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Embracing Darkness by N. Slater
3.0

I received an ARC of this book, and this is my honest review.

I should start by saying that the concept of this book and the major plot points were very interesting. I can tell that even more interesting events will unfold and more shocking details will be revealed in the next book. I’ll admit that some of the revelations at the end of this book surprised me; these details were well hidden, but not in a way that I felt the author purposefully misled the readers. People who like dark romance and thrillers with spice may really enjoy this book.
Also, Paval (the kid) was adorable and there is no way to improve on him. His character was 5/5.


Other notes:
- The Instalove. Don’t get me wrong, in general I LOVE instalove. But the way it was written in this book didn’t make sense to me. It was close to the fated mates feeling, but this isn’t Pnr so it was perplexing as to how the characters had these feelings. And it wasn’t just lust. They were like: We are in love and also you need to be a 4th father to our kid.
- I feel like the book didn’t move forward for the first, like, 80% (except with sex). Not much happened with the plot for most of the book. The characters had the same conversations and narrations over and over.