Where was the plot? Where were the editors? Has someone read this book before it was published? I’m genuinely asking because it doesn’t feel like it was. Problematic themes aside, it was unnecessarily long. Terribly overwritten. The repetitions almost killed my will to live.

It maybe would’ve been more enjoyable if it hadn’t been for that chapter describing a 5 year old child’s erection with great detail and comparing it to a gun. And having his parents laugh it off. This is not okay in a dark romance genre. Or any other genre, probably, unless you’re writing an academic research or something idk. It also would’ve been better if Nikolai’s attitude towards Bran’s sexuality at the beginning didn’t feel so fetishised. Bran told him REPEATEDLY he was straight and Niko somehow decided to turn this weird attraction he had into proving him wrong? By talking to his dick and saying it feels gay to him???

Also. What was the point of that one chapter from Levi’s POV? Who exactly needed that? And HOW - how did Miss Kent manage to make the father sound less mature than his children? What was the reason for it in the first place?

Also, 2: the murder scene???? Did it have to be so detailed and brutal? Especially seeing as it didn’t bring anything to the already non-existent plot other than some weird ass bonding moment between two psychopaths. I get it, it’s a dark romance, we get violence blah blah blah, but… that was not it.

Speaking of. Does Rina Kent hate women? It feels like she does. I haven’t read any other of her books so I can only speak about this one but her portrayal of women is… questionable at best.

All in all, it was a bad book. It could’ve been better if someone cut out the 100 pages of Nikolai talking to his dick and another 100 pages describing but not describing at all Brandon’s state. We don’t get to know what’s wrong with him until around 85% mark of the book and it just… makes it feel dramatic and insignificant until we do.