First thing I would say is that I could easily have sat down and poured through a 400 page version of this book. I do understand though that some books just happen to be shorter or some authors prefer to write shorter books, so I did not take off a star for this!!
But for realsies, Erin, if you're reading this; your characters and your world building are amazing. If you wanted to write longer books we would DEVOUR them.
I don't see a *specific* content warning list anywhere, so I'll say that the major content warning that comes to mind is non-consensual torture and some sporadic PTSD experiences by the FMC as a result, so keep that in mind.
Some light spoilers with regards to the FMC's disability including how characters learn to communicate/communicate with them ahead;
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I love the FMC?? SO MUCH. Very rarely do we see FMC's with a disability (or if we do it's "magically cured" very quickly). That was not the tone here. I read both this book and the second book in the series in two days, and through out those books there was multiple characters learning sign to communicate with the FMC and characters (and the FMC) being frustrated that MORE people didn't know sign. There was also that frustrating situation where certain characters in the book would intentionally take advantage of the fact that the FMC was deaf. As someone who is disabled (though not deaf, but I have experienced a version of this for my disability), I did appreciate that this was included. I feel like this helps move away from like the weird "they're disabled and we revere them for it" tone a lot of fiction books (especially fantasy) have taken and given us a more relatable event. I know other people who are disabled may disagree with my opinion on that being included, but reading the frustration and anger and all of the thoughts pouring through the FMC when her disability was being taken advantage of was EXTREMELY validating for me and very healing, honestly.
(Potential villain spoiler?? I give reasons for why they're exceptionally written so)
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Also I love how the "bad guys" were written??? Sometimes with the more spicy romance novels (especially the monster focused ones) the baddies will just feel very generic and have generic goals, needs, wants, and their backgrounds are very rarely touched. As you learn more about the baddies in this book, you can see how they got to where they are. This understanding does not become a sympathetic understanding, but only compounds how easy it is to despise the baddies. Even though there are outside influences that effect everyone's journey and the type of person we form into, we still meet MANY crossroads that would allow us to "do better" if we pick the right choice. It is made very obvious the only time the baddies have picked the "do better" path is only when it benefits themselves. Anyways, yeah. Amazing baddies. I feel so disgusted whenever they enter a scene or are mentioned.
I haven't even touched on the spiciness yet, which is WILD because I did enjoy the spicey scenes between the FMC and her love interest within this book. I don't want to go into details for this but I would give it a rating of 10/10. There can be a hollowness to spicy scenes in the spicy book genre but I do not see that in this series. You can definitely tell with each one that their care for each other has been growing and see that adoration.
Also the love interest? 1500000/10. Amazing. Not even gonna discuss him and risk spoiling it. Just go read the book bestie, trust me. You'll love him too. I did do a lil therapeutic cry after that I didn't have this kind of person in my life (don't judge me you know you've done it too).
Amazing!!!! Amazing!!! RUN DON'T WALK TO THIS BOOK.
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