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.

Cruel Games by Zoe Blake