This was a bit of a wild card read for me as one of my 12 recommendations from 12 friends. It's definitely not the kind of book I would normally listen to, but it was fun to try it out.

Firstly, the audible dual narration on this is really excellent. They work really well together and, as someone who could completely disregard a good story if I can't gel with the narrator, that was a huge tick for me.

I've never read any dark romance before so I have nothing to compare this to but for me, this story was just fine. The spice was spicing. I found Aly kind of annoying but Josh was cute enough.

But. The whole 'dark' element felt kind of forced to me - the premise of the masked man, mysterious identity was over super fast. And therein it lost its main thrust (pun intended). The whole idea of fear and lust was overworked - Josh was quite clearly a cinnamon roll who just liked it a bit rough. The idea that Aly would continue to be afraid of him just didn't wash for me. 

The plot was pretty non-existent and I thought it was going to go a different way, putting Aly in more danger than she was ever actually in during this.

But, it was fine. There were some laugh out loud bits, the banter was good in some places. It's not really convinced me that dark romance is a genre I'll come back to, but at least I gave it a go!