Dark is subjective. Often this genre comes with Trigger Warnings (TW) and/or Content Warnings (CW). These triggers could contain Kink, BDSM, Non-Con, Dub-Con, Taboo Relationships. . .amongst soooooo many other things, blood, murder, chaos of the wicked and debauched. You name it, it probably exists within the pages of this genre.
Dark Romance/Dark Reads/Taboo/Mindfuck – it’s an ever changing landscape from book to book and reader to reader. Not much in the genre of dark romance novels bothers me, I don’t carry many triggers with me when I read and my morality in literature is not the morality I carry in life. I don’t waste my time policing other readers preferences. I don’t report books on Amazon or trash them on Goodreads. If I don’t like a book, I move on, every once in awhile I will write a quick review on Goodreads as a heads up for other readers. I don’t trash Authors or Readers or Anyone. If you see books that I recommend that you can’t fuck with, that’s okay.
With all of this said, I hope you find something or many somethings to enjoy on my list of the DARK AND TWISTED VARIETY. Always check the trigger warnings, nothing is worth your mental health, least of all a book. xo
2013, I was a newbie to the online book community, and here was this seemingly innocuous book floating around being recommended on the down-low. With a mysterious synopsis and reviews that shared next to nothing of the content of the pages within. On the recommendation of one my favorite bloggers, Maryse of Maryse’s Book Blog, I went in completely blind and found out how truly dark, twisted and spellbinding this novel truly was. I read it in 2013 and it is still one of my favorite books, I am still able to vividly conjure details of this story to the surface of my memories all these years later. Go in blind. But expect many a trigger and many a wtf moment to occur. In the end, I find it to be one of Tara Brown’s best books she’s ever written.
My Review <— from waaaay back in the day
The truth is subjective to what the lonely lets in.
Emalyn Spicer has lived with it for a long time. She thinks it goes back further than her memories do. She knows it goes back further than the OCD.
When she arrives at college, her OCD’s and the lonely refuse to let her have her wish to be normal.
When she meets Sebastian and starts to fall for him, she lets herself believe it’s possible to outrun the things chasing her from the past. But how to you get away from the things inside of you? How do you run from yourself?
Just as she gives up and succumbs to the lonely, the unthinkable happens. She finds herself once again trapped in the dark, once again held against her will.
This time she meets the lonely head on. In the darkest corners of her mind, she discovers there is more to her world than she ever imagined. She discovers that the lonely was there for her, protecting her from herself and her secrets.
How far would you go to find yourself?
This is a dark and captivating novel, tread lightly.
Compelling, disarming, cracks your literary morality wide open and leaves you to lay in the mess of what you thought you could or couldn’t get behind in literature. Wanderlust was my first introduction to the beauty of Skye Warren’s novels, it most certainly wasn’t my last, although it has retained it’s position as one of my favorite books, especially by the Author herself. A novella that packs a punch, grips you by the proverbial throat and doesn’t let go until the very last sentence. It is merciless, violent, with kidnapping, rape, dub-con, amongst other murky twisted waters to drown in. And yet even with all of this, I found myself instilled with hope and a love for the characters. Another of those 2013 gems that has stayed with me.
Can love come from pain?
Evie always dreamed of seeing the world, but her first night at a motel turns into a nightmare. Hunter is a rugged trucker willing to do anything to keep her—including kidnapping. As they cross the country in his rig, Evie plots her escape, but she may find what she’s been looking for right beside her.
Psychopath. Borderline. Crazy.
Seventeen-year-old Maryanne Mayweather wears each term like a badge of pride. Expelled from her twelfth boarding school, she lands on the doorstep of her flighty aunt Elaine and Elaine’s husband James, one more screw-up away from being made a ward of the state.
Once a successful author, the last thing James Thorne wants is to care for his wife’s bratty teenage niece, especially with his marriage falling apart. When Maryanne crafts an elaborate plan to defame and destroy him, they both discover that words are more powerful than either of them could imagine. And as their relationship goes down a path neither envisioned, the consequences are swift and far-reaching.
Some lines weren’t meant to be crossed.
Constantine and Dulcie are so messed up as they sink beneath the chaotic bloody layers of their relationship.
I loved this book, it buried itself under my skin and I could not look away from the dark decadence fo these two.
Love isn’t always bright and shiny.
Sometimes, it’s dirty and wrong, buried six feet deep in a secret place where only wild things dare to go. Hidden behind a big black curtain that covers things no one should ever see.
Sometimes it happens between two people who should never be allowed to come together. One who is a match, and the other who just happens to be gasoline.
One strike is all it takes to burn the whole world down, and that’s exactly what they plan on doing.
Even if it kills them.
warning: this book contains graphic sex, extremely brutal violence, bad language, and people repeatedly and knowingly breaking the law.
Chronic Ever After 