Showing posts with label Dark Romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dark Romance. Show all posts

Friday, July 19, 2019

Random Review: Death's Angel by Michael Mandrake #Review #Giveaway





Title: Death's Angel
Author: Michael Mandrake
Publisher: Triad Literary 
Cover Artist: Natasha Snow
Publication Date: July 5, 2019
Length: 159 pages

Reviewed by Truus

Synopsis

Death’s plan for revenge is derailed by his lust for one of the Creator’s angels.

Being second to Michael has never sat well with Allerio. Feeling slighted, he travels beyond the heavens, meeting a creature who informs him of his Father’s secrets. With curiosities niggling him, he challenges his god, seeking freedom from stringent rules. Though the prize might look wonderful on the surface, it comes with a heavy price the angel will bear for eternity.

Death’s banishment was only the beginning of his descent. Since then, he’s concocted a scheme to overthrow the highest being, proving him to be a liar. Although confident his plot will succeed, he convinces one of High’s top helpers to assist him. However, Death never intended for feelings of affection to consume him. Suddenly wrecking God’s perfection isn’t as important anymore.

Two gods join forces and become bonded in more ways than one. Can they overcome their emotions to achieve their ultimate goal?

Death’s Angel is the prequel story to Immortals, chronicling the very beginning of Lucifer’s ascent as the god of the third and fourth planes. This story involves male pregnancy and mating.

Warning: On page violence, extreme torture, and death. Look inside for further triggers.






Review


Maybe take note of the warnings, this isn’t a story for the faint of heart!
Personally, I love dark, ravaging stories. The darker the better. This one didn’t disappoint!!

Allerio is a beautiful Angel with high self-esteem. He is convinced about the fact he is the equivalent to High.
High is the creator of goodness, light, and nature. Allerio knows there is more behind the horizon, and hates that High keeps it secret.

After Allerio meets Death, who tells him he should be his own God with worshipers and all the secrets should be revealed, Allerio openly revolts against High. High throws him out of his heaven.

Death and Allerio will create an army of followers, to stand up against High.
It looks like Death is the ideal ruler and both of them together means intimate dark power.
Allerio’s mate Caprios who followed him into the dark side, wants his mate to be the god of the underworld and not one with a shared title with Death.
Allerio has one longing, a family, a child of his own. Caprios refuses to give him this.
When Death feels the hurt of Allerio, his black ‘heart’ does strange things.
With Caprios mocking Death, Allerio is conflicted.

This story is told from Death and Allerio’s point of view. Through their eyes, we meet the dark side. We see how they feed, how they can destroy and have great power. Death can materialize into something tangible and that is stunning!
The contrast of High and Death is visual and palpable from every angle.
The line between good and evil is thin.

A fabulously written fantasy, with the most extraordinary creatures. The way everything was described gave an excellent view of every aspect. I loved the vulnerability of both dark and light characters.
Death’s Angel was one of a kind. Together they were almost invincible. The sexuality was extreme, reaching both the dark hardcore and sweet endearing levels. It had a strong sharpness and passion, very enjoyable to watch!
The many opposites were tremendously written, we meet the creative and destructive side of the powerful creatures. We meet the intriguing, the manipulator, the pacificator, hate and love, chaos and order, the dark and blue skies.
A reassurance:  you can find love and compassion on both sides.
This was quite a challenge for me. To read and try to get rid of all biased ideas and knowledge.




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Monday, May 20, 2019

Release Day Blitz: By Way Of Pain by J.M. Dabney





By Way of Pain
Criminal Delights Series, Book 11
J.M. Dabney
M/M Dark Romance
Release Date: 05.20.19






Blurb

Double lives were just the way it was for a man like me. By day I was a man with a reputation above reproach. Even assassins needed backup plans. For fifteen years, life was going without a hitch until I had to take out a witness. When it was time to kill him, beautiful eyes filled with fear urged me to do something else. Yet, in order to do that, I had to break him, and by way of pain, my captive would experience pleasure he'd never dreamed.



This book is part of CRIMINAL DELIGHTS. Each novel can be read as a standalone and contains a dark M/M romance.



Warning: These books are for adult readers who enjoy stories where lines between right and wrong get blurry. High heat, twisted and tantalizing, these are not for the fainthearted.



Trigger Warnings: Title contains the following possible triggers. Humiliation, Violence, Master/slave elements, Male Chastity, Murder, Imprisonment, Dub-Con, and Brief Torture.














Excerpt

It was a place created for a hunter. Big, sprawling and dirty—victims roaming the streets unaware of their status as prey. They all felt they were safe from the monsters because they were all easily spotted, but they knew nothing about my kind. We were just an abstract concept on some true crime show they watched in the middle of the night—evil reduced to caricature. My reputation was above reproach, but I was the most prolific killer of my kind.

In moments of respite where I hid away in my cabin, I’d analyzed when I'd become broken. I believed my sociopathy was a result of conception. Maybe something as damaged as I shouldn't have survived to birth. A shell without a soul. I'd attempted suicide a time or two, and I bore the marks from years of self-harm. I'd hoped to feel something—pain proved you were alive—and yet the more I cut and burned, it became nothing more than a minor inconvenience—wounds to heal.

I closed my eyes, drew oxygen in through my nose and pushed it slowly past my lips, repeated until I opened my eyes. As with any normal person ending work, I gathered up files and my laptop, stowing them inside my satchel briefcase. Everything in my life was routine and repetition, nothing deviated. I arrived at my office at six in the morning and promptly left at six at night. Meetings were scheduled as needed. I appeared in court. I was successful at my chosen cover, but as with all aspects of my existence, they were disguises.







About The Author


J.M. Dabney is a multi-genre author who writes mainly LGBT romance and fiction. They live with a constant diverse cast of characters in their head. No matter their size, shape, race, etc. J.M. lives for one purpose alone, and that’s to make sure they do them justice and give them the happily ever after they deserve. J.M. is dysfunction at its finest and they makes sure their characters are a beautiful kaleidoscope of crazy. There is nothing more they want from telling their stories than to show that no matter the package the characters come in or the damage their pasts have done, that love is love. That normal is never normal and sometimes the so-called broken can still be amazing.

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