After being curious about this serious for a pretty good while I decided to pick up the first book. When I saw that it had over 20 books I was like wow this is going to be jam-packed with awesome stories and lore.
HOW DID THIS GET A SHOW
Well I'm not finished with the first book I'm a little over 100 pages in I'm going to finish it. I don't think I'm going to continue. It's pretty obvious that this book series is well…….. let's just say sex is probably it's most popular selling point.
(To be honest it's not even that well written anyway)
Anyway when I saw that the female MC pretty much pounced on the guy the first time she met him I just knew that the author probably does not have a whole lot of respect for the women in her books.☹️
(Technically this was their second meeting but he was just a dark figure she couldn't see clearly at night that scared her….)
I got curious and went to Goodreads to see what people were talking about with these books, and from what I gathered a lot of the characters became shadows of their former selves by book 15
Oh and apparently Grape gets more prevalent as the series goes on
Anyway like I said I'll finish the book. When I read the little dictionary at the beginning of the book I was hoping that you know maybe there'd be a nice plot…. I knew going in that the serious was going to be smutty it just it would have been nice if it was kind of a 50/50 type thing not a 30-70
(30 being at the plot / lore)
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by Shyperson201
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You picked up a book called “Dark Lover” and were surprised it was thinly veiled porn with wafting hints of dubious consent?
This got a show because the 50 Shades of Grey movie trilogy made 1.32 billion in ticket sales, the books sold over half a bil worth of copies, and this is a knockoff attempting to leech off the same market.
Smut sells. Decent writing not required.
I’m so torn on this series because the author has some great strengths— she has excellently characterized villains, even minor villains. But there’s SO MUCH hokeyness to be had.
The names! The embarrassing attempts at urban realism! The way you can tell the author grew up super sheltered! The emphasis on all the guys being hairless! The slut-shaming!