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Mariyah Hayworth is always getting in some sort of trouble. A simple visit to see her brother in prison turns out to be the beginning of nightmare for Mariyah. Zak Michaels, the top dog at the maximum security prison sees her and wants her. He was one not to be messed with, he could make anybody's life a living hell. Turns out Zak wanted Mariyah to visit him once a week, if she refused he would hurt her brother. To Mariyah's dismay it was not your ordinary visit. Zak had visitation privileges, where he had access to a room for an hour a week and this is where Mariyah was to meet him. Mariyah was quick to discover what his intentions were, but could she refuse him and her brother at risk? This is a adults only book, it contains material of sex and submission and violence. It is recommended for readers 18 years and over.
275 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 4, 2015
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E.L. Beth
122 books248 followersI began writing dark erotica in 2014. I found that it really irritated me how authors bring down their male leads and make love stories sappy. I continually began to feel unfulfilled with reading. So I wrote a book how I like to read it. I find that although my stories are full on and seem a bit much, so many of my readers have connected to them. I try to tone it down ever so often in my books, but I find I write better the harder the material I write about.
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January 7, 2026This is E.L. Beth's work... please watch out for TWs. DO NOT READ THIS if you are sensitive to domestic violence, cheating and sexual assault.
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April 16, 2016
WTF did I just read? My mind is boggled. This is like a modern day bodice ripper.
To be fair...I was warned about E.L. Beth's Books. That her hero's were mean SOB's without redemption. This book was like a horrible accident that I just couldn't look away from. Triggers galore people!!
The hero was horrible/mean/prick....the heroine was TSTL and yet I continued to read it. I have reading issues. :(
To be fair...I was warned about E.L. Beth's Books. That her hero's were mean SOB's without redemption. This book was like a horrible accident that I just couldn't look away from. Triggers galore people!!
The hero was horrible/mean/prick....the heroine was TSTL and yet I continued to read it. I have reading issues. :(
January 3, 2017
Mariyah is an idiot. There's no getting around that. She's immature and even has she has the thought I should really shut up, she continues saying stupid things that make her situation worse. Her brother, Caleb, has looked out for her their entire lives, yet she ignores his advice which makes their situation worse. Once Zak enters the picture, he's upfront with how things are between the two of them, but she invents a relationship in her head, and still acts like an immature idiot.
The saving grace here? Zak.
He's a complete jerk, but I loved him. I love him because he wasn't the kind of guy to pretend, blindsiding the girl with his infidelity or abuse. No, he told her if she kept talking he'd smack her. He told her she was nothing special and of course he had other women. And he followed through.
He humiliates her repeatedly, and she doesn't understand why she's aroused by it. I thought it was sexy as hell too so no judgment here. What I will judge is how stupid she is and the complete lack of editing in this book. So, three and half stars.
The saving grace here? Zak.
He's a complete jerk, but I loved him. I love him because he wasn't the kind of guy to pretend, blindsiding the girl with his infidelity or abuse. No, he told her if she kept talking he'd smack her. He told her she was nothing special and of course he had other women. And he followed through.
He humiliates her repeatedly, and she doesn't understand why she's aroused by it. I thought it was sexy as hell too so no judgment here. What I will judge is how stupid she is and the complete lack of editing in this book. So, three and half stars.
January 8, 2023
2.5 Stars
I started this book about mid December and finally finished it. Mostly because I'm on a reading slump, but also, this book wasn't very good (and not only because of the editing issues).
What did I think?
The Bastard's Bride was executed much better. The main male character is almost a replica of Bastard's. I'm assuming all of this author's MMCs will be the same--sociopathic. The lack of redemption doesn't bother me, but the lack of grovel definitely does. The MFC is subjected to lots of abuse, and for the most part, she's dense, lead by her UNFORTUNATE Body Betraying Syndrome and her undying love for the MMC. I don't even know what she loves about him. This goes beyond Stockholm Syndrome. And I doubt what he feels is love. It's a sick obsession. Anyway, I got what I needed from this book.
Note: She has a miscarriage because of him and they never once discuss it; they just continue on as if it never happened. She didn't want to talk about it and he goes on abusing her. Tragic.
Warning: These books are not foreveryone most.
I started this book about mid December and finally finished it. Mostly because I'm on a reading slump, but also, this book wasn't very good (and not only because of the editing issues).
What did I think?
The Bastard's Bride was executed much better. The main male character is almost a replica of Bastard's. I'm assuming all of this author's MMCs will be the same--sociopathic. The lack of redemption doesn't bother me, but the lack of grovel definitely does. The MFC is subjected to lots of abuse, and for the most part, she's dense, lead by her UNFORTUNATE Body Betraying Syndrome and her undying love for the MMC. I don't even know what she loves about him. This goes beyond Stockholm Syndrome. And I doubt what he feels is love. It's a sick obsession. Anyway, I got what I needed from this book.
Note: She has a miscarriage because of him and they never once discuss it; they just continue on as if it never happened. She didn't want to talk about it and he goes on abusing her. Tragic.
Warning: These books are not for
July 24, 2022
1,5 ⭐
This book was the definition of a train wreck. You can't help to watch even if you don't want to.
Plot, writing, pacing: all over the place
This book had everything :
🟥 non con/ straight up r*pe
🟥 Cheating Hero who beats up the h constantly
🟥 Miscarriage
🟥 Doormat/dumb heroine
Safety readers: avoid it at all costs.
+0,5 ⭐ only because some part of me wanted to finish it, maybe call it morbid curiosity.
This book was the definition of a train wreck. You can't help to watch even if you don't want to.
Plot, writing, pacing: all over the place
This book had everything :
🟥 non con/ straight up r*pe
🟥 Cheating Hero who beats up the h constantly
🟥 Miscarriage
🟥 Doormat/dumb heroine
Safety readers: avoid it at all costs.
+0,5 ⭐ only because some part of me wanted to finish it, maybe call it morbid curiosity.
March 2, 2026
Up front, the writing is terrible, including very basic mistakes the author should have caught if she had bothered to do a single read through after typing it, including,'he' when it should be'she', 'her' instead of 'he'. She clearly didn't care to check for mistakes before publishing, completely unprofessional. Much of the plot was unbelievable even for fiction, the dialogue was too proper making it robotic sounding and some of the dialogue was so bad it made me cringe.
As for the story, it's a cheating domestic abuser for a H, Zak Michaels, an inmate in the prison the female lead's brother has been sentenced to, who forces her into visiting him once weekly for sex or he'll hurt or even kill her brother. The author writes the sex scenes as completely unpleasant and violent, example, "it feels like he's causes her insides to tear", not what I want to read.
But believe it or not, the H wasn't even the biggest issue I had with the book, it was the too stupid to live, selfish, immature heroine. She gets her brother sent to prison, attacked by a prison guard, beaten badly by the H, all because she's so stupid, immature and selfish she keeps mouthing off to men she knows can and do hurt her brother because of her. Then she gets him beaten and nearly killed again, after selfishly leaving him to work himself to exhaustion and get in more danger because he's trying to save her.
Caleb needed to run and leave her to Zak. She was horrible, annoying and unlikable to read to the end. The author has her insanely and stupidly declaring she has fallen in love with Zak after only seeing him for one hour once a week for 5 weeks, so 5 hours total. Actually, it's less than 5 hours because he sleeps during one visits and ends another visit after 20 minutes or so. So 3 and a bit hours and she's declaring she lives him, when hits her, he strikes her across her face, he sexually hurts her, and he beats the hell out of her innocent brother. But she falls in loves with him. Seriously? it's awful stuff.
It all moves too fast with that. There's only around 20% set in the prison. It's then followed by 15% of the heroine whining about her poor woe me self pity and crying to hernewly freed from prison brother and her trainer, after they are free from Zake, it's psinfully boring reading. Then unfortunately there's even more of it later in the book. The author should have cut all the whining thoughts by the heroine and put more scenes in this between the H & h in the prison to maje it a bit more believable that she could start to develop feelings for him.
But obviously I gave 3 stars, because I love dark romance, it's my favourite genre, and I have to admit I like how cold Zak was. I liked that his character was how he was, taking what he wanted, no sudden 180 to his nature. He could have been feshed out a little and ut wouldn't have taken much at all. Like in the scene he first effs the heroine, it would have only taken one added sentence to show her stupidity and naivety that she really actually believed the big bad prisoner demanded she visit him was because he only wanted a nice girl to talk too. The right worded sentence added here to relate his shock that she could be so stupid/naive wouldn have shown the differences in their lives, him a hard, brutal bastard, her a protected, spoiled by her brother innocent.
I did have to read between the lines in some of this, or maybe it was more like I inferred things that weren't written here to make it nore enjoyable. So I can understand if it gets low ratings by some readers but I can also understand why it gets high ratings by other readers. Even though I really didn't like the heroine, I did like how she went toe to toe with Zak, she drives the big bad guy to frustration and it's kind of funny. The second half reveals his development, how he had wanted her to live with him at that big fancy ocean cliff mansion, he was doing what he was to get free of his prison sentence to give it a go at being with her. So, there is some redemption while staying true to his nature, which was good.
It doesn't excuse his abuse of her, and so it is hard to like this author's books because the males are flat out violent abusers. I did have to blank those senes to enjoy EL Beth books. Honestly there was no need for the brutal beatings and kickings the author writes her male leads inflicting on her heroines. just slight physical use of force would have been more than enough to make the books dark romance, without putting readers off. But the author comments in her bio that she writes what she likes, so guess domestic abusers is just a fact of her books. So do be warned about that.
3 stars for the parts I did like and I did like quite a bit of this. I even read a few other books by the author, Skyes Heart, Fallen, Jake's story, Bastards bride and Blacks Brothers series. The Blacks Brothers was especially difficult reading because the men are even more over the top and excessively physically abusive to their heroines. But while those books I listed did have good premises and gave a background reason for the men being as cold as they were, unfortunately all this author's books have the same problems with poor writing and increasingly violent abusers, like Joshua in the Blacks Brothers Forbidden Fruit book, not pleasant.
After trying the free sample chapters for a few more of the author's books however I saw an even bigger problem, the author just writes the same story over and over and over. It's so bad it looks like she has copied and pasted entire sections of dialogue and actions by the characters throughout all her books. I doubt that she actually did copy and paste them but it is like she literally just changed the characters names, added a somewhat different way that the H&h meet, then hit publish.
It means that unfortunately if you've read one of EL Beth's books then you've really read them all. It did make for tiresome reading when trying to read more of her books. And its the reason I stopped reading her, because her books are also very expensive at £5 per ebook. I don't want to read what is just same story repeated again and again to a tedious degree like she only changed the characters names, and I'm definitely not willing to pay £5 a pop for it.
Just an additional note, I do like a good prioner based book, I read any I can find, even prison planet scifi. My favourites of those are Hold by Claire Kent and Guardian Prison Planet by Emmy Chandler. With real-life based stories there aren't many options for male prisoners to have access to women, so it's understandable thst they all have the sane theme of a prisoner coercing either a sister, wife or adult daughter of another inmate visiting, or a female working at the prison, like a teacher, nurse etc The author herself has a second book were the heroine is the lawyer of the inmate, Aquitted. So the same theme is understandable, I'm not complaining as I love the theme.
But outside of that understandable same theme by different authors in prison based books by different authors, I did think the heroine here is the same as Jamie Begley's heroine, in her book called Predators MC Riot, published a year before this, who got her brother landed in prison after attacking a guy she had flirted with, exactly like here. The prison and billionaire elements also reminded me of books by Annika Martin, particularly her Prisoner. Amazon deleted my reviews so leaving them here, first read this book Caged in 2018.
As for the story, it's a cheating domestic abuser for a H, Zak Michaels, an inmate in the prison the female lead's brother has been sentenced to, who forces her into visiting him once weekly for sex or he'll hurt or even kill her brother. The author writes the sex scenes as completely unpleasant and violent, example, "it feels like he's causes her insides to tear", not what I want to read.
But believe it or not, the H wasn't even the biggest issue I had with the book, it was the too stupid to live, selfish, immature heroine. She gets her brother sent to prison, attacked by a prison guard, beaten badly by the H, all because she's so stupid, immature and selfish she keeps mouthing off to men she knows can and do hurt her brother because of her. Then she gets him beaten and nearly killed again, after selfishly leaving him to work himself to exhaustion and get in more danger because he's trying to save her.
Caleb needed to run and leave her to Zak. She was horrible, annoying and unlikable to read to the end. The author has her insanely and stupidly declaring she has fallen in love with Zak after only seeing him for one hour once a week for 5 weeks, so 5 hours total. Actually, it's less than 5 hours because he sleeps during one visits and ends another visit after 20 minutes or so. So 3 and a bit hours and she's declaring she lives him, when hits her, he strikes her across her face, he sexually hurts her, and he beats the hell out of her innocent brother. But she falls in loves with him. Seriously? it's awful stuff.
It all moves too fast with that. There's only around 20% set in the prison. It's then followed by 15% of the heroine whining about her poor woe me self pity and crying to hernewly freed from prison brother and her trainer, after they are free from Zake, it's psinfully boring reading. Then unfortunately there's even more of it later in the book. The author should have cut all the whining thoughts by the heroine and put more scenes in this between the H & h in the prison to maje it a bit more believable that she could start to develop feelings for him.
But obviously I gave 3 stars, because I love dark romance, it's my favourite genre, and I have to admit I like how cold Zak was. I liked that his character was how he was, taking what he wanted, no sudden 180 to his nature. He could have been feshed out a little and ut wouldn't have taken much at all. Like in the scene he first effs the heroine, it would have only taken one added sentence to show her stupidity and naivety that she really actually believed the big bad prisoner demanded she visit him was because he only wanted a nice girl to talk too. The right worded sentence added here to relate his shock that she could be so stupid/naive wouldn have shown the differences in their lives, him a hard, brutal bastard, her a protected, spoiled by her brother innocent.
I did have to read between the lines in some of this, or maybe it was more like I inferred things that weren't written here to make it nore enjoyable. So I can understand if it gets low ratings by some readers but I can also understand why it gets high ratings by other readers. Even though I really didn't like the heroine, I did like how she went toe to toe with Zak, she drives the big bad guy to frustration and it's kind of funny. The second half reveals his development, how he had wanted her to live with him at that big fancy ocean cliff mansion, he was doing what he was to get free of his prison sentence to give it a go at being with her. So, there is some redemption while staying true to his nature, which was good.
It doesn't excuse his abuse of her, and so it is hard to like this author's books because the males are flat out violent abusers. I did have to blank those senes to enjoy EL Beth books. Honestly there was no need for the brutal beatings and kickings the author writes her male leads inflicting on her heroines. just slight physical use of force would have been more than enough to make the books dark romance, without putting readers off. But the author comments in her bio that she writes what she likes, so guess domestic abusers is just a fact of her books. So do be warned about that.
3 stars for the parts I did like and I did like quite a bit of this. I even read a few other books by the author, Skyes Heart, Fallen, Jake's story, Bastards bride and Blacks Brothers series. The Blacks Brothers was especially difficult reading because the men are even more over the top and excessively physically abusive to their heroines. But while those books I listed did have good premises and gave a background reason for the men being as cold as they were, unfortunately all this author's books have the same problems with poor writing and increasingly violent abusers, like Joshua in the Blacks Brothers Forbidden Fruit book, not pleasant.
After trying the free sample chapters for a few more of the author's books however I saw an even bigger problem, the author just writes the same story over and over and over. It's so bad it looks like she has copied and pasted entire sections of dialogue and actions by the characters throughout all her books. I doubt that she actually did copy and paste them but it is like she literally just changed the characters names, added a somewhat different way that the H&h meet, then hit publish.
It means that unfortunately if you've read one of EL Beth's books then you've really read them all. It did make for tiresome reading when trying to read more of her books. And its the reason I stopped reading her, because her books are also very expensive at £5 per ebook. I don't want to read what is just same story repeated again and again to a tedious degree like she only changed the characters names, and I'm definitely not willing to pay £5 a pop for it.
Just an additional note, I do like a good prioner based book, I read any I can find, even prison planet scifi. My favourites of those are Hold by Claire Kent and Guardian Prison Planet by Emmy Chandler. With real-life based stories there aren't many options for male prisoners to have access to women, so it's understandable thst they all have the sane theme of a prisoner coercing either a sister, wife or adult daughter of another inmate visiting, or a female working at the prison, like a teacher, nurse etc The author herself has a second book were the heroine is the lawyer of the inmate, Aquitted. So the same theme is understandable, I'm not complaining as I love the theme.
But outside of that understandable same theme by different authors in prison based books by different authors, I did think the heroine here is the same as Jamie Begley's heroine, in her book called Predators MC Riot, published a year before this, who got her brother landed in prison after attacking a guy she had flirted with, exactly like here. The prison and billionaire elements also reminded me of books by Annika Martin, particularly her Prisoner. Amazon deleted my reviews so leaving them here, first read this book Caged in 2018.
avoid
May 5, 2022Cheater H
April 17, 2016
WTF? Why am I such a book whore that I can't say no?
October 10, 2023
well
It’s definitely not for the faint hearted. If you don’t like cheating or physical violence. Skip this one. I hate cheating and never read it but for some reason I was intrigued with this even after reading all the reviews. I gave it a try and while I didn’t like. It fit the story and the couple. I read so many reviews talking about how they hate h. She was so weak and stupid and never kept her mouth shut. But while at times she should have at the same time I found her stronger for going toe to toe w him. I think that is what’s he fell for somewhat. I didn’t find her weak. Stupid at times yes. But u could call that immaturity. A lot of people raved about the H and he did horrible things. But the poor h was stupid. Go figure.
It’s definitely not for the faint hearted. If you don’t like cheating or physical violence. Skip this one. I hate cheating and never read it but for some reason I was intrigued with this even after reading all the reviews. I gave it a try and while I didn’t like. It fit the story and the couple. I read so many reviews talking about how they hate h. She was so weak and stupid and never kept her mouth shut. But while at times she should have at the same time I found her stronger for going toe to toe w him. I think that is what’s he fell for somewhat. I didn’t find her weak. Stupid at times yes. But u could call that immaturity. A lot of people raved about the H and he did horrible things. But the poor h was stupid. Go figure.
January 16, 2019
4 stars for this unedited book, Zak who meets Mariyah while visiting her brother in prison makes her come to visit him every month if she wants to keep her brother safe. Blackmailed. He is one hell of an abusive Alpha, it's his way all the way, he gets rough with the heroine and is not sorry. Mariyah loves him, beast and all, he is with other women(but no detail's are told) This book was so out there, I'm surprized I did not hate the M/C , he has a cruel side which was scary. This is a dark read and the Hero is not so nice, but it kept me turning the pages and looking for other works of this author:))
August 13, 2020
Ngl I've read most of her stories out of boredom in the corona lockdown and they all sound exactly the same. No plot, just same old thing over and over again. With petty arguments, unnessary drama and out of the way logic that beats common sense and a emotionally and physically abusive dude with a timid sometime faisty heroine. Repetitive to the point u would think ur reading the same story 100 times with different character names.
did-not-finish
December 4, 2024DNF
The writing was all over the place. Nothing made any sense.
The writing was all over the place. Nothing made any sense.
June 13, 2025
CAGED BY E.L Beth
Rating: 2 stars
Burn: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Darkness:🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Heat: 🔥🥵
Range of Emotions: Many emotions, around why I read this, from shaking my head at some stupid MFC, the abuse she had suffered at his hands. The idiot nickname “Kid.” Cheating asshole!
Ending: end period, no room for a sequel or epilogue.
POV: Female lead
🗂 Genre: Should be Dark Romance, but I found it just to be stupid
✨ Tropes:
💋 Kinks: Belt whipping, spanking, control over the female
⚠️ Warning: The story contains themes of rape and non-consensual situations, as well as abuse directed towards the female lead—this includes physical, emotional, sexual, and mental abuse by the main male character. At one point, the male lead engages in non-consensual acts while in prison, sometimes without condoms. This leads to a miscarriage following an incident of rape. Additionally, there is a discussion of semi-cheating while in prison, and after his release, the male lead cheats on the female lead with his fiancée.
🚩 Safety Squad: Nothing is safe!
📣 Type: Adult
The characters in this story really frustrated me! The female lead was incredibly annoying; her decisions often seemed mind-bogglingly foolish, leaving me wondering how anyone could be so naive and oblivious. And the male lead? I found myself wishing he would just disappear entirely. His actions were infuriating and showed a complete lack of depth or consideration, making it hard to root for him at all. Overall, I felt a deep sense of dissatisfaction with both of their portrayals.
Rating: 2 stars
Burn: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Darkness:🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Heat: 🔥🥵
Range of Emotions: Many emotions, around why I read this, from shaking my head at some stupid MFC, the abuse she had suffered at his hands. The idiot nickname “Kid.” Cheating asshole!
Ending: end period, no room for a sequel or epilogue.
POV: Female lead
🗂 Genre: Should be Dark Romance, but I found it just to be stupid
✨ Tropes:
💋 Kinks: Belt whipping, spanking, control over the female
⚠️ Warning: The story contains themes of rape and non-consensual situations, as well as abuse directed towards the female lead—this includes physical, emotional, sexual, and mental abuse by the main male character. At one point, the male lead engages in non-consensual acts while in prison, sometimes without condoms. This leads to a miscarriage following an incident of rape. Additionally, there is a discussion of semi-cheating while in prison, and after his release, the male lead cheats on the female lead with his fiancée.
🚩 Safety Squad: Nothing is safe!
📣 Type: Adult
The characters in this story really frustrated me! The female lead was incredibly annoying; her decisions often seemed mind-bogglingly foolish, leaving me wondering how anyone could be so naive and oblivious. And the male lead? I found myself wishing he would just disappear entirely. His actions were infuriating and showed a complete lack of depth or consideration, making it hard to root for him at all. Overall, I felt a deep sense of dissatisfaction with both of their portrayals.
June 30, 2024
A Typical EL Beth book
Her books have this theme.
Unethical MMC, physically and mentally abusive, rapist, who beats the FMC, causes miscarriage and doesn’t have to do much groveling. Fucks the other woman in front of the FMC or at least gets a blowjob. Enjoys humiliating the FMC.
Thankfully I expected all that so I wasn’t shocked or heartbroken reading it.
I liked how they met in prison so was curious to know how it ends.
It’s a Typical EL Beth book.
Her books have this theme.
Unethical MMC, physically and mentally abusive, rapist, who beats the FMC, causes miscarriage and doesn’t have to do much groveling. Fucks the other woman in front of the FMC or at least gets a blowjob. Enjoys humiliating the FMC.
Thankfully I expected all that so I wasn’t shocked or heartbroken reading it.
I liked how they met in prison so was curious to know how it ends.
It’s a Typical EL Beth book.
December 8, 2024
DNF. There was something about the writing style that didn’t sit well with me. That, and how the story evolved. I’m sure it’s to someone’s liking, just not mine.
The storytelling was off, the characters were off, the writing was questionable.
I’m sure the novel would improve significantly with some rewriting and rereading, but that probably won’t change my mind to finally read it.
It was disappointing because I had high hopes after so many people recommended it.
The storytelling was off, the characters were off, the writing was questionable.
I’m sure the novel would improve significantly with some rewriting and rereading, but that probably won’t change my mind to finally read it.
It was disappointing because I had high hopes after so many people recommended it.
January 3, 2023
dont bother reading.
Waste of time. Book made no sense. Repeated abuse till the end. What was the point of all the abuse towards h. Beaten to the point of miscarriage and she is more concerned about H possibly getting married to someone else. Finished the book hoping there would be some redemption but never happened.
Waste of time. Book made no sense. Repeated abuse till the end. What was the point of all the abuse towards h. Beaten to the point of miscarriage and she is more concerned about H possibly getting married to someone else. Finished the book hoping there would be some redemption but never happened.
March 11, 2019
Mariyah + Zak
Well these books seem to be my dirty pleasure. My only problem was Mariyah getting mad and calling Olivia a Latino bitch, and opened her “Latino mouth” . It bothered me because you’re calling her a bitch which I get but putting the Latino in front as though it’s an insult... cringe
Well these books seem to be my dirty pleasure. My only problem was Mariyah getting mad and calling Olivia a Latino bitch, and opened her “Latino mouth” . It bothered me because you’re calling her a bitch which I get but putting the Latino in front as though it’s an insult... cringe
August 3, 2023
what did I just read 🤣
3 stars for the effort. But this is not romance. Lmao. I don’t know what is this but it isn’t it. 1 star for the idea of the story, 1 star for the writing and 1 last star for the guts to published it 🤣😂🤣
3 stars for the effort. But this is not romance. Lmao. I don’t know what is this but it isn’t it. 1 star for the idea of the story, 1 star for the writing and 1 last star for the guts to published it 🤣😂🤣
November 26, 2022
needs editing
Needs editing and spelling corrected . Plot was all over the place . It had a really great premise but no follow through . Very disappointed in this book.
Needs editing and spelling corrected . Plot was all over the place . It had a really great premise but no follow through . Very disappointed in this book.
December 26, 2016
Get a friggin editor!!
This book has everything I want in a dark romance except the terrible grammar, punctuation errors and typos. I refuse to give anything away because if I did you wouldn't buy it. Please be FOREWARNED about TRIGGERS. There is a lot of physical abuse and domestic violence in this book.
Mariyah (yup the author stuck an unnecessary "Y" in there) is your sassy mouthed heroine. She gets in trouble with Zak (who is the H) constantly.
Zak doesn't hesitate to kick Mariyah's ass which is pretty much every day in front of whoever is present.
The storyline is great. The pace is great. But the author needs to get a professional editor. They're, there and their are not interchangeable. Should have and should've mean the same thing but "should of" shows a lack of education. Same goes for "would of."
Needless to say I have been won over and will read more of her books. But for the love of your fans Ms Beth, please at least pay someone with more than a 9th grade education to at least proofread.
This book has everything I want in a dark romance except the terrible grammar, punctuation errors and typos. I refuse to give anything away because if I did you wouldn't buy it. Please be FOREWARNED about TRIGGERS. There is a lot of physical abuse and domestic violence in this book.
Mariyah (yup the author stuck an unnecessary "Y" in there) is your sassy mouthed heroine. She gets in trouble with Zak (who is the H) constantly.
Zak doesn't hesitate to kick Mariyah's ass which is pretty much every day in front of whoever is present.
The storyline is great. The pace is great. But the author needs to get a professional editor. They're, there and their are not interchangeable. Should have and should've mean the same thing but "should of" shows a lack of education. Same goes for "would of."
Needless to say I have been won over and will read more of her books. But for the love of your fans Ms Beth, please at least pay someone with more than a 9th grade education to at least proofread.
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