I didn’t finish this book yet and I am 100% certain that my 1 star isn’t going to change if I did finish it. Do you know how bad a book has to be for me to give a FINAL 1 star before even getting 20% through it? extremely bad.
This is why “dark romance” gets such a HORRIBLE rep, we have authors like this that act like if they don’t include SA (in this case ALMOST SA) in a book then the world will end or it can’t be considered a dark romance if it doesn’t include it. I am down for CNC but SA? absolutely not. I think we’re confusing the two. R*pe will never ever be dark romance, I know that’s a common argument in this community. I am more than AWARE that dark romance will be DARK but at the end of the day, r*pe will always be r*pe, no matter what and it’s nowhere near dark romance, well should I say that it SHOULDN’T be dark romance and that’s coming from ME, someone who reads mostly dark romance. Fake or not, can we PLEASE stop including it ffs because it doesn’t do anything but ruin books that actually had a chance at being good without it but to summarize what I did read (this was enough for me to say absolutely not)
We have a douche, I absolutely do not care about getting this man’s name right in the slightest, we have the douche who has inherited his father’s company (typical) after his father’s passing and from the looks of it, this man is SO busy with trying to run this business that he doesn’t have time for relationships or anything but he manages to have time to go running and jerk his little pickle behind a bush after running into this woman a few times. Of course this woman to him is so attractive and since he’s so busy and frustrated with work that he needs to “act and catch” aka he needs to SA someone.
While going through his father’s desk, he finds a mask ( a rabbit mask to be more specific) and shocker, his father was also a piece of shit and wore this mask during the acts so to make the saying “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” true, he decides that he’s also going to wear this mask out when he tries to SA this woman. He goes and waits for this woman to pass him by and she eventually comes and he goes to SA her but to his surprise this woman knows him and has made a promise to his mother ( he also has mommy issues) that she wouldn’t let the douche turn out like his father (too late for that) and she gives him a chance to stop, saying that this isn’t him and how he’s better than that and to stay true to his character, he’s like pft yeah right, you don’t know me, i’m bad, so bad, raaah 😈 so she’s like oh okay, bet.
She ends up putting a curse on him and he only realizes that something is wrong because he gets this burning sensation under his mask and he can’t pull it off. The douche is obviously concerned and starts to question what she did to him and she explains to him that since he wanted to act like a POS then she’s going to make sure it stays that way and the only way for this mask to come off is for him to earn the love of someone who is his “match” and if he fails to do that then the mask will stay on.
That’s all I needed to read and that’s all I want to read from this book. This had a fighting chance to be so good because the whole curse concept made it SO interesting but the author couldn’t write him to do something else to earn the curse ??? There’s so many things he could’ve done but they picked THIS. Based off the description, this book includes smut and I’m not down for reading anything about a POS especially when it’s supposed to be “hot”. I wouldn’t dare continue this book and go oh yeah look at how hot this POS is😩 It’s a HARD PASS FOR ME.