I don't think I ever would have read this book if it hadn't been for a challenge. So it was a nice surprise that I actually liked this story a lot. Yes, I definitely could have forgone the humiliation and torture (though those were kept relatively light and short) but the story contained so much more good elements. There were intrigues at the palast, fights, pain and grief. A medicus's work, the relief of self dicovery and foremost the lovely romance between prince Alar and his slave, the innoce...

I am not a huge fan of BDSM, but still, the blurb for this sounded so interesting, I had to give it a try and I was not (completely) disappointed. In the beginning, the story took some getting used to it, but very fast I was hooked and before I even realized I was at 65% and it was in the middle of the night... (as Caipi pointed out, sleep is overrated anyhow, so that was quite okay).What was not okay, unfortunately, was the fact, that when almost everything was sorted out, the story took anothe...

*** 3 Stars ***

A very crazy mixed bag with a tad bit of BDSM, slave/master dynamic, evil monarchs, a touch of fantasy and lots of debauchery all wrapped up in a historical tale.
The story was scorching hot.
My negatives:
.)The MC's seem to get attached too fast for my liking as I'm not a fan of insta-love.
.)I wish it was shorter. It was way too long for my taste.
Summing it up, it was a light, easy and very hot read.
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I actually tried the first 5% of this story, but I think it was plenty enough to come to the conclusion that this story is not for me as during that time we already say how one hero orally rapes the second hero in front of his entire village and his younger brother, humiliates him to no end and makes the second hero his slave... Am I really supposed to like this?? Yeah, no, I don't think so. This story is definitely not for me.

If you only read the first of the five in this miniseries then your assumptions are all wrong. After getting the first of the series free and reading it, I was expecting a wildly different story than what it ended up being. Broken down into five segments the first two are dramatically different in tone resembling Rice's Beauty series with an arrogant, cruel disassociated prince terrorizing an innocent. Let's just say that by the end of the story there is a dramatic shift. The change allowed for ...

Fans of deviant sex and fantasy mixed together may enjoy this m/m fantasy. This story is difficult to categorize because it blurs all the lines. There are children of fallen angels, sexual slavery and political intrigue. Is this a fantasy or paranormal? Does it matter? Prince Alar is a royal who abuses his power by enslaving people in his kingdom. In his latest ride through the country side, he spies upon farmboy Garin and seizes him to be his latest sexual conquest.From a BDSM perspective, ther...

There are no real living angels in this story. Do not expect one.The book is very heavy on sex and all kinds of deadly injuries and prolonged recoveries. Nothing wrong with any of it, just not favorites of mine. A star off for that. The first few chapters seem to be a rough draft. Another star off for that.But if you're brave enough to rough it out, go ahead and read, you might be pleasantly surprised in the end. The story and the writing improved greatly after the fight during the hunt, the cha...

This was almost a DNF for me. There’s so much pain, suffering, violence, violations, and humiliation here that I barely got past the first chapter. In fact, it’s probably not a good thing when at the end of that chapter you feel one hero should grow a set and the other to die a gruesome death. On the day the main characters–prince Alar and farmboy Garin–meet, Garin is whipped twice, orally raped once, anally raped three times (once by fingers, twice times by cock), and humiliated and debased in ...

This book kinda snuck up on me. Early on I had it pegged as mostly porn - the writing is fairly simple and it is on the smutty side. But there's a story there as well, and the further I read, the better the story got, and the writing seemed to me to get better and better in the second half of the book too. This is not really a darkfic, so much as an adventure story, with a slave, fallen angels, a militant church, and a prince battling for his crown against evil usurpers. Good fun, and very enjoy...

Review written for Hearts on Fire ReviewsI will start by saying this didn’t turn out to be nearly as dark as I was expecting. Things happen very quickly with Prince Alar, appearing as a total bastard, and forcing young farm boy, Garin, into slavery. Before doing so, he humiliates and uses Garin roughly before his village and the brother Garin has taken the place of in an attempt to save him from the same fate. All is not as it seems however. Right away, Garin is shamed by the events and the impu...