Up until my eighteenth birthday, life was pretty peachy. Or at least, close enough. Sure, I was still unawakened and had a secret big enough to blow everything wide open, but hey... tiny details.
Four scent-matched mates who also happened to be my brother’s best friends? Check. Fate blessing me with the dreamiest, tastiest smelling alphas I've ever met? Check, check.
Weller. Owen. Tristan. Freddie.
I'd planned the perfect moment to reveal myself as their omega, their missing puzzle piece. Everything was working out perfectly... until it fell apart with a bang.
Graduation night was supposed to be the big moment. The night I finally came clean and admitted the I was theirs and they were mine. Turns out, the universe had other ideas.
The day after everything went wrong, my mother whisked me away to a remote mountain cabin for my graduation trip, because nothing says celebration like forced isolation, right? Stuck with no cell service and insidious, creeping anxiety, it took days to find out the truth.
My alphas were bonded. To someone else. My best friend of ten years, to be exact. Talk about rubbing salt in a fresh wound.
Heartbroken, humiliated and betrayed... I did what any self-respecting girl would do. I threw my phone off a mountain and disappeared without a trace. Five years went by in the blink of an eye while I busied myself creating a life without them, and I convinced myself I'd buried it all deep enough that it couldn't touch me ever again.
But now, with my brother in a coma from a car accident, I have no choice but to return home to Emerald Hills. Back to the town I ran from, back to the alphas who smashed my dreams into a million pieces, back to the best friend who stabbed me in the heart and smiled as she twisted the knife.
Five years should’ve been enough to forget how they broke me. All it did was sharpen the edge.
My new wilderness skills might come in handy because now I'm out for blood.
dnfing at 52%. I really enjoyed the first half. I felt the FMCs pain at the betrayal from the boys she had loved all her life. The mental breakdown and the years of struggle it took to get to a good place mentally and physically. She is living a good life, with friends she loves and is completely her own person and at peace. Then her brother gets into an accident, she goes back home and it all goes to hell. The boys that destroyed her are now full grown alphas and basically barge right back into her life, kidnap her to make her listen to their excuses. And where is the badass she has become? The woman who trained in combat and weapons for 5 years? Suddenly she is down to throwing a temper tantrum and breaking mugs. And of course the alphas think it's just adorable how the cute little omega is having a fit.
The boys explain they were roofied and manipulated by her best friend and the FMC just accepts their explanation, removes all blame from them for what happened and lays it all on herself. She quickly forgets all the work she did to be her own person and now succumbs to my most hated trope, BBS. I'm quitting at the point where she accepts everything they say as truth and constantly lusts after the men that caused her to have a complete mental breakdown that took years to fix.
I was invested till about the time the guys made an reappearance at 50% and lost interest. I didn’t like the way they were handling the fmc. As a group of males who are suffering from bond manipulations and losing their own autonomy , they sure don’t have a problem forcing her to do what they want. Cornering her, stalking her, tracking her, forcing her into the car, refusing to let her leave, touching her when she says no)
I ended up skimming toward the end. The ending was an interesting cliffhanger but I likely won’t continue the story.
this book was kinda wild but I had fun!! loved to see her become a badass, and I support women’s wrongs so I loved seeing a little necessary murder. guys were pretty decent and had their own personalities (though lowkey they should all get therapy). I want book 2!
What is up with KU books lately? This was overwhelmingly cringy.
What sucks is that the plot had potential to be really good. The execution was just horrible. For one, the FMC was written so poorly. I get going for a bad ass FMC, but this kind of landed like psycho off her meds pretending to be Rambo. Like, in high school when we’re acting like hot shit, but in reality we’d get our butts handed to us level of delusion. Also, the whole refuge thing just felt misplaced. Why archery and sword fighting? This isn’t medieval times 🤔🤔🤔 there could have been a better example of a refuge, that would’ve equally allowed the FMC to learn self defense and heal herself.
I don’t know, it all just felt disappointing and predictable, and the inner monologue got to the point of being too annoying that I had to DNF 🤷🏻♀️
Not sure how I feel about this one. I get making the FMC a strong character that saves the alphas instead, but it feels like the author heaped so much helplessness, lack of power, lack of control, and in effectiveness that they don't seem very alpha-ish. Maybe it's a me thing and I'd rather the alphas stand beside her, not behind her, and that's what this book felt like.
4.5 ⭐️ for this thoroughly satisfying Omegaverse story that kept my attention from cover to cover. The very minimally slicked-up book (IYKYK) is mostly centered around a rejected mate trope, but there’s also some nefarious shenanigans being pulled by a wing nut of an evil OW and the greedy parents of the evil OW and the sadly Beta-like pack of alphas. This book ends on a cliffy, so don’t be like me and read it now. Wait until part 2 comes out so you don’t lose your mind with needing to know what the hell happens next! I *still* don’t really Get the whole Omegaverse thing, but man, some of these books are such dependable sources of the gut punches i love so much. This one included!
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This is a really good omegaverse book for the dark romance lovers. First, I gave this 4 stars because it’s an omegaverse that had a fresh feeling. Normally this would be a 3 star read but the plot was giving more. The fmc deciding not to be a victim was believable. She didn’t just learn overnight or in 2-3 months how to be better and do better. She fought to make herself better and to become more. That right there is why I have it 4 stars. It had an authentic feel and progression.
Okay, this was totally predictable in some ways, because I just knew what the bitch OW was going to do, considering her father is that research doctor. But the journey is excellent.
The cliffhanger is good, and I think we all need to know what happened after the bite. This is really interesting and I can’t wait for book two.
KU read, and I may need to buy this. If the next book is just as good, these may be keepers.
I was invested for a little bit and liked how they didn't drag out the miscommunication. But I found Bianca to be a bit selfish. She was hurt because they were in a terrible situation they have no way to get out of and ran off like they did this to her. And then made them fight over her, literally something they have trauma from. All because she wanted them to fuck her. I didn't like her after that. She keeps saying how badass and strong she is like she's looking for validation. Not sure how I feel about her being the 'badass' and the men being in the terrible situation with no way out. Not sure why you guys thought your scent wouldn't be all on eachother after fucking and spending days together. They tell you what terrible things they've done to your mates and how you need to keep your contact a secret. Yet the first second the she devil shows up you rub it in her face. Not very smart.
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This was sooo good!! And from a debut author?! Heck yeah!!! This book gave me everything I was looking for in the last few months of several disappointing or lacklustre reads.
The FMC turns into a total badass ✅ The so called betrayal that stung me in the best way possible ✅ and the smut that hit just right✅.
I loved every morsel it served ugh give me the next book like yesterday!
Bianca has been in love with her alphas since she was a little girl. She’s all prepared on her 18th birthday to reveal that she’s their scent match and they should bond. But she gets a horrifying notification instead. Her best friend Whitney bonded her alphas. Bianca’s mom whisks her away to a wilderness camp in the guise of healing but it’s a giant coverup and tactic to keep her away from her meant to be alphas.
Five years later she returns because her brother is in a coma only to have to confront the alphas that broke her heart. It turns out that the alphas didn’t want to bond Whitney. She, along with her psycho dad (and the alphas dads) put together a grand plan. They injected the alphas with rut medication, drugged them and forced them to bond Whitney during her heat. Then they made everyone believe that it was consensual. For five years Whitney (the psycho beyotch) has been forcing the alphas -using the bond- to have sex with her, her friends, and each other. She’s basically torturing them to help out her father’s dirty company AND to torture them because they never wanted her and only wanted Bianca. Bianca listens, and is furious. She’s determined to get revenge on everyone that hurt her and her alphas, including her doctor Dr. Montgomery who has knowingly been drugging her with suppressants since she was a child to keep her omega from awakening. It’s a huge conspiracy. Bianca and her alphas spend time together before Whitney returns, knowing that the sh*t will hit the fan when she does. But Bianca’s not the same scared little girl she once was…years in the wilderness taught her some very valuable, very violent skills, and she’s ready to put them all to use on behalf of her alphas.
**THOUGHTS/OPINIONS**
The story had potential, and it was an interesting twist on an omegaverse novel, but the execution IMO was lacking. I honestly liked Bianca’s character. I thought she was strong and fierce. But I didn’t like her alphas. I thought, frankly, they were too “weak” for her. Sure they all claimed to love her new bloodthirsty attitude, but I thought it was a little ridiculous that they didn’t fight harder for her. She was gone for five years, sure they were stuck with an evil bond, but they didn’t even look for her or try to help her in anyway. Yes they were made to do awful things and controlled by Whitney, but when she was away on meetings or doing her daddy’s dirty work they could’ve tried harder to find, explain, or mend things with Bianca. They just…waited until she came home. Heck, they profess to love her, but were they just going to “let her go” if she never returned home? Also, I didn’t like the rape. It’s abhorrent to me that Whitney continued to rape and loan out her alphas, and that it was filmed and discussed at length in the book. I couldn’t believe that the alphas couldn’t have tried harder to resist. It almost felt as if they just gave into their dad’s demands. Heck, even when Bianca returns they are giving into their perverted dad’s demands. Do these guys have any sort of backbone whatsoever? They say they tried to find a way to break the bond but only Dr. Montgomery has the antiviral. So you’re saying in five years they couldn’t break into the lab or find a way out of the bond, but when Bianca goes missing and is in trouble they mount a rescue just like that and get her out? WTH?! Frankly they were spineless. They were willing to put up with the torture and abuse, and it seemed as if they went along with it so their dads wouldn’t cut them off from the business no matter how evil they were. Sure, sure the author notes the dads would’ve ruined them…but so what? If they loved Bianca as much as they said they did, then it would’ve been worth it. Heck, they could’ve joined Bianca in her wilderness commune (lol) anything would’ve been better than living in constant fear of being tortured, raped, degraded and humiliated.
It’s hard to enjoy an omegaverse RH when you feel as if the harem members are not worthy of the heroine. I doubt I’ll be reading book 3. I don’t need one more scene where Bianca either saves herself, kills all the bad guys, or rescues her “damaged” and spineless alphas.
4.5 underrated 🌟 This is different from any other omegaverse I’ve read so far! A completely original concept that had me gripping my kindle.
This was darker than I thought it was going to be! This had some sick and twisted concepts in it and I’m dying for book 2!
This is very well written & the emotions are described in a way that makes you feel it in your chest. The descriptions used to explain the soul aching pain the FMC was enduring made it feel real. I appreciate this FMC. She was broken, damaged, and betrayed. I love that even though this FMC is damaged, betrayed, and grieving, she finds a way to live. I like that she channels her hurt into becoming strong for herself. She’s still not whole but she’s surviving.
The plot twist 👏🏼 there were breadcrumbs so I knew something was off but I love the twist on this. It’s not a typical rejection. & I think that made me feel even more angry for her, for all the suffering & life that was stolen from her.
The MMCs are hot and I can see their individual roles in their pack. I can’t wait to get to know them more in the second book but so far I like what I see 😍
This ends kind of on a cliffhanger and I immediately preordered book 2!
The fmc gets screwed over to the point of absolute mental collapse and goes off grid for YEARS… then sticks around to see if things can work out. The villain(s) is horrible, yes. But the mmcs- they drag this woman into the thick of their shit and just… hope for the outcome they want. It was infuriating.
I’m going to give book 2 a chance, but I need a palate cleanser.
Anybody else agree with me OBSESSED with this series and Bianca & her alphas 😍🥵 I KNOW I’m not the only one because my book club bestie hooked me up with this readdddd 😍 I was looking for a some recs to buy and to read when I reached out to her and she told me she was on an omegaverse kick and told me about this book. It sounded SOOOO good so I was like hell yeah . . . I didn’t expect to fall in love with the alphas and fmc and be FERAL for the second book 😍😩 I want this book on my SHELF , to reread and have the pride for saying I have it in physical copy 😊 Bianca is a BHADD ASS BITCH 💪🏾 I LOVE her , her jabbing her heartbroken and having the psychotic break broke my heart , I was crying with and for her because I know how much her boys meant to her , the friend betrayal at that too ?! All because Whitney is jealous ? She’s disgusting . I DISPISE Whitney triflin evil ass and I can’t wait til she gets what’s coming for her 😈 zero fucks to and for that bitch and I’m so hyped Bianca beat her ass 😂😂😂 Whitney wanted something she couldn’t have and the men will never want nor love her because they are mated for Bianca , so their forever rejection made her paranoid , possessive , and obsessive over men that will never be hers and Bianca ain’t going down without a fight 👏🏾 Those men are HERS 😌 Tristian is so sexy , hes the flirty , hot type , & Weller 🥵🥵🥵 , hot and intense type with Owen and Frankie being the sweet but naughty guys 😍 I’m obsessed with them all 😍 Dying for book two and this book will be living rent free in my head until I get book twooo 😍 5 stars for me indefinitely ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
On graduation night Bianca works up the courage to tell her brothers best friends that she likes them and that she believes they are hers. While at a party with her best friend Whitney she gets hurt and has to leave with her brother.
She finds out days later that the four alphas who she believed were hers are now bonded to Whitney and her world breaks.
She joins an omega rescue refuge and learns how to defend herself, hunt and be self sufficient. In the blink of an eye 5 years pass and she gets a call that her brother is seriously injured and she goes home.
Running into those 4 alphas turn her world upside down and things aren’t as they seem. Weller, Owen, Tristan and Freddie have their work cut out for them because now Bianca is a hellion.
One thing that didn’t really make sense to me in my mind was the murder switch personality she had, felt like a cheap version of MindFucked. I could t really believe her as a badass character. No deep thought planning of anything, she only has five years of skill which wasn’t a warrior in training camp, living and breathing fight camp. It was also gardening, cooking, therapy which also to happen have some survival skills stuff. So it felt a little comical at least to me, to have her as this badass girl doing all these things because she spent five years away.
But like I said it was entertaining which is what we read books for!
This book had angst, betrayal, evil people in power, and one omega who built herself back up from the ashes and became strong enough to take down her enemies. I loved Bianca's character growth, the time she spent away to rebuilt herself and how bad a$$ she became. I'm hoping she gets further revenge in the next book! This book kept me hooked the entire time! Lovis d it! Check the trigger warnings because this is a dark omegaverse book series.
it’s good but also i wished the guys personalities could have shined through a lot more. they all felt like they same person different font. some even same font. anyway interesting plot but i don’t think i would be continuing on with the series. i think it was good but there’s so much more potential and i can’t be bothered continuing like even the cliffhanger at the end evoked like zero emotions or a want to continue reading. 3/5⭐️
Bianca is 18 and graduating high school. She is close with her brother's (Winston) 4 friends: Owen, stoic and business-like. Freddie, good natured, cozy vibes. Tristan, I think he's supposed to be the silly one, with crazy antics. It's hard to tell, because he never does any crazy antics. Weller, I'm not sure what he's supposed to be.
She could tell they were her scent matches since she was 13. She never perfumed, so she has no way to prove it. She has a BFF who is really just a mean girl frenemy, Whitney. Whitney's dad is Bianca's doctor, who has been doing tests to figure out why she hasn't perfumed yet. The only person Bianca told about the scent match is Whitney.
A week before graduation, it is her 18th birthday. She meets the guys for a picnic and gets them to play spin the bottle, so they can kiss. She next sees them a week later at her graduation, then they all go to a graduation party at Whitney's house.
The day of the graduation, Whitney's dad, the doctor, tells Bianca she has a genetic disorder that will prevent her omega receptors from ever activating. She's also sterile. She decides to tell the guys what's going on, so they'll know why they'll never have a scent matched omega.
At the party, Whitney mixes Bianca a special cocktail, which is obviously roofied. Bianca wakes up the next morning and has to leave on a scheduled "hike through" with her mom. There won't be any cell service for 3 weeks. She tries to get the guys on the phone before she has to leave, but they never answer. (OTT OW omega villain. Check.)
During the trip, Bianca climbs a ridge and gets cell service, and sees a text from Whitney saying she went into heat, fucked the guys, and bonded to all 4 of them, with a heart emoji. Bianca realizes they guys never thought of Bianca in a romantic way, if they wanted to bond Whitney. They didn't even text her about their bonding or anything. She has a mental and physical breakdown and ends up in the hospital for a month. (breakdown/near death/hospital. Check.)
Her mom agrees to rent a house in a new town so she doesn't have to go back home and face the guys and Bianca. (YA/Teen living alone without parents. Check.) Then her mom eventually goes home and Bianca lives in this new town, low contact, very limited texting, with her family. She goes to an omega support group and gets recruited to live in a commune in the woods. She decides she's going to learn fighting and using weapons. (Weapons?? What kind of cult is this?? And I mean, archery? When are you going to use that? Are the training for the hunger games?) Obligatory fight training with a new found family group. Check.
Then the story skips forward 5 years. She's a bad ass who's now fuck buddies with the guy who recruited her, Ezra. Her mom calls her because Winston's been in an accident, and he's in a coma. So Bianca goes to the hospital to see him.
The guys are always around the hospital, but she never acknowledges them. When she leaves the hospital to get some air, they corner her at the coffee shop. She shanks Owen in the leg, and he likes it. They tell her if she lets them explain what happened, they will leave her alone after that. Which means they won't leave her alone. (You're cute when you're angry. Check.)
Bianca doesn't show up for the talk, so they kidnap her. (Forcing her to talk, check.) They tell her that they were drugged into an artificially induced rut, which forced them to bond with Whitney, who was in an artificially induced heat. (Controlled by someone through magic or other artificial means, Check.) Whitney's father and the guys' fathers wanted an arranged mating between their pack and Whitney, for business reasons. IDK, it sounded pointless to me. But anyway, arranged mating with non-fated-mate for business reasons, check. (Whitney is in on the scheme, not a victim. Whitney is away at a conference for a week, that's why they are able to be in contact with Bianca right now.)
But Bianca tells them her side of the story (without saying she's their scent match). The guys figure out Whitney's dad must of have done something to her to cause her condition. They also reveal Whitney can compel them to do things through the bond, so there's been a lot of nonconsensual sex with Whitney, Whitney's friends, other people, and each other. But lucky for them, Bianca's here now, and she's trained to kill. She considers whether she should go back to Ezra's cult, but decides to stay and fight for her pack.
Her brother wakes up from the coma eventually. They have a talk about why she's been spending time with the guys, when she couldn't even talk about them before. Her brother tells her he thinks her breakdown was bond sickness, because she really is their scent match and they bonded with OW. He doesn't think she's delusional about the scent match.
Phase 1 of Bianca's plan is to make Whitney's rapey friends admit to what they did and leave town. She doesn't kill them. She just tortures them into confessing while she records it, then tells them to leave town.
She agrees to meet with the guys again that night. She wants to play Truth or Dare. They get her to tell them about her relationship (or situation or whatever) with her Guy Best Friend She Fucks, Ezra. They get jealous and have sex with her, or at least oral.
Ok, I thought Phase 2 was going to be Kill Whitney, but apparently not, because when Whitney is scheduled to come home the next night, Bianca gets angry: "What's your endgame? Do you expect me to keep me a secret forever?" That kind of thing. I thought she had already figured out her endgame was to kill Whitney? The guys tell her that the doctor did some experiment so that breaking the bond will kill them. So they can't just kill Whitney. Although it doesn't sound like Bianca was planning to do that anyway.
Bianca had agreed to go with her mom to a spa day, the same day Whitney comes home. Whitney shows up at the spa. Whitney and Bianca threaten each other. Now Bianca is willing to implement a Kill Whitney plan. Since they were friends since childhood, Bianca is very familiar with Whitney's house (the same childhood house where the graduation party was). So Bianca plans to break in and kill her in the home.
That same night, Whitney has her dad drug them again, and they plan a sex party with their business investors. That sounds weird, but the thing they're investing in is the drug itself. They want to control alphas with a fake bond. So the sex party is a demonstration of control. Bianca shows up with her bow and arrows, but doesn't kill Whitney. It ends on a cliff hanger with Whitney alive, and I guess Bianca is poisoned by trying to bite Weller and form a bond. Whitney's father shows up with guards and takes them all away. So Bianca's plans weren't very good.
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We get a twist that I personally haven’t read much of, where instead of the FMC being the one needing saving, it’s the MMCs.
I was gutted multiple times while reading this, tbh. So much trauma and secrets.
I adore each character, especially Bianca. She worked hard at becoming who she is now and is doing what she needs to get her alphas back, regardless of the dangers that lurk.
I've been in a reading slump and this just pulled me right out of it, chef kiss! This story checked all the boxes and then some, definitely a new favorite!!!
I loved Bianca, great FMC and if you can get past how she is a little reckless and doesn't think some things thru then you are going to love her too! As this is fiction, I'll let some of her stunts pass but any true murder show girly knows, she doesn't make smart decisions, I just want to smack her sometimes lol. But when she with the guys, loved every scene with her character, so good!! 🤗
The guys, I just loved them. They have all the alpha character traits you want when reading an omegaverse, truly perfection! I honestly loved their POV chapters, even more than the FMC chapters, I can only hope the next book gives me so much more of their POVs.
The villain characters and the "escape control plotline" are not that great if I'm honest, it could use some work but truthfully I really only care about the main characters. So if thats important to you to have an outstanding plot, the weak plot might be the only flaw of this book but as it doesn't really matter to me, this is a 5 star, highly recommend for a delicious read!!!
Spice 🌶🌶🌶- p.s. my scale is pretty wild, so to some this book might be a 5 Chilli 🌶, but for me, it's the right amount of heat and not straight up erotica.
Such a good book! Drama, betrayal, intrigue, morally grey FMC. You think you know what happened and maybe what to expect but you don't. The twists and turns kept me hooked. Plus, the FMC was not celibate after the betrayal which is always appreciated.