A review by geekoncaffeine
The Red Room by T.A. Cruz

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

My thanks to the author for an ARC of the book.

I thought for sure this was a stand alone book. So imagine my surprise swiping to find it ended on quite the cliffhanger! I’m going to be mad about this until ARC’s open for book two. 

Anyway… I loved this new take on werewolves/shifters. I also appreciated that we have a curvy FMC and an MMC trapped in his own head a lot of the time. Natalie’s BFF grew on me and what happens to her made me cry (it doesn’t help she has my first name). 

Is there gore in this book absolutely. Am I a giant chicken who doesn’t like gore (yet loved every episode of NBC’s Hannibal) absolutely. But in this book, like with the tv show it was needed to make the reader see how scary our MMC could be! Though then we find out that Nik is the Dexter of werewolves and only throwing bad people into the red room. I do wonder how humans couldn’t smell said room. I mean death/decay/blood smells. Maybe I missed that bit?

Did I love the story? You bet I did. I’m not at all happy about that cliffy if you didn’t realize that already. Which is the main reason for knocking it down half a star. Otherwise the story was compelling and the spice was very nice.
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