I just read another book by this author and it has a lot of the same problems. The heroine is a bit of a Mary Sue and she claims to be one thing but the text portrays her as another. It's frustrating to pick up a book that's supposed to have a strong morally gray female lead, only to get a heroine who is, well... very much not those things.
Her writing is good but I wouldn't call this a dark romance. It's basically what you would get in a Katee Robert book but with more dub-con/non-con. And while I appreciated the detailed TWs in the beginning of the book, they're a little misleading in one aspect. The author claims that the H and h never r*pe each other, but the hero literally does the hero in the butt while she's screaming at him to stop. I would consider that r*pe and not "coercion" or dub-con. It didn't particularly bother me but it might bother someone else.
Not my thing, but I could see this appealing to readers who are fans of Emily McIntire because it has a similar vibe.
2 out of 5 stars
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