No one writes feral, psychotic, and still too adorable for their own good omegas like Marie Mackay. From Havoc, to Shatter, and now to Thistle, they just keep getting more savage and precious each time Mackay creates one. 

 

Thistle has a ton of problems and no solutions. She’s known nothing but rejection, dismissal, avoidance, abuse, and abandonment all her life. Now she’s being auctioned off to the highest bidder because she killed her scent-matched alpha and she doesn’t think what time is left in her life is going to be pleasant at all… until she smells someone delicious in the crowd of bidders. She’d follow that smell to the pits of hell if they’d have her. 

 

Once again, Marie Mackay doesn’t disappoint. There’s a reason I hop on any chance to review her titles early and why she’s an auto-buy for me and it’s not just because the spice is top-notch (in the case of this book it’s absolutely amazing, by the way!). Mackay loves to explore the dark, weird, and depraved side of omegaverse, but it’s always with just the right amount of sweetness threaded through some of the characters, taking the sting out of the bite. It’s a carrot and stick situation: Knox is duplicitous and manipulative, while Rogue is affectionate and generous. Knox grows more and more possessive of Thistle as the book goes on, while Rogue grows more and more feral for her. As for Thistle? Well, she just wants to be loved, cuddled, and have her brains screwed out constantly. Mostly she just never wants to be alone and will do anything to ensure that happens. And I mean anything. 

 

Mackay has provided ample content and trigger warnings to go along with this book, and if you’re in any way a sensitive reader you’ll want to read them because Psycho Alphas is full of potentially triggering material. This book is definitely on the deep and dark side of omegaverse and is unashamed of how it depicts Thistle’s sexual wants, needs, desires, and kinks (even if she doesn’t understand what a kink is). These characters are all broken and may be capable of mending in book two, but this book ends on one heck of a cliffhanger I didn’t see coming.  

 

I was provided a copy of this title by the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you. 

 

File Under: 5 Star Review/Book Series/Dark Romance/Romance Series/Omegaverse/Spice Level 3/Why Choose Romance