Book safety, content warnings, and tropes down below.

Roman tried to be nothing, but there was still something left to hate.

I don’t know what kinda drug is in Marina’s books, but whatever it is, I am thoroughly addicted. The writing is just stunning, the characters will rip your heart out, and the worlds she creates are just beautiful, vivid and different, yet work perfectly. Their books are really special and I can’t wait to try more.

This one in particular had me on the verge of crying from the very beginning to the very end. I wanted to wrap Roman up in the tightest hug and never let go. Tyler was a sweetheart too, once he got over his prejudices and started to trust Roman.

It was a bright sorrow, to connect to something at last. To let himself unfurl in the spring of the moment, thawing away and growing into more.

The world in this book is super cool and different. It’s kinda just our regular world, but witches and covens are normal, and there is a biological kink element. Similar to omegaverse where characters have a designation, either alpha, beta or omega, in this world, everyone is either a Dom or a sub, and they need to reach Dom or sub space regularly to have healthy hormonal balances. It for sure sounds strange, but it feels very natural and normal while you’re reading it. I thought it was really neat.

Roman hadn’t known that contentment could be sustainable. Not every moment, of course, but it’d stopped leaking out of him throughout the day. He didn’t have to scoop it up desperately, didn’t have to try to grasp at something intangible.

Highly, highly recommend.

⬇️ Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & content tags ⚠️
Unconventional BDSM
D/s
Witches
Power exchange
Past trauma
Touch-starved MC
Slow burn
Found family
Size difference
Healing from trauma
Edging
Hurt/comfort
Biological kink

⚠️ Content warning ⚠️
Death of parent (past)
Suicidal ideation
Details of MC being abused (past — no sleep or food, verbal, physical, etc.)
PTSD symptoms
Dissociation
Sub and Dom drop
On-page panic attacks
MC’s safeword ignored (past, not other MC)
Details of past humiliation and degredation (not between MCs)
MC not safewording when wanting to
Severely ill MC
MC kidnapped and restrained
Explicit sexual content

⚠️Book safety ⚠️
Cheating: No
Other person drama: MC has a scene/hookup with minor character off page. Some details of past hookups with the same person. Happens before anything goes down between the MCs, and only once during the book.
Breakup: No
POV: 3rd person, dual
Genre: Paranormal romance
Pairing: M/M
Strict roles or versatile: N/A (no penetrative sex scenes during book)
Main characters’ age: 26 and 30ish
Series: Interconnected standalone
Kindle Unlimited: Yes
Pages: 225
Happy ending: Yes


Roman closed his eyes and imagined an enormous eraser hovering over him, pressing down on his toes, back and forth, again and again, until the colour of his shoes curled into little balls of nothing. His legs, his waist, his torso, his head. Slowly, scratch by scratch, he was made to disappear.

There was something calming about seeing Roman in his space, like it was the only place Tyler could keep him safe. It was a dumb Dom instinct, but, well…Tyler was kind of a dumb Dom.

Even when everything invariably went wrong, he’d still have these memories, softly glowing embers in a coal-black pit.

It hurt, to be so alone in his broken and dirty body. To be trapped inside something so flawed.




You can find most of my reviews on Instagram as well: https://www.instagram.com/booksafety?igsh=MWZ3azhkdDc2Y2ludg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr