What on earth does a late thirty something man want with a teenager? Well, we all know the answer to that one 🤢. It only brought to light that besides the other dark nuances of our H’s character, there is also something inherently wrong with a grown ass man having sex with a teenager who’s not even old enough to drink, gamble, or able to legally conduct a host of other adult activities on her own. Every sexual encounter was not sexy to this reader. * I personally never could get past the fact that our heroine is a mere eighteen years old. The ONLY reason I continued is due to the fact that I generally do enjoy Blake, and I was hoping that she would be able to recover the story from this point. This scene is sickening, and highly appalling. If that’s sexy to anyone, you can unfriend me right now. I almost stopped reading right then and there, and I can absolutely see why other readers stopped at this point and shelved to dnf. All I think of is nasty older man grooming a child. I’m sometimes okay with May December, but given the fact that our heroine is 17 going on 18, it’s just too much. * the heroine thinks to herself, more than once, about the fact that our Hero/anti Hero/villain here is “twice her age”. We have a deep dark (this is Zoe Blake, after all 💁‍♀️) romance here with a heroine that’s in hs!! * the story begins with our teenager heroine - she’s a senior in high school! Yes, you read that right.

Here are the reasons that I am disappointed in this book:

If you’ve been browsing the reviews here like I originally did (I always check the one and two star reviews to try and decipher what triggering content is included - I find that most lower starred reviews usually hit the reason why the person didn’t like it/stopped reading more succinctly), you will see that there are quite a few reviewers that stopped at about the 17%-20% mark. I was ready to enjoy some dark, edgy, crazy train romance 📖😂 There’s a reason that Blake constantly gains new readers, and her Hero of that original trilogy, Richard, is that reason.Īs soon as I saw that the Hero here, Roman, is Richard’s brother, I immediately high-tailed it over to Kindle and downloaded this one. The Hero in that trilogy is truly warped, and he makes that story. That series is edgy, hot, and intriguingly dark. I personally thought that the original Dark Obsession Trilogy (note that the title is a revamp, and that these original books were previously published under different names) was stellar dark romance. Lots of fellow reviewers have been busy reviewing this over the past few days, and I was immediately intrigued with the discovery that this new Duet (this book is Part I) features Richard’s brother from Blake’s popular dark romance, the recently retitled Dark Obsession Trilogy. I was thrilled to see that a new Zoe Blake was released this week.

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