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I remember enjoying this as part of the anthology it was originally included in and need a quick little palate cleanser rn, so I'm diving back in!

I'm so excited for a new release from this author!!! It's been AGES 😁

Ergh, this is not off to a promising start. First, I'm irritated that the author chose to have Bellamy instantly figure out the demon's dual nature from almost no clues, then state it for the reader like it's a textbook instead of a piece of fiction, but then, just when I decide I'll stick it out instead of DNFing I turn the page and he gets angry over the bargain HE made that saved his life?! Color me #notimpressed

Ok, that's better. Go, Sterling!

He's alone in the bakery AGAIN after they all just sort of blew off the previous attack??? 🤦

😂😂😂

I'm loving this sooooooo much! 🥰🍁🫈🪾🌬️

Dennis 🥹

Omg he's what???

Omg you absolute idiot!!! STOP!!!

Noooooooooo 🙀

😱😱😱 Now THIS is some serious monster writing! I literally can't imagine how Benji is going to come around to loving it after what's happening in the cave... but I can't wait to find out! 😈

While I'm definitely enjoying this book overall, I'm pretty fed up with the extended lack of communication as conflict for literally no justified reason trope this far into it...

It's so weird now to read books set before gay marriage, and just... the whole vibe of gay romance that felt normal at the time but now comes across so dated.

Gasp! It's a sequel??? From Chris's POV?? 😃

Finish even though - unlike the first book in the duology - it's stuffed full of Claude-isms that slow down the pacing, or DNF and never find out if Asher is a real boy or not? Ugh, the struggle is real. 🫤

This one may not be for me if the body horror aspect gets too intense for my soft little heart, but... I'm going in 😳

Huh. I've loved both movies made from the books by this author, and for this one in particular I suspected that some of my complaints about the movie might disappear with extra depth from the book, so here I am. But the author's actual writing style? 😬 TBD whether I can last with it for hundreds if pages...

I'm enjoying this as much as I thought I would, which is to say that this author's style and my taste are pretty much a perfect match... buuuuuuuuut, ugh. I kinda hate the "I'll just keep this secret even though I promised to be honest" plot device. It's such an obvious setup for future drama. You know that. I know that. The author knows that. So where's the joy of the unexpected plot twist? Here's hoping I'm wrong.

I hope the author gives me a reason to like Jamal soon... 😐

I literally had to scroll back to make sure I hadn't inadvertently skipped an entire chapter, but no. The author really did just skip two back-to-back emotionally climactic relationship moment that we'd been set up for at the end of the prior chapter and recap them in the next chapter's opening with Akai basically thinking "well, that was nice" instead? That's... a choice.

This new-to-me author started us off with a note about how this book isn't her usual style, and all I can say is 😭😭😭 I can't get more of this??? It's ADORABLE! 🥰

I'm trying to figure out if I'd be enjoying this more if I hadn't already read Jackie North's book. This author, Kelly Fox, doesn't always work for me, and I don't love the random insta-attraction from Beau here tbh. But I digress from my main complaint, which is Jake. He's the MC in JN's book and I ADORE him there, but HERE he's... not the same man. Nor is the ranch the same. Major shared-world series fail IMHO :(

So.... I'm mostly enjoying this, although thank God I still remember book 1 because otherwise it would be less fun, and the author's humor is enjoyable BUT thick enough that it sometimes gets in the way of the story. And all that is fine. I'm having fun with it. What I don't love, though, is the sex-worker shaming that just hit 🫤

I've been looking forward to this book and it's... ok? But not great. The background story is interesting enough, but the book is framed as a romance between Martin and Gray, and tbh they're both boring me to tears. Probably because the author is just using them as mouthpieces for exposition instead of actually telling us their STORY, all while hinting at the other romances I'm assuming are planned for other books.

What the heck is happening here? I remember REALLY enjoying this author's books in the past, and this one sounds super fun along the same lines. But it's so damn rushed? Literally zero character development. I feel like I'm reading author's notes or a first draft 🫤

Only 18% in and this book already has two should-be-strikes against it: (spoiler incoming) MC in a sex act with someone else, and everyone-but-me's fave trope, enemies-to-lovers, which is normally an automatic nope for me. And yet here I am when I should be sleeping, literally laughing out loud and already hating tomorrow for how damn tired I'm going to be after staying up to read this all night 🤣

The writing is so good that I keep going despite being horrified, lol. I definitely prefer my psychopaths fiction-washed and I feel like I'm turning into a Gregory as I wait - in what I assume is in vain - for Sinclair to actually... turn into a (sick, twisted) romantic hero? I also REALLY want Gregory to get fed up. But I guess the anxiety-inducing fun of it is genuinely not knowing where the author is headed next.

Look, this book is super fucking disturbing, much like (but also totally different from) the other book of this author's that I read. BUT it's also hilarious and SO well written... which is all preface to: I just can't with body mutilation. Not to yuck others' yums, but NOPE. Except... I kinda get it here? And in a totally sick, twisted and yet satisfying way, the little self-growth moment from it is almost sweet.

Ohhhhhhhh Gregory 😂😂😂 Both these guys are intensely fucked up, as the blurb promises, but the writing is excellent and so engaging I can't look away. I am DESPERATE for some Sinclair POV, though!