New J/P Releases by Authors Who Usually Have J/P H's

diane and Dennie -

Thieving Hearts was my least favorite Nikita Slater book so far. For me, I felt the H crossed the line to abuse.


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I felt very uncomfortable as the H tied up and beat the h so hard that she bled. She cried and begged him to stop but he didn't. To be clear, the h is a "cutter" who needs physical pain and the H knew this prior to beating her. This is a mental illness that I don't understand and my hats off to Nikita Slater for pushing her boundaries and attempting to write about this subject. Since I don't understand this illness, the H felt too harsh to me and I was very uncomfortable at times. With that being said, Ms. Slater is a fantastic author who never fails to draw me into her stories. I just didn't connect with this one and therefore can't recommend it. I did enjoy Driven By Desire though and can recommend that one.

I have read two books recently that I can recommend. I'll post the review for the one in the book review area of this forum and the other I'll post on the main j/p thread and tag you both.

Lin -
I enjoyed her latest book, The Assassian's Wife. There still were things I didn't care for but overall I liked it.

***small spoilers for things I didn't like***

I didn't like the conversations in the H's head where he mused that he knew he would have to kill her someday. I also didn't like that when the H and the h were first reunited he pointed a gun at her and thought about killing her. I didn't like that the h thought he would kill her and was surprised when he didn't. Nope, those things just don't work for me in a romance. No matter how dark the book is, no matter how twisted the H is, I never want him to even THINK about killing the h let alone point a gun at her and I certainly don't want the h to think he'll do it. It bothers me. Immensely.

I was still able to enjoy the book but those things took away from any "love" the couple had. It lessened it imo.