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Mortal Consequences
When Hell hath no fury, and Death has no hold... what's a witch to do?
Disgraced Witch Hunter Griffin Summerville gets a call to take a job back home in Boston that he can't refuse. The usual hunt becomes a spiral into death and debauchery when he invites the demon who's been stalking him into his home. In terms of bad decisions, probably not the worst one Griffin's ever made. He has a secret to protect if he wants to make it out of this job alive, and considering his habits, that's not looking likely. Add someone trying to frame him for murdering other witches, a Boston coven who hates his guts, and a trip to a very dangerous Faery nightclub to make deals he shouldn't, and it's just another job for Griffin.
Balakai is everything Griffin's self-destructive nature craves- violent, overwhelming, hot as hell. It might be hard to get rid of the obsessed demon later, but right now he's a good time. And considering he's willing to help Griffin hunt down the witch he's been hired to kill, well. Maybe he won't try to kick him out just yet.
With Death himself on his trail and a specter of his past back to finish murdering, the pair are on the clock if they don't want to see Griffin dead... for good this time.
This MM erotica features a trans witch and a gender non-conforming demon on a dark and twisted hunt through a supernatural Boston. There are grumpy witches, saucy jokes made in bad taste, shy, clucking Avatars of Death who just want everyone to be nice, nasty men being nasty, and all the dark magic one could want. Expect very dark themes, high heat, toxic dynamics, and a whole lot of kink.
Disgraced Witch Hunter Griffin Summerville gets a call to take a job back home in Boston that he can't refuse. The usual hunt becomes a spiral into death and debauchery when he invites the demon who's been stalking him into his home. In terms of bad decisions, probably not the worst one Griffin's ever made. He has a secret to protect if he wants to make it out of this job alive, and considering his habits, that's not looking likely. Add someone trying to frame him for murdering other witches, a Boston coven who hates his guts, and a trip to a very dangerous Faery nightclub to make deals he shouldn't, and it's just another job for Griffin.
Balakai is everything Griffin's self-destructive nature craves- violent, overwhelming, hot as hell. It might be hard to get rid of the obsessed demon later, but right now he's a good time. And considering he's willing to help Griffin hunt down the witch he's been hired to kill, well. Maybe he won't try to kick him out just yet.
With Death himself on his trail and a specter of his past back to finish murdering, the pair are on the clock if they don't want to see Griffin dead... for good this time.
This MM erotica features a trans witch and a gender non-conforming demon on a dark and twisted hunt through a supernatural Boston. There are grumpy witches, saucy jokes made in bad taste, shy, clucking Avatars of Death who just want everyone to be nice, nasty men being nasty, and all the dark magic one could want. Expect very dark themes, high heat, toxic dynamics, and a whole lot of kink.
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July 17, 2023
After a second read of this book, I had to tab it up. I first read Mortal Consequences in April this year and its now July, I've used 200+ tabs, and I still can't get over everything this book makes me feel.
MORTAL CONSEQUENCES is a dance with death, obsession, passion and twisted wickedness, gift-wrapped into the very thing that is Griffin and Balakai. Awful, insane, depraved--they fit each other just right. Griffin, a disgraced trans witch who can also hunt his own kind for the right price, and Balakai, a demon who walked out of Hell with his own borrowed skin, meet after years of Balakai stalking Griffin, thus the start of their whole twisted journey together.
Wickedly magical, darkly indulgent and possessively violent, MORTAL CONSEQUENCES is the book waiting on every corner to drag out the most twisted desires and dark wants. Its projected onto a witch who has survived his own self for centuries and a demon who just wants to make good on a promise to kill him.
What CJ Twining and Rien Nadie have done is created something from the pits of every dark, wicked, delightful thing and said "this is for those who need it", and, oh boy, did I need it. Griffin took hold of me, shook me, dug nails into me, spat in my face, and I could only say "thank you". He's depraved, he's glorious, he's shameless, and I love him with every inch of my being. This book is beautiful and expansive, a spiral into morality, mortality, indulgence, and past wounds that we force closed over time--and borrow some more time, and then more, and then more.
With a shameless plot full of debauchery, voyeurism, masochism and downright kinky flavours, MORTAL CONSEQUENCES leaves a somewhat decadent taste on the tongue, begging for more. I can't repeat just how wicked and so full of heat it is. Balakai's and Griffin's pleasures alone blaze through the pages but together they are a mess of teeth and dark promises and blood.
As Griffin hunts down his ex-lover while leaving his moral compass behind on the pavement after he dies over and over, never quite staying dead, Balakai seizes his life with a heavy promise to be the one to end him, to wait for him to return, if only to kill him again. If you love tropes where they will literally tear each other apart and laugh in the carnage, this book is for you. If you love shameless s1utty characters, this book is for you. Read it for the demon who curls up on the witch's pillow to sleep, who wears a Christmas jumper and sleeps beneath a Christmas tree at the end. Read it for the heartbreaking backstory, for the devastation that can lie within the depraved pages. Read it for the glorious smut and how not one inch of this story shies away from the ugly parts of ourselves but instead embraces them, twists them into something we can control a little more. Read it for the study in witchcraft that Griffin delves in as the Lord of Crows, for the heartache he convinces himself he's mended, for the demon he falls into obsession with. Read it for the clucking aunt figure and the demon who is just as unhinged as the witch he both protects and seeks to tear apart.
This book has grips on me that's made these authors and auto-buy. Griffin is embedded in me, and Balakai is coming right up after him, and I only want to know more of their story. This book is needed and its delightful and an absolute wrench-the-breath-from-your-lungs kind of read. This book kept me awake at night, kept me in a daze throughout the days, and created so much good brainrot I can't not think of them pretty much 24/7. Thank you, CJ Twining and Rien Nadie.
MORTAL CONSEQUENCES isn't to be taken lightly so please, please take care of yourself and read the trigger/content warnings which are at the start of the book and website of the authors!
Can I interest you in some quotes?
"Even though Balakai had murdered him, Griffin had known he would eventually and wasn't actually bothered by that. It was more strange, and more compelling, that he had stayed."
"There were still memories of sunny afternoons just watching the sky go by and pretending to forgive a life that had been too damned long. He'd slipped up, had fallen for the lie that either he, or life, would ever be anything else than it was. The hurt of hope was so much worse than nails on his skin or claws rendering flesh from body."
"Balakai's eyes glowed in the darkness of the room, curled up where he was high on the pillows near Griffin's head."
"'Give me carnage', Griffin whispered, as he popped the quick release on the collar."
"Balakai was a feast at which he would gorge himself, would so easily be a gluttonous sinner."
"He wanted him. To own him, and debase him, to consume him and give him the entirety of himself. To cascade until there was nothing left but oblivion."
"'Impaled on a demon dick. Does a number. Smug fuck.'"
"'I'm going to breed you like a bitch before breakfast.'"
MORTAL CONSEQUENCES is a dance with death, obsession, passion and twisted wickedness, gift-wrapped into the very thing that is Griffin and Balakai. Awful, insane, depraved--they fit each other just right. Griffin, a disgraced trans witch who can also hunt his own kind for the right price, and Balakai, a demon who walked out of Hell with his own borrowed skin, meet after years of Balakai stalking Griffin, thus the start of their whole twisted journey together.
Wickedly magical, darkly indulgent and possessively violent, MORTAL CONSEQUENCES is the book waiting on every corner to drag out the most twisted desires and dark wants. Its projected onto a witch who has survived his own self for centuries and a demon who just wants to make good on a promise to kill him.
What CJ Twining and Rien Nadie have done is created something from the pits of every dark, wicked, delightful thing and said "this is for those who need it", and, oh boy, did I need it. Griffin took hold of me, shook me, dug nails into me, spat in my face, and I could only say "thank you". He's depraved, he's glorious, he's shameless, and I love him with every inch of my being. This book is beautiful and expansive, a spiral into morality, mortality, indulgence, and past wounds that we force closed over time--and borrow some more time, and then more, and then more.
With a shameless plot full of debauchery, voyeurism, masochism and downright kinky flavours, MORTAL CONSEQUENCES leaves a somewhat decadent taste on the tongue, begging for more. I can't repeat just how wicked and so full of heat it is. Balakai's and Griffin's pleasures alone blaze through the pages but together they are a mess of teeth and dark promises and blood.
As Griffin hunts down his ex-lover while leaving his moral compass behind on the pavement after he dies over and over, never quite staying dead, Balakai seizes his life with a heavy promise to be the one to end him, to wait for him to return, if only to kill him again. If you love tropes where they will literally tear each other apart and laugh in the carnage, this book is for you. If you love shameless s1utty characters, this book is for you. Read it for the demon who curls up on the witch's pillow to sleep, who wears a Christmas jumper and sleeps beneath a Christmas tree at the end. Read it for the heartbreaking backstory, for the devastation that can lie within the depraved pages. Read it for the glorious smut and how not one inch of this story shies away from the ugly parts of ourselves but instead embraces them, twists them into something we can control a little more. Read it for the study in witchcraft that Griffin delves in as the Lord of Crows, for the heartache he convinces himself he's mended, for the demon he falls into obsession with. Read it for the clucking aunt figure and the demon who is just as unhinged as the witch he both protects and seeks to tear apart.
This book has grips on me that's made these authors and auto-buy. Griffin is embedded in me, and Balakai is coming right up after him, and I only want to know more of their story. This book is needed and its delightful and an absolute wrench-the-breath-from-your-lungs kind of read. This book kept me awake at night, kept me in a daze throughout the days, and created so much good brainrot I can't not think of them pretty much 24/7. Thank you, CJ Twining and Rien Nadie.
MORTAL CONSEQUENCES isn't to be taken lightly so please, please take care of yourself and read the trigger/content warnings which are at the start of the book and website of the authors!
Can I interest you in some quotes?
"Even though Balakai had murdered him, Griffin had known he would eventually and wasn't actually bothered by that. It was more strange, and more compelling, that he had stayed."
"There were still memories of sunny afternoons just watching the sky go by and pretending to forgive a life that had been too damned long. He'd slipped up, had fallen for the lie that either he, or life, would ever be anything else than it was. The hurt of hope was so much worse than nails on his skin or claws rendering flesh from body."
"Balakai's eyes glowed in the darkness of the room, curled up where he was high on the pillows near Griffin's head."
"'Give me carnage', Griffin whispered, as he popped the quick release on the collar."
"Balakai was a feast at which he would gorge himself, would so easily be a gluttonous sinner."
"He wanted him. To own him, and debase him, to consume him and give him the entirety of himself. To cascade until there was nothing left but oblivion."
"'Impaled on a demon dick. Does a number. Smug fuck.'"
"'I'm going to breed you like a bitch before breakfast.'"
November 22, 2022
(4.5/5 stars) Overall I enjoyed this book, though I will admit it took me awhile to come around to liking the main character. Though there were times I wanted to slap him, I couldn't stop turning the page. We meet Griffin Summerville, disgraced Witch Hunter, when he returns to Boston to take a job he can't refuse. Someone's framing him for murder and he needs to clear his name. As he begins to work the case, he runs into Balakai, a demon who admits to being obsessed with him. Plenty of sexy sparks fly as the two attempt to solve the case and keep Griffin alive. I very much enjoyed the erotic aspects of this story, though it did take me a bit to orient myself in terms of the magic. I had a great time reading this and look forward to Nadie and Twining's other works.
November 3, 2022
This is not for the faint hearted or folks looking for functional, healthy relationship dynamics. It is, however, a filthy good time with a really engaging story that makes you want to follow these two deviant men just to see what kind of trouble they get into.
Griffin is a witch to always comes back from the dead when he dies, back in Boston to take on a job to kill his ex... who just happened to kill him first. He runs into his stalker, a demon who ticks all of Griffin's boxes, and they fall into a spiral of one another while trying to track down Julian and unravel his designs.
I really enjoyed this book. Yes, it's high heat, and yes the main characters are not good people. Somehow, it really worked, though. I don't always *want* squeaky clean. There is so much wrong about these two, and yet it was so much fun to ride along with them. I can't wait to see what comes next!
Griffin is a witch to always comes back from the dead when he dies, back in Boston to take on a job to kill his ex... who just happened to kill him first. He runs into his stalker, a demon who ticks all of Griffin's boxes, and they fall into a spiral of one another while trying to track down Julian and unravel his designs.
I really enjoyed this book. Yes, it's high heat, and yes the main characters are not good people. Somehow, it really worked, though. I don't always *want* squeaky clean. There is so much wrong about these two, and yet it was so much fun to ride along with them. I can't wait to see what comes next!
November 5, 2022
Wow, it's not often I stop reading a book within the first chapter, but the writing has me so confused. The POV character seems to switch from one paragraph to the next. I know Griffin is supposed to be the MC, but sometimes it seems like it switches to Noah, even though I know he *isn't* the MC. And the epithets. I HATE epithets. The characters know each other. The readers know the characters' names. USE them! The MC, Griffin, even uses epithets *for himself,* which confuses me even further as to who is narrating what. Is the book 3rd person limited or 3rd person omniscient? This book is in desperate need of an editor.
2 stars instead of 1 because I *really* wanted to read it. It sounded interesting! And we need more trans characters that are just as flawed and varied as cis characters. But I just *can't* get past the confusing writing.
2 stars instead of 1 because I *really* wanted to read it. It sounded interesting! And we need more trans characters that are just as flawed and varied as cis characters. But I just *can't* get past the confusing writing.
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