When Bloom announced they were picking this up I took it as the sign I was waiting for to dive into this series finally. I love a good why choose story every once in a while and I was ready to be whisked away into the world of Madison Kate and her boys.

“Madison Kate Danvers was murdered tonight.” Those words changed my life, and not for the better. They were wrong, of course. I wasn’t dead. But I was set up. After being framed for a deadly riot, charged with a string of offences, and being made into an example by my politically minded father, I’m eventually released back into Shadow Grove. I could keep my head down, but I only have one thing on my mind. Hate. The boys who framed me are going to pay for derailing my carefully laid-out future. They’re going to catch the full force of my revenge. Except when I arrive back in town, thanks to my father’s shiny new girlfriend, I find all three of them living in my house, right down the hall. Archer, Kodiak, and Steele are secretive. Untrustworthy. Dangerous―and dangerously magnetic, too. But I’m not falling for their games. Not after what they did to me. Archer D’Ath and his boys messed with the wrong chick, and they’re about to learn just how cold Madison Kate’s hatred can run.

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• Characters: Let’s first dive into the titular Madison Kate, back in town after her father exiled her to Cambodia and she’s ready to re-enter, no actually to reclaim her life. She’s a character you’ll love if you like to embrace rooting for a morally grey leading lady. She’s violent and vengeful, and I loved every bit of it. She has this magnetism about her, which no doubt lures her three boys in. In a why choose story it’s hard to make sure all the love interests are well-defined and separate characters. Archer, Steele, and Kodiak are very different from each other. Archer is the possessive asshole type, the classic I hate you but am wildly attracted to you, type of character. Kodiak is the sweetest of the guys for sure, while Steele definitely brought his own swagger, having the balls to really put the moves on MK first. For sure though it’s these main characters that have me intrigued to keep reading.
• Setting: Shadow Grove is the setting for this story, and I feel like I have yet to understand this town. This is understandable because this is the first book, not all the secrets are going to reveal themselves just yet. It does lead to a few frustrations while reading as it is hard to believe an entire town let MK be the scapegoat for Riot Night.
• Pacing: The first few chapters took me a bit to get into, but I felt way more invested in what was happening once the plot picked up. The story improves as we get more information, I do not really like how left in the dark we are as readers. It ends with quite the cliffhanger, which did have me diving into the second book Liar, basically right away.
• Romance: It’s hard to really rate the romance in this one, as this first instalment is very much more the boys lusting over Madison Kate, and her denying that she is lusting after any of them. The spice in this book doesn’t really hit for me, but I really do hope as the series continues we get longer scenes, basically most of the scenes in this book did not last nearly long enough. I am invested in seeing how each of the relationships grow, especially Kodiak and Steele, but I trust that Tate James will even have me rooting for Archer by the end.

Hate receives 3.5/5 stars.

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This book is how you do a taboo romance! This book is not for the faint of heart, as our heroine cannot help but fall into bed with both her step-father and step-brother. So much of this book is bonkers, it is extremely out there! It was a wild ride, so if you are curious about a taboo romance pick up this one or the first story The Teacher of Nothing.

From USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster comes a new steamy age-gap, enemies-to-lovers “why choose” forbidden romance!

He’s a successful attorney with a secret craving for his too-young stepdaughter.
He wants her badly. But his wicked son wants her too…

Love is an illusion.
In my world, collecting the shiniest trophies is what I do.
Beautiful wife. Swanky home. Expensive cars. Successful firm. Future attorney general.
Add in the Park family name and I’m the envy of every man in town.
True love, however, was never attainable, no matter how much I secretly wanted it.

The desire to be loved isn’t my only secret.
My wife is missing.
With my life under scrutiny as I run for office, I’m finding it difficult to lie away her whereabouts. People are starting to notice. My political opponent. Her best friend. And worst of all, my wife’s daughter, Aubrey.

Aubrey is finally back home after two long years with her dad, but she’s asking questions I don’t have answers to. Yet, that’s not all she’s doing…
She’s invading my thoughts and my heart, driving me insane with her beauty and vulnerability.

I want her.
She’s barely legal and my wife’s daughter.
Forbidden and morally wrong.
I can’t have her. I can’t.

My son, though, doesn’t live by the same code I do.
He wants her too.
But not to love…to destroy.

I’ll risk everything to keep him from her.
Even if this tangle of awful costs me my reputation, my campaign, and my son.

***This is a complete mfm standalone novel with a happily ever after. Characters are of legal age and there is no romantic involvement between blood relations. ***

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• Characters: Our heroine is Aubrey, who storms back into town in need of help from her step-family. Her character archetype is that classic good girl who turns bad after some serious drama. It does not take long for Aubrey’s newer reputation to bear fruit as she starts to chase after both her step-father Hugo and her step-brother Spencer. Hugo is very charming, a politician who knows how to stay buttoned up in public. Behind closed doors is another story. His son is Spencer, who comes across right away as a bully. He calls Aubrey leech for example. He had a more sensitive sight that only she was able to bring out.
• Setting: This story is set in Park Mountain. As the name suggests, this town is just overrun by the Parks family. It is the same setting as Teacher of Nothing, which featured Callum Park falling for Willa. They get some time in this story and I loved checking in on them. Plus it was so lovely to see Willa befriend Aubrey. Of course, the other Parks and Parks-adjacent characters are teased, and next up we are getting into Jude’s head.
• Pacing: I was really into this premise from the start. All I wanted to do was engulf the story. I had a few issues with the pacing and plot near the end of the story. Krisit through in some curveballs and not all of them landed with me.
• Romance: This is an unconventional love story. I fully trusted Kristi to deliver something hot and heavy, as her track record of controversial taboo stories speaks for itself. So yes there were countless sexy-as-sin scenes, not just between either duo but maybe a few with Aubrey enjoying both men at the same time. Teacher of Nothing had quite an emotional thread so I was pumped to see if this story would too. I found I was not as emotionally invested in either couple, as I flirted back and forth between whether Aubrey should explore keeping her relationships with boy men or just stay with one person. Lots of wild elements are thrown in near the end and it shifted the romance dynamic, but don’t let that sway you too much just accept that this book is a wild time and embrace it!

The Tangle of Awful receives four out of five stars.

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I found Velvet Cruelty fascinating and this was a great sequel. This instalment did a phenomenal job of pushing all its characters. While delivering romantic scenes that fans of this series have been waiting for!

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Book two in the SNOW WHITE trilogy. This is a scorching romance between a woman and four beautifully dangerous men in which she never has to choose.

WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. Enter at your own risk…

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• Characters: The character development in this instalment is top-notch! January is growing into her own and is really finding her voice. The first instalment is dominated by January viewing herself as unworthy and now she is taking her agency back. I loved how she pushed all the men of Velvet House, and I cannot wait to see her grow even more confident. For the men, January challenges them to show off more of their hidden sides. For Domenico Valente, this means his more emotional side. Doc puts up a hard shell, he attempts to push January around but soon enough she has him melting. Roberto Bassilotta was the most in tune with his emotions, compared to the other guys, but now January is pushing Bobby to show his fiercer side. We spend most of the book with Bobby and Doc, so I have gotten attached to their characters over the other two. Adriano Rossi spends much of this book absent, but I love seeing the most violent and bloodthirsty character show his big soft side. Elliot Morelli is the least interesting for me right now, but I cannot wait to see where the final book takes him.
• Setting: The fear of this book taking place too far from the Velvet House. I did love that January with some newfound agency pushed the boys to take her on field trips, but of course, some of the best scenes happened close to home, the Velvet House. The end of this book teases an enjoyable setting to come and I cannot wait to see this crew take a much-needed vacation.
• Pacing: This book opens in the middle of the action and never stops. The first instalment was very much a slow burn, and this instalment definitely heats up. I love the place we ended in, much less of a cliffhanger than the first novel.
• Romance: I adored the evolution of each relationship January is having with the men of Velvet House. As I alluded to earlier much more progress was made with the Bobby and Doc relationships. For Bobby, his puppy love, basically a huge crush on JJ is becoming a genuine great love. But my favourite journey is Doc’s, whom January dubs Nico in this instalment. The walls around his heart that he put up after the death of his sister are starting to melt and not only is he growing a beautiful relationship with January, but he is more open about the importance of his relationships with the other men. The bromance is not something sexual, rather the Velvet House men are reckoning with just how important their friendships have been in their lives. I loved that January understands this and fights for it. Now don’t worry all you readers who picked this up for the more physical side of a why choose romance, this book delivers. I have to say it was worth the wait and I could not be happier with the place January’s character is at because it was not the boys pushing her, rather it was her begging them.

Silk Malice receives four out of five stars.

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Dangerous Press has had its share of fairy tale retellings and now they are tackling snow white with a why choose romance!

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Once upon a time I was promised to a powerful man. I’m Harlow Constantine, and I know my duty. But on my wedding day, I’m stolen by four men. Men who loathe my fiancé. They’re going to use me to fulfill their vendetta.

One of them only wants my body.

One of them wants me as his wife.

Another one offers freedom… at a price.

And the last wants me dead.

I was raised to be a good society wife. Now I’m facing a battle of wits and breathless desire. My only hope is to set aside my innocence. Or learn to use it as a weapon.

Author’s Note: VELVET CRUELTY is a scorching romance between a woman and four beautifully dangerous men in which she never has to choose. Read at your own discretion.

Welcome to the Midnight Dynasty… The warring Morelli and Constantine families have enough bad blood to fill an ocean, and their brand new stories will be told by your favorite dangerous romance authors.

WARNING: This book is intended for readers eighteen years old and over. It contains material that some readers could find disturbing. Enter at your own risk…

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• Characters: The heroine at the center of all of this is January Whitehall, a just turned 18, a beauty who is set to be married off. Much of her backstory mimics that of a Snow White-like character. What I liked about Eve’s take is as helpless as January seemed at the beginning, this story has put January on this journey of discovering her own agency. For the first time in her life she is the freest she has ever been, and the juxtaposition of that the price of this freedom is actually captivity. Now for a quick rundown of all the men surrounding January. Adriano Rossi wants to kill her, Domenico “Doc” Valente wants to sleep with her, Robert “Bobby” Bassilotta wants to marry her, and Elliot Velluto Morelli wants to keep her as a mistress. I thought all the male characters felt different, not just by their motivations but by how they interacted with January. It was super effective that Eve built in these backstories where the guys inserted themselves into January’s life so once they kidnapped her, she had a shared past with each of them.
• Setting: The story is set primarily at the Velvet House. It is the home of Elliott Morelli, the son of the third son of the Morelli family. He is not going to inherit the Morelli wealth or business like Lucian or Leo. The Velvet House is January’s prison but for the men, it’s a home. It was interesting to see January forge a space within Velvet House.
• Pacing: Much of this story was laying the groundwork. We know this is going to be a trilogy, and so much of that knowledge dominates the story. The story is set up but it feels like the payoff is coming much later. I fully did not get why each guy has beef with January’s finance Parker. I understand he is a bad man, with a shady business but there is definitely more to the story and I wanted more revealed earlier.
• Romance: I did enjoy how different each relationship felt. The romance between January and all the men are at a variety of different stages. Each of them has a unique sexual tension with her, Bobby is more romantic, while Adriano is scary. Be fair warned this story will not be for everyone, I imagine once you have taken in the synopsis you should know that. If you want to read a book that pushes the boundaries of what romance and relationships can be, this will be a series for you. I loved how January had agency in a story where kidnapped is a trope. Her choices drive the course of the story and it is those choices that have kicked off both the relationships and plot points that will drive the next two instalments.

Velvet Cruelty receives four out of five stars.

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