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Bred: Primal Instincts Book 1
Plot? What plot? We're here for the AUDACITY.
Listen This is 200 pages of a billionaire CEO with a breeding kink and the backbone to make it everyone else's problem. If you're looking for slow burn, character development, or literally any subplot that doesn't involve Rhett Stone putting a baby in Petra Novak, this ain't it.
What you WILL
A man so unhinged he set up an entire corporate security breach just to meet his future baby mamaZero to "I'm going to knock you up" in approximately 3.2 secondsLactation content that would make a dairy farmer blushSurveillance that makes the NSA look like amateursThe kind of obsessive behavior that should come with its own restraining orderA heroine whose common sense left the building faster than you can say "red flag"Rhett Stone doesn't want a girlfriend. He wants a breeding project. Petra's job interview just became an audition for permanent pregnancy, and honestly? She's into it.
This book
Breeding kink (it's literally the title)Lactation themesStalking presented as romancePower dynamics that would horrify HRPregnancy contentA male lead who thinks "consent" means "I asked nicely once"Absolutely ZERO plot beyond "rich man wants babies NOW"This book does NOT
Realistic relationship pacingHealthy communicationCharacters who make good life choicesA plot you can explain to your book club without getting judgedIf you're still here after reading this, congratulations! You've found your people. If you're clutching your pearls, please see yourself out and go read something with actual character arcs.
Ages 18+ because duh.
Listen This is 200 pages of a billionaire CEO with a breeding kink and the backbone to make it everyone else's problem. If you're looking for slow burn, character development, or literally any subplot that doesn't involve Rhett Stone putting a baby in Petra Novak, this ain't it.
What you WILL
A man so unhinged he set up an entire corporate security breach just to meet his future baby mamaZero to "I'm going to knock you up" in approximately 3.2 secondsLactation content that would make a dairy farmer blushSurveillance that makes the NSA look like amateursThe kind of obsessive behavior that should come with its own restraining orderA heroine whose common sense left the building faster than you can say "red flag"Rhett Stone doesn't want a girlfriend. He wants a breeding project. Petra's job interview just became an audition for permanent pregnancy, and honestly? She's into it.
This book
Breeding kink (it's literally the title)Lactation themesStalking presented as romancePower dynamics that would horrify HRPregnancy contentA male lead who thinks "consent" means "I asked nicely once"Absolutely ZERO plot beyond "rich man wants babies NOW"This book does NOT
Realistic relationship pacingHealthy communicationCharacters who make good life choicesA plot you can explain to your book club without getting judgedIf you're still here after reading this, congratulations! You've found your people. If you're clutching your pearls, please see yourself out and go read something with actual character arcs.
Ages 18+ because duh.
225 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 23, 2025
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June 18, 2025
I'm not even sure why I'm even bothering with the spoilers tab, everything about this book is in the title and the book's description. There is no build-up. We instantly jump into Rhett wanting to breed Petra. Do we get told how the knowledge of her existence is brought to his attention, no, but we're briefly told that he has been majorly stalking her for 4 months and that he has watched her every waking moment from cameras that magically appeared with her knowing all over her home. Anyways, he breeds her, that is literally the book. There is added mini drama where he can't have s*x with her because of early labor, and he finds out that he gets addicted to her breast milk. This book is just a giant case of meh.
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August 16, 2025
Could have been good
To be perfectly honest I only made it 50% of the way through the story before I gave up. The author has a good story line basis but needs to work on their writing and character development. The main characters repeatedly have the same conversation over and over again and their conversations are stilted one or two very short sentences back and forth, no one actually talks to each other like that! Also there seems to be some confusion in the author's plan for how the story was supposed to flow. At the beginning the contract that the FMC signs there is a clause about breeding, they even discuss it before becoming romantically intimate. Then, a few chapters later the FMC gets the MMC to "confess" that his need for her is because he wants to breed her and is self conscious about whether or not she wants that too... like they didn't just discuss wanting this a chapter before? This could be a good steamy breeding novel, but the author needs to go back and work on the writing.
To be perfectly honest I only made it 50% of the way through the story before I gave up. The author has a good story line basis but needs to work on their writing and character development. The main characters repeatedly have the same conversation over and over again and their conversations are stilted one or two very short sentences back and forth, no one actually talks to each other like that! Also there seems to be some confusion in the author's plan for how the story was supposed to flow. At the beginning the contract that the FMC signs there is a clause about breeding, they even discuss it before becoming romantically intimate. Then, a few chapters later the FMC gets the MMC to "confess" that his need for her is because he wants to breed her and is self conscious about whether or not she wants that too... like they didn't just discuss wanting this a chapter before? This could be a good steamy breeding novel, but the author needs to go back and work on the writing.
August 20, 2025
This was wild. I’m genuinely flabbergasted by this book. I definitely thought Petra would be a more unwilling in the sense that she wouldn’t be as into the relationship as he was but she wasn’t. Also Rhett was not as OTT as I thought he would be. Shockingly this was oddly a very consensual relationship despite what the synopsis lead me to believe. I kept thinking Rhett would actually do something that would be too much but he never did. Everything he did was very “normal,” for a lack of a better word. I was honestly kind of disappointed. I also noticed a lot of errors in the story like the contract mentioning he wanted to breed her but then him later confessing to wanting to do that. I think this could be a good book if there was more editing involved.
June 28, 2025
I Was Warned
The Author gave a warning and I said bet but ended up opened mouth the whole time. MMC is totally unhinged and the FMC? Ho is you ok? Blink once for no, twice for yes? I know she is not but still GIRL?
I do feel this is more 3.5 stars just because of the repetitiveness and inconsistencies, did she switch doctors throughout her pregnancy or did we forget?
However, If you don't mind a controlling MMC and sheep-like FMC with absolutely no plot and possibly a newfound lactation kink then this might be right up your alley!
The Author gave a warning and I said bet but ended up opened mouth the whole time. MMC is totally unhinged and the FMC? Ho is you ok? Blink once for no, twice for yes? I know she is not but still GIRL?
I do feel this is more 3.5 stars just because of the repetitiveness and inconsistencies, did she switch doctors throughout her pregnancy or did we forget?
However, If you don't mind a controlling MMC and sheep-like FMC with absolutely no plot and possibly a newfound lactation kink then this might be right up your alley!
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November 15, 2025If you want a book that meets the k!nk of the title, this is it. Plenty of brěěding and 🥛 kink here. But man, this book is repetitive and filled with inconsistencies. (Like at one point she is on bed rest for 6 weeks, but literally the next paragraph says “after 20 weeks on bed rest.”) overall this book could have done with some major editing. Had that been the case then it would have been something I would have bought and kept on my kindle.
TL;DR: you want the kink, it’s there. You want a good plot that flows and isn’t repetitive, not going to find that here.
TL;DR: you want the kink, it’s there. You want a good plot that flows and isn’t repetitive, not going to find that here.
June 29, 2025
Ehhh
It was good, and great for people with breeding k*nks but it’s repetitive. The MCs are constantly saying the same thing over and over throughout the story. Other than that, it was good.
It was good, and great for people with breeding k*nks but it’s repetitive. The MCs are constantly saying the same thing over and over throughout the story. Other than that, it was good.
June 30, 2025
OMG
This book is insane. I mean the author did warn me but... still. I mean dark romance for real. Wow!
This book is insane. I mean the author did warn me but... still. I mean dark romance for real. Wow!
October 22, 2025
Ok so ....
This book isn't terrible. Lots and lots and lots of sex and it warms you what you're getting into for the intro.... But damn. Like I have no words.
This book isn't terrible. Lots and lots and lots of sex and it warms you what you're getting into for the intro.... But damn. Like I have no words.
January 13, 2026
Wow, I love this story. The plot twists kept me on the edge of my seat, and the characters felt so real I could almost touch them. The breeding scenes were written with such visceral detail—the way you described their bodies moving together in that abandoned lighthouse, illuminated only by moonlight filtering through salt-crusted windows, was absolutely top-notch. I found myself wishing it were longer, especially with more of those deliciously explicit encounters that made my cheeks flush while reading.
I'm DYING for more! I would sell my soul for a full-length novella following Petra and Rhett four years later—their house bursting with more children, Petra heavy with another pregnancy, her body ripe with new life while Rhett's possessive hands claim every inch of her swollen form. The raw hunger between them only intensified by the chaos of their growing family!
I'm DYING for more! I would sell my soul for a full-length novella following Petra and Rhett four years later—their house bursting with more children, Petra heavy with another pregnancy, her body ripe with new life while Rhett's possessive hands claim every inch of her swollen form. The raw hunger between them only intensified by the chaos of their growing family!
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