I don’t think I’ve ever seen something so heavenly before.
She’s an angel.
She’s a devil.
She’ll be my downfall.

I want to make this clear. These aren’t morally grey characters, these are monsters. They do, not morally grey things, but monstrous things.

4.25 stars

“Might you let me down too?”
I see what’s happening. She thinks because I made her come, I’m about to get sweet on her too.
I smirk. “ I already gave you ecstasy with my fingers. Don’t get greedy little fish.”
Then, I turn and walk to the door, leaving her naked on the cross.

This was a first for me lmao

She’s my sustenance.
She’s my meal.
And if I was back in the ocean with her, I have no doubt I would be hers.

A first for cruelness and spice together. Nailing her to a cross and then doing spicy things. Her biting off a chunk of his hand and then his ear and more spicy things.

They killed a dude, ate him, than had sex beside his body.

And there were lots more of those scenarios lmao. These two were…um, twisted. I guess you woudn’t expect anything different from a siren who eats humans and a vampire/beast that drinks blood.

It was a fast, enjoyable read though, and I liked Larimar as a main character, more about Priest later (or Aragon/whatever his name actually was). I thought she was a strong character. I always love a sea-related story. Books that take place on a ship >>>

If you like:
🔥Hot blasphemous priests
🧜🏻‍♀️Sex-crazed Syrens
🩸Blo0d play
🐚Murderous MCs
🖤Equally unhinged hero and heroine
🌶️Enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers
🏴‍☠️Pirates
📿Captor and captive situation
🔪Obsessed hero
🗡️”I’d rather kill you than have feelings for you”
🧛🏻 Vampires
✋She eats his hand and his ear but they still have sex
💦 He *does things* after nailing her to a cross 👀

"Larimar," he says, my name a whisper, an offering, something revered.
Then, he plants a kiss on my shoulder.
Sweet.
Soft.
"Priest," I whisper back.
He tenses with hesitation.
Then, he chuckles warmly.
"Sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you," he says. "My ear seems to be missing."

Okay, sometimes I like a book enough, even though it’s not 5 stars, that I don’t need to write anything negative. This was not the case. This next part is negative but keep in mind that I still enjoyed this book enough to rate it 4.25 stars!

It was pretty rushed since the first part went on for so long that the second half, or last 40% was quick through everything. The blurb made it seem like the second half would have been a bigger part of the story, but it was mostly them on the island and her tied up. I would have liked more story of them on the ship and all the things that happened there.

I also didn’t expect the time jump, it threw me off a little, like, completely. I would have liked more on that.

5 years

– I would have expected some character change or something, but there wasn’t anything, so the jump wasn’t necessary.

I also stopped liking Priest after his “talk” with the beast. Things were revealed about his past that just weren’t right, and I stopped liking him. I mean, he was a hard character to even like in the first place, but after, eh.

He literally thought about killing his wife and kids cuz they were annoying, as a human, and then conveniently he killed them when he turned into the beast. There’s dark romance and then there’s murdering your wife and children, so yeah, I lost any positive thoughts I had of him after that.

Overall, I would have liked more editing, I know she was writing it up until it was submitted, it may have helped when it dragged in the beginning, and maybe a new MMC lmao. I still liked this though, so yeah, *conflicted*

Thank you to the author for providing me an eARC and a pretty special edition physical ARC.


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A physical ARC is headed my way *swoons*

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