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Labyrinth of Crimson
When Natasha returns home to discover her teenage daughter has summoned a demon, her world is flipped upside down. Abducted by the man, Natasha finds herself trapped in a nightmarish, ever-shifting labyrinth and she’s not alone. Her only ally is a mysterious, infuriating man who’s convinced she’s an assassin sent to end his life. She, on the other hand, blames him for wrecking her future. Now they must escape the inescapable, because the labyrinth of myth is no longer ruled by the Goblin King, and something far more sinister now holds the key to survival. Together, they must conquer the deadly maze, or they will be lost within its walls forever.
The labyrinth awaits.
Can you find your way out?
The labyrinth awaits.
Can you find your way out?
- GenresFantasy
282 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 28, 2025
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December 17, 2025
I've been grabbing every Labyrinth-inspired book I can find this year, and… wow. This one. I only finished it because I was reading alongside someone else, but he DNF'ed after the first chapter, so yeah, that probably tells you all you need to know.
Natasha is a military officer and single mom to 16-year-old Alyssa. She lives for her daughter and apparently has no friends or family—only enemies. One day she comes home from work and finds her daughter next to a huge, angry, damp man in the living room. She never considers any other option than shooting him with her gun. And that’s how they get kidnapped by Aerovus—a demon/vampire/fairy-man—and dragged into the fae realm (because of course, it’s the fae realm).
Alyssa immediately cooperates, explaining she accidentally summoned him. Aerovus decides it’s a teen’s harmless mistake, lets her roam the castle freely, and basically treats her like his own daughter. Meanwhile, Natasha is understandably… not impressed. But then Aerovus makes this random leap in logic: despite believing Alyssa summoned him by accident and then they were found by her mother, Aerovus comes to the conclusion that Natasha must be an assassin sent to kill him? And he becomes obsessively fixated on this idea that was pulled out of his ass.
Here’s where it got uncomfortable for me: Alyssa. She’s 16, and the characters keeps calling her an "innocent child" who needs protection but then they sexualize her in the same breath.
She’s portrayed as being in a sexual relationship with another girl, with groping and kissing happening in front of Natasha, to the point where Natasha gets uncomfortable watching it. But the narration doesn’t just stop there, it keeps emphasizing that they’re probably “screwing all over the castle," as her mother puts it.
ANYWAYS, while all of this is happening, Natasha and Aerovus are suddenly and inexplicably whisked away to a magical labyrinth. Some characters and scenes are ripped right out of the original movie but, when the author does put her own twist on it, I really like the spin that she puts on them! A lot of this book feels like missed potential, and that makes it even more frustrating.
An example would be how the author advances the relationship between the main characters. Plenty of romance books fall back on basic tropes to advance the romance along BUT I'VE NEVER READ A STORY THAT REPEATED THE SAME EXACT SCENE BUT GENDER-SWAPPED FOR THE OTHER CHARACTER!
Overall, it's pretty messy, a little uncomfortable and not well executed.
Natasha is a military officer and single mom to 16-year-old Alyssa. She lives for her daughter and apparently has no friends or family—only enemies. One day she comes home from work and finds her daughter next to a huge, angry, damp man in the living room. She never considers any other option than shooting him with her gun. And that’s how they get kidnapped by Aerovus—a demon/vampire/fairy-man—and dragged into the fae realm (because of course, it’s the fae realm).
Alyssa immediately cooperates, explaining she accidentally summoned him. Aerovus decides it’s a teen’s harmless mistake, lets her roam the castle freely, and basically treats her like his own daughter. Meanwhile, Natasha is understandably… not impressed. But then Aerovus makes this random leap in logic: despite believing Alyssa summoned him by accident and then they were found by her mother, Aerovus comes to the conclusion that Natasha must be an assassin sent to kill him? And he becomes obsessively fixated on this idea that was pulled out of his ass.
Here’s where it got uncomfortable for me: Alyssa. She’s 16, and the characters keeps calling her an "innocent child" who needs protection but then they sexualize her in the same breath.
She’s portrayed as being in a sexual relationship with another girl, with groping and kissing happening in front of Natasha, to the point where Natasha gets uncomfortable watching it. But the narration doesn’t just stop there, it keeps emphasizing that they’re probably “screwing all over the castle," as her mother puts it.
ANYWAYS, while all of this is happening, Natasha and Aerovus are suddenly and inexplicably whisked away to a magical labyrinth. Some characters and scenes are ripped right out of the original movie but, when the author does put her own twist on it, I really like the spin that she puts on them! A lot of this book feels like missed potential, and that makes it even more frustrating.
An example would be how the author advances the relationship between the main characters. Plenty of romance books fall back on basic tropes to advance the romance along BUT I'VE NEVER READ A STORY THAT REPEATED THE SAME EXACT SCENE BUT GENDER-SWAPPED FOR THE OTHER CHARACTER!
Overall, it's pretty messy, a little uncomfortable and not well executed.
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