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Ecstasy #2

Ominous: Book I

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What is the true cost of obsession?
The consequences of lust driven bone-deep?

Eli and Eden are about to find out.

After a quiet meeting in their private school’s library, it doesn’t take long for them to recognize the hidden darkness in one another. Surrounded by a strange disappearance, skeptical friendships, and conflicting dreams born out of nightmares, together,

they

fall.

What will they lose along the way?
Their morals, innocence, and maybe, just a little of their minds.

774 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2021

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K.V. Rose

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970 reviews991 followers
September 17, 2021
Five Holy Moly, What A Ride Stars. Let me tell you if I could give more than five. I would.

Ominous is one of my most anticipated books of the year. K.V. Rose did not disappoint and delivered an intense masterpiece. My mind is blown away, and I am just in awe of the author's imagination in how she articulates it onto paper. It just flows off the pages effortlessly and seems so flawless, especially with this monster of a book. I am highly impressed.

I fell in love with my favorite sociopath in Ecstasy. Ominous is about Eli in his senior year in high school and when he meets Eden. Both want each other secrets, deepest dark desires and are insanely attracted to each other.

I equally wanted to be Eli’s mother, be there for him, and strangle him. As much as I love Eden, I think she has more layers than she leads us to believe. I don’t think some people give Eli credit and have several secrets of their own. Eli is a lot smarter than they think. Be prepared for full steam ahead. It's hot and, to some, can be messed up or question yourself. I loved it.


I was taken on an intense, dark, twisted ride. Like Eli, I am fully obsessed and can’t get enough. This book just dug deep into me. I love a book that makes you think and gives you mind trickery—so many games in this one. If you want something dark, this book is for you; it’s a must-read.
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193 reviews836 followers
July 23, 2023
800 pages of nothing, absolutely nothing. this book just reminded me of why dark romance is not my thing anymore. i can see why ppl love this i really think i would've loved it too had i read it a few years ago but 📞 the old anmol is dead now.

i can never understand why contemporary romance have to be this long. what was even the point???? there was one thing that had me hooked to the story and in the end that was stretched so much too that i just lost interest. no way i'm going through another 800 pages of elieden and their boring and repetitive monologues just to know who killed winslet.

eden was annoying and boring and a hypocrite. eli was boring and annoying and a dick. and they both were trying so hard to be edgy and different. not just them tho it was literally every kid in this book. sigh i think i'm just too old for wtv this book was. i also skipped the smut bc i'm way too vanilla for elieden 🙏🏼

it would've been a 3 star read still if eli didn't call eden "babygirl" everytime. ykw even that was okay till he started calling her "dangerous girl" tf kinda nickname is that 🧍🏻‍♀️

the most interesting thing about this book was the almost threesome and y'all know how much my possessive ass hates those so that's saying something.

like i said, if you're into dark romance this book could be is an absolute treat. it was just not my cuppa tea.
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everyone and their parents need therapy in this book 🙏🏼

rtc if i still remember about it in the morning <3
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124 reviews30 followers
June 28, 2025
4.5 stars

eden and eli have permanently branded themselves onto my heart ♾. their relationship is so toxic, obsessive and codependent and I love it. this is definitely my favorite book of the year 💚. eden rain is one of my favorite female leads ever <3.

some of my favorite quotes ↓

“I can’t get enough of you. I can’t stop thinking about you, dreaming about you. I have nightmares where you run away from me, and you never look back.”

“You’re everything I’ve ever dreamed of.”

“If you were to ever leave, I just don’t think I could breathe without you.”

“I am obsessed with every part of you.”

“I want to break his ribs, just to curl against his heart. He wants to snap my neck, so I can’t ever walk away.”

*the only reason I didn’t give this 5 stars is because there was other women scenes/drama. usually, I don’t give books with other women scenes a high rating but the romance in this was just really good and entertaining.
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323 reviews14 followers
September 19, 2021
convinced myself kv rose is jesus 🛐
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684 reviews127 followers
September 29, 2021
"He feels safe and thrilling all at once.
Danger wrapped in my shelter,
I don’t understand how he can be both something I want to run from, and to."
Ominous- KV Rose

It has been several days since I read Ominous and I’m still trying to put my thoughts into a review.
It truly took over my mental state as only KVs writing can do.
I picked the above quote out of the many I highlighted to help me describe how I felt.

"safe and thrilling all at once"
I was on edge and anxious the entire read however the safety i felt within the words knowing the authors love and care she took writing these characters and story.
"danger wrapped in shelter"
The danger that both characters continually test not only physically but mentally is intense however the shelter is my love of dark books that have deeply emotional and suspenseful plots like this.
"I don’t understand how "he" can be both something I want to run from, and to."
Several times I wanted to run from this read because of how much the characters overwhelmed me emotionally. But it’s something I need to run to so I can feel Eli and Eden’s vulnerability and searching for who they are and why they need or hate the things they do to themselves and each other.

This is not a pretty romance. It is dark, toxic, unnerving and a deep dive into the characters mental state. It was a reading experience that left me in tears and emotionally drained well after I finished.

"Do you want to play with me?
Do you want to hurt me?
Do you want to love me?
The questions are sudden inside my head, too fast, too soon, crashing into me in waves.
I FEEL EVERYTHING"

Just like Eli and Edens obsession with eachother I am obessed with KV Roses writing and all her books. If you love dark romance, I highly recommend you dive into all of hers.

5 stars.
Cliffhanger. NA. this is Dark. Please Check Triggers. Dual POV
ARC
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70 reviews41 followers
October 5, 2021
I don’t believe in fate. Life doesn’t care enough to be anything more than random. But something about her, it fits with something in me.

Ominous was easily one of my most eagerly awaited books of this year and KV Rose pretty much blew all my expectation right out of the water and spun a story, haunting in its beauty, and captivating in its intensity.These words seep inside you, twisting you up in every way you never knew you wanted. Dark academia is one of my favorite aesthetics ever and when you pair that with the absolute masterpiece this book was, I was pretty much in bookish heaven. Or hell, because Eden says hell is more fun and what Eden says goes. Did I mention? Top read of the entire year.

It's amazing how every single character was written so authentically. Their actions were imperfectly and achingly human, each action and thought, genuinely believable. Janelle, Dom, Seb, Luna, Jasper and Eric are probably my favorite secondary characters written. and there are no lies detected here.

About the two that are living rent free in my head and is going to for the foreseeable future. Eden and Eli. They understood and embraced each other and their darkness on some deep, molecular level. They provided a space, both safe and dangerous in its own way, for each other. There's this undertone of each other's imperfections being accepted and cherished that really is so precious. Eden's thoughts and relationships were seriously interesting to say the least. She's multifaceted and a damn queen. Plus she's into dark magic, just when I thought I couldn't love her anymore. Eli is that non-threatening shadow hovering in the edge of your vision that turns out to be a lethal presence come to take you to darkness. His personal and public persona and connections to the people around him was enthralling. They were both intellectual and smart, observant and watchful and this added so many layers to an already deep hitting book.

Immediate thoughts after reading :

I haven't read a book like this before. It's like a roller coaster thrill, your stomach is defying gravity and you don't think it can hold you back anymore. Electrostatic forces are nudging under your skin, sending shock waves to your brain. Your brain is trying to process everything but there's too many things you're feeling right now you don't know if you can understand all that you're feeling, all that KV wanted you to feel and felt herself because it's just a little too much and that's like fear except you like the fear. I know none of this makes sense. That's the point.

“So, whenever you start thinking you’re the worst person in the world, Eli, just remember, I’m the one keeping your secrets.”
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113 reviews21 followers
June 22, 2022
Eden: Drown me 👉🏼🥺👈🏼

Eli: Beg me

Me: *screaming but without the s*

Eden: *begs him*

Eli: *holds her under water*

Eden: You tried to fucking drown me, you’re insane. Get away from me 💁🏻‍♀️


I liked her, I really did. BUT, after reading the last 10 pages I now hate her and would like to curb stomp her stupid fucking face. Eli deserves better, (me). Also, I don’t think I have the emotional strength to make it through the next book. I just know it’ll hurt like a bitch. Anyways, 5 stars for daddy Eli
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107 reviews29 followers
October 7, 2021
What the f*ck!? I’m so lost 🥴

Eden: “I want you to choke me to death”
Eli: *almost kills her*
Eden: “I can’t believe you want to murder me!”
Me:


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108 reviews3 followers
January 3, 2022
dnf! horrible!!!!!!!!!! poor writing and dressing characters up like 2007 emos while making him look like hes a 35 year old emo with a fat choker around his throat loser with huge drug problems and her omg…. got catfished by every edit ever made and 1k+ pages for this
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1,097 reviews34 followers
September 15, 2021
First of all this this book was a whole ass vibe. KV's books just hit that sweet spot for me and this was no fckn different.

We met Eli in Ecstasy and if you're like me, then you just wanted more of him. Anything you could get your greedy lil hands on. What happened to Eli? Why is he the way he is?

Enter Eden Arella Rain. I was not expecting her at all, what a pleasant fckn surprise. Quite possibly the best fmc written by this author. Scrap that, she is. As the story progresses, we come to see that Eden holds more darkness in her then Eli.

"But I don't like the way he hurts me. It's not a prick of pain. Not a tease. Its a knife in my gut. But his obsession is almost like a bandage."

Eden piques Eli's interest after transferring schools and their first conversation solidifies the fact that she has layers that he is all to happy to peel back. Let the games begin. Play with me. But Eden isn't like the others, she isn't another pawn on Eli's chess board. He may have met his match.

He wants her secrets, she wants his. Her darkest thoughts and desires rival his and you just know this won't end well.

"God, you're fun."

Those 3 words were my favorite that Eli spoke in the story. They gave me chills. KV's writing takes you to a dark place which I love, her words get in your head, the feelings and thoughts she evokes are something that don't stop once you put the book down.

They linger.

This book releases Friday and you need this in your life.

p.s I wasn't sure if I was horrified or turned on by the pool scenes. Im still not sure. Ill get back to you.

p.p.s Eli will make you so mad once or twice you'll want to shake the fck out of him.
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337 reviews35 followers
September 16, 2021
the eli i know would never let someone call him baby boy 🤣
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162 reviews24 followers
December 16, 2025
I never got around to writing a review for this series. I'm unsure if I just couldn't wrap my head around my emotions or if it was some form of gatekeeping. Whatever it was, I am now writing a review because I couldn't have this series on my page without one.
THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR EVERYONE! If you look at some of the books on my page and think this will be similar, DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOK. Ominous is one of those stories I came across accidentally, and it's different from anything else I've read. It wasn't my introduction to dark romance, but it was certainly the book that changed my perspective on the genre. To me, this book is incredibly special, but there is a whole slew of TWs that will turn people away. So, tread carefully.

Eden Rain. Eden, Eden, Eden. She's in my top FMC of all time. She's not a carbon copy of me, we're actually incredibly different people, but there was something about her that spoke so clearly to me. The journey she goes on mentally is so similar to some of the things I felt in my final year of high school. Her thoughts aren't sugar-coated or glossed over. She's struggling with something and entering a life-changing relationship. Everything she does is so real to me. Like I don't know how I would react to someone acting the way she does in scenes or how someone else would react to me because I was ultimately struggling very similarly to her. She's just such a multilayered character that not everyone is going to like. FMCs will always get the short end when it comes to complaints about novels, but I can't even bring it in me to truly fault her for anything. I think the fact that she was alive and breathing at the end of the novel is an incredible feat on its own. There's an intense urge in me to just say she can do no wrong... but I will not because, honestly, I enjoy her doing wrong more than anything else. Oops.

Eli Addison. I read Ominous before I read Ecstacy because of the way I found the books. So, I'm not someone who had opinions on him from the first book or had any clue who he was. I loved him early on, and he was one of the first characters with ASPD that I had read about. I think I struggle sometimes with actually understanding that just based on the people I've been surrounded by in my life. I don't truly understand what it's like to interact with someone like Eli, so I'd be sitting there wishing he would just do something or say something to Eden, but then I'd have to constantly remind myself that is not within his character, he would never do that. I think with my limited knowledge, KV created a really interesting character and does not try to villainize ASPD in any way. It's very clear that she loves Eli. I love Eli. I think everyone loves Eli. In some books, I tend to get bored during MMCs POV chapters. I'm such a female-driven story girl, but in this book, it really would never work without hearing his side of the story. Without knowing how he operates. His home life, his past with his mother, and even his feelings toward Eden. He's a very unique but special character.

Eden and Eli. Not a romance, but a tale of twisted love for sure. They are very special to me. They'll probably always exist somewhere in my head because I've never read a story like them before. I highly doubt I'll ever read a story like that again. KV Rose honestly created a beautiful story that I want to live in forever. I've said it a million times, but I'll say it again, this is not for everyone. But holy shit, was this story for me.
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768 reviews100 followers
December 31, 2021
Infinite stars!!

I am in love. 🖤🖤 I am very aggressively very calmly threatening (with a knife) telling everyone that Eli and Eden are fucking mine. They. Are. Mine. Don't dare fuck with me about this!!!!

Omg omg omg, I LOVED Ominous so much. I'll admit I was disappointed after I read Ecstasy (Book 1) because I was invested in Eli and.... well, if you've read it, you'll know what I was feeling after completing Ecstasy. But Ominous was such a goddamn treat! Eli's dangerous and delicious sociopathy coupled with Eden's cautious, intelligent mind and dark heart....it made the already high intensity in K's books explode to new heights.
My heart was pounding during the entire fucking read and I was experiencing a slew of emotions that I don't think I even have the capacity to distinguish. Ominous felt more like a drug than Ecstasy to me😆🖤🖤☠️


Recommend?! Hell, I would make you read this book at gunpoint if I could .. it's so worth it. 🖤



Quotes :

I think I hear something underneath his statement. Something darker. Hidden. Play in the shadows with me.
I squeeze my eyes shut tight, still facing away from him. What if we never come back into the light?


Would it scare you? The ways I want love?


You can’t scare me, Eli.
You have no idea, baby girl.


Besides, we’re the type of people to live forever, even if we don’t want to. Maybe because we don’t want to. I think God enjoys orchestrating a little suffering.


Her: You like bad girls, don’t you, Eli?
Me: I like you.
Her: An angel, remember?
Me: Be a devil for me.


She is a mess, she’s decided, and no one wants a mess. Not a real one. Not an unromanticized version of one.
Flared tempers and tension-filled fights can be appealing. Dreamy. Passionate.
Haunted memories, waking up in a cold sweat because they infected your dreams, remembering you have no future because you live with a brain which hates you, imagining someone you love walking out, over and over and over…
Therapists. Medications. Psychiatrists. Studies.
Blood on your hands.
No one wants that.
No one wants the reality of mental illness.
No one wants to be the recipient of one of those disorders with no cure, no treatment, no understanding. Those are the type of things people write angry blog posts about. Self-publish books on how to avoid people just like that.
Just like me.
Five Signs of a Sociopath: Run, Don’t Walk.


We skipped the small talk because two souls know when they’re conceived to collide. They don’t need an introduction. They just fucking ruin each other without a hello.


Why do you always have to pretend to be so goddamn tough? Break a little, just for me.


The torture kind of makes life worth living. The power makes me feel loved.
It’s why we won’t make it.
You can only survive so many knife wounds before you simply… bleed out.


“Show me how you hurt me when I can’t see.”


Our relationship is strange, and the warning signs are screaming at me, but I like the way they sound.


Everyone wants to pretend they’re sympathetic to people with mental illnesses until they start showing signs of being mentally fucking ill.


“What do I need to do?” she whispers, staring up at me with what I choose to believe is adoration but could just as easily be terror. I think, maybe, they’re the same thing.


I never believed I could tame him. I just assumed he wouldn’t bite me.


She turns her head to look up at me. "I’m going to fucking murder you."
I smile, smoke curling around my teeth. "Don’t tease me with a good time."


I’m all yours, Nightmare Girl.” I bite the side of her face, hard, and her calves tremble, wrapped around my waist. I flex my fingers tighter.
No breath leaves her lungs.
And if you want to keep breathing, you’re all fucking mine.


I’ve come to understand he needs his love drenched with a little blood, wrapped up tight in bruises.
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562 reviews152 followers
September 16, 2021
“You can pretend you’re above it all, above fear, you can pretend these nasty things don’t eat you alive, Eden, but we all get scared.”

Reading Ominous kind of feels like a slow descent into madness. Things are calm at first, a little messed up but the deeper you get into the water the higher the waves get and then before you know it, you’re fully submerged and you don’t know which way is up or down.

We met Eli in Ecstasy, but in Ominous we get to meet him as a teenager in high school where he meet Eden. The one person he thinks will finally understand him. I won’t say much about the plot aside from its a messy first love full of drama, tension, sex and…drowning.

“I never believed I could tame him. I just assumed he wouldn’t bite me”

I really liked Eden as a character and I felt I understood her at times. She felt relatable. Eli on the other hand..he’s not relatable. I have read all kinds of dark and messed up books, but Eli Addison is by far the scariest character I’ve ever read about. He’s unpredictable. Calm at times and a violent storm at others. I felt like we got to see some of his soft edges in this book though and I really loved how he just obsessed over Eden.

Don’t go into Ominous expecting a sweet romance. This book is dark and kind of eerie. I’ll just sit here and cry while I wait for part two of their story.

“Sometimes there isn’t an origin story for horror.”
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1,764 reviews174 followers
September 25, 2021
Brilliantly addictive dark and toxic story !!!

This book is a masterpiece! I’ve been dying for this story and KV didn’t disappoint! Eli and Eden story is so raw and real there relationship is so toxically beautiful I’m obsessed with them! I’ve never read about a couple as damaged and toxic for each other as these two are there is so much pain and emotions that bleed from the pages I don’t know how this author survived after writing this story and this book is a beast of a book at a little over 800 pages and every page and word I savored I’m just hoping and praying that E & E are end game but I’m not sure these two are just so freaking toxic for each other they are both completely obsessed with the other and they have a dark past full of trauma they are both so damaged I just don’t see a happy ending for them but I’m definitely rooting for it nevertheless . KV Rose is one of my favorite authors in this industry I’m obsessed with her books and her characters every story I read I just don’t see how she can top and she does every single time! This book was dark it’s twisted and so freaking hot the sex scenes had me squirming in my seat the angst the passion the emotions it gives me goosebumps just thinking of this story. This book is definitely going down as my favorite read for 2021 !!! I can’t wait for the next book in this series!!!
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176 reviews82 followers
September 23, 2021
Me before reading: drooling over cover🤤

Me After reading: f*ck! It sucks.. sometimes😖

Reason why it sucks for me.!
It was dark N' toxic no doubt and h & H has some really dark fantasies which they like to do with one another cuz they think they are alike. the storyline is good but I was pissed with their inner monologues sometimes. Some scenes are so repetitive like Eli & Luna and Dom & Eden making each other jealous.This scene was there in both the acts and That pisses me off. And I almost dnf it but I didn't and last I get that

Some questions are still unanswered like Dom's sister murder mystery and that why there is a second book to their story...

PS... I don't hate long book but sometimes I just want to get to the point. And that's why I'm pissed with this book.

☮️ Out.

3.5 🌟s
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473 reviews72 followers
October 2, 2022
⛈ dark psychological 'romance'
⛈ deep dive into mental illness
⛈ toxic obsession // love
⛈ murder mystery
⛈ elite highschool vibes


i honestly cannot come up with the words to explain how much this series means to me. i plan to post an in-depth review once i finish part II.

eli×eden forever🔪☠️💚
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90 reviews11 followers
September 19, 2021
If I already said that one book was my favorite one of 2021, it’s because Ominous wasn’t release yet. I love all the books that I read, but this one is another level. I feel like that I’m passionate with this book. Eli and Eden are just something else.

I know I always says this, but I connected myself so much with these characters. Especially with Eden. She is amazing and I really see myself in her. There’s some parts of the book that I was reading and I was like “wait this is so me”. I love when this happens, because I get more excited with the book.

Eli. What can I say about Eli? Especially High School Eli?! He is the best. I liked him in Ecstasy, but I needed Ominous to fall in love with him.

I’m glad that Eli was not with Zara. His soulmate is Eden. They are crazy? Yes, but they need each other. Everything about this book is so perfect. It’s huge, but it was necessary so we could understand more Eli. I’m excited to know more about him. We only met a part of him. He is complex. He is difficult to understand. But you understand him. It’s hard sometimes to deal with him, but you can understand him.

I loved this book. I’m so excited for Part Two and Sinister. Eli and Eden are amazing and they have my heart and my mind now. I will only think about them after this book. I wish I could explain how much I love it, but I don’t have words enough for this. The fact that KV did a book of 47 chapters is a risk, because most of the times, authors get lost in their own books, but KV knew what she was doing and that’s why I love her books. She knows what she is writing. I know she is scared about this book, because it’s DARK, but the only thing I can say is: Trust on her. She never fail. She knows how to deal with these little demons.

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71 reviews15 followers
October 5, 2021
i don’t have the vocabulary to sit here and explain it like either you get the vibe or you don’t get the vibe.
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55 reviews108 followers
September 28, 2025
parents will warn you about drugs and alcohol but not about edeneli
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165 reviews151 followers
July 10, 2024
i ❤️ men with mommy issues
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