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He calls me pup,
and wants me to play fetch.

I'm Vallie, but BookTok knows me as @CurvyandBooked.

Dark Romance is my jam, peanut butter, and marmalade.

Mafia. Bully. Why Choose. You name it, and I want to sit in my beanbag with my battery-operated boyfriend and read it.

Look, if I don't need a chöochie ice bath after a romance, was it even a love story?

If someone didn't bleed for looking at her, was the hero really that into her?

But it's just fiction.

Until it's not.

So, when I find a masked man in my living room skimming my favourite romance novel, all my dark desires become very real nightmares.

And he is not alone. He has a mentally deranged brother who wants to play house with me.

Soon, I'm torn between right and wrong, good and bad, and who needs saving from whom...

142 pages, ebook

Published October 14, 2023

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Nicci Harris

22 books2,518 followers
I write about women who make unattainable men fall hard and forever.

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"She (Nicci) shines in crafting novels that toe the line between dark and dangerous, and sweet and sexy, which culminates into a deliciously sinful story of passion, truth, and acceptance." - Jessica @jessicareadsit

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Profile Image for Kursed Reads.
801 reviews9,283 followers
October 14, 2023
Stepping from the shower, Valentina Relli is greeted by a masked intruder.

Donnie Vaughn, along with his brother, Tyler, intend to hold Vallie captive until they ensure the fate of their brother, Dexter. And their methods of coercion are anything but expected.

“…I’m going to pin you down and fçuk you to the most terrifying O of your life. You’ll cry and come, hate it and love it.”

Holy one-handed read. I went into this expecting zero plot. But I’m honestly as invested in the brothers’ story as the smut.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
Burn: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Darkness: 🖤
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Range of Emotions: 🫣😳🥵😳😲
Ending: 🧗🏻‍♀️ {Cliffy}
POV: 🧍🏼‍♂️👫🏻 {Multiple}

🗂 Genre: Erotic Romance

✨ Tropes: Alphahole, Captive, Curvy Woman, Manipulation, Stalkėr Vibes, Touch-Her-and-💀, Why Choose

💋 Kinks: 🍑 Play, Dirty Talk, Domination, Double Penetration, Finger Licking Good, Masked MMC

⚠️ Warning: This book may cause blushing, squirming, combusting panties, and/or self-care.

🚩 Safety Squad: DubCon, VìoIençe, and other potentially triggering elements. If you have any hesitation, check the warnings before diving in. Otherwise, blind is best!!

📣 Type: CurVy 13 is part of the Curvy Thirteen Playlist series and ends on a cliffhanger. This series must be read in order.

🛑 Be Advised: My Goodreads shelves are … explicit in both senses. As such, they could be considered spoiler-y.
Profile Image for tiffany dai jel 🐝✨.
230 reviews114 followers
December 1, 2023
CurVy 13

This Was Completely Sick And Twisted… and I was here for all of it.

❤︎ star rating: 4.5 ★ ★ ★ ★
❤︎ spice rating: 3.5 🌶️🌶️🌶️


❥ This is not for the weak nor the faint of heart. These men are MORALLY BLACK and the red flags are crimson with blood.
and the just so happens to be exactly how I like my dark romance. Sick, Toxic and makes me question everything.

Full RTC because this was a mind fuck
Profile Image for Kam Burkett.
55 reviews1 follower
October 9, 2023
⚠️ CHECK YOUR TRIGGERS⚠️

Overall: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Recommend: Yes 
Re-read : Yes 
Tropes ⬇️

💀 Why Choose
💀 Short, dark, spicy
💀 A two-part novella
💀 Curvy heroine
💀 Masked hero
💀 Deranged cinnamon roll hero!
💀 Stalkers/kidnappers
💀 Insta love/obsession

Triggers:
💀 Childhood trauma
💀 Non-con/dub-con
💀 Self-harm

 
Be careful what you wish for! 😈
Vallie is a Tiktok influencer who loves dark romance and all the spicy book boyfriends. But her influencing has lured in some dangerous men. She has joked about wanting a masked man to kidnap her and her book dream has just became a reality.

She finds two sexy psychos in her house, One completely masked and the other so unhinged he forgets his mask. They do have their reasons for kidnapping her but in the mean time they plan to have their way with her. Donnie is rough, rude af, and he is just a total BRUTE. He has one mission throughout this novella and I had just about solidified my hate for him but he does redeem himself towards the end.

Listen 🫣 I don’t know if you can describe a lunatic as cute and adorable but that’s just what Tyler was. I loved him, He has demons from a terrible traumatic past but he was just so hard not to love. I cant wait to meet Dexter and see where this story will continue from here.

November 24, 2025
This book was really easy to read in one day and it wasn’t even that bad. My personal favorite was Tyler like Donnie is so idk bad I’m mean how he treats her but Tyler is sweet and understandable. The thing I didn’t really understand is why she always told herself that she was getting raped. Because she liked it and didn’t stop them and I don’t really think that you can call that raping. But yeah all in one it was pretty good😊
Profile Image for Christina (Christina's Book Corner).
908 reviews180 followers
October 28, 2024
Oct 28
He calls me pup,
and wants me to play fetch.

I'm Vallie, but BookTok knows me as @CurvyandBooked.

Dark Romance is my jam, peanut butter, and marmalade.

Mafia. Bully. Why Choose. You name it, and I want to sit in my beanbag with my battery-operated boyfriend and read it.

Look, if I don't need a chöochie ice bath after a romance, was it even a love story?

If someone didn't bleed for looking at her, was the hero really that into her?

But it's just fiction.

Until it's not.

So, when I find a masked man in my living room skimming my favourite romance novel, all my dark desires become very real nightmares.

And he is not alone. He has a mentally deranged brother who wants to play house with me.

Soon, I'm torn between right and wrong, good and bad, and who needs saving from whom...


Review :
Not for me unfortunately the spice was hot but the plot was all over the place . This girl who is a booktoker is on this jury and the brother who is on trial his brother's kinda kidnap her Tyler I felt for cause you can tell there had been some abuse the other brother idk how to feel about him .

Not gonna continue
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 30, 2025
CurVy 13 is like diving headfirst into a fever dream written by your darkest, horniest brain cell. 😈🔥

Vallie just wanted to vibe with her dark romance books, her beanbag chair, and her ✨battery-powered soulmate✨ (relatable 😌)—but instead, she gets pulled into the plot. Literally. Enter: a masked man, a deranged brother, and enough morally gray chaos to short-circuit your brain and your dignity.

It’s filthy, unhinged, and unapologetically extra. If you’re looking for something sweet… keep scrolling (I mean, there are moments… sorta). But if you’re here for a wild ride—buckle up, pup. 🐶💀📚

Spice level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sanity level: questionable at best.

The audiobook narrator saying “arse”? An unexpected betrayal. Mood killer. Instant ick. Still recovering. 😂😅

Short and hot 🥵
Somewhere around 4.75-5 ⭐️’s
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72 reviews4 followers
October 15, 2023
ARC read..where do I start couldn't put it down everyone loves a obsessed psycho who will do literally anything for their loved one and a psycho cinnamon roll. You got a beautiful curvy yet fierce woman who just loves to influence others by reading, now throw in some very hot and steamy aggressive sexy time and you have a big bang of a story.. I need more I can't wait to meet the character the whole reason for everything has come to be what's his story? What really happened? Is it really all true? So many questions.

You will instantly love Tyler and all his demons. Donnie just wants to protect his family by any means even at the cost of saying goodbye to the one girl he's been obsessed with. Vallie is so much stronger than she will ever realize and gives in to her darkest desires.
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956 reviews76 followers
October 14, 2023
I was so excited when Nicci announced she would be writing a new Black Label book called Curvy 13.

There was nothing disappointing about this book.
In addition to spice, we have social media, brothers, desires, spice, and spice.

TikTok influencer Vallie is known for her booktok videos about spicy books and her love for book boyfriends.

After finding a masked stranger in her room, Vallie's book boyfriend dreams turn into nightmares, and she can't decide if what's happening is heaven or her worst nightmare.
Donnie and Tyler are every dark romance fan's dream 🤣🤣🤣
Profile Image for Christina Rybka.
1,129 reviews17 followers
October 14, 2023
Short and Sexy

Vallie is a booktoker who loves all dark romance. She’s home and the next thing she knows is there is a man with a mask and her nightmare starts. Then his brother who is slightly insane but sweet is there too. Can she get out of this before Stockholm syndrome starts ? Great characters and storyline Highly recommended Amazing Book. Love Vallie and her captors. This book has a lot of spice and a good story. Check your trigger warnings and ends on a cliffhanger. Book two is coming in November.
Profile Image for J.A. Smith.
Author 4 books33 followers
October 15, 2023
Holy cow!

I wasn't sure if I would enjoy this book, especially with how it started. But I SOOOOO did! And here, Nicci said this was going to be more spice than plot. But I think the plot was spot on!

Vallie is a juror on a kidnapping trial against Dexter. Only, his brothers want her to help turn the jury toward a not guilty verdict. In order to persuade her, they sort of kidnap her but don't. They kind of hold her hostage in her own home but not really. But they use her in ways that make her dark romance addiction fantasies come to life.

But there's a twist at the end that you won't see coming. And now I can't wait for the next book to come out.
Profile Image for Jessi.
498 reviews106 followers
May 11, 2025
Wow, so not what I was expecting. I really really liked it.
Profile Image for Lindsey Shaw.
25 reviews4 followers
February 28, 2025
I know this is a very smut heavy book, but I was expecting more. The spice wasn't even spicy. The cliffhanger wasn't even anything special.
Profile Image for Amber (Amber Reads Romance).
1,259 reviews192 followers
December 1, 2023
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

I was really excited when I saw Nicci Harris posting about this novella on Instagram. This was a fun, steamy, and dark novella. I had a great time with this and couldn't put it down.

Donnie and his brother, Tyler, are holding a booktoker captive while she is in their other brother's jury. They both are so different, but they both want sex from this curvy heroine.

I think I loved Tyler the most, even though he was pretty crazy.

Please make sure to check your triggers and just know there is noncon and dubcon throughout this novella.

It does leave off on a cliffhanger, but the second book is currently available.

TW: Noncon, dubcon, cutting, violence, child abuse/SA.
Profile Image for Ciru.
1,723 reviews
October 17, 2023
3.5 Stars.

Was it hot and wrong? Yes.
Would I get the next book with all three brothers? Probably not, but this story has the appropriate base work for you to choose to continue to book 2.

Donnie was basically an asshole, Dexter's case, above all else is giving me the creeps and that's what makes me reluctant to even consider a book two and Tyler was the loveable psycho.

I love all the information they picked off of TikTok, just because of how people overshare/fan-girl/interact on social media. It was unnervingly accurate.

The cover doesn't really do the book justice. Dub-con/rape-stockholm syndrome.
Profile Image for Brittanie England.
490 reviews10 followers
November 7, 2023
Oh.My.God. This book is so deliciously dark and I ate it right up! That little HFN/Cliffy wasn’t too bad but it still left me wanting more! I need book two! I can’t wait for more of these men and what's to come in their future!

Vallie found herself in the middle of one of her dark romance books! Lucky lucky her! 🤣 A booktoker curvy heroine, a masked hero, a deranged, slightly unhinged cinnamon-roll hero, stalkers and kidnappers and insta love or shall we say obsession! I literally loved everything about this! This is what fantasies are made of! It’s a must read from me!
Profile Image for ashtag_reads.
434 reviews37 followers
October 13, 2023
☠️MFM
😈Masks
☠️Captive
😈Curvy FMC

Nicci brought her smut game out to play! This book is short, but spiiiiicy and left me needing so.much.more! 🥵

While the spice grabs you right away the plot unfolds as you indulge, and I loved every bit of it! I fell for both these men - so maybe just include me in the Stockholm Syndrome

Tyler broke my heart and even though he is a complete lunatic, I absolutely adored him and Donnie 🥵 he owns who he is and there’s nothing he won’t do to get it.

Spicy quick read, but oh so freaking good! Mind your triggers!
Profile Image for Monica Cook.
115 reviews80 followers
October 14, 2023
I was NOT expecting that.

Curvy 13 was mesmerizing. I absolutely was not ready for how much I would enjoy this book.

It’s way more than what I thought I would be getting going into this. Way more. I will be counting down the minutes until I am able to start Curvy Forever. That cliffhanger did me in.

I can’t wait to see what Nicci has up her sleeve for the next part of this brilliant story. 😍
Profile Image for Danielle Nielson, Book Therapist .
264 reviews9 followers
January 15, 2025
Broken Therapist reviews...

For one of the most unhinged stalker romance novels it also hits the feels hard- like this absolute bar of a line "“No? I know your soul. And your vulnerability. What is more important than those?”". Don't get me wrong, these brothers are pretty darn morally dark dark grey, but the hurt and trauma and love for each other is so so good. The therapist in me wanted to swoop in and save them and be them all so bad.... which is a testament to how well Nicci balances spice and dark pain so well.

"Everyone falls in love at first sight, but most are just too fucking fake to see it. Too rational. Too obedient to social formulas, norms, and conventions. Love isn’t a formula. Love isn’t sheet music. It isn’t play and rest, go and stop. It’s freestyle. It’s letting loose on the keyboard until sweat drops and every cord of muscle in your arms throb from giving that piece everything. You gotta love in freestyle." The world needs more Tylers!!!!
Profile Image for Kimberly Tilkens.
11 reviews9 followers
March 31, 2024
thigh clencher!

Oh. My. Lanta. This story did NOT disappoint! I am 100% sure there is something seriously wrong with me because I 100% want to be Vallie now. Quick read, the spice is oh so nice. Left on a cliff hanger so off to part 2 I go.
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1,873 reviews103 followers
May 7, 2025
Vallie, Donnie, Tyler + Dexter

-dark romance
-whychoose masked men
-stalkers/kidnappers
-mentally deranged twins
-& their older brother
-“she’s mine”
-stokholm syndrome
-breeding kink

this is unhinged af & dirty as hellll haha
Profile Image for Courtney.
1,312 reviews195 followers
October 25, 2023
I Give this Book a 4/5 Star Rating


Cliffhanger(?): It’s definitely a Cliffhanger, and I’m really looking forward to Curvy Forever!
Relationship Type: MFM as of right now.
Dark(?): I Mean, it’s not dark at all for me, I just found the concept to be a pure enjoyment 😆.
Heat: 3.5-4/5
Romance: (it’s insta-y) but it clicks ya know? 3/5
Pacing: Has a pretty good Brisk Pace to it, you’re aware of it going in. This is a really interesting palate cleanser, I’m seriously excited for the next book, I’m going to jump into the next book as soon as it’s out!
Drama: 3.5-4/5
Suspense: 4/5
Profile Image for Irene Ekpu.
19 reviews1 follower
January 24, 2024
It's not my style, I'm a MF kind of woman, but it was hot. So 4 stars
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105 reviews61 followers
August 2, 2024
If you are looking for a fast pace verry VERRY spicy novella about a booktok girly that has her darkest desires fulfilled by masked men (identical twins 😏), go and read this.
Profile Image for Nj Fisher.
6 reviews
January 22, 2025
A soft dom and hard dom. Mentally unstable. The spice is spicing. So good. Minimal plot but enough to keep me interested.
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465 reviews14 followers
February 17, 2025
As smutty as this book is I’m so fucking invested in the storyline.
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