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Lovesick Villains #3

Wrath of The Reapers

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A dark mafia romance

216 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 11, 2022

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Jessa Halliwell

18 books319 followers
Jessa Halliwell writes wickedly fun dark romance where the men don't just fall for the girl, they fixate. And for them, obsession is just the beginning.

She's best known for her dark stalker romance I’ll Be There For You and her breakout mafia reverse harem romance Fear The Reapers.

Jessa is a black cat through and through and lives in Northern California with her golden retriever himbo of a husband. When she isn’t writing, you can find her obsessing over her skincare routine, drinking an unhealthy amount of boba tea, and probably being bullied by her diva German Shepherd Mix pup, Nugget.

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595 reviews52 followers
May 31, 2022
A very disappointing ending. The series started out great, became mediocre with the second book and basically sucked in the final book. Everything was rushed and the whole Dimitri drama just felt poorly developed.
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262 reviews36 followers
May 28, 2022
Too quick. I wish it was a little bit longer and filled with a more epic ending then what we got. Wish the action and suspense were more suspenseful and action filled. It seemed to be lacking and incomplete for the last of a series.
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510 reviews
May 29, 2022
Dang I'm really disappointed with this. I've had this on my watch list ever since I binged the first 2 books months ago. I was skeptical when I saw that it was only ~150 pages and was concerned that the plot was going to be underdeveloped and just lacking. Unfortunately, that seemed to be the case. There were multiple typos in punctuation that pulled me out of the story. The pacing was so fast and solutions to each of the "problems" in the story just felt too convenient. Everything worked out for Stevie. The ending was very strange and rushed and the relationships fell flat. The first 2 books felt so much stronger and I was genuinely interested in Stevie's story. I'm so confused how this third book just completely fell flat.

I also was very disappointed that the first sex scene in the book (between Stevie and Ezra), there's absolutely no foreplay and he immediately drives into her... uhm, OUCH?! I absolutely hate when authors write unrealistic sex scenes that portray the women as always ready to take dick with no prep. Sigh... for how much time between book 2 and 3, I was really expecting more.
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1,174 reviews212 followers
November 3, 2023
✩‧₊ 2 stars ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

・ 。゚☆:Wrath of The Reapers *.☽ .*:☆゚

Stevie Alexandra (h) regrets leaving The Reapers because she’s been tortured, and they never came for her. She assumed her guys would come for her, especially because she left abruptly. However, as time passes, she realizes that maybe they assumed she left them for good. Atlas, Tristan, Cyrus, and Ezra (H) wish things were different because they miss her but haven’t heard from her in a while. When she unexpectedly returns, they know they won’t ruin this second chance with her.

─── ・ 。゚☆: THOUGHTS*.☽ .*:☆゚. ───

Tell me why I just finished the second book and I started this one right away, so how is it that I am done with the book in almost 2 hours? The book was just rushed; there is no development. They automatically forgive each other. They left off where they started; there was just no continuation of what had happened in the second book, and the worst part was that they’d never even looked for her. They just assumed that she didn’t want to be with them, which was the end of the story; they continued their lives, and to me, that’s shocking. I assume that they would’ve still looked for her, but they seemed like they gave up on her completely without thinking about how she was or if she was okay. How did they assume that she just stopped caring for them one day after the other, no matter what had happened between her and Ezra? I think that they should’ve at least checked up on her. It’s wild to me… that didn’t happen.

I’m honestly disappointed about the execution of this book because I thought that the story had potential. I genuinely like the first two books, and if this had been more thought out, then the series could’ve been great, but the story was rushed. I felt like the writing was just lazy, and there was no thought into the final book. It seems like the author ran out of ideas and didn’t know how to tell the stories till they picked the worst possible ending. How is it that Dimitri gets taken down in the final chapter, and Stevie decides to slit her throat, but she survives. And the worst part is that we could’ve seen an Ezra redemption arc because he had cried for the first time, saying that Stevie was injured, but instead, we get a one-year time jump epilogue. The end of everything: I’m just so disappointed; I can’t reiterate this enough because I feel like this book was just wasted potential.

I also feel like this wasn’t even a reverse harem because all four of them didn’t even ever talk about their dynamic.It was just understood that they shared something between all of them. Still, mostly, she was with Tristan and Cyrus together, and the others had their separate moments. I don’t know exactly what was going on between them because they never talked about the romance. Instead, they talked about how they loved her and how they wanted her to be with them forever, but they never addressed the situation that they had going on with me. That’s strange because typically, it’s a conversation that they have in reverse harem, but for them, it was normal. Even though it made her uncomfortable at first, she was embarrassed about wanting Cyrus and Tristan simultaneously. They just went with it, and they addressed it once and never again.

[Ezra]

“I hate what you’ve turned me into. What you’ve turned us all into. You had no fucking right to come into our lives and wreck us the way you did.”


“Then finish it.” She insists, reaching for my hand and wrapping it firmly around her throat. “If that’s what you really want, I won’t stop you.”


I knew from the start that Ezra wasn’t the one who killed Alex, but he did it to push Stevie away, and of course, she fell for it. I think she should’ve known that Ezra wasn’t capable of doing that, especially because she had gotten to know him and his background. He genuinely had feelings for her, so why would he do that and push her away if he was one of the few people who cared about her and wanted her to be in his life? This book starts with the elements in the other books, so now Ezra sees ghosts and sees if she is one of them. So when she returns for real, he assumes that she is a ghost, and he tries to choke the life out of her; the other guys have to stop in, and she forgives him. I was honestly surprised by that whole interaction and how she just ignored him. I would’ve been like PAUSE - it’s in character for Ezra to be unhinged, but that was out of pocket. In the end, I think his final straw was seeing her lifeless body, and when he started crying, and his brothers had never seen him cry in his life, that’s what did it for me.

[Tristan & Cyrus]

“God, I’ve missed you, P.” He confesses, breathing the words into my neck. I missed you too, I want to say, but I hold myself back. I can’t say things like that to them anymore.


The twins just missed her and attached to her when she returned. They slept outside her door, and then she invited them to sleep in her bed. They just wanted to be around her because they feared she might disappear if they weren’t near her. They tried to keep her in a little safe cocoon, and she was protected around them for the first time in a while. She left them, but they didn’t hold that against her; they were just glad she was back with them.

“Princess.” He says sternly, glaring down at me. “If you’re going to have a fucking pity party, have one in my arms. It’s cold up here and I need to remind myself that that motherfucker can’t get to you anymore. That you’re with me now, and that you’re safe.”


At this point, Cyrus didn’t care about anything but Stevie being back home with them. All she did was run and make bad choices, so if she was going to continue to make terrible decisions, he wanted to make them in his arms. With Cyrus and Tristan, Stevie was going to be protected at all times.

[Atlas]

“I don’t know why you did it, or if you even meant to do it, but on the night we first met, when you looked up at me, it was the first time I didn’t see the look of fear staring back at me. You saw something else in me. What? I’m not sure, but it felt good and that was… unexpected. After that, something inside me shifted. I found myself wanting to be different. Better. Kind. The type of man that deserves to be with someone like you. I know I’ll never be a good man, a man that wants you for all of the right reasons, and says all the right things, but for you, I’m willing to try. If you’ll let me.”


I’m disappointed with the outcome of this relationship because they had the first interaction, yet this was a lease developed. Did she even love them? She only ever told Atlas consistently that she loved him, and I don’t get it because he was the one who kept secrets from her the most; there was no development between these two even though they knew each other first; they were around each other at least I don’t understand this book for the relationships that dynamics are just not there in this book, and I’m just again disappointed with the execution of a final installment.

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It’s just bad I wouldn’t recommend this book.Honestly, I’m disappointed that I even started the first one if I knew it would end like this. I think it’s always so sad when a story has potential, but the final book ruins the entire thing because there’s no closure, it’s rushed, and authors should take into consideration that people wait for these books and they want a good ending. I would rather wait longer for a book and for it to be good than have a book quicker, which isn’t good.
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3,423 reviews2,804 followers
March 8, 2026
A Turning Point for Stevie and the Reapers



The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩷💚❤️💙
Spice/Steam: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌏
Character development: 😋🙂😁😍
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

Audiobook Review: Wrath of the Reapers (Lovesick Villains, #3)

Author: Jessa Halliwell
Genre: Dark reverse harem romance
Narrator(s): Corvin King and Nikki Monroe

Characters and Plot

Stevie begins this installment in the darkest place she has ever been. Dimitri has her captive and subjects her to repeated torture while trying to force her into promising to marry him. Melanie is dead. Alex is dead. Dimitri used Alex’s disappearance to manipulate Stevie, isolate her, and turn her against The Reapers. Stevie cannot believe she walked straight into his trap, and the guilt eats at her. Dimitri wants to destroy The Reapers piece by piece, and he starts with Stevie. Faced with the choice between becoming his bride or losing herself completely, Stevie chooses the fire.

This book also sets the stage for the fourth installment. A girl named Violet and three mercenaries, Dallas, Niko, and Rome, have been tracking Alex. Their search leads them to Dimitri’s location, and they arrive just in time to pull Stevie from the flames. They had been following Dimitri for their own reasons, which makes their rescue feel both unexpected and inevitable. Stevie is shattered. She had already distanced herself from The Reapers, and Dimitri’s beatings have left her physically and emotionally raw. She tries to escape the mercenaries who want to take Dimitri down, but she stumbles across something that shifts everything she thought she knew.

Highlights

• This series continues to prioritize story over smut, which I appreciate. Many reverse harem books feel obligated to include long intimate scenes with each hero and then add group scenes on top of that. Here, the shorter scenes feel intentional and meaningful. Quality wins over quantity, and the plot never gets lost in the heat.

• Ezra’s unraveling is one of the most compelling emotional threads. He has been seeing Stevie everywhere since she left, so when she finally returns, he cannot trust that she is real. Watching him struggle to believe she is truly in front of him adds a haunting layer to their reunion.

Limitations

• Each book in this series leaves out details that could have strengthened the world building and character development. Stevie grew up in poverty surrounded by addiction, yet she steps into the luxurious world of The Reapers with almost no reaction to the designer clothes, the Porsche, the Maserati, or the sudden access to wealth. Someone from her background, or even someone from a middle-class upbringing, would have at least a moment of awe or discomfort. This book continues that pattern and also could have offered more clarity about the larger conflict. Characters also recover from trauma far too quickly, which weakens the emotional realism.

• Some of the revelations about Dimitri do not hold up. His connection to Oleg, his position as Oleg’s stepson, and the council’s desire to place him in charge of west coast operations do not align with the fact that he has always been a complete psychopath. The pieces do not fit together in a believable way.

• While reading and listening at the same time, I discovered that the audiobook skips an entire chapter. It is a short chapter from Ezra’s point of view, and it happens to be one of the best chapters in the book. Its absence is noticeable and frustrating.

Narration

The audiobook uses multiple points of view and features dual narration by Nikki Monroe and Corvin King. Corvin King remains a standout with his deep, raspy voice that suits dark romance perfectly. Nikki Monroe brings a youthful and emotional tone that matches Stevie’s turmoil and resilience. Together, they elevate the tension and heartbreak in a way that makes the story hit harder.

Final Opinion

This installment delivers high emotional stakes, strong tension, and a brutal turning point for Stevie. It also sets up the next book with new characters and a shift in direction. While the world building still has gaps and some plot points strain logic, the emotional core and the narration keep the story engaging.

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46 reviews
October 17, 2025
Any one who rated this book with over 2 stars, is for sure paid to do so. This book was the absolute worst! The chemistry between the characters was the same as my will to live, when I was reading the book- none. The ending seems extremely forced and did not give a good view of how their life was in the end. The main character has the survival instincts of a potato. It would be great, instead of explaining the traits that each character has, to actually show them and act on them. Also, the last two books would be one, but noo let's make it into two separate books, so we can torment people, while spending their money! DO NOT READ THIS.
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56 reviews2 followers
November 29, 2024
I honestly don't know how we got to this point, but this one was pure ass. I'm actually speechless. Not only did the writing become suddenly ass, but the characters would move on from shit too quickly. LIKE HELLO ARE WE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT SHE SLIT HER FUCKING THROAT TO SAVE ALL OF YALL%$!$!$@
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85 reviews2 followers
February 9, 2023
Very rushed ending, still kinda cute though, really wanted more from Atlas and Stevie their past is just brushed over.
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153 reviews
May 19, 2023
Meh. Vad var det där för slut?
12 reviews
June 14, 2022
I just can’t

I tried, I really tried. I finished the series in an attempt to find some sort of redemption in the writing and the weak characters. I’m disappointed that the main character is constantly repeating mistakes, blaming others, and then when tragedy strikes barely owns her involvement before starting the cycle again. It was way too much angst without any character growth.
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73 reviews
May 19, 2023
Went too fast. Should have been more descriptive.
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626 reviews6 followers
October 3, 2023
don't know why i finished this series but i did
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41 reviews4 followers
July 23, 2024
that last chapter with ezra was foul I needed a little more after that😭

these books would be so much more amazing if they were longer it makes me so sad
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387 reviews1 follower
August 27, 2026
4 Stars
3.5 Spice
Genre: Dark Romance
Tropes: Why Choose, Kidnap/Captivity, Touch Her and Die
Main Characters: Ezra Cole, Atlas Cole, Tristan Cole, Cyrus Cole, and Stevie Alexander

In the finale of this trilogy, Stevie is in the worst predicament of her life when she awakes after being kidnapped by the one man wanting to take control of the Reapers. The Reapers then have to put everything else aside to not only save her, but take down everyone who's ever laid a finger on her.

This was definitely a good ending to this trilogy. Still love the characters, even if sometimes Stevie's martyr complex made me want to shake her. Again, I feel like the ending was a little on the quick side, but these have all been really fast reads that get right to the point, which I enjoyed.
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23 reviews3 followers
May 1, 2025
3.5 ⭐️did i enjoy this series? honestly yes but everything went so fast and i was in shock for most of it. through bias may occur since i started this trilogy right after i finished the edge of darkness trilogy 😬 nah but love the boys 😏
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102 reviews14 followers
May 7, 2024
I can’t believe it’s coming from me but this could’ve been 50 pages longer bc I feel there we’re still some loose ends. So I was a little disappointed since this is the last book from them
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1 review1 follower
June 30, 2022
Honestly I never leave reviews just a rating because everyone experiences the book differently but this series has got to be the worst written books I’ve ever read.
With that being said this last book was all over the place.
This series had so much potential but went downhill in the second book. The main character was extremely annoying. This was her villain story?
With only 115 kindle pgs the book was so short that we were left hanging with the rest of guys. I thought Atlas was the main guy yet we saw more from the twins and the epilogue was utter trash

I don’t recommend reading this at all, it’s a waist of time
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568 reviews37 followers
April 3, 2024
I am disappointed. Not just in the ending but the entire series. The story has so much potential. What bothers me the most is that their relationships are not properly explored. We don’t see their journey from captive/ captors to lovers. It is mentioned but not shown.
711 reviews3 followers
May 27, 2024
idk didn't hit the way I wanted it
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382 reviews16 followers
December 25, 2023
“Because no matter how much you try to change them, no matter how much you think you love me. A monster is still a monster. They can’t love you back. All they’ll ever do, all they can ever do, is destroy you.”

I must admit it, Stevie is a Survivor. She was a warrior. She went through a LOT, and I am proud of her. I felt relations between Stevie and each of the Reapers must have a little longer time to develop cause it felt rushed. In Queen of the Reapers Stevie really frustrated me, girl let me tell you that everything can’t always get your way and she doesn’t seem to get it. Luckily She was able to fix and improve in the last book, the ending did leave more to be desired. Overall I love this story, I enjoyed reading this series.
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25 reviews
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July 2, 2023
Úprimne lepšie knihy som čítala aj na wattpade ale prečítala som celu sériu za dva dni takže to nemohlo byť až také zlé.
Profile Image for Mood Reader Megan.
169 reviews
October 4, 2026
Story 2.5/5
Spice 3.5/5
Audiobook Narration 3.5/5

Tropes: Mafia, Why Choose, Kidnapped & Tortured FMC, Rescue, Reunion, Revenge, HEA, Twists

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15 reviews
July 4, 2023
Needs a thorough edit. And ngl, I know books hyperextend reality to within an inch of its life. But there ain’t no clinical shread of hope to claw at with this one…
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