4.5 Stars!

(Dark romance, magic, imprisoned/tortured)

The way I INHALED this dark, gritty and delicious story! I seriously couldn’t put it down. From the very beginning, which crushed my heart, to the very end cliffhanger and in-between. The plot is captivating, thrilling and suspenseful with so much tension and steam.

Sinner made me swoon with his alpha, “you’re mine” ways. That man is so dark, delicious and mysterious. My jaw hit the floor a few times with the things he said and did.

Athena is sassy, innocent yet doesn’t take SH!T. Here for it. She also has to navigate a world of magic and seeing her experience it, deal with it and grow was so interesting and honestly kept mE sucked in to the story. I had to know what would happen next to her.

This book has the perfect amount of magic and world building without being too heavy. It grabbed me by the throat and wouldn’t let go until the very end…leaving me wanting MORE.

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From author Emily Blackwood comes a new dark and twisted romantasy about two powerful mystics and the forces that urge them together—even if they hate each other.

Athena is an earthly. She wields no power, and though war rages across the lands, she lives a relatively normal life in isolation until she’s kidnapped by the Ministry and questioned for the magic they’re certain she possesses.

As she struggles to grasp her new reality, she’s forced into a dungeon with dozens of mystics. Only to discover she’s the only female.

True unleashing of power can only be obtained by the claiming—a mating ritual under the powerful blood moon. But Athena is in luck. Those mating must be willing, and she is certainly not willing to come within a foot of any of her options.
Until she meets Sinner.

Sinner is a tier three—the only three in the entire dungeon, making him the most dangerous and powerful of the men. He has very little interest in getting along with others and prefers to live his life alone.
So it comes as a shock when he volunteers to complete the claiming with Athena. She’s his ticket out of that dungeon, and she knows it.

The two struggle for the upper hand as Sinner tries to convince Athena to mate with him willingly.

But Athena resists. She has a secret, and it’s one the Ministry would do anything to get their hands on.

Can she keep her secret hidden long enough to survive? Or is Sinner the one person who will expose her for what she truly is—a monster?

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