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Chokehold
EIN MOMENT. ZWEI MASKEN.
DREI JAGDEN DURCH DIE NACHT.
Sie sollen Feinde sein.
Doch eine Nacht mit einem maskierten Fremden verändert alles.
Sie sehnen sich nach der nächsten Berührung des Menschen, den sie am meisten hassen.
Sind süchtig nach dem Geschmack dessen, den sie nicht ausstehen können.
Warten auf die nächste anonyme Nachricht, die ihre Herzen schneller schlagen lässt.
Der Nervenkitzel der Jagd nach der verbotenen Frucht lässt Grenzen verschwimmen – und die Welt um sie herum gleich mit.
Das erste Problem? Sie haben beide Freundinnen.
Das schlimmste Problem? Sie sind Stiefbrüder.
DREI JAGDEN DURCH DIE NACHT.
Sie sollen Feinde sein.
Doch eine Nacht mit einem maskierten Fremden verändert alles.
Sie sehnen sich nach der nächsten Berührung des Menschen, den sie am meisten hassen.
Sind süchtig nach dem Geschmack dessen, den sie nicht ausstehen können.
Warten auf die nächste anonyme Nachricht, die ihre Herzen schneller schlagen lässt.
Der Nervenkitzel der Jagd nach der verbotenen Frucht lässt Grenzen verschwimmen – und die Welt um sie herum gleich mit.
Das erste Problem? Sie haben beide Freundinnen.
Das schlimmste Problem? Sie sind Stiefbrüder.
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First published July 8, 2024
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Leigh Rivers
14 books18.5k followersLeigh Rivers is a Scottish Biomedical Scientist who has ventured into the world of writing dark, morally gray characters with rollercoaster storylines to drive her readers wild.
When she isn't reading, writing on her laptop, or gaming until ridiculous hours, she dances at the pole studio, goes to the gym, and walks her four dogs with her two sons and husband.
When she isn't reading, writing on her laptop, or gaming until ridiculous hours, she dances at the pole studio, goes to the gym, and walks her four dogs with her two sons and husband.
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August 30, 2024
didn't chokehold me enough.
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June 27, 2026
MM Romance
Stepbrothers 🙄
1 Star ⭐️
I don’t know what to rate this book. It’s absolutely one of the worst I’ve ever read not just the plot but all of the twists and turns this had near the end. Holy shit, it was a train wreck of epic proportions and I thought I knew what to expect which is why I picked it up against my better judgement because who cares about a few MF sex scenes but this had a lot more in store for me than just MF sex scenes. A whole lot more! So, slapping a big 1 star on this should be easy right? Not exactly, because despite how bad this was I could not put it down even during the 476387 different plot twists that I saw coming a mile away and while I admit 40-60% did drag a bit and make me consider DNFing, I picked this shit back up and kept at it. Usually I’d at least 3 star this shit and put it in my guilty pleasures shelf but there are a few things I’m having trouble getting past.
1. ATTN: MF Romance authors. When it’s 2 men, using the phrase “back hole” is unnecessary and totally cringy! This book used it both correctly and incorrectly. During one of the MFM scenes, Blaise’s inner monologue said he was lining his dick up to his ex girlfriend’s back hole! Congratulations 🥳 This is the correct usage as women have both a front and back hole. However, when Cole and Blaise are stuffing their dicks and fingers inside each other’s asses, “back hole” does NOT need to be used because there is no front hole. It was used a whopping 10 times between the two of them and each time I wanted to die. I have only ever seen this in For The Love Of Kane and it was also cringy as all fuck. Please stop ✋🛑
2. The random POV of Jackson halfway through the book. WHY? It literally did nothing for the book. Do you think your readers are idiots? Because it was so obvious he knew about Cole & Blaise and was planning something behind their back. We didn’t need his POV. This book was way too long at 438 pages and this could have been cut out. It added nothing and what did happen was so anti-climatic it hurt. Like Allie will prevent someone from doing anything? 🙄 Speaking of Allie, wtf was she doing near the end of this book? That was completely unnecessary 🙄
3. The repetitive and cringy sex scenes not just with the women but between the two boys as well. Now, some scenes were hot af not even going to lie but as time went on my enthusiasm waned. As much as I love primal play, we didn’t need more than 2 scenes at most especially when it turned into a super violent brawl every single time. The fact these two never had to go to the hospital after what they did to each other was mind blowing 🤯 The number of times they made the other bleed, cracked each other’s ribs, broke each other’s noses, and even drugged the other was too much! And they used hockey sticks and baseball bats to inflict maximum damage. Whenever I read “dark” MM romance by authors who usually write MF romance, they have the men beat the absolute shit out of each other and while I like a good fighting to fucking scene this was straight up domestic violence. And here we have fucking Cole thinking that Blaise is his soulmate and the only one who ever truly loved him even more than his own mom‼️when he knew Blaise had drugged him and forced him to have sex with his girlfriend while he recorded them was just sad. Have some self respect FFS. Even in the epilogue these two are beating the absolute fuck out of each other. It never stopped.
Which brings me to 80%…
4. At 80% this book went off the rails and it was so insane that it left me cackling and absolutely hysterical. I cried from laughing because what in the actual fuck? The entire book I knew that Cole’s bio dad, who is a corrupt drunk cop, was going to show up and cause havoc at some point. It was obvious. And he does. However, it was so OTT that I felt like someone was crossing off items on a bingo card like if you can fit all of this batshit crazy stuff in one scene, you’ll win a million dollars because WTAF. We have:
✅Cole getting shot
✅kidnapping
✅septic shock and infection from shooting
✅pistol whippings
✅torrential rain storm
✅car used as a deadly weapon
✅car crash against tree, wrapped around it
✅car bursts into flames described as an inferno
✅18 yr old Blaise somehow turns into the hulk with his super strength and drags Cole from the crash
✅shitty stepmom antics-leaving Blaise behind in torrential storm 🙄🙄
✅bio dad survives crash!
✅knock down drag out fight near flaming car
✅Blaise gets shot
✅click click…gun runs out of ammo
✅Blaise saves the day despite his broken nose, ribs, shot arm, and bloody body (don’t forget he was just fucked for the first time right before all this happened with only blood as lube after being hit in the head with a baseball bat) by rugby tackling bio dad into the flaming car and bio dad magically falls into the open passenger door and gets burned alive, while soaking wet. HOW the fuck did the passenger door get open? It was wrapped around the tree and Blaise had to kick the window out to get Cole and his mom out???
✅Blaise passes out to sirens and the smell of burning flesh. His words.
Next scene we are magically in the hospital…
✅Cole & Blaise pull out their IVs and tubes to find the other in the hospital. WTAF how were they even walking? They are both royally fucked up. 🙄🙄🙄
Epilogue 5 years later & they’re married. Because of course they are. Cole got drafted for the NFL when this was never discussed anywhere in the book? I didn’t know he even cared about the NFL and how did he play well when he was beat the fuck up all the time?? AND I’m supposed to believe that after he got drafted these two did long distance for 2 years until Blaise graduated? HAHAHAHAH no fucking way. Blaise was wayyy too obsessive, possessive and jealous to survive that. Make it make sense. Homeboy woulda moved to wherever Cole was and gone to school there. Please stop 🛑✋
It was quite the choice to have each author write a different character. Sometimes it felt like the authors just slapped their various parts together without looking to see if their part made sense. It would be daytime in one POV and in the next one it was talking about the moonlight on their bodies but it was the same scene just a few minutes later. This is also why 80-92% (chapters 34-39) were so unintentionally hilarious because some of it felt out of place like the car colliding with the tree scene. Obviously one of the authors didn’t realize the other said the passenger doors were jammed and Cole and his mom had to be dragged through the window which is why bio dad’s epic fall into that side of the car made me laugh out loud.
And can I say what a shit person Cole’s mom was? Her taste in men sucked because Blaise’s dad wasn’t much better than his psycho bio dad especially the way he treated Cole the entire time and his reason for doing that was so dumb. The fact he thought that because Cole had his bio dad’s blood he would corrupt his own son?? WTF 🤦🏻♀️ He was fucking 14 and the fact his mom rarely stood up for him? 🙄🙄🙄 Stop 🛑✋
And lastly, why in the hell did the authors feel like it was necessary to break the 4th wall in the epilogue and talk to me? 💀🤦🏻♀️
All this fuckery and yet I feel like my one star rating is too harsh? WTAF. Also totally giving the side eye 👀 to anyone who 5 starred this? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 yet I completely understand at the same time 🤣🤣🤣🤣 & I’ll turn my highlights on. 😘
Stepbrothers 🙄
1 Star ⭐️
I don’t know what to rate this book. It’s absolutely one of the worst I’ve ever read not just the plot but all of the twists and turns this had near the end. Holy shit, it was a train wreck of epic proportions and I thought I knew what to expect which is why I picked it up against my better judgement because who cares about a few MF sex scenes but this had a lot more in store for me than just MF sex scenes. A whole lot more! So, slapping a big 1 star on this should be easy right? Not exactly, because despite how bad this was I could not put it down even during the 476387 different plot twists that I saw coming a mile away and while I admit 40-60% did drag a bit and make me consider DNFing, I picked this shit back up and kept at it. Usually I’d at least 3 star this shit and put it in my guilty pleasures shelf but there are a few things I’m having trouble getting past.
1. ATTN: MF Romance authors. When it’s 2 men, using the phrase “back hole” is unnecessary and totally cringy! This book used it both correctly and incorrectly. During one of the MFM scenes, Blaise’s inner monologue said he was lining his dick up to his ex girlfriend’s back hole! Congratulations 🥳 This is the correct usage as women have both a front and back hole. However, when Cole and Blaise are stuffing their dicks and fingers inside each other’s asses, “back hole” does NOT need to be used because there is no front hole. It was used a whopping 10 times between the two of them and each time I wanted to die. I have only ever seen this in For The Love Of Kane and it was also cringy as all fuck. Please stop ✋🛑
2. The random POV of Jackson halfway through the book. WHY? It literally did nothing for the book. Do you think your readers are idiots? Because it was so obvious he knew about Cole & Blaise and was planning something behind their back. We didn’t need his POV. This book was way too long at 438 pages and this could have been cut out. It added nothing and what did happen was so anti-climatic it hurt. Like Allie will prevent someone from doing anything? 🙄 Speaking of Allie, wtf was she doing near the end of this book? That was completely unnecessary 🙄
3. The repetitive and cringy sex scenes not just with the women but between the two boys as well. Now, some scenes were hot af not even going to lie but as time went on my enthusiasm waned. As much as I love primal play, we didn’t need more than 2 scenes at most especially when it turned into a super violent brawl every single time. The fact these two never had to go to the hospital after what they did to each other was mind blowing 🤯 The number of times they made the other bleed, cracked each other’s ribs, broke each other’s noses, and even drugged the other was too much! And they used hockey sticks and baseball bats to inflict maximum damage. Whenever I read “dark” MM romance by authors who usually write MF romance, they have the men beat the absolute shit out of each other and while I like a good fighting to fucking scene this was straight up domestic violence. And here we have fucking Cole thinking that Blaise is his soulmate and the only one who ever truly loved him even more than his own mom‼️when he knew Blaise had drugged him and forced him to have sex with his girlfriend while he recorded them was just sad. Have some self respect FFS. Even in the epilogue these two are beating the absolute fuck out of each other. It never stopped.
Which brings me to 80%…
4. At 80% this book went off the rails and it was so insane that it left me cackling and absolutely hysterical. I cried from laughing because what in the actual fuck? The entire book I knew that Cole’s bio dad, who is a corrupt drunk cop, was going to show up and cause havoc at some point. It was obvious. And he does. However, it was so OTT that I felt like someone was crossing off items on a bingo card like if you can fit all of this batshit crazy stuff in one scene, you’ll win a million dollars because WTAF. We have:
✅Cole getting shot
✅kidnapping
✅septic shock and infection from shooting
✅pistol whippings
✅torrential rain storm
✅car used as a deadly weapon
✅car crash against tree, wrapped around it
✅car bursts into flames described as an inferno
✅18 yr old Blaise somehow turns into the hulk with his super strength and drags Cole from the crash
✅shitty stepmom antics-leaving Blaise behind in torrential storm 🙄🙄
✅bio dad survives crash!
✅knock down drag out fight near flaming car
✅Blaise gets shot
✅click click…gun runs out of ammo
✅Blaise saves the day despite his broken nose, ribs, shot arm, and bloody body (don’t forget he was just fucked for the first time right before all this happened with only blood as lube after being hit in the head with a baseball bat) by rugby tackling bio dad into the flaming car and bio dad magically falls into the open passenger door and gets burned alive, while soaking wet. HOW the fuck did the passenger door get open? It was wrapped around the tree and Blaise had to kick the window out to get Cole and his mom out???
✅Blaise passes out to sirens and the smell of burning flesh. His words.
Next scene we are magically in the hospital…
✅Cole & Blaise pull out their IVs and tubes to find the other in the hospital. WTAF how were they even walking? They are both royally fucked up. 🙄🙄🙄
Epilogue 5 years later & they’re married. Because of course they are. Cole got drafted for the NFL when this was never discussed anywhere in the book? I didn’t know he even cared about the NFL and how did he play well when he was beat the fuck up all the time?? AND I’m supposed to believe that after he got drafted these two did long distance for 2 years until Blaise graduated? HAHAHAHAH no fucking way. Blaise was wayyy too obsessive, possessive and jealous to survive that. Make it make sense. Homeboy woulda moved to wherever Cole was and gone to school there. Please stop 🛑✋
It was quite the choice to have each author write a different character. Sometimes it felt like the authors just slapped their various parts together without looking to see if their part made sense. It would be daytime in one POV and in the next one it was talking about the moonlight on their bodies but it was the same scene just a few minutes later. This is also why 80-92% (chapters 34-39) were so unintentionally hilarious because some of it felt out of place like the car colliding with the tree scene. Obviously one of the authors didn’t realize the other said the passenger doors were jammed and Cole and his mom had to be dragged through the window which is why bio dad’s epic fall into that side of the car made me laugh out loud.
And can I say what a shit person Cole’s mom was? Her taste in men sucked because Blaise’s dad wasn’t much better than his psycho bio dad especially the way he treated Cole the entire time and his reason for doing that was so dumb. The fact he thought that because Cole had his bio dad’s blood he would corrupt his own son?? WTF 🤦🏻♀️ He was fucking 14 and the fact his mom rarely stood up for him? 🙄🙄🙄 Stop 🛑✋
And lastly, why in the hell did the authors feel like it was necessary to break the 4th wall in the epilogue and talk to me? 💀🤦🏻♀️
All this fuckery and yet I feel like my one star rating is too harsh? WTAF. Also totally giving the side eye 👀 to anyone who 5 starred this? 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 yet I completely understand at the same time 🤣🤣🤣🤣 & I’ll turn my highlights on. 😘
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 25, 2025
It’s so bad, I wanna give you a zero but thats not possible, so I give you a 1.
January 6, 2026
#HateRead #AmIMean #NoOneCaresAboutTheseSpoilers
Thank you Megan for recommending this…..filth? For the life of me, I couldn’t put it down and now I’m feeling all the guilt😩🫣 I chose this one out of the recs you gave because I never read anything that has the disgusting confusing words: back hole (word count: 12 times) So, if anyone likes dark toxic romances(?) read this depravity.
Before I get into the plot, I want to talk about THE DEDICATION page. When I read it, I was shaken to my fucking core, therefore one star🙂 check it out:
ACT ONE Two college jock step-brothers who hate but secretly desire each other go to a party with their Awful Tarty Girlfriends 1&2, everyone decides to wear masks and chase each other in the woods (fun game) Sociopath Angry Brother gets turned on holding a guy to the ground, turns out it’s his Psychopath Golden Brother so normally he decides to fuck his face, choke him with cum and punch him unconscious! PGB doesn’t know it’s SAB. Blackmail ensues (by SAB and also anonymously SAB) PGB drugs SAB and ATG1&2, changes masks with his brother and films him fucking his own ATG2, while he’s jealously fucking ATG1. Wow👏 Revenge UST and threats are made in every encounter, anonymous SAB calls out PGB to reveal his face, he doesn’t. Instead he gets him concussed, thrown into the pool and then it’s chasing time. PGB gets turned on, wants to get beaten then fucked, his wish comes true. dear god, make it stop🙏 more threats, UST and using their crazy cheating slutty ATG1&2 in retaliations after each encounter. PGB knows the masked man’s identity, but SAB doesn’t know he knows and now he’s jealous of himself WTF😶 how dare his brother send nudes to anonymous him!!! HE NEEDS TO BE KICKED BLOODY AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AGAIN! OH HE SAID MY NAME WHILE I JERKED HIM OFF! DOES HE KNOW? WOW HE’S EATING MY BACKHOLE, I AM IN LOVE NOW! WE BOTH CAME SO NOW HE HAS TO BE UNCONSCIOUS SO I CAN LEAVE! also, PGB sexually assaults his sleeping brother. I think this book will end with one of them RIP from all this…..passion.
ACT TWO enters JackAss Omniscient Friend who got kick off the team and replaced by PGB so, HE ANGRY! The brothers are now different people after they broke up with ATG1&2 trying to work out a relationship, being cute, stuttery, bashful and loved up. Coming out to their friends and telling each other deep dark secrets (except what they did to each other in act one) JAOF who somehow knows everything and has proof, threatens PGB for replacing him with a gun and a beating, so crazy mofo retaliates with vandalizing his car, running after him to the tree he climbed on and setting it on fire. JAOF retaliates GUH ENOUGH😩 by telling SAB to look into PGB’s phone where he finds the video. A lot of shit happens and they make up by having sex in ATG2’s room, where it’s PGB’s first time bottoming WITH HIS BLOOD FOR LUBE!!!!!! oh he’s ecstatic with SAB losing his mind and getting rough, don’t worry.
ACT THREE they just finished fucking, all bruised and beaten up, when LITERALLY enters SAB’s drunken policeman ex-dad swinging a gun! Cue gunfire, kidnapping, sleuthing, fiery car crash, ”Any last words? Eat a dick and die.”🙄 click, click, click. Nope, gun is empty🙄 author forgetting what she wrote two scenes ago, and now abusive dad is dead. AND THEN a movie moment where the lovers run into each other’s arms ONLY they’re bleeding and limping to death in a hospital corridor fighting away the nurses🤣🤣🤣🤣 PGB obviously has brain damage from all the foreplay, because now he’s arguing with his dick out loud.
EXODOS we actually got two. Yay. I was dying to know how they end up. Twice. Because I care. It’s five years later and they apparently tried long distance. for two whole years. authors do you expect me to believe your characters are capable of that? seriously?😒 oh, and they’re married. And doing another jealous chase/beating foreplay scene. AND OHMYGOD😱 WHY IS YOUR CHARACTER SPEAKING TO ME NOW? THAT FUCKING FREAKED ME THE FUCK OUT😱 and it’s twenty pages I’m never going to read!!!!!! I lied, I skimmed a few pages and exited after PGB started manically chasing his husband, trapping him in a net and asking his dick what to do now!!!!!!!! may they rest in peace🪦it’s obvious one fucked the other to death, I can’t be wrong!
WEIRD NONSENSICAL QUOTES: There were a bunch of metaphors that sneak up on you, none of them was good or appropriate. Please have some examples, in the first one PGB is actually on his back getting sucked by SAB and this is what he’s thinking, all poetic like….
Thank you Megan for recommending this…..filth? For the life of me, I couldn’t put it down and now I’m feeling all the guilt😩🫣 I chose this one out of the recs you gave because I never read anything that has the disgusting confusing words: back hole (word count: 12 times) So, if anyone likes dark toxic romances(?) read this depravity.
Before I get into the plot, I want to talk about THE DEDICATION page. When I read it, I was shaken to my fucking core, therefore one star🙂 check it out:
“To all the readers who dream of being chased through the woods and face-fucked by their masked stepbrother.”
ACT ONE Two college jock step-brothers who hate but secretly desire each other go to a party with their Awful Tarty Girlfriends 1&2, everyone decides to wear masks and chase each other in the woods (fun game) Sociopath Angry Brother gets turned on holding a guy to the ground, turns out it’s his Psychopath Golden Brother so normally he decides to fuck his face, choke him with cum and punch him unconscious! PGB doesn’t know it’s SAB. Blackmail ensues (by SAB and also anonymously SAB) PGB drugs SAB and ATG1&2, changes masks with his brother and films him fucking his own ATG2, while he’s jealously fucking ATG1. Wow👏 Revenge UST and threats are made in every encounter, anonymous SAB calls out PGB to reveal his face, he doesn’t. Instead he gets him concussed, thrown into the pool and then it’s chasing time. PGB gets turned on, wants to get beaten then fucked, his wish comes true. dear god, make it stop🙏 more threats, UST and using their crazy cheating slutty ATG1&2 in retaliations after each encounter. PGB knows the masked man’s identity, but SAB doesn’t know he knows and now he’s jealous of himself WTF😶 how dare his brother send nudes to anonymous him!!! HE NEEDS TO BE KICKED BLOODY AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AGAIN! OH HE SAID MY NAME WHILE I JERKED HIM OFF! DOES HE KNOW? WOW HE’S EATING MY BACKHOLE, I AM IN LOVE NOW! WE BOTH CAME SO NOW HE HAS TO BE UNCONSCIOUS SO I CAN LEAVE! also, PGB sexually assaults his sleeping brother. I think this book will end with one of them RIP from all this…..passion.
ACT TWO enters JackAss Omniscient Friend who got kick off the team and replaced by PGB so, HE ANGRY! The brothers are now different people after they broke up with ATG1&2 trying to work out a relationship, being cute, stuttery, bashful and loved up. Coming out to their friends and telling each other deep dark secrets (except what they did to each other in act one) JAOF who somehow knows everything and has proof, threatens PGB for replacing him with a gun and a beating, so crazy mofo retaliates with vandalizing his car, running after him to the tree he climbed on and setting it on fire. JAOF retaliates GUH ENOUGH😩 by telling SAB to look into PGB’s phone where he finds the video. A lot of shit happens and they make up by having sex in ATG2’s room, where it’s PGB’s first time bottoming WITH HIS BLOOD FOR LUBE!!!!!! oh he’s ecstatic with SAB losing his mind and getting rough, don’t worry.
ACT THREE they just finished fucking, all bruised and beaten up, when LITERALLY enters SAB’s drunken policeman ex-dad swinging a gun! Cue gunfire, kidnapping, sleuthing, fiery car crash, ”Any last words? Eat a dick and die.”🙄 click, click, click. Nope, gun is empty🙄 author forgetting what she wrote two scenes ago, and now abusive dad is dead. AND THEN a movie moment where the lovers run into each other’s arms ONLY they’re bleeding and limping to death in a hospital corridor fighting away the nurses🤣🤣🤣🤣 PGB obviously has brain damage from all the foreplay, because now he’s arguing with his dick out loud.
EXODOS we actually got two. Yay. I was dying to know how they end up. Twice. Because I care. It’s five years later and they apparently tried long distance. for two whole years. authors do you expect me to believe your characters are capable of that? seriously?😒 oh, and they’re married. And doing another jealous chase/beating foreplay scene. AND OHMYGOD😱 WHY IS YOUR CHARACTER SPEAKING TO ME NOW? THAT FUCKING FREAKED ME THE FUCK OUT😱 and it’s twenty pages I’m never going to read!!!!!! I lied, I skimmed a few pages and exited after PGB started manically chasing his husband, trapping him in a net and asking his dick what to do now!!!!!!!! may they rest in peace🪦it’s obvious one fucked the other to death, I can’t be wrong!
WEIRD NONSENSICAL QUOTES: There were a bunch of metaphors that sneak up on you, none of them was good or appropriate. Please have some examples, in the first one PGB is actually on his back getting sucked by SAB and this is what he’s thinking, all poetic like….
“He drives his sword deep, and I fall to my knees on our battlefield, staring up at his blood-streaked face.”
“I grind my hard dick against his ass—a crash wave colliding with the shore.”
July 23, 2024
I wish the chokehold asphyxiated me
July 24, 2024
the only thing in a chokehold is my will to live after reading this book.
November 5, 2025
DNF @ 22%
First of all, this is strictly about the 22% I managed to suffer through. I did assume the rest was equally horrific, and no, I will not be verifying. Let me live.
Let’s unpack this literary war crime.
We opened with smut immediately. No introduction, no connection, no buildup—just a full-speed plunge into chaos with people I don’t even know yet. It felt like walking into a stranger’s house, sitting down for dinner, and someone just throws a raw chicken breast at your face.
THEN they tried to sprinkle in blackmail, because of course they did. Because why ease into insanity when you can jump into the deep end with bricks tied to your feet.
But let’s get to the reason I tapped out so fast: the characters. My GOD the characters. I wanted to grab every single one of them by the throat and shake them like a snow globe. They were ALL so insufferable. I couldn’t even root for the background extras.
One of them drugged his own stepbrother (yes, really) and both of their girlfriends. That’s not just a red flag, that’s a full military parade. He sat there smugly, knowing what he did, while the people around him, drugged and unaware, were being led into a situation that screamed assault.
Also, why did this man say “she’s squealing like a little piggy” while she was being assaulted mind you 💀
Let’s not pretend the rest of the story was any better. There was no story. There was just a rotating carousel of awful people doing awful things with no accountability, no logic, no emotional depth, and no clue what they were doing.
Also, the cheating girlfriend plot? Don’t care. He hated her anyway. Not justifying cheating, but everyone in this book was already in moral hell so what’s one more sin?
I hate that they’re not older because I can’t hate them to my full capacity without feeling like I need therapy.
Final notes:
If I ever recommend this to you, block me. Report me. Call the authorities.
This was not a book. It was a hostile experience.
Anyways thank you for reading my rant xx.
First of all, this is strictly about the 22% I managed to suffer through. I did assume the rest was equally horrific, and no, I will not be verifying. Let me live.
Let’s unpack this literary war crime.
We opened with smut immediately. No introduction, no connection, no buildup—just a full-speed plunge into chaos with people I don’t even know yet. It felt like walking into a stranger’s house, sitting down for dinner, and someone just throws a raw chicken breast at your face.
THEN they tried to sprinkle in blackmail, because of course they did. Because why ease into insanity when you can jump into the deep end with bricks tied to your feet.
But let’s get to the reason I tapped out so fast: the characters. My GOD the characters. I wanted to grab every single one of them by the throat and shake them like a snow globe. They were ALL so insufferable. I couldn’t even root for the background extras.
One of them drugged his own stepbrother (yes, really) and both of their girlfriends. That’s not just a red flag, that’s a full military parade. He sat there smugly, knowing what he did, while the people around him, drugged and unaware, were being led into a situation that screamed assault.
Also, why did this man say “she’s squealing like a little piggy” while she was being assaulted mind you 💀
Let’s not pretend the rest of the story was any better. There was no story. There was just a rotating carousel of awful people doing awful things with no accountability, no logic, no emotional depth, and no clue what they were doing.
Also, the cheating girlfriend plot? Don’t care. He hated her anyway. Not justifying cheating, but everyone in this book was already in moral hell so what’s one more sin?
I hate that they’re not older because I can’t hate them to my full capacity without feeling like I need therapy.
Final notes:
If I ever recommend this to you, block me. Report me. Call the authorities.
This was not a book. It was a hostile experience.
Anyways thank you for reading my rant xx.
July 1, 2024
I devour this book so fast and I wish I would’ve cherished it longer. I swear I could read about these boys until the end of time. I loved this story so much. The enemies to lovers was fucking ENEMIES TO LOVERS-ING SO HARD. The push and pull was so electric to read. Harleigh and Leigh are both incredible authors and this duo was fucking UNMATCHED. Y’all have to do this again. This was perfection. The hate. The love. The primal. The angst. The anger. Fuck man this was so fucking incredible!!!
July 11, 2026
༄˖°.🥀 ┆ 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 - 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬
⋆⭒˚.⋆ "𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝. 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒’𝑠 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑. 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒’𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝐼’𝑚 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑦𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑘." ⋆⭒˚.⋆
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬
🥀 Dark Romance
🖤 MM romance
🥀 Step Brothers
🖤 Possessive MMCs
🥀 Abusive Fathers
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
⋆⭒˚.⋆ 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞 ⋆⭒˚.⋆
┊5 / 5 ┊
⋆⭒˚.⋆ 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 ⋆⭒˚.⋆
┊a lot , check trigger warnings
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
જ⁀➴ for some reason before i started this book i was terrified to read mm but i decided to read it and OML, i can’t believe i waited so long. this book started off with a fricking bang, i saw another review complaning about the start going into it to fast, but my attention span literally needs a book to open up with a bang otherwise i’m gonna lose interest real quick, thankfully this book did.
i will say the whole cheating aspect in this book did pmo a bit, literally every character in this book cheated on someone. and the girls in this book were really portrayed badly, but all the girls in this book were bad, except for the mom.
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭
જ⁀➴ the reason i love leigh rivers books are because the always start off strong and stay strong throughout the book, there is also another author that wrote this book harleigh beck, rivers writes cole and beck writes blaise. that was also a reason i was iffy about this book cause i wasn’t sure how this would be and i was scared the writing style would like switch around since its co - written, but i didn’t notice anything and i will def be checking out the other author. anyway i literally just went off on a rant about that, but its okay
જ⁀➴ the plot was kinda predictable, i mean i knew like a little bit in what the third act conflict was gonna be, but that doesn’t really bother me that much , i just know that bothers other readers when a book is predictable.
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬
𖦹 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞
✒︎ oh my poor baby, from the start i loved cole so much, and that first scene with him was so hot i was literally giggling at my kindle like an idiot. at first he seems like this really mean , touch guy but once you get farther into the story and get to know him, you really start to see how much depth his character actually has, while also be a possessive bitch about blaise.
𖦹 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞
✒︎ blaise is so cute and hot and everything, he cares so deeply about cole and also is a possessive bitch too. blaise would do anything for cole and vice versu.
𖦹 𝐅𝐚𝐯 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬
✒︎ “ 𝐼’𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑎𝑦. 𝑆𝑜, 𝐼 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑦…𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡? ”
✒︎ “𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑒. 𝑆𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒? 𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑? 𝑇𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒? 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛? 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑒. 𝐼’𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑒.”
✒︎ “ 𝐼’𝑚 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑘. 𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒? “
✒︎ “𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠.” 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑏𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟.
“𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼’𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟.”
“𝑊𝑜𝑎ℎ,” 𝐼 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟. “𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒, 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥
જ⁀➴ this book was amazing and while writing this review i realized how much i really really loved it, ignore the scary mask on the front cover and the bad reviews and give this book a shot. if you love smut , unhinged men , and taboo then you’ll love this book.
༄˖°.🥀.ೃ࿔*:･ ┆ 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰:
blaise and cole are my favs now !! this book was actually so HOT, idk if i can move back to mf romance after this.
rtc...
༄˖°.🥀.ೃ࿔*:･ ┆ 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝:
first official mm romance … kinda scared but we’ll see how it goes
⋆⭒˚.⋆ "𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝. 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒’𝑠 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑. 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑒’𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝐼’𝑚 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑦𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑘." ⋆⭒˚.⋆
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬
🥀 Dark Romance
🖤 MM romance
🥀 Step Brothers
🖤 Possessive MMCs
🥀 Abusive Fathers
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
⋆⭒˚.⋆ 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞 ⋆⭒˚.⋆
┊5 / 5 ┊
⋆⭒˚.⋆ 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 ⋆⭒˚.⋆
┊a lot , check trigger warnings
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬
જ⁀➴ for some reason before i started this book i was terrified to read mm but i decided to read it and OML, i can’t believe i waited so long. this book started off with a fricking bang, i saw another review complaning about the start going into it to fast, but my attention span literally needs a book to open up with a bang otherwise i’m gonna lose interest real quick, thankfully this book did.
i will say the whole cheating aspect in this book did pmo a bit, literally every character in this book cheated on someone. and the girls in this book were really portrayed badly, but all the girls in this book were bad, except for the mom.
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭
જ⁀➴ the reason i love leigh rivers books are because the always start off strong and stay strong throughout the book, there is also another author that wrote this book harleigh beck, rivers writes cole and beck writes blaise. that was also a reason i was iffy about this book cause i wasn’t sure how this would be and i was scared the writing style would like switch around since its co - written, but i didn’t notice anything and i will def be checking out the other author. anyway i literally just went off on a rant about that, but its okay
જ⁀➴ the plot was kinda predictable, i mean i knew like a little bit in what the third act conflict was gonna be, but that doesn’t really bother me that much , i just know that bothers other readers when a book is predictable.
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬
𖦹 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞
✒︎ oh my poor baby, from the start i loved cole so much, and that first scene with him was so hot i was literally giggling at my kindle like an idiot. at first he seems like this really mean , touch guy but once you get farther into the story and get to know him, you really start to see how much depth his character actually has, while also be a possessive bitch about blaise.
𖦹 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞
✒︎ blaise is so cute and hot and everything, he cares so deeply about cole and also is a possessive bitch too. blaise would do anything for cole and vice versu.
𖦹 𝐅𝐚𝐯 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬
✒︎ “ 𝐼’𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑎𝑦. 𝑆𝑜, 𝐼 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑦…𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡? ”
✒︎ “𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑒. 𝑆𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑚𝑒? 𝐼𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑? 𝑇𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒? 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛? 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑒. 𝐼’𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑒.”
✒︎ “ 𝐼’𝑚 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑘. 𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒? “
✒︎ “𝑆𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠.” 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑏𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟.
“𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼’𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟.”
“𝑊𝑜𝑎ℎ,” 𝐼 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟. “𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒, 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
༄˖°.🥀 ┆𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥
જ⁀➴ this book was amazing and while writing this review i realized how much i really really loved it, ignore the scary mask on the front cover and the bad reviews and give this book a shot. if you love smut , unhinged men , and taboo then you’ll love this book.
༄˖°.🥀.ೃ࿔*:･ ┆ 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰:
blaise and cole are my favs now !! this book was actually so HOT, idk if i can move back to mf romance after this.
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༄˖°.🥀.ೃ࿔*:･ ┆ 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝:
first official mm romance … kinda scared but we’ll see how it goes
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June 12, 2026Was this the worst book I’ve ever read? Likely, yes.
Did i enjoy myself? well… that’s a complicated question….. i mean.. kinda 🤣🤣
During the first like 20% of this, the logical part of me told me to dnf this 100 different times because it really was so bad. But then…. It got a little better and lowkey i was pretty entertained by the shit show of blaise & cole
This was violent, bloody, gruesome, and immoral as fuck 🤣🤣🤣🤣 These two were fucking psychotic lmfao but I kind of loved them together like they were the most chaotic/scary duo 🤣💀
The spice in this once it got going was hot as fuuuuuuuuk omg. Like girl the shower scene was one of the hottest ive ever read. The scene when blaise came home in the middle of the night… wheeeewwwwww. yeah that was hot.
This had about a million different extremelyyyyyyy fucked up things in it. It was messy as hell and the way it described the women in this pmo soooo bad but i just kept on reading🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really only had a littleee bit of a difficult time reading one thing.
Around 80%, this had one of the most horrifically violent on-page domestic abuse/assault scenes I have ever read in my life. Actually, it was without a doubt the worst I have ever read. And it was not short. Like that made me sickkkk for Cole and his mom 💔
—> it didn’t change my reading experience or anything. I just thought I should mention it here for anyone else who might read this because it was very graphic. As was the rest of this book.
I’m not gonna rate this bc truly idk wtf i would rate it. Objectively, it was terrible but lowkey i kinda enjoyed myself so idk wtf to do with that 🤣🤣
Disclaimer: this is review is not my formal recommendation to anyone LOLLL. Read of your own volition 💀🤣
Did i enjoy myself? well… that’s a complicated question….. i mean.. kinda 🤣🤣
During the first like 20% of this, the logical part of me told me to dnf this 100 different times because it really was so bad. But then…. It got a little better and lowkey i was pretty entertained by the shit show of blaise & cole
This was violent, bloody, gruesome, and immoral as fuck 🤣🤣🤣🤣 These two were fucking psychotic lmfao but I kind of loved them together like they were the most chaotic/scary duo 🤣💀
The spice in this once it got going was hot as fuuuuuuuuk omg. Like girl the shower scene was one of the hottest ive ever read. The scene when blaise came home in the middle of the night… wheeeewwwwww. yeah that was hot.
This had about a million different extremelyyyyyyy fucked up things in it. It was messy as hell and the way it described the women in this pmo soooo bad but i just kept on reading🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really only had a littleee bit of a difficult time reading one thing.
Around 80%, this had one of the most horrifically violent on-page domestic abuse/assault scenes I have ever read in my life. Actually, it was without a doubt the worst I have ever read. And it was not short. Like that made me sickkkk for Cole and his mom 💔
—> it didn’t change my reading experience or anything. I just thought I should mention it here for anyone else who might read this because it was very graphic. As was the rest of this book.
I’m not gonna rate this bc truly idk wtf i would rate it. Objectively, it was terrible but lowkey i kinda enjoyed myself so idk wtf to do with that 🤣🤣
Disclaimer: this is review is not my formal recommendation to anyone LOLLL. Read of your own volition 💀🤣
July 23, 2024
Too much graphic m/f sex scenes. I'm alright with them if they add something to an m/m romance book but 35% into the book and most of the sex scenes have been m/f and were completely unnecessary. Authors should stick to writing straight erotica if they are so desperate to write so much straight smut in a supposed gay book. Like the guys have had atleast 7-8 graphic sex scenes with women and it's only at 35%. I don't wanna read about them eating out their gfs in graphic detail in an mm romance..tight cunt wet pussy... bro I'm done i thought this was supposed to be an mm romance..wtf.
May 19, 2025
This was so hilariously bad and OTT I loved it 😆😆
October 8, 2024
2.5 Stars 😗 Quando pego um dark romance MM para ler é pq quero ler uma porra de MM, se eu quisesse ver sexo MF eu pegava a porra de um livro MF, entendeu? Achei as cenas com as personagens femininas escrotas e desnecessárias. Além das personagens serem umas completas idiotas e vergonha alheia para qualquer mulher. Tirando essa besteira aí, o resto do livro foi interessante. Só não dei 3 estrelas por causa disso que mencionei, muitas cenas MF desnecessárias e até ridículas. Detesto MF pq boa parte das mulheres são ridículas em histórias assim, patéticas no nível extremo,então não quero ver essa merda em MM.
March 31, 2026
I need holy water after reading this level of spice 😅
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February 19, 2026
*4.5 - You know what I love more than a broken, unhinged and slightly psychotic man?
Another broken, unhinged and slightly psychotic man, who loves him 🥹❤️🩹
The only thing that would have made this 5 stars is less of the girlfriends, tysm 🙈
Another broken, unhinged and slightly psychotic man, who loves him 🥹❤️🩹
The only thing that would have made this 5 stars is less of the girlfriends, tysm 🙈
September 27, 2024
I wanted to love this book so bad….. I thought I was going to because it has my favorite themes. MM sign me up and Dark Romance it’s all I read so YES. But no it did not in fact chokehold me 😒
The book starts strong and I was excited, but then it falls flat and it’s exhausting and kinda boring. As I see in many comments, this book is very hit or missed, very love or hate. I’m unfortunately on the missed hate side. I guess I’m a hater ….
I was only able to tolerate 50% and I DNF .
There is a very fine line to do the enemies to lovers Dark Romance well and this book missed completely. The girlfriends are what annoyed me the most. The fact that Cole is this big bad quarterback and still dating this serial cheater of a girl who’s mostly annoying as fuck. The other girlfriend, Blaise’s is also annoying but less than Allie. Still she’s than hang up on the other brother. Let me tell you this book is messy and the plot is non existent till 80% “according to everyone who finished “ and I have no patience for that, I have many other books I rather read
The book starts strong and I was excited, but then it falls flat and it’s exhausting and kinda boring. As I see in many comments, this book is very hit or missed, very love or hate. I’m unfortunately on the missed hate side. I guess I’m a hater ….
I was only able to tolerate 50% and I DNF .
There is a very fine line to do the enemies to lovers Dark Romance well and this book missed completely. The girlfriends are what annoyed me the most. The fact that Cole is this big bad quarterback and still dating this serial cheater of a girl who’s mostly annoying as fuck. The other girlfriend, Blaise’s is also annoying but less than Allie. Still she’s than hang up on the other brother. Let me tell you this book is messy and the plot is non existent till 80% “according to everyone who finished “ and I have no patience for that, I have many other books I rather read
Did Not Finish
December 7, 2024DNF 14%
I can’t decide if it’s utterly shit or I’m just not in the mood.
Neeext ⏭️⏭️
I can’t decide if it’s utterly shit or I’m just not in the mood.
Neeext ⏭️⏭️
June 4, 2025
3⭐️
думаю книга зайшла б мені більше, якби тут було менше спайсі сцен.
блейз та коул сподобались, як і динаміка їх тваринної ненависті. нічого не маю проти відбитих характерів цих хлопців. хочуть жорстко дубасити один одного і бігати по лісу, втілюючи в реальність свою любов до primal play, або влаштовувати свінгер паті зі своїми дівчатами, або практикувати гру з диханням, та будь ласка, то їх справа 😎
але я знудилася через одноманітні сцени сексу та тупотінню на місці в першій половині книги. поки під кінець нарешті не дійшла до непоганого сюжету з сімейною драмою, емоційними моментами та невеликим екшеном.
краще, замість постійного траху, трохи більше приділили увагу розвитку стосунків гг. а то більша частина книги в них така смачна ненависть, неприязнь та напруга, і раптом вже кохають один одного. шось швидко перевзулись 😅
в плані жорстокості точно впізнаю ріверс. як і в спайсі сценах, вони добіса смачні. але не найкраща її книга. можливо тому що в співавторстві 🤷♀️
думаю книга зайшла б мені більше, якби тут було менше спайсі сцен.
блейз та коул сподобались, як і динаміка їх тваринної ненависті. нічого не маю проти відбитих характерів цих хлопців. хочуть жорстко дубасити один одного і бігати по лісу, втілюючи в реальність свою любов до primal play, або влаштовувати свінгер паті зі своїми дівчатами, або практикувати гру з диханням, та будь ласка, то їх справа 😎
але я знудилася через одноманітні сцени сексу та тупотінню на місці в першій половині книги. поки під кінець нарешті не дійшла до непоганого сюжету з сімейною драмою, емоційними моментами та невеликим екшеном.
краще, замість постійного траху, трохи більше приділили увагу розвитку стосунків гг. а то більша частина книги в них така смачна ненависть, неприязнь та напруга, і раптом вже кохають один одного. шось швидко перевзулись 😅
в плані жорстокості точно впізнаю ріверс. як і в спайсі сценах, вони добіса смачні. але не найкраща її книга. можливо тому що в співавторстві 🤷♀️
April 10, 2026
Dnf.
“You wouldn’t hurt me, Asher,” I whisper. “Not really.
DUDE... He hit you in the head with a hockey stick and has made you bleed like 100 times already... No
“You wouldn’t hurt me, Asher,” I whisper. “Not really.
DUDE... He hit you in the head with a hockey stick and has made you bleed like 100 times already... No
July 23, 2024
many thoughts
This book started so strong for me. I kept not wanting to put the book down …but then wanting to put it down to savour it…you know.
It made me scream, it made me anxious, it was hot …it made me MAD - quite possibly all the emotions you can think of. There are unlikeable characters. Cole is a precious baby and I love him and want to protect him at all costs.
The mum, dad, stepdad, Allie, Mia…they can all get in the BIN.
I did come to like Blaise in the end who quite frankly - was insane. 🤣👀
The middle section did feel a little long and I felt like maybe some bits were dragged out (but I enjoyed myself - kinda? Did I ?)
Were the plot points that were stupid ? Yes.
Did they make me want to rip my hair out? Also yes.
Is my hair still in tact ? Thankfully. And …88-90% genuinely made me do a “looks at the invisible camera across the room” moment.
But overall, this was an …enjoyable read. Complete carnage from the start. If you like unhinged crazy jealous and morally black men you’ll enjoy the hell outta this. The plot kinda went a bit too jumpy for me.
P.s. I was waiting for a fire joke …you know COLE and BLAISE … “he was the Cole that set my world ablaise” (I KNOW IT IS NOT SPELT THAT WAY BUT U GET IT)
This book started so strong for me. I kept not wanting to put the book down …but then wanting to put it down to savour it…you know.
It made me scream, it made me anxious, it was hot …it made me MAD - quite possibly all the emotions you can think of. There are unlikeable characters. Cole is a precious baby and I love him and want to protect him at all costs.
The mum, dad, stepdad, Allie, Mia…they can all get in the BIN.
I did come to like Blaise in the end who quite frankly - was insane. 🤣👀
The middle section did feel a little long and I felt like maybe some bits were dragged out (but I enjoyed myself - kinda? Did I ?)
Were the plot points that were stupid ? Yes.
Did they make me want to rip my hair out? Also yes.
Is my hair still in tact ? Thankfully. And …88-90% genuinely made me do a “looks at the invisible camera across the room” moment.
But overall, this was an …enjoyable read. Complete carnage from the start. If you like unhinged crazy jealous and morally black men you’ll enjoy the hell outta this. The plot kinda went a bit too jumpy for me.
P.s. I was waiting for a fire joke …you know COLE and BLAISE … “he was the Cole that set my world ablaise” (I KNOW IT IS NOT SPELT THAT WAY BUT U GET IT)
May 31, 2026
This was the most cringe, toxic, chaotic train wreck I’ve read in a minute… and I ate up every single second of it 😭🤡
Am I proud of myself? Absolutely not.
Did I look away? Also no. 💀
The decisions were questionable, the toxicity was through the roof, and the entire thing felt like watching a dumpster fire roll downhill in slow motion 🔥🚂 but somehow I was fully entertained the whole time 😭🖤
I’m honestly ashamed of how much fun I had with this 😂😩✨
I also think these people were made of Vibranium because the amount of physical trauma they both endured throughout this entire book needs to be studied 😭💀 Every time they got a chance to heal, here came another catastrophic event. Whew 😮💨
But hey, at least it got me out of my reading slump 😭📚💨 and at this point that deserves a star all by itself 💀🖤
Am I proud of myself? Absolutely not.
Did I look away? Also no. 💀
The decisions were questionable, the toxicity was through the roof, and the entire thing felt like watching a dumpster fire roll downhill in slow motion 🔥🚂 but somehow I was fully entertained the whole time 😭🖤
I’m honestly ashamed of how much fun I had with this 😂😩✨
I also think these people were made of Vibranium because the amount of physical trauma they both endured throughout this entire book needs to be studied 😭💀 Every time they got a chance to heal, here came another catastrophic event. Whew 😮💨
But hey, at least it got me out of my reading slump 😭📚💨 and at this point that deserves a star all by itself 💀🖤
April 12, 2026
1/5⭐️
I knew what I was getting into, but I have to ask anyway. What in the Meeska Mooska Mickey fuck is this book?
Chokehold has been my personal jumpscare for 6 months straight. I saw the cover one day and thought, "oh this actually looks good! What could possibly go wrong?"
.....A LOT. I quickly learned that it’s a full-blown shitstorm of deranged psychopaths with very, VERY (and I cannot stress this enough) OTT plot twists. So I closed the tab and decided to protect my peace.
But this shit kept crawling back into my feed like a cursed entity. It was also on my kindle screaming "Because you liked *blank*, you’ll LOVE this!” EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. And my reaction was always:
Until I lost the will to resist and opened this 400-page piece of shit… and then I couldn’t even put it down. It was terrible, but I had so much fun that I devoured it in 2 days. 2 DAYS! MAKE IT MAKE SENSE????!!!!!
So let’s unpack this Shakespeare’s piece of work:
1. These two step-fuckers made me actually think they’re runaway patients from my local mental hospital. They beat the living shit out of each other, DRUGGED each other, cut and nearly gutted one another, smashed the other’s head with a baseball bat, hockey stick, and (to make it more family-friendly, I suppose) a branch.
...Because it’s hot and it makes them hard. Their words, not mine.
And NOT ONCE do they need to go to the hospital. Not a single fucking time. They could have broken ribs, noses, cracked skulls, completely destroyed knuckles, been bleeding like goddamn dogs, and YET they’re perfectly fine the next morning.
2. Their jealousy should be studied and classified as a mental illness. Cole is jealous because Blaise meets with a masked guy he sleeps with. And guess what? The masked guy is... in fact.... *drum roll*..... COLE HIMSELF!!! So yes, he is jealous of HIMSELF. Literally. What in the actual fuck?
And Blaise is jealous of nature because Cole ejaculated all over a tree.
3. There are some genuinely life-questioning lines that make zero sense being in this book and serve no purpose whatsoever. For example:
“I bet my girlfriend’s non-existent virginity on it.” - Sorry, what? What is the purpose of this sentence? And why, of all things, did you choose her... WHAT?
“The police are as useless as a sloppy condom in a trash can.” - Again, what the fuck? What is this comparison? He could have said ANYTHING but decided to vomit this BS instead. Please help me.
4. The big return of the term “back hole” in MM books. Please, for the love of God, just say asshole instead. Men don’t have a front hole, so adding “back” is very unnecessary.
This shit haunted me throughout the entire book, I swear. Just when I thought I’d never see it again, it came back. Even at 99%, it’s there.
If this didn’t scare you enough yet, here are some quotes to top it off:
🔖 “She’ll probably try to make me fuck her into the dirt like some rape fantasy where she begs me to stop. She loves that.”
🔖 “She’s squealing like a little piggy”
🔖 “Technically, I have cheated. I fucked Blaise’s throat and stroked him to an orgasm, but that doesn’t count.” - Oh right, it doesn’t count when it’s him 👍
🔖 “We’re both chameleons in our unique ways, hiding behind impenetrable walls and cracked masks.”
🔖 “I really fucking hate him, but there’s something within me that also wants to protect him.” - Said after he smashed his head with a hockey stick
🔖 “He presses two slick fingers inside me, using my own blood as lube.”
🔖 “I look at my big bulge. “What do you say, Blaise junior, shall we free him?” - Yes, he’s talking to his own dick
And that’s the nail in my coffin. Good fucking bye.
I knew what I was getting into, but I have to ask anyway. What in the Meeska Mooska Mickey fuck is this book?
Chokehold has been my personal jumpscare for 6 months straight. I saw the cover one day and thought, "oh this actually looks good! What could possibly go wrong?"
.....A LOT. I quickly learned that it’s a full-blown shitstorm of deranged psychopaths with very, VERY (and I cannot stress this enough) OTT plot twists. So I closed the tab and decided to protect my peace.
But this shit kept crawling back into my feed like a cursed entity. It was also on my kindle screaming "Because you liked *blank*, you’ll LOVE this!” EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. And my reaction was always:
Until I lost the will to resist and opened this 400-page piece of shit… and then I couldn’t even put it down. It was terrible, but I had so much fun that I devoured it in 2 days. 2 DAYS! MAKE IT MAKE SENSE????!!!!!
So let’s unpack this Shakespeare’s piece of work:
1. These two step-fuckers made me actually think they’re runaway patients from my local mental hospital. They beat the living shit out of each other, DRUGGED each other, cut and nearly gutted one another, smashed the other’s head with a baseball bat, hockey stick, and (to make it more family-friendly, I suppose) a branch.
...Because it’s hot and it makes them hard. Their words, not mine.
And NOT ONCE do they need to go to the hospital. Not a single fucking time. They could have broken ribs, noses, cracked skulls, completely destroyed knuckles, been bleeding like goddamn dogs, and YET they’re perfectly fine the next morning.
2. Their jealousy should be studied and classified as a mental illness. Cole is jealous because Blaise meets with a masked guy he sleeps with. And guess what? The masked guy is... in fact.... *drum roll*..... COLE HIMSELF!!! So yes, he is jealous of HIMSELF. Literally. What in the actual fuck?
And Blaise is jealous of nature because Cole ejaculated all over a tree.
3. There are some genuinely life-questioning lines that make zero sense being in this book and serve no purpose whatsoever. For example:
“I bet my girlfriend’s non-existent virginity on it.” - Sorry, what? What is the purpose of this sentence? And why, of all things, did you choose her... WHAT?
“The police are as useless as a sloppy condom in a trash can.” - Again, what the fuck? What is this comparison? He could have said ANYTHING but decided to vomit this BS instead. Please help me.
4. The big return of the term “back hole” in MM books. Please, for the love of God, just say asshole instead. Men don’t have a front hole, so adding “back” is very unnecessary.
This shit haunted me throughout the entire book, I swear. Just when I thought I’d never see it again, it came back. Even at 99%, it’s there.
If this didn’t scare you enough yet, here are some quotes to top it off:
🔖 “She’ll probably try to make me fuck her into the dirt like some rape fantasy where she begs me to stop. She loves that.”
🔖 “She’s squealing like a little piggy”
🔖 “Technically, I have cheated. I fucked Blaise’s throat and stroked him to an orgasm, but that doesn’t count.” - Oh right, it doesn’t count when it’s him 👍
🔖 “We’re both chameleons in our unique ways, hiding behind impenetrable walls and cracked masks.”
🔖 “I really fucking hate him, but there’s something within me that also wants to protect him.” - Said after he smashed his head with a hockey stick
🔖 “He presses two slick fingers inside me, using my own blood as lube.”
🔖 “I look at my big bulge. “What do you say, Blaise junior, shall we free him?” - Yes, he’s talking to his own dick
And that’s the nail in my coffin. Good fucking bye.
July 12, 2024
Is that what you want Blaise? To be f*cked to within an inch of your life and left ruined and covered in c*m?
A book by 2 of my favourite authors, I was so excited to start reading this and it did NOT disappoint. Boy, that escalated quickly! 🤯 I freaking LOVE the hate-love in this book. It's dark, twisted, depraved and spicy af. I'm so here for it. I'd say this book had me in a chokehold, but let's say it had me in a death grip instead. WHEW! 🥵
This book was hard to put down. Were I not interrupted, by life...rude...I would have finished it in one sitting. I liked the storyline, I liked the spice and I love how psycho the 2 MMC's are. The double gay/bi awakening was fun to read. The ending was a HEA, but we had to really get there tough some rough stuff. I loved it. I devoured this book, Harleigh and Leigh delivered a great, dark MM read and I'm excited for everyone to read it soon! It goes straight to my favourites list.
In this book you'll find:
🖤 DARK romance
🖤 MM step brothers
🖤 Enemies to lovers
🖤 Cheating (not between MMC's
🖤 Masks
🖤 Primal
🖤Somno
🖤 Dubcon/Noncon
🖤 🔪play
🖤 Fearplay
🖤 Possessive MMC's
🖤 Traumatic pasts
🖤 HEA
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5
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⚠️As always, read the triggers warnings before diving in.⚠️
A book by 2 of my favourite authors, I was so excited to start reading this and it did NOT disappoint. Boy, that escalated quickly! 🤯 I freaking LOVE the hate-love in this book. It's dark, twisted, depraved and spicy af. I'm so here for it. I'd say this book had me in a chokehold, but let's say it had me in a death grip instead. WHEW! 🥵
This book was hard to put down. Were I not interrupted, by life...rude...I would have finished it in one sitting. I liked the storyline, I liked the spice and I love how psycho the 2 MMC's are. The double gay/bi awakening was fun to read. The ending was a HEA, but we had to really get there tough some rough stuff. I loved it. I devoured this book, Harleigh and Leigh delivered a great, dark MM read and I'm excited for everyone to read it soon! It goes straight to my favourites list.
In this book you'll find:
🖤 DARK romance
🖤 MM step brothers
🖤 Enemies to lovers
🖤 Cheating (not between MMC's
🖤 Masks
🖤 Primal
🖤Somno
🖤 Dubcon/Noncon
🖤 🔪play
🖤 Fearplay
🖤 Possessive MMC's
🖤 Traumatic pasts
🖤 HEA
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️/5
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⚠️As always, read the triggers warnings before diving in.⚠️
July 13, 2024
Sex right at the start. Then a lot more sex. No buildup, no foreplay. No chemistry. Dry as the Sahara. I needed to know who the main characters first to be able to buy the mindfuckery, but the all the sex and games left little space for deeper characterization. What do you call a dark romance with flat characters? Boring, that's what. If you're not horny before reading, you likely won't be.
I read Forbidden by Alessandra Hazard a few hours prior, and this doesn't hold a candle to how hot that story was.
I read Forbidden by Alessandra Hazard a few hours prior, and this doesn't hold a candle to how hot that story was.
July 18, 2024
DNF @ 52%. I don’t normally rate books I DNF but I did not like this. The characters were flat and unrealistic. Disappointed because I usually like books by these authors. This was a poor portrayal of MM romance. This read as a MM romance written for straight women to sexualize gay men…bad vibes.
dnr-not-safe
July 14, 2024Self note:
This is filled with OWD, sharing and cheating as both MMCs sleep with each other’s girlfriends😒 And their goal is literally to make each other jealous by doing that😒🥴😪
This is filled with OWD, sharing and cheating as both MMCs sleep with each other’s girlfriends😒 And their goal is literally to make each other jealous by doing that😒🥴😪
July 14, 2024
I should’ve DNFed this
May 2, 2026
I like dark romance. I like MM romance. I can handle toxic.This was just not it.There’s basically no plot. It’s just toxic behavior over and over again, and I honestly didn’t care if Blaise and Cole ended up together. That’s a problem.
This is supposed to be stepbrothers enemies-to-lovers, but it doesn’t hit. Nothing really makes sense, and instead of feeling intense or emotional, it just feels uncomfortable.
The smut, Way too much with zero emotional connection. If there’s no story behind it, it just feels empty. I’m not even trying to be harsh I just can’t find anything positive to say about this one.
Verdict:
Don’t recommend. There are way better dark romances out there.
This is supposed to be stepbrothers enemies-to-lovers, but it doesn’t hit. Nothing really makes sense, and instead of feeling intense or emotional, it just feels uncomfortable.
The smut, Way too much with zero emotional connection. If there’s no story behind it, it just feels empty. I’m not even trying to be harsh I just can’t find anything positive to say about this one.
Verdict:
Don’t recommend. There are way better dark romances out there.
July 12, 2024
this was so disappointing
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