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Power of Lies (The Dark Orchid, #1)

Power of Lies (The Dark Orchid, #1)

Auryn Hadley

4.39
678 ratings·525 reviews

Everyone lies. When your survival depends on a powerful sex mage, it's the only way to stay safe. Jaeda learns this the moment she's named the Chosen – a sacrifice for The Jackal, a man who embodies lust incarnate. He's dangerous, seductive, and utterly irresistible. She's his altar, her desire fuel...

Pages
508
Format
Kindle Edition
Published
2019-01-18
Publisher
Spotted Horse Productions
ISBN
9781956455168

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✡Weed Dragon✡
✡Weed Dragon✡·3 years ago
I... Okay.

I've never read a reverse harem like this. This was so very good.

The "romance" (they all kept denying there was love involved) was so cute and in my opinion well written. The male leads were all so kind and perfect like why the fuck isn't this the standard for reverse harem books.

The story was good too. Good world building.

I will absolutely read the shit out of the second book.
Tanja
Tanja·5 years ago
This was an unusual and hard book to read for me, even though the writing style was quite easy.For more than half of the book, nothing really happens, at least not anything that you can make sense of. Endless sex scenes, without actually describing the sex. I know it makes no sense, but there are no detailed descriptions, more like scene settings and pieces of information that give you a sense of what is going on, but leaving you pretty detached and a bit bored (I guess that certainly was not th...
Rachael*Caribbean*girl*bibliophile
Rachael*Caribbean*girl*bibliophile·5 years ago
Spoilers ahead, 3* rounded up for that gorgeous coverMy thoughts while readingI definitely needed to do more research on this book before starting.... Ppl who write vague reviews I HATE YOU!Absolutely NOT SAFE but oh so good 😭My thoughts at the end of book 1At 15 Jade fell in love with a man, turns out he was a liar and married. Ashamed at her actions her family casts her out and Jade turns to prostitution to provide for herself. Years later she's been through it all and when a mage appears in ...
★Me Myshelf and I★
★Me Myshelf and I★·6 years ago
DNF @ 29% and another fail for me on the chosen BotM themed "Women of Colour" @RHRI’m not even going to rate this, it wouldn’t be fair when I didn’t get even halfway.Reading it felt likeI’ve had problems with Hadleys writing style before and this just was typical of her style. So what I would say is if you enjoy her other work then you’ll like this too.Over explaining and constant repetition are the most obvious problems.Yes I understand you're a prostitute there’s no need to repeat the word “w...
Soph
Soph ·6 years ago
DNF @43% BRB with cake house

Look ... the word whore was used a lot but the plot tried and failed to not be about sex every 3rd page. I was bored. ... I could rage but I won’t . ...not a fan
Motaung
Motaung·6 years ago
Enough is enough, I am throwing in a towel @
33% of the book
166 out of 495 pages
17 out of 52 chapters including epilogue
Number of times the word "WHORE" appeared in 166 pages = 76
Number of times to look forward to the word "WHORE" in the remaining pages = 150 approximately. (Yes I counted and calculated. Thats how bored I am)

I think I will take my 76 WHOREs and graciously bow out, otherwise I will exhaust my "WHORE" quota for the year.
Tiera McMillian
Tiera McMillian·7 years ago
Close call here. At about 43% I almost shelved this one expecting to never look back. I am all for a story. I'm all for a story with some smut even, but I usually can only handle so much smut without some story.. I mean lets be honest it gets boring after a bit.. No story takes all the fun right out of reading lol. After about the umpteenth smut scene I find myself nodding off... Anyways so at about 43% I'd had about all I could take and was ready to throw in the towel, but I didn't, I pushed fo...
Gwen
Gwen·7 years ago
Wow, what can I say but ….pre order, pre order, pre order ... buy a fire extinguisher, a couple of boxes of chocolate and a few cartons of cigarettes even though I don't smoke, but I just might start after this series and a helleva lot of new underwear lol Wow again, this book was smoking hot and I mean smokin Auryn isn't messing about here when says this book involves sex magic and sex mages, …and I mean sex, sexy smut and everything in between possibly including swinging from the ceiling........
R.A. Steffan
R.A. Steffan·7 years ago
Welp... I have about a million things to do, but instead I spent yesterday reading this 500-page monster in a single sitting.

Holy. Freakin'. Crap.

If you like sexy, and you like poly romance, and you like feelz, read it. Just make sure you've got a nice block of time set aside first.

People who know me know that I'm all about the bromance. Books like this are my catnip, and this one joins Broken Compass by Jo Raven at the top of my RH/ménage/poly romance favorites list.
Maraya21 (The Reading Dragon)
Maraya21 (The Reading Dragon)·7 years ago
💯 Read for the 2019 MacHalo Splendiferous Book Bingo Thingie (MSBBT™) challenge over at the MacHalo Asylum 💯 •• 22. More than 400 pages •• 4.5 Stars "It's ok to want it. It's beautiful to be different. It takes strength and courage, and those are never things to be afraid of."~Lord JackalPage 315 Two Quotes (Like seriously, this book is that awesome that I didn't stop to breathe, let alone highlight): "One of those girls is a redhead. She loves sucking cock. The other is a bl...