Never Trust a Fae

Hell Fae #1-5

by Lexi C. Foss, J.R. Thorn

This omnibus includes all 5 books in the complete Hell Fae series.


Welcome to the Hell Fae Realm, a place where only the strong survive.

My parents made a deal with the devil, and now I’m a Hell Fae Captive.

Enslaved. Owned. Thrown to the Hellhounds and expected to survive.
Because only survivors earn their mates.

It doesn’t matter that I don’t want to be a bride.
I’m a Halfling. Part Hell Fae and part girl-who-doesn’t-give-a-shit.
But because of a bargain, he owns me.

Lucifer. The Hell Fae King who created this godforsaken realm.
Also known as the orchestrator of these deadly bride-trial games.

Okay, Luci, I’ll play.
By burning this whole kingdom to the ground.

Assuming I don’t get caught in the hot Midnight Fae Warden’s web first.
Or ensnared by the brooding Hell Fae Commander lurking outside the gates.
And don’t even get me started on the Hell Fae King’s favored prince. That sexy lunatic won’t stop sending me gifts.

No amount of hotness or sensual persuasion will keep me here.
I’m not bride material.
I’m a menace.

You made a deal for the wrong girl, Lucifer.
Prepare for the fight of your life.

Genres: Fantasy, Dark Romance

1832 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2026

About the author

USA Today Bestselling Author Lexi C. Foss loves to travel and write in supernatural worlds. Paranormal romance is her favorite genre, but she dabbles in contemporary romance when she needs a break from the darker side of her mind.

Coffee is her addiction, swimming is her passion, and she has a not-so-secret adoration for eclipse chasing.

Lexi can be found on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Reviews

[gatoreadsafterdark]

This started off so well...

⭐ Overall: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
🎧 Narration: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌍 Worldbuilding: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⚔️ Plot: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
💞 Romance: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
🌶️ Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🧠 Emotional Authenticity: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
🤝 Trust Progression: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
⚖️ Accountability: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
❤️‍🩹 Emotional Payoff: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

Arg!! This is a difficult book for me to rate because I genuinely enjoyed so much about the Hell Fae series. I loved Cami, the worldbuilding, the overarching plot, and many of the relationships. The narration was excellent. The narrators all did an amazing job with the characters. Even after the final battle, I was considering rating the series around four stars. Buuut, the resolution of Cami's relationship with Typhos/Lucifer significantly lowered my rating. So many missed opportunities.

My issue isn't where their relationship ends up. I could believe the destination but I couldn't believe Cami's emotional journey. There was too much emotional debt that wasn't repaid by the end.

Cami has consistently been characterised as a rebel who fights for her autonomy. That doesn't mean she can never choose vulnerability, forgiveness, or submission, but when a relationship has seriously damaged her trust, I need to see the emotional steps that make those choices authentically hers.

For me, too many of those steps were missing.



After Cami's public caging and sexual humiliation, I expected her relationship with Typhos to require anger, acknowledgment, accountability, rebuilding of trust, and demonstrated change before progressing to sexual vulnerability and submission.... That didn't happen

Typhos' change is actually easier to understand. He learns more about Cami, reevaluates his beliefs, and regrets his actions. Cami's progression toward him is far less developed, and their intimacy advances while major issues remain unresolved.

This stood out even more because Melek's BDSM interests were handled so well. He understood that submission requires trust and explicitly acknowledges that he hadn't earned that trust from Cami yet. I needed that same emotional awareness between Cami and Typhos.

We're told Typhos regrets humiliating her and intends to apologise repeatedly, but there never was an on page apology, not one explicitly with Cami, which his actions warranted. Even more frustratingly, the humiliation was public. Typhos publicly clears Ajax of responsibility, yet never gives Cami an equivalent public acknowledgment that what was done to her was wrong. 😩

The chain dress crystallised the problem for me. At the end, Typhos reframed it as a symbol that Cami belongs to him and therefore cannot be touched by others, despite its previous role in her degradation. - Even if he saw it as a punishment for himself 🙄 wtf ever. Cami reclaiming that symbol herself could have been powerful. Instead, his explanation makes her feel better??!! about what happened. She even thinks to herself that it might be fucked up. Yes. yes, it is final-book Cami 😭 Typhos' willingness to wear something similar shows vulnerability, but vulnerability ≠ accountability.

The ending didn't fix this. I understood Cami allowing Lucifer to make his final public announcement alone because he needed to close that chapter. But afterward, I wanted Cami to choose to step forward and offer herself as an advocate for the brides. That would have given her a public moment of agency after having that agency so publicly taken from her.

Instead, final-book Cami often seemed to spend more time understanding and accommodating Lucifer's emotional journey without the narrative allowing him to fully acknowledge hers.

At the end it's just Here's your queen! Everyone loves her! Don't worry that the only direct public interaction she had was a situation in which she was basically naked, being jeered at, humiliated, objectified, and degraded in. a. fucking. cage. Yay.



Ultimately, I didn't need hundreds of pages of groveling. I needed the story to show me:

harm → anger → acknowledgment → accountability → tentative trust → demonstrated change → vulnerability → intimacy

Instead we got:

harm → anger → acknowledgment → accountability → tentative trust → demonstrated change → vulnerability → intimacy

Too many of those middle steps were skipped.

That's particularly disappointing because the fantasy world, lore, larger conflict, and several other relationships remained compelling.

When a story asks me to witness something deeply violating happen to a character, I need it to earn back that emotional trust. The subsequent healing, forgiveness, and intimacy need to feel consistent with the character I've spent several books getting to know.

The destination of Cami's final relationship was believable, but the emotional journey the book gave her to reach that destination wasn't believable.

[gatoreadsafterdark]

This started off so well...

⭐ Overall: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
🎧 Narration: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🌍 Worldbuilding: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⚔️ Plot: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆
💞 Romance: ⭐⭐⭐☆☆
🌶️ Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🧠 Emotional Authenticity: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
🤝 Trust Progression: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
⚖️ Accountability: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
❤️‍🩹 Emotional Payoff: ⭐⭐☆☆☆

Arg!! This is a difficult book for me to rate because I genuinely enjoyed so much about the Hell Fae series. I loved Cami, the worldbuilding, the overarching plot, and many of the relationships. The narration was excellent. The narrators all did an amazing job with the characters. Even after the final battle, I was considering rating the series around four stars. Buuut, the resolution of Cami's relationship with Typhos/Lucifer significantly lowered my rating. So many missed opportunities.

My issue isn't where their relationship ends up. I could believe the destination but I couldn't believe Cami's emotional journey. There was too much emotional debt that wasn't repaid by the end.

Cami has consistently been characterised as a rebel who fights for her autonomy. That doesn't mean she can never choose vulnerability, forgiveness, or submission, but when a relationship has seriously damaged her trust, I need to see the emotional steps that make those choices authentically hers.

For me, too many of those steps were missing.



After Cami's public caging and sexual humiliation, I expected her relationship with Typhos to require anger, acknowledgment, accountability, rebuilding of trust, and demonstrated change before progressing to sexual vulnerability and submission.... That didn't happen

Typhos' change is actually easier to understand. He learns more about Cami, reevaluates his beliefs, and regrets his actions. Cami's progression toward him is far less developed, and their intimacy advances while major issues remain unresolved.

This stood out even more because Melek's BDSM interests were handled so well. He understood that submission requires trust and explicitly acknowledges that he hadn't earned that trust from Cami yet. I needed that same emotional awareness between Cami and Typhos.

We're told Typhos regrets humiliating her and intends to apologise repeatedly, but there never was an on page apology, not one explicitly with Cami, which his actions warranted. Even more frustratingly, the humiliation was public. Typhos publicly clears Ajax of responsibility, yet never gives Cami an equivalent public acknowledgment that what was done to her was wrong. 😩

The chain dress crystallised the problem for me. At the end, Typhos reframed it as a symbol that Cami belongs to him and therefore cannot be touched by others, despite its previous role in her degradation. - Even if he saw it as a punishment for himself 🙄 wtf ever. Cami reclaiming that symbol herself could have been powerful. Instead, his explanation makes her feel better??!! about what happened. She even thinks to herself that it might be fucked up. Yes. yes, it is final-book Cami 😭 Typhos' willingness to wear something similar shows vulnerability, but vulnerability ≠ accountability.

The ending didn't fix this. I understood Cami allowing Lucifer to make his final public announcement alone because he needed to close that chapter. But afterward, I wanted Cami to choose to step forward and offer herself as an advocate for the brides. That would have given her a public moment of agency after having that agency so publicly taken from her.

Instead, final-book Cami often seemed to spend more time understanding and accommodating Lucifer's emotional journey without the narrative allowing him to fully acknowledge hers.

At the end it's just Here's your queen! Everyone loves her! Don't worry that the only direct public interaction she had was a situation in which she was basically naked, being jeered at, humiliated, objectified, and degraded in. a. fucking. cage. Yay.



Ultimately, I didn't need hundreds of pages of groveling. I needed the story to show me:

harm → anger → acknowledgment → accountability → tentative trust → demonstrated change → vulnerability → intimacy

Instead we got:

harm → anger → acknowledgment → accountability → tentative trust → demonstrated change → vulnerability → intimacy

Too many of those middle steps were skipped.

That's particularly disappointing because the fantasy world, lore, larger conflict, and several other relationships remained compelling.

When a story asks me to witness something deeply violating happen to a character, I need it to earn back that emotional trust. The subsequent healing, forgiveness, and intimacy need to feel consistent with the character I've spent several books getting to know.

The destination of Cami's final relationship was believable, but the emotional journey the book gave her to reach that destination wasn't believable.

[Vikki The Fee]

Audible - 4.5⭐️ 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ I wasn’t sure about this one while reading book one. Our FMC is fantastic, but the story moved a little on the slow side and zero spice. By book 5, the story/plot had devoured me and I could not wait to find the answers. So. Good. So. Naughty. 😉

The voice actor/narrators were great. My only disappointment was Az and Ajax were voiced by the same actor. It was often hard to tell the characters apart. Jacob Morgan should’ve voiced Ajax. There… I said it out loud! 🫣

[Brie Pourciau]

amazing story

This is the second series I read from her. And I am in love with her writing. It’s hot, interesting, ínstense, love love, love. Can’t wait to read more of her work. This really was a great story.