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I first saw this book in-person at Books-a-Million. I happened upon the collector's edition, which has beautiful inside cover art, two-toned painted edges, even a little silk bookmark. I saw that it was also available on Kindle Unlimited and decided to grab it. I'm a BAM member, and their membership has some nice perks. It was the largest of the books I bought so I decided to start with it. I was excited when I heard about how spicy it was, which it definitely is. 

Friend, I have problems with booktok. I have problems with books that rely on poorly written sex scenes to push along an even more poorly written plot. I realized towards the end of the book that this is the compilation of a trilogy, which makes sense as the farther into the book we got, the more plot we got as well. The first 40% of the book is nothing but sex, and not even good sex. One character goes from being a virgin to having anal sex with some lube and a prayer. No ma'am, that is not how the human sphincter works.

I don't know. Am I too old for this? I don't find this to be "dark romance," I find it to be published fanfiction. There was so much sex that it lost its spark. It isn't sexy if it's happening literally every other paragraph! We have literally two to three pages worth of sex, with one or two paragraphs of dialogue to continue the plot, then right back to the same sex they just had. It isn’t even new or exciting stuff. If I had to read about her “folds” one more time… ugh. 

Blah. Blaaaahhhh. The time I wasted on this book... I should've just DNF'd.

I'm ready for people to disagree and that's okay!