By: Trisha Wolfe
Pub Date: NOW AVAILABLE
Genre: Dark Academia Erotic Romance
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌗
Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥 (feral)
Tropes: Dark Academia, Enemies to Lovers, Morally Dark MMC
Narrators: Sebastian York & Lucy Rivers, Duet Style
PUBLISHER’S SYNOPSIS
He’s the devil. And she’s his wicked game. An enemies-to-lovers dark academia romance with a thrilling twist and epic love story from the disturbed mind that brought you the Darkly, Madly Duet.
Halen:
They say eyes are the windows to the soul—but when he looks at me through hues of slate-green and flaring blue embers, I’m terrified of what’s watching me from behind his clashing gaze, something primal and feverish that threatens to melt me like fire in ice.
I fear falling into Kallum Locke’s pitch-black soul.
But after I’m called to a crime scene to investigate the most gruesome act of violence to descend on the legendary town of Hollow’s Row, I have no choice but to turn to Kallum, to the man I had locked away in an asylum for the criminally insane.
He’s the leading expert on all things Nietzsche and occult. And now, to get answers, I’m forced to make a deal with the devil himself.
Kallum: Really, eyes are the windows to the soul? Then I wonder what little Halen St. James thinks of all the cryptic eyes watching her in the killing fields… I wonder if the hairs on her delicate nape lifted away, if a thrilling shiver raced over her soft skin. She’s desperate for the answer, and she’ll do anything to uncover it—even make a deal with me, dangling freedom like bait on a hook.
But she’s far more tempting to sink my teeth into than any lure.
REVIEW
If you’ve ever seen or read Silence of the Lambs, it’s like that but as an erotic romance. If Hannibal Lector were younger and a scholar of the occult and Clarice had a darker and more tragic past.
This is definitely not a book for everyone. It’s a very dark romance with a lot of trigger warnings. I can’t decide whether this or Haunting Adeline is darker, but if you liked one, you most likely would enjoy the other.
I am a fan of dark romance. I don’t always write out my reviews, but I’ve read most of the Lights Out series, love Brynn Weaver, and have listened to quite a few audiobooks of the genre, usually in Duet (love a good Duet!). With this rebranding into LWL and being far more of a romance-based blog, it makes sense to include darker ‘romantic’ material, so here you go.
The mix of occult, obsession, and the with the will they won’t they trope, this is a deliciously dark cocoa nib of dark romance. Kallum is definitely a villain, and Halen is morally Grey and a little broken, but also a total baddie who hunts serial killers. By the end of this, some mystery still exists, but there are some dark scenes that keep us satisfied in the meantime. But you really need to heed the TWs on this one. It’s very dark and is NOT the introductory story you want if you’re just now diving into dark romance. You might want to give Love Me, Stalk Me by Laura Bishop. LINK BELOW:
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