Colt wants to play a game? I’ll do whatever it takes to make sure I win. No matter what it costs me. The only thing I got out of the book was the sexual attraction between the characters and not a legitimate emotional connection. That being said, I LOVED the smut. Shantel can write an amazing sex scene and it never disappoints. Over the years, I’ve read some seriously dark, erotic, twisted and overall concerning things and this book involves all of those topics. I previously read “The Ritual” by the same author and was happy to see a couple of those characters reappear in this book. I loved “The Ritual” so much and when I saw a couple characters from that book overlap to being in this one, It was a happy surprise.

TW (Please see author's note at the beginning of the book. If you have no triggers and want to go in blind, please skip to the prologue.) Colton is toxic AF but don't we love them that way?? He has "hated" Raylee ever since she became his stepsister. And he will not let her go. He will not stop tormenting her and honestly it's the dark romance equivalent of a boy pulling your pigtails and I am honestly here for it. As toxic as it is, the man knows his job!! And he has no problem proving that to Raylee every single time. I did not feel a connection with literally any character. Colton was so narcissistic it wasn't believable he had a caring bone in his body. Raylee just casually cheated on her boyfriend Nate constantly with Colton (but i thought they hated each other with a passion?) Nate seemed like a really nice guy at first and then all of a sudden when he saw her after the breakup at the party he turned into an abusive psycho ex who was going to make her pay?

He was always acting like he had something up his ass,while our fmc has only one personality trait.And i don’t want to judge her,but her point of view always had to be a monologue about how she’s a slut and she doesn’t mind it. Now I’m just horny, and Amy wasn’t doing it for me. But the moment I saw Raylee standing at my door, I knew exactly who would. I didn’t even finish. Once Amy came, I was done with her. Raylee has ruined me for any other woman. They’re boring. It's like her body is a fire - always burning. But when I touch her, it roars to life, burning bright and all-consuming. And I've decided that I'll do whatever it takes to make sure no one else gets to fan her flames. She's all mine." Side note, Is it bad that I really want more books which focus on Alex, Finn and Jenks’ individual lives? Personally, I would love to learn more about them and what goes down in their personal and love lives. If we were to get individual books for them 3, I would love to read them. Them 3 in relationships? Yes please. I just know they each get into some crazy and dark shit, which is how I like it. But of course she doesn’t even TRY to stay angry at him and make him work for it! She just gives in! LIKE WHY!? HAVE SOME SELF RESPECT! IS THAT SO HARD TO ASK FOR!?

He literally made a video of you without your CONSENT and posted it online for the WORLD to see and label you as a whore and you CANT even put up a little fight!? COME ON He watched me. He went to this school. He ate a burger. He is ugly." - this is not a real quote from the book but this is how it felt. all those full stops, had me sounding like a robot whilst reading it in my head. If you like your romance dark, prefer a villain to a prince, and appreciate a badäss bish, dive in. Shantel nailed it (pun intended) with Sabotage. I have nothing against dark romances.I am all for taboo or taking things to an extreme level,but this was simply too dark and messy that it became too much. Do they expect me to go into hiding because of the video? If that's the case, then they don't know who I am. But they're about to find out."

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I always forget my kink is when the hero calls the heroine princess. 🥺 Also did not know this was a story set in the Lords universe… love it!! I need more stories in this world. I LOVE THIS! 😭😭😭 Sorry not sorry for repeating myself. 😇 A coincidence that I read this after Lily White’s The Five. Both *amazing* books featuring the slut heroine. While The Five had more of an exploration in femme fatale mystique, this was celebrating your inner slut. Raylee and Colt are like two fires merging into one. As toxic and depraved as it can get. They explode with passion and desire mixed with hatred and stubbornness. also.. “branding and knife” kinks are consensual.. not carving your name in someone while their in a sex induced high and find out the next day. Some of the novels she read have left her laughing, others smiling while others have had her in tears. They have made her grateful for the life she had or have made her compare her own life to what she reads. Personally for me, when I think of a ”possessive, over the too H”, I think of Christian from the maddest obsession, who literally killed a man just because the woman he was obsessed with said she would sleep with him.

The secret society seemed very random to me since they never mention the society as a whole and just a few times they met up to kill people. They even had a scene where Ryat from the Ritual was introduced to the guys and before you even blinked he was gone.. it was so random. Still, there are several authors that have influenced her writing career the most. Some of the most influential of these include J. Sterling, Colleen Hoover, Teresa Mummert, and Abbi Glines. This was muy caliente! Like woahhh make ya squirm and need a clean thong. It's starts out hot and heavy... and doesn't let you up for air until the end. Not everyone is going to understand the crazy, filthy and unhinged step sibling dynamics and that's ok. I read to escape into a world not like my own. I couldn't stop reading!! While Shantel is passionate about writing, the family will always come first. As such, she spends most evenings at home with her daughters and her husband alongside their dog and cat.There’s so much more to their story than you would expect from a novella though. You’ll hate how much you love them. You’ll root for their happy ever after. You’ll feel all the feels. You’ll be rewarded with tons of new spånk bänk material for your moxie. After her boyfriends gets to know, calls her a whore and breaks up with her, I felt bad and I was really hoping she wouldn’t let Colt get his way anymore. As for her influences, Shantel Tessler does not have a particular book as she believes every work she read over the years has impacted her in some way. At the end of the book, Colton said he was going to tell their parents about them as a couple and we don't get their response to it.