O.S Feathers writes dark, twisty love stories about morally questionable men and the fierce, brilliant women who bring them to their knees, sometimes literally. She has a soft spot for arranged marriages, possessive antiheroes, and heroines who know how to shoot or at least threaten with style.
She drinks too much coffee, lives for slow-burn tension, and has never met a knife-to-throat scene she didn’t love. When she’s not writing, she’s probably researching obscure Russian swear words, rewriting a spicy chapter for the third time, or convincing her characters that therapy is not, in fact, the enemy.
If you like your love stories messy, dangerous, and just a little unhinged, she’s got you.
I remember reading a review of the first book, Cruel Deception, where the reader suspected the book was written by AI. At the time, I completely rejected the idea. I just couldn’t fathom a published book actually being written by Generative AI. The first book didn’t give me any real reason to think otherwise. It read like your typical over-the-top, dark romance book. But then came Book 2, and my suspicions grew. And now, after finishing Book 3? There’s no doubt in my mind anymore that this series could have absolutely been written by generative AI. The writing style, the plot holes, the inconsistencies… it’s hard to believe an editor ever touched this.
Let’s start from the beginning. This is Book 3’s synopsis on Amazon:
“After breast surgery, Charlotte disguises herself as a man and enters the House of Devils—a brutal, underground, secret competition where heirs of the world’s most dangerous mafia families are pitted against each other in a fight for survival. Every year, only forty are chosen—one from each country—and only one makes it out alive. She’s running from an arranged marriage she swore to honor on her grandfather’s deathbed... then vanished from. But the devil she was promised to finds her anyway. Cassian Moretti—deadly, calculating, heir to the Moretti cartel—is one of the three ruthless commanders of the House of Devils. And he’s the man she was supposed to marry. The man who holds the key to the three years she can’t remember. He recognizes her the moment she steps into the House Of Devils. But she doesn’t recognize him. Not the obsession behind his smirk. Not the betrayal he still hasn’t forgiven her for. Not the vow he’s whispered every night since she vanished: If she won’t come to me willingly... I’ll take her by force. Charlotte thinks she’s here to survive. Cassian came to claim his bride. Even if it means betraying his family, his House, and his current fiancée—Charlotte’s own sister. And when the time is right—he’ll steal her away from the House and drag her into his world. To his estate. To his bed. To the altar. Even if he has to chain her there himself.”
Now let’s unpack this mess, shall we?
1. Her breast surgery? NEVER happened in Book 3. 2. Heir to the Cartel? Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the Mafia and the Cartel similar but two VERY different entities? Why is the author suddenly using them synonymously with each other? There was never a mention of Cassian ever being the heir to a Cartel. 3. Charlotte’s sister? Supposedly Cassian’s fiancée…except Charlotte DOESN’T EVEN HAVE A SISTER.
Why is the official synopsis completely different from the contents of the book? How did no one catch these inconsistencies?
Per the synopsis, Charlotte competes in The House of Devils. What is that, you might ask? Imagine if The Hunger Games and Squid Game had a love child, but it’s exclusively for mafia heirs. You can’t make this up. She disguises herself as a man to try and compete, but lo and behold, Cassian, who is suddenly NOT blind anymore and NOT dying, swoops in and saves her from almost dying and keeps her prisoner in his mansion. Again. Back to square one.
Then, we find out Charlotte is 3 months pregnant. But how is that possible when she had her period DURING THE HOUSE OF DEVILS TRIALS. How did this make it past editing? Either the author is forgetting her own story, or this series is truly written by AI.
I don’t know whether to be mad or laugh at the utter atrocity that is this book. I think I deserve some type of compensation for finishing this.
One of the worst book. An abusive manipulative mc getting forgiven again and again by a pathetic FMC. One para this doormat is saying she can't love again and in next she is confessing that she never stopped loving the waste of space. The author clearly hates female kind, with how badly she has portrayed one. Shame on the author and honestly more shame for me,who kept reading in hopes that the story will improve.
Saw a post on about the book on TT and that line alone had me adding the book to my kindle. Then I comment that the post never actually happens in the book and my comments get deleted. Ok..I guess do whatever gets you readers. I guess lying will def grab that attention lol..
Fun fact, I accidentally started this book first before reading the other 2 not realizing they were connected. So like the rule following fool I am, I started the series from the beginning and I have never regretted something more in my life. The 24 hours I wasted on this series will go down in the history books as the worst time of my life. I have literally been bitted by a dog and required 10 stitches. I would rather re-live that experience then ever read this series again. TikTok lied to me and really its my own fault for believing anything off that app. I've gotta go back to ignoring people's recommendations.
Okay, so… there are still so many inconsistencies, but at least I had a smoother ride than Book 2. And I'm a sucker for HEA.
My biggest lingering question going into Sinful Obsession was: Cassian’s “mystery illness” from last book (blind, dying, disappearing). It is now explained as recurring cancer + endless coma/chemo treatments. Fine, I’ll suspend disbelief. But what I can’t get behind is why he sent Charlotte away in the first place, or how completely unlike himself he feels here.
This book honestly runs on the same season-19 soap opera formula as the first two: • Cassian + Charlotte = gravitational pull. • They find each other after time apart. • Charlotte keeps a secret / does something reckless → falls into a trap. • Cassian saves her. • New betrayal revealed (this time, pregnancy). • Cassian lashes out (the mastectomy comments, the “I love you but not if it’s Ethan’s baby” scene 💔). • He sends her away, only for an insta-forgive later, without any real grovel. On both ends btw, let's not forget Charlotte and how stupid she always acts by doing exactly what Cassian has always warned her against.
The whole Moscow arc? Completely unnecessary. What would’ve redeemed everything is if Cassian had stood by Charlotte regardless of whose child she carried. Instead, we got more dragged-out angst that undercut his character.
Also… the House of Devils plot holes. Remember, her roommates from HoD immediately said (I think this is page 30):
“She’s our roommate,” Silas said, voice low and cold. “Dead meat, walking. So why hurry? We’ll just slit her throat while she’s sleeping.”
They clearly knew it was a girl, could have reported her and gotten her killed and kicked out. But later during the trials, they all act as if Charlotte was a guy? And then the entire HoD storyline gets tied up way too fast. Messy.
And don’t get me started on Ethan. Mafia heir reveal? Way too convenient. I saw it coming, hoped the author wouldn’t do it, but yep… there it was. His arc should’ve ended last book.
At its core, Sinful Obsession is still very over the top dramatic and I think the author and their helper AI have forgotten Cassian as a character (he has only and ONLY saved Charlotte since day 1, despite anything she has done, he has actually been the only one in her life truly concerned about her) so I despised some of his actions in this book and book 2. But anyway, the recycled beats, rushed arcs, and Cassian’s OOC behavior kept me from fully loving it.
I gave this higher stars because I am remembering Cassian and Charlotte from the first book, standing at the alter and I'm glad that almost a decade later, they somehow still found each other.
I really tried to like this series but there was just so many cut and change to next scenes. It was like flipping fast forward to the next chapter.
There were so many instances of bringing up shit that happened in the past, saying sorry, then doing the same shit again. Like, forever on repeat. Leave it alone if you’ve accepted you’ll move forward etc. This abuse, acceptance, abuse, acceptance spiral was so hard to accept. Mainly cause the story was so fast paced and for scenes to be so hard hitting, you’d think there would be an ease into gaining trust back etc. but nope, let’s skip to the next part.
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They literally get married again and REPEAT as an ANNOUNCEMENT during the wedding all the negative shiz. Lots of ‘I treated her/him poorly but I’m sorry and will continue to work to be better’ like get over it.
Also, there were so many ‘what did I just read moments’. I think the AI platform malfunctioned cause it clearly had the same repetitive talking points and could not keep on the same storyline. It clearly was not reviewed properly by the publisher cause there were so many gaps between this book and the 2nd book, like the cliffhanger where Charlotte leaves Cassian FOR 9 MONTHS??!! Did we just forget about this? As if that was not made abundantly clear in the last chapter of book 2. It obviously suggested that she was pregnant then all of a sudden, book 3 starts with Charlotte going into the underground trials as a side story? WHILE PREGNANT? Nope. She wasn’t pregnant. Guess the AI forgot about that.
Also… ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION WHAT?
And Ethan? How dare you do him dirty like that.
And when the hell was Charlotte cut out to fight? Like EVER? She was the most timid character and clearly couldn’t fight to save her life and all of a sudden she’s competing with all these guys twice her size? Is this a joke?
I had to reread the first 2 chapters, then the blurb thinking it was a side story about a completely different character. I honestly thought I had the main characters name mixed up.
I do not understand any of what I just read. This was a three book series but in between the books it’s like there were other books and stories that took place and then it just kicks back up like we’re supposed to know what’s going on.
This guy was an a** from the get go but I thought he was redeeming himself…but he just keeps being a jerk time after time after time. The when he discovers that the kids are his and sees them he becomes this whole other person and Charlotte just admits she loves him and has always loved him? WTF and I never say that about books.
The first book was good, well it wasn’t bad. Then it ended on a cliffhanger and the second book wasn’t bad either but Cassian just refused to not be a d*ck. He agrees to let her get help and healing from her MASSIVE TRAUMA THAT IS CAUSED BY HIM only to follow her and cause more nonsense to happen. Don’t even get me started on Eloidie and Ethan.
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Its like fitting three stories i to one , each one a different plot with different outcomes…and the end was so rushed, unexplained and downright disappointing.
What. The. Fuck. It’s like all three books are parts of different series.. that’s how many plot holes are in this. So inconsistent. Like each sentence was written by a different author. For the love of god hire this author an editor
one word "incontinuity"...i let it go the couple times it happened with scenes in the other books but when you do it with blaring storylines it makes the story so unbelievable its laughable. this guy has had cancer then not had cancer like 5 times. (im exaggerating a lil) but come on! if you make the mmc say "oh i made this sh!tty mistake cause i was sick then oh no guess i wasnt sick" then a few chapters later hes sick again....MAKES HIM LOOK LIKE A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR AND THE GROVEL SO NOT SINCERE. i finished reading purely out of spite and bc i felt like quitting would be more of a waste of the few hours of my life i wasted on this. i mean if u wanna know what happens imma tell u theres a big time jump (6yrs) after she figures out shes pregnant which may or may not be his (she gets kidnapped,no cheating) and he sends her away cause he says he cant raise another mans kid (HOWEVER LATER SAYS IT WAS BC HE WAS ACTUALLY SICK HE SENT HER AWAY, BUT EARLIER IN THE STORY IT SAID THE DOCTOR MADE AN ERROR SO...🤷♀️🤦🏼♀️) Anyway he tracks her down, makes her marry him again, and happily ever after. very little grovel. he says sorry a few times but i think trying to take custody of the kids after you sent them away supersedes that but whatever. This cassian is a POS...and one of the worst characters in my opinion.
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Talk about absolute whiplash. I love a good dark romance, but I honestly could not keep up with what was going on in the final book. It felt like the author was grasping at straws, trying to throw anything and everything into this book. Memory loss, pregnancy, more trauma, more of the MMC hating the FMC for something else that wasn't her fault after chasing after her in the second book. honestly, the author could have cut out a heap of the stuff in all 3 books and made it 1 with how repetitive each book was in the fact that the FMC seems weak and useless, constantly getting kidnapped by her family, his family or other Mafia families. Don't even get me started on the fact that the MMC supposedly was on oxygen and couldn't see anything but basically shadows in the second book yet was still riding and was supposedly also on oxygen with only 3 mo the to live and suddenly in the book he has 20/20 vision and has lived another 3 years after coughing up blood and being on oxygen?! Don't even get me started on the fact that he "friend" Artificially inseminated her with MMC swimmers WITHOUT HER DAMN KNOWLEDGE!.
I do not recommend reading these if you want to keep your braincells intact. are I feel like this series killed some of mine off.
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I liked this book more than the other two, but the thing is, all of these books were around 200 pages, and so much was happening in such a short time which I didn’t really like. I’d rather read a 400-page book where things are more stretched out and written in detail, instead of everything happening so fast like every single day something new was going on. Also, the beginning of this book was so random. At the end of book two, when Charlotte said “give me nine months to recover” and mentioned a secret she was scared of, I totally thought she was pregnant 😭. So yeah, this whole series was a lot, even though each book was only around 200 pages.
Nice story line, but too many grammatical errors for an English book.
It had a good story line.... but the Grammer, spelling, narrative and forgetting previous info to refer to later in the book was confusing and frustrating. I always try to finish a book when I start it, but this was difficult to keep reading.
Floria has twins..but half the time it says your twin.. or you forget the twins names.. Farley, Vesper or Norris... which 2 is it? At one point you though their was triplets because the name changes.
With some edits and review, it could be a much better book
Enemies and abuse for 3 straight books. All wrapped up into a 1 chapter HEA that made absolutely no sense! Not even any soft sweet cute in between. Two extremely damaged main characters who could not communicate if their lives depended on it, and it did! Also, still have no idea what the actual plot or goal of the organization was. The books felt like one rly rly rly long manic episode.
I js saw posts of this book being ai. I can’t lie girl I kinda expected it cuz this book was rushed asf. Like the other two books were amazing but this was like ass. WDYM shit js happened to u and then plot still doesnt make no sense. But cuz I genuinely cried to both of the characters so I gave them both each a star.
I swear in the first half it said be wasn’t actually dying and it was a misdiagnosis and switched with someone else. So he didn’t actually have cancer. Than he’s dying again from cancer later in the end??? Am I tripping. I didn’t realize this was a trilogy so I started with the third book. Thank god I didn’t start with book 1. I had to push through book 3. Cassian did not redeem himself.
So, did I read the book purely because the previous one left me on a hanger? Yea. Overall, I think the book was ass, it was rushed especially the ending, icl it just felt like the author ran out of shit she could plot and just wrote whatever.
Not a series I’d recommend, it has rage baited me into reading the whole thing so ig 5⭐️ for marketing 💅🏼
I read book 1 & 2, which were good! Book 3 took the plot in a whole new direction. Felt like the 3rd book could have been read by itself with a little confusion on missing what was explained in book 1 & 2, but mostly understandable. Still liked the story.
Definitely written using AI this book made no sense it was worse than the second! I downloaded the book because of TT but nothing from those tic tok videos were even in this book i had to DNF at 80% because its just melting my brain !!!
I had to see this through with the torture I had already put my self in. This was ridiculous like sheeshhhh , the plot was lost like 7 times , at one point I didn’t even know what the hell was happening. I really wanted to DNF but I clearly don’t know when to stop my self 🥲
What in the Wattpad did I just read?! I have no clue in the three books I read what happened tbh. It was too much crammed into it that didn’t need to be there
what happened to the original plot of the movie? this whole thing pmo. there was sm plot holes i swear this was written by ai. there was potential but it just got worse and worse.