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Book Title: Lights Out
Author: Navessa Allen
Favorite book of Quarter 1 -2025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5⭐️: Favorite: Absolutely loved it; one of the best reads.
5 🌶️: Extra Spicy: Lots of explicit scenes, including various kinks and tropes.
4🔪: Severe: High levels of violence, disturbing themes, and graphic content. Multiple trigger warnings needed. (avg 4.67 ~~5 stars)
i wont say this is my "favorite" for the year because its only March, but this is definitely my favorite for Quarter 1 of 2025.
this is the best book I have read so far this year! i love the story line and the plot.
i love the set up, and how they meet, how they actually already know each other. that makes it a little less creepy.
the brad storyline is just, like whoa, wasnt expecting that at all but. i wasnt expecting him to be a full on k.ill3r... but after the "investigation" and hes totally a cereal un-aliver - so he deserved what he got, but a little anti-climatic.
i genuinely appreciate that it had a story line and not just smut smut smut. the inner monologues and the banter are my favorite! it seemed so realistic.
Date Posted: 03/31/2025

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Book Title: Hellish Witch (arc review)
Author: Sakura Black ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4⭐️: Very Good / 5 🌶️: Extra Spicy / 5🔪: Extreme
NOTES>Check your trigger warnings. ARC Review. probably spoilers. read at your own risk.
✅Brothers best friend. I am here for it.
✅ Touch her and perish. i am here for it. these are like my FAVS.
✅incredible Schmex scenes ... while flying. yes please. (theres a tail scene too. )
Killian from the beginning "and yet id break every rule for you" and "if i find you with a body, i'll bury it for you" (heart swoon- i honestly knew from the very second those words flew out of his mouth he was already done for.) he quiet literally is laying his heart and his loyalty down at her feet... her blindness is infuriating throughout the whole book, until the very end "we were so stupid." (yes eve, yes you were.) Eve constantly thinks that Killian is only there because her "brother/uncle" told him to follow her and babysit, when so clearly that is not the case ... and Eve's final recognition of "you are the reason they call me the widow-witch" like, chefs kiss.
Killian has been pining for her for his whole "free" life and i am obsessed with him. he's been dropping hints, and scenting his desire towards her for years. like when i picture Killian in my head, he has that diabolical, unhinged smile that quirks up and reaches his eyes like "oh you think that was crazy, just wait there's more".
there are so many pieces of the story that i want to talk about, but im afraid it would spoil to much of it!
however i think this is the first time i read "knotting" with a demon. so that was interesting.. not mad about it at all though. i loved his playfulness during the "after glow stage" like when she wakes up. he was so happy, and she had to go and screw it up again thinking that she forced him into something he didnt want. FTLOG Eve stahp! he likes you, he REALLY likes you.
also: the coven they go to, super weird. i got "cult" vibes from the beginning. sunshine boy just seemed off, and not concerned about the hunters at all, and that felt weird.. (in hindsight makes perfect sense). and the elder... yuck, like instant dislike. super pushy, culty, i'll only help you if you join us. like what. no thanks.
and some really big action spoilers that i wont mention insert here(my kindle was like 50 min left of the book - my anxiety was overflowing with you better wrap this up in nice little HEA for me or im gonna be upset!!!)..... but the way that scene ends, and her and killian leave together.. nice save. i like that.
CONS: *the hellcat, few things i didn't like... i get it - she's a cat, and the snooty-patooty behavior that all cats have, nailed that perfectly..... but having to reiterate that the cats fluffball tail had a hidden stinger in it. honestly felt like forced foreshadowing, one or two hints, sure no problem, but it felt like it was mentioned 3-5 times (i didn't honestly count) in a matter of a couple pages felt really forced. *some of the writing, or Eve's inner monologue, sometimes was hard to interpret. is she saying this out loud, or was this in her head.. maybe it was just me, but i had to re-read some sections to understand the "flow" of the conversation and internally in my head as i was reading was "ok this makes more sense if she said "this section" in her head.
Date Posted: 03/28/2025

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Book Title: Take Me To Hell
Author: Sakura Black ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4⭐️: top tier. - Great story /characters but something was missing
4 🌶️: lots of scenes, Neapolitan
3🔪: Intermediate: Noticeable violence or dark themes. Contains some graphic scenes and potential triggers.
~avg 3.67 out of 5, round for 4

I thoroughly enjoyed this book way more than i honestly expected. i love the "little mouse" nickname althought i dont think it ever went into detail about how she got the nickname, except a little squeak she made... but i thought she did that after the nickname for the first time. .. any way thats not really important.
the bad guy from the beginning "fenton" (spell check, i listed to the audio so idk), he was just a sleezeball from the start and i had expectations of him being involved, but i didnt expect the "coven leader" to be involved.
and whats with this supposed best friend who sold her out for her crush. and was acting jealous and "wishy-washy" from the start. idk just something about that didn't set right... your supposed best friend is usually more understanding and open to at least listening to your side of the story... i guess towards the end it comes out that she was never really a friend, just took pity on the orphan girl.... but then tries to attack her behind her back, and then pleads for mercy when she is caught trying to attack from behind... like the most cagey, two faced, sleeze-ball of a humanoid there ever was. she is worse than the Fenton IMO.
not particularly fond of the "your my mate" after only a few days.... so i completely appreciated the FMC resistance and questioning "what happens if we don't work out, then what happens".
Date Posted: 03/24/2025

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Book Title: When The Moon Hatched
Author: Sarah A Parker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5⭐️: Favorite: Absolutely loved it; one of the best reads.
3 🌶️: Medium Heat: Several intimate scenes, moderately explicit.
3🔪: Intermediate: Noticeable violence or dark themes. Contains some graphic scenes and potential triggers.
~avg 3.67 out of 5, round for 4

idk how my dumbself keeps picking books that are unfinished series. im enraged at myself for not being able to read the next book. i hate cliff hangers yet i continue to do this to myself.
this book honestly took me a while and few different attempts to get started and interested in the book, the first few chapters, are underwhelming. but this book is so worth it. it takes almost the first half of the book to get invested.... and the FMC is very irritating. the constant berating of her self of not being good enough for anyones love or affection. hate that.
im honestly not a fan of the Multiple points of view... as in more than two. normally its the FMC and the MMC, but you have a few chapters that are 2 or 3 other female side characters, and a male side character. however they are important to the story... so they are necessary im just not use to having so many different POVs in a book.
also, MMC, chefs kiss. and his "moonbeam"... his heart for her, and he constantly just lays his heart at her feet and she just tramples it over and over and he continues to try and save her.
and did this book just end with the secret love child being in a cage, and NEE returning to her! im crying. thats going to break the FMC even more when that truth is revealed.
book 2 better be the end of the series. i need closure.
Date Posted: 03/25/2025

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Book Title: Pestilence
Author: Laura Thalassa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3⭐️:average. - Not mind blowing but didn't hate.
2 🫑: a little sprinkle of spice
4🔪: Severe: High levels of violence, disturbing themes, and graphic content. Multiple trigger warnings needed.
~AVG 3 stars.
it seemed more ogling then spicy. but i liked the story. it was very hot and cold for their reactions towards each other. and that seemed to repeate to frequently for me. like I get it, youre enemies-to-lovers. your not supposed to like each other, but you do, but you dont, but you do, but you dont, but you do. and then finally, i ugess to bring the book closer, it was just , ok i surrender.. and then the epilogue, oh hey my brother is coming, just so nonchalant. eh. probably wont read the rest of the series. i like that it was a HEA, even though its part of a series.
Date Posted: 03/24/2025

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