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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?
Warning: This is a adults only book, it contains material of sex and submission and violence. It is recommended for readers 18 years and over.
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?
Warning: This is a adults only book, it contains material of sex and submission and violence. It is recommended for readers 18 years and over.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 4, 2015
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E.L. Beth
121 books261 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.
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.
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
January 20, 2019
I have to say I both really like and really don't like this author's books, and I mean within the same book/story, there's parts I really like and parts I really dislike. She writes her H's far too violent to even their heroines, domestically abusing, beating and even kicking their heroines. But there are things I like in her books.
So, this book's review, the cover and blurb suggest this is a dark prison coerced story but it's not, it's more of a mafia billionaire forced story. Only the first 20% is set in prison, when the heroine visits her brother, who she caused to be locked up, and another inmate, Zak Michaels, forces her into visiting him, threatening to beat and even kill her brother if she refuses him.
I should have really enjoyed that first part set in the prison but there's really only two scene of them together, and it felt like the majority of it was really the heroine thinking about her work and life problems, which is really boring. And, although dark romance is my favourite, the way the author writes sex scenes makes them very unpleasant reading, the scene from this book is, "it feels like he causes her insides to tear".
The next approx 20% is even worse, Zak isn't even in that huge chunk, it's just having to read the heroine's self pitying and irritating thoughts on repeat, after the heroine and her brother take off together. It's painfully boring as well as irritating and I would have given 1 star for that.
Zak is finally back in the book for the last 60%, where the heroine goes to ask him for help to save her brother, and it's all set in a billionaire mansion on a cliff and has a criminal mafia theme. It also has some other woman drama, with Zak cheating, which is in most, if not all, this author's books, and I really don't like, but at least it's explained and even understandable here.
Even though Zak was too violent with the heroine, it was actually the heroine I didn't like. She's completely selfish. She caused her brother to be sent to prison, admitting it was because she loved flirting to getting attention, only to slam guys down, one didn't like it, and her brother Caleb had to step in to stop the guy but hurt him and got sent to prison for it.
Then when she's visiting her brother in prison she mouths off to a prison guard, twice, even knowing he could hurt her brother, and even after her brother asks if she's trying to get him beaten to death by the guard, because he's locked inside prison, utterly at the guards mercy, she still mouths off to the guard.
Then she gets her brother beaten badly by the H Zak, by going against his very clear instructions, even after he made it clear numerous times what the consequences would be to her brother but she does something stupid and unnecessary anyway. All because she's so stupid, immature and selfish, she keeps mouthing off to these men she knows can and do hurt her brother.
And the author too quickly has the heroine declaring she has fallen in love with the H, immediately after he beats her brother. When she has only been in his company once a week for an hour for a few weeks. He sleeps during one visit and ends another early. And he beats her brother badly, and he hits her, and he sexually hurts her. But she loves him. Argh, it's awful stuff.
There are problems with the plot, the first is the entire bases for the story, when the heroine's thinks that she's going to 'surprise visit' her brother in prison. You can't just pop into a prison to suprise visit someone, not without them knowing and agreeing to your visit, and not with the prison knowing and agreeing to and allocating an exact time and date you can visit.
The writing also has numerous very basic mistakes the author should have caught easily if she had bothered to read it through just once before publishing, like, 'he' instead of 'she'. Wrong words are used that completely altered the scene, by making sentences the direct opposite to what the author clearly intended them to mean.
All these issues made for irritating reading that threw me from being immersed. There are details missing too, like one minute they're sitting but the next they're doing something standing up but it never said they'd gotten up. The dialogue is also too proper, so very unnatural. And some of the dialogue was so bad it made me cringe. It's really bad.
But there are parts I liked. Even though Zak is too violent, I really liked his hard character, and that the author stuck true to him and didn't do a sudden 180 to make him soppy like other authors I've read have done in their books. And 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, nothing he does shuts her up, it's kind of funny. At least when it's not getting her poor brother beaten. And the second half does reveal Zak's development, even his cheating with OW was to get free off his past, to be with the heroine. So, there was some redemption, while staying true to his nature, which again was good.
Just an additional note, the heroine's back story in this is the exact back story of the heroine in Jamie Begley's Predators MC Riot book published a year before this, and is also set starting out in a prison, who admitted she got her brother sent to prison after she had flirted with a guy, deliberately enjoying getting attention, exactly like the heroine here.
The prison and billionaire elements also reminded me of books by Annika Martin, particularly her Prisoner. I know the same situations like prison coercion or mafia billionaire are often themes in books by different authors, but also having an identical background of the heroine as another book published a year before this, also in a prison setting was of note.
Anyway, I much preferred the story in this book to all the ones I mentioned above. I do admit to liking quite a few of this author's stories. But unfortunately the author basically just keeps writing the same characters, story, and has her characters do and say the same things across all her many books. So it does feel like if you've read one EL Beth book then you've read them all. That's why I gave up buying this author's books.
So, this book's review, the cover and blurb suggest this is a dark prison coerced story but it's not, it's more of a mafia billionaire forced story. Only the first 20% is set in prison, when the heroine visits her brother, who she caused to be locked up, and another inmate, Zak Michaels, forces her into visiting him, threatening to beat and even kill her brother if she refuses him.
I should have really enjoyed that first part set in the prison but there's really only two scene of them together, and it felt like the majority of it was really the heroine thinking about her work and life problems, which is really boring. And, although dark romance is my favourite, the way the author writes sex scenes makes them very unpleasant reading, the scene from this book is, "it feels like he causes her insides to tear".
The next approx 20% is even worse, Zak isn't even in that huge chunk, it's just having to read the heroine's self pitying and irritating thoughts on repeat, after the heroine and her brother take off together. It's painfully boring as well as irritating and I would have given 1 star for that.
Zak is finally back in the book for the last 60%, where the heroine goes to ask him for help to save her brother, and it's all set in a billionaire mansion on a cliff and has a criminal mafia theme. It also has some other woman drama, with Zak cheating, which is in most, if not all, this author's books, and I really don't like, but at least it's explained and even understandable here.
Even though Zak was too violent with the heroine, it was actually the heroine I didn't like. She's completely selfish. She caused her brother to be sent to prison, admitting it was because she loved flirting to getting attention, only to slam guys down, one didn't like it, and her brother Caleb had to step in to stop the guy but hurt him and got sent to prison for it.
Then when she's visiting her brother in prison she mouths off to a prison guard, twice, even knowing he could hurt her brother, and even after her brother asks if she's trying to get him beaten to death by the guard, because he's locked inside prison, utterly at the guards mercy, she still mouths off to the guard.
Then she gets her brother beaten badly by the H Zak, by going against his very clear instructions, even after he made it clear numerous times what the consequences would be to her brother but she does something stupid and unnecessary anyway. All because she's so stupid, immature and selfish, she keeps mouthing off to these men she knows can and do hurt her brother.
And the author too quickly has the heroine declaring she has fallen in love with the H, immediately after he beats her brother. When she has only been in his company once a week for an hour for a few weeks. He sleeps during one visit and ends another early. And he beats her brother badly, and he hits her, and he sexually hurts her. But she loves him. Argh, it's awful stuff.
There are problems with the plot, the first is the entire bases for the story, when the heroine's thinks that she's going to 'surprise visit' her brother in prison. You can't just pop into a prison to suprise visit someone, not without them knowing and agreeing to your visit, and not with the prison knowing and agreeing to and allocating an exact time and date you can visit.
The writing also has numerous very basic mistakes the author should have caught easily if she had bothered to read it through just once before publishing, like, 'he' instead of 'she'. Wrong words are used that completely altered the scene, by making sentences the direct opposite to what the author clearly intended them to mean.
All these issues made for irritating reading that threw me from being immersed. There are details missing too, like one minute they're sitting but the next they're doing something standing up but it never said they'd gotten up. The dialogue is also too proper, so very unnatural. And some of the dialogue was so bad it made me cringe. It's really bad.
But there are parts I liked. Even though Zak is too violent, I really liked his hard character, and that the author stuck true to him and didn't do a sudden 180 to make him soppy like other authors I've read have done in their books. And 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, nothing he does shuts her up, it's kind of funny. At least when it's not getting her poor brother beaten. And the second half does reveal Zak's development, even his cheating with OW was to get free off his past, to be with the heroine. So, there was some redemption, while staying true to his nature, which again was good.
Just an additional note, the heroine's back story in this is the exact back story of the heroine in Jamie Begley's Predators MC Riot book published a year before this, and is also set starting out in a prison, who admitted she got her brother sent to prison after she had flirted with a guy, deliberately enjoying getting attention, exactly like the heroine here.
The prison and billionaire elements also reminded me of books by Annika Martin, particularly her Prisoner. I know the same situations like prison coercion or mafia billionaire are often themes in books by different authors, but also having an identical background of the heroine as another book published a year before this, also in a prison setting was of note.
Anyway, I much preferred the story in this book to all the ones I mentioned above. I do admit to liking quite a few of this author's stories. But unfortunately the author basically just keeps writing the same characters, story, and has her characters do and say the same things across all her many books. So it does feel like if you've read one EL Beth book then you've read them all. That's why I gave up buying this author's books.
April 17, 2016
WTF? Why am I such a book whore that I can't say no?
avoid
May 5, 2022Cheater H
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.
December 27, 2016
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.
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.
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.
August 28, 2026
This was a joke like imagine the epitome of a doormat x abuser (he cheated, sharing forced, domestic violence which was more then once)
The author was clearly rage baiting cause what was this? Why would anyone want to read this garbage.
The author was clearly rage baiting cause what was this? Why would anyone want to read this garbage.
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.
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.
April 3, 2026
Too young for me, Macho bull💩In fact, both MC's feel piled on with certain characteristics to a ridiculous level i.e. every action, every sentence is depicting the MMC's macho toughness or FMC's utterly miserable existence. It's too much, OTT. It becomes a parody, almost laughably melodramatic. Juvenile & one-dimensional, totally lacking depth & complexity.
Sorry to offend anyone, maybe it got better after chapter 2? It just wasn't for me.
Sorry to offend anyone, maybe it got better after chapter 2? It just wasn't for me.
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
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May 13, 2026not really a romance. someone said it was like a telenovella of drama levels so i just kept reading to witness how crazy it was gonna get lmao
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