby were stupid, and the end when Blaise and Toby were stupid again. It’s always so annoying when I know the answers to their problems, but they don’t ask me for help. How is it that I’m smarter than centuries old demons, vampires, and mages oh my? But yeah. Sadness overload. Have the tissues nearby friends.
Anytime I read a book from this author, I always get excited for future characters and their books. I am excited for the next book, which will involve the wolf shifter, Danny. And I want books for all the angels. I need them biblically (hehe!!!). Read this and have fun! ...more
If you want to read some extremely amazing sex, read this. If you also wanted a good plot, you are out of luck. I would r2.5 stars rounded to 3 stars.
If you want to read some extremely amazing sex, read this. If you also wanted a good plot, you are out of luck. I would rate this 5 stars if I was just basing this on the sex. It was so good. I was not let down at all in that department. I would give 2 stars based on the plot. It just wasn’t there. And I would give 0 stars for the ending. It was just a dramatic wattpad ending. It was honestly ridiculous. Another odd thing is I figured we would start this where the novella left off, but that didn’t happen. The first 10 or so chapters of this book is the novella all over again. Not a big deal, I just skipped them. But it was quite odd. Okay now you have all the facts. Enjoy. Or not.
I received an ARC and this is my honest review. ...more
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