Tainted Rose by Abby Weeks

Book Title: Tainted Rose
Author: Abby Weeks
Series: The Darkness Trilogy #3
Genres: Dark, Erotica, Contemporary, Suspense
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My Rating: ★★★★☆ 4 Stars

Rose Meadows has been taken.  

Now, she is forced to work as a stripper in a desolate bar owned by the Dark Rebel MC. This is the same club that killed her father and wiped out his club, The Sioux Rangers. 

The Dark Rebels humiliate and abuse her and she is beginning to lose hope of ever being rescued.  

Josh Carter lives like a wolf.  

He roams the streets of Montreal like a ghost. He is the last surviving member of the Sioux Rangers and without his club he is completely alone in the world. He has no friends, he has no family. He rides alone.  

When Josh learns that the DRMC have been holding Rose captive, he knows he has to do something about it. He can no longer let the past control his destiny.  

Join Josh in the first novel of this stunning new series. This story is a beautiful and heartfelt portrayal of the limits of love in the brutal and dangerous world of Quebec's outlaw motorcycle clubs.  

Find out if love can overcome all the odds. 

Find out if the Sioux Rangers will ride again.

MY THOUGHTS:

Tbh this series is one of the grittiest, darkest, most suspenseful MC books I've read. It's not even a love story... well not until the second half of the book where the 'hero' wasfinally introduced. This book was f*cking brutal and mind-blowing. There were scenes that were hard to read but since I'm a fan of the author's vivid, compelling writing style, I couldn't put it down. Rose Meadows was the exact definition of the word "tainted". I could hardly imagine how brutal her life had been in the hands of the DRMC. In Tangled Rose (prelude to Tainted Rose), she was kidnapped, repeatedly raped, degraded, humiliated, and so much more I could barely think of. Now, two years later, she was forced to work in a bar ran by the Dark Rebels, strip, and be a whore for vile, disgusting men. I thought the scenarios in the first book was bad, but hell, it was even worse in this book. My heart ached for Rose. She didn't deserve any of the abuse the DRMC fuckers had given her. I abhor those men to the point of killing them in every way possible in my mind. The author's writing was so strong that I could intensely feel Rose's unbearable pain and constant misery. (Jesus, I was dying for someone to just fucking rescue her and someone who would kill those fucking bastards who abused her.) But just when Rose was about to lose hope in grasping her own freedom, we met Josh Carter, the man who would finally save her in the hands of the devils.

This book was brutally heartbreaking and utterly believable that it would pull you in up to the very end. If you're a fan of dark, disturbing biker stories, you would love this.The author was able to tell her readers how sick and twisted life can be and I am in awe of her. I'm dying to read the next book! 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Abby Weeks loves stories about strong, female protagonists that give you a good character arc and background to the action as well as providing the steamy details of what they get up to. She is particularly attracted to themes like wife-swapping, voyeurism, exhibitionism, and public and group encounters. She is thirty-years-old and live in the beautiful forests of rural Ontario, Canada, with my two dogs. You are always welcome to contact her at: abby@type-writer.net 

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Joseph Fallen by M.S. Willis

Book Title: Joseph Fallen
Author: M.S. Willis
Series: The Estate #0.5
Genres: Dark, Erotica, Contemporary, BDSM
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My Rating: ★★★★★ 5 Stars

There is a fine line between genius and madness…
Between love and hate,
Between right and wrong.
Joseph had created The Estate for her…
His wife,
The woman he chose to bear his child.
She was beauty unsurpassed;
And her song was unlike anything he’d ever known.
However, their love was a story that would not find a happy ending. 

In this prequel novella to the Estate series, follow Joseph Carmichael as he creates a world unlike any other. Because, in order to comprehend The Estate, you must understand Joseph; but, in order to understand Joseph, you must discover how a man falls from light into the pitch black depths of ultimate darkness. 

MY THOUGHTS:

Holy fuck. What I felt towards this book is beyond words I can imagine. Mind. Fucking. Blown. Fuck, I hate to admit that my insides are still shaking and my heart is still breaking. Joseph Fallen had me at the prologue and I loved the first few pages of the book. The story started out like a fairy tale and a promise of forever. We were introduced to Joseph Carmichael and his lovely wife, Arianna Carmichael: two people truly, madly and deeply in love with each other like any other young married couples. I loved seeing this side of Joseph, a prince charming who worships his wife at his feet and a man who would be worthy of her love. He promises to build a kingdom for her, and that kingdom is known as The Estate. But as he becomes more and more consumed with greed for money and power, he slowly slips away from his wife and the good husband that he was, slowly becoming the man unworthy of her, and thus, warping him into a deranged, sick monster who had allowed darkness to take over and insanity to rule him. And then the real horror begins...

This book was brutally devastating that I could hear the sound of my heart breaking to a million pieces. I love the author, I love how she portrayed the characters, love how she made her readers loathe the evilness that existed in this book. I hated Joseph with every fiber of my being. He was the epitome of pure evil and I wanted to kill him over and over, to stab him to death and revive him, only to kill him again and take utter joy over his brutal demise. I can never describe how much I fucking abhor him. And Arianna, God, sweet, naive Arianna. My heart hurt for her and there were times I was bawling inside. The things he did to her... fuck. This was pure madness, sickeningly twisted, and utterly horrifying that the amount of darkness in it was so freaking immense it couldn't be measured... This book devastated me, and I hate how much of a sobbing mess I am inside right now. God.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

M.S. Willis is a romance novelist whose debut novel, Control, was released in 2013. Although currently writing in the romance genre, Willis has plans to expand her literary pursuits into multiple genres and has no fear conquering difficult subject matters in her writing. Willis is a native Floridian who is also a photographer and musician. When not absorbing herself in written, visual or musical expression, Willis is an adrenaline junkie, a 'closet' video game enthusiast, and an avid outdoors person and nature lover.

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Madeleine, Abducted by M.S. Willis

Book Title: Madeline, Abducted
Author: M.S. Willis
Series: The Estate #1
Genres: Dark, Erotica, Contemporary, BDSM
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My Rating: ★★★★☆ 4 Stars

She was meant to be his destruction…
A pawn played in a perilous game between father and son…
Yet, her strength was more than either man could imagine. 
As Maddy learns to save herself… 
She becomes the one thing that could set the son free.
Madeleine Clark was raised to become a concert cellist. Sheltered and naïve, she remains hidden behind her music, a protection from the world around her. On the night of her first solo performance, Maddy accepts the admiration of a stranger and finds herself captive in a cruel and twisted power struggle between a sadistic father and his son, Aaron.
Seemingly dangerous and uncaring, Aaron manages the business operations of his father’s estate. Wanting nothing to do with the slaves kept at the Estate, Aaron refuses to take part in the deeper depravities of his father. Despite his resistance, Aaron’s father ‘gifts’ him with a petite, brunette woman he can’t refuse. 
A bond forged in conspiracy and deceit, Aaron struggles to save Maddy by teaching her to survive in the world in which he’d been raised. An unlikely union, Aaron soon learns that great strengths can exist within small packages, while Madeleine learns that love and light can exist in the darkest of places.

MY THOUGHTS:

The book was good. It had the perfect amount of darkness thanks to Joseph Carmichael, the devil himself and The Estate. It was dark and gritty and had a lot of gore and violence in it. I loved the plot and loved how music was immensely involved in this book since the cello is my favorite of all instruments (I do not play the cello though lol). But the author's writing was a bit off for me. Don't get me wrong, Ms. Willis is a great writer. I read every single word she wrote in this book and liked how most of the time I would encounter phrases and sentences as if I was reading a poetry. But I think that the narration was too much that it was becoming boring; too much description of a certain thing or scenario in a sentence or a paragraph made me want to just skip to the next good part. But thank heavens I didn't lol since I knew I would be lost if I skipped even a word or two.

My other concern are the MCs, Madeleine and Aaron. I just didn't feel the depths of their characters in this story. Maybe because it was written in 3rd pov, either way, I just couldn't connect with them. There was too much narration that the time for conversations between them fell a bit short for me. Nonetheless, I still liked the book. It was an okay read for me, but I didn't enjoy the author's writing style so much. If not for the dark elements, I would've given this 3 stars.

Trigger Warnings:

The hero, Aaron, did have a scene with another woman---Emily, a whore who'd always been available to him for a quick fuck---nearly second half of the book. He went to Emily because he needed pain or a good hard fuck where he wouldn't find those things with Maddy since he still couldn't bring himself to have sex with her. But what happened between him and Emily was onlyanal and Aaron was thinking of Maddy the whole time he was fucking another woman in the ass (and he used a condom lol). The scene didn't ruin the book for me, though. Aaron was violent to Emily, not caring whether the whore was hurt whereas he was sweet and soft when it came to Maddy. Other than that, there was no cheating in this book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

M.S. Willis is a romance novelist whose debut novel, Control, was released in 2013. Although currently writing in the romance genre, Willis has plans to expand her literary pursuits into multiple genres and has no fear conquering difficult subject matters in her writing. Willis is a native Floridian who is also a photographer and musician. When not absorbing herself in written, visual or musical expression, Willis is an adrenaline junkie, a 'closet' video game enthusiast, and an avid outdoors person and nature lover.

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Twisted Together by Pepper Winters

Book Title: Twisted Together
Author: Pepper Winters
Series: Monsters in the Dark #3
Genres: Dark, Erotica, Contemporary, Adult Fiction
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My Rating: ★★★★★ 5 Stars!

“After battling through hell, I brought my esclave back from the brink of ruin. I sacrificed everything—my heart, my mind, my very desires to bring her back to life. And for a while, I thought it broke me, that I’d never be the same. But slowly the beast is growing bolder, and it’s finally time to show Tess how beautiful the dark can be.”  

Q gave everything to bring Tess back. In return, he expects nothing less. Tess may have leashed and tamed him, but he’s still a monster inside.  

After surviving the darkness, a new dawn has begun. Twisted Together wades through black to grey, chasing the light of true love to banish the shadows forever. 
Pain is a requirement, connection a necessity. But ultimately Q and Tess must face their demons, before they can embrace their future.

MY THOUGHTS:

58 Wonderful, Dark, Sick and Twisted Stars!

Absolute. Fucking. Perfection. I would like to thank Ms. Pepper Winters for having to write such an amazing, breathtaking, heart-stopping series. And f*cking thank you for playing with my emotions, for ripping my heart out, breaking it into a million pieces, and picking it all up together and making it whole again. There are no words to describe how much I freaking love this series. I loved Tears of Tess and Quintessentially Q. But this book, this book fucking consumed me the moment I started reading this 'til the very end. I  absolutely admire Ms. Winters's writing. No words were left unsaid, no things were left undone. It. Was. Fucking. Perfect. I devoured every chapters of this book, imprinted every dialogues in my mind and embedded every words in my heart.

The blackness tried to swallow us whole, kill us, ruin us, capture our soul. But our demons didn't play well with others, the beast broke free to make them suffer. We're altered, we're abnormal, our souls stained with each other's mark. Our souls are that of monsters born in the dark.

Twisted Together started where the previous book left off with Q and Tess battling their own demons to find solace in the dark. Yes, they're in love, engaged, and getting married. But Tess is still being haunted with the horrors of her past in Rio, and Q still struggles to fix his esclave and make her whole again, unbroken, all the while facing his own demons.

I love how Q is willing to do everything to save Tess, to bring her out of her own darkness and slay every nightmares she has to endure. I love that Q, as her maître, would do anything to bring back the once strong, lively and passionate esclave who finds pleasure in pain and craves it like her next breath. He decides he can't marry her, not yet, when there is still clouds hanging over their heads and there are more demons they need to battle. But when he finds out that Tess no longer craves for pain, that she no longer gets wet with every pain Q inflicted for the sake of pleasure, he was devastated. He burned her, she destroyed him. So he decides to do this one thing that will both change their lives forever. He is about to kidnap her. He is about to make her relive everything, to stamp out the past and replace each with a new memory. And guess what? He did.

Intertwined, tangled, knotted forever, our souls will always be twisted together, our demons, our monsters belong to the other. Bow to me, I bow to thee, now we are free.

I admit, the first half of the book was a tad bit slow for me. Q and Tess have lots of internal struggles (both from their point of views), and I felt like some of it can be summarized into a paragraph instead of a whole chapter. But I guess that was what makes Ms. Pepper Winters's writing so unbelievably beautiful and utterly mesmerizing. She bids her time, she doesn't rush things to get the story done right away. Instead, she makes us feel. She makes us feel all the pain and agony these two characters have. Most of all, she makes us feel the intense passion, desire and love Q and Tess have for each other: a love that is true, honest, powerful. 

I thought that Q and Tess will finally have the happy ever after they deserved after everything they've been through in the two previous books. Until the second half of the book came like an explosion, and I was left completely shocked, gaping at my phone like an idiot. I should have known that danger is inevitable in this series. It shocked me immensely. I remember my fingers trembling as I held my phone, I remember holding my breath the entire time while I was reading in the darkness of my room. I couldn't help it, I was deeply affected by the major twist of this book. I was angry with the traffickers who kidnapped Tess in Q's office in Quintessentially Q, but I was more aggravated with the captors who stole Q from Tess in this book. I wanted to torture them, to cut off their foul dicks, feed it to them and shred their hearts to pieces. I hated that Ms. Winters toyed with my emotions. I hated that she tore my heart open and made me cry. There was a time when I was reading this book that I nearly lost hope: lost hope for Q, for Tess, for their love, for their forever. But I was wrong for doubting Ms. Winters's ability as a writer. I should've known better. I should've had trust and faith in her.

One esclave and one maître, no longer captive or thief, just perfect certainty and belief. You are my saviour. My forever. My salvation. My together. My absolution. My treasure. The crown to my home. You are my home.

I'm so absolutely fucking in love with this series. It was dark, twisted, gritty, suspenseful, but it was worth it. I tried so freaking hard not to finish this book fast. I wanted to devour every scenes, every words. But Pepper Winters has a way of writing that will always keep you over the precipice. And I loved reading every moment of it. I loved Q and Tess together. Their passionate moments were unlike any other. The sex scenes were hot, probably the hottest I've read for quite some time. They've been through a lot of terrors before finally having their happy ever after. And somehow, I felt like I've created an invisible bond with all of the characters in this novel. I'll never forget this series. Bravo, Ms. Pepper Winters for bringing us into the world of Q and Tess, a world where monsters find love and peace together in the dark.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Pepper Winters is a NYT and USA Today International Bestseller. She wears many roles. Some of them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that twist with your head. The more tortured the hero, the better, and she constantly thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex... her books have sex.

She loves to travel and has an amazing, fabulous hubby who puts up with her love affair with her book boyfriends. She's also honoured to wear the IndieReader Badge for being a Top 10 Indie Bestsellers, best BDSM series voted by the SmutClub, and recently signed a two book deal with Grand Central. Her books are currently being translated into numerous languages and will be in bookstores in the near future.

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