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Free Book Friday Goes Dark
Free Book Friday but make it dark! I sifted through tons of free books on Amazon today so here’s your list of dark romance/thriller romance/romantic suspense books that you can buy today for $0. All that you have to do is click on the book cover to get over to Amazon and get your free book. Happy reading!
Toxic Obsession by J.A. Owenby
Rating: 4.5/5
Spice: 4/5
Primary Genre: Dark Romance
Trigger Warnings: Suicide and suicide pacts, child sexual abuse (not on the page), Dub-con, Non-con, Knife play, Anal play & Plugs, Violence, Revenge, Sensory Depriving, Physical Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Gun Violence, Degradation, Breath Play, Grooming, Mental Health, Reference to School Shooting
Favorite Quote: He’s just a boy. Make sure he actually deserves you instead of trying to convince everyone you deserve him. You have nothing to prove, girl.
Plot 5/5:
Wynter is finally leaving home to head to Whitmore College. She can’t wait to leave her difficult past behind and start fresh. She meets Quinn and he’s determined to make her fall for him. Little does she know, he thinks that she’s responsible for his twin sister’s death and he’s out for revenge. But you know what they say, there’s three versions of the truth. Yours, mine and the truth.
Monarch by Sophie Lark
Grimstone #2
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 2.5/5
Primary Genre: Romantic suspense
Trigger Warnings: Domestic violence, assault, alcohol use, drug use
Favorite Quote: I’m with you. I love you. I’ll protect you, I’ll take care of you. Carry me with you always and keep me in your heart. Because you are in mine.
Plot 5/5:
Elena is a 90 day fiance who had been desperately looking to leave Ukraine. She has just arrived in Grimstone, Oregon to marry her fiance Lorne. He’s a famous, wealthy thriller author. When they met in Ukraine he seemed like was a sweet, loving father and a kind/nerdy guy. Once she arrives, his behavior begins to change and not in a good way. Lorne is having a castle built for them to live in but there have been multiple construction delays so they are staying at the town’s historic hotel, The Monarch. The owner of the Monarch, Atlas, tries to protect Elena as Lorne get more twisted and vicious.
Free Book Friday - Cinnamon Roll Edition
Cinnamon Roll Noun1. A cinnamon roll is a male romance character who is soft on the inside and hard where it counts. He’s inherently kind to everyone, not just his love interest.
2. Sweet in the streets, dirty in the sheets.
It’s Stuff Your eReader Day - Cinnamon Roll Hero Edition! These books are all $0 today. My picks are below but you can find the full list here:
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop
Rating: 5/5
Spice: 0
Primary Genre: Memoir
Trigger Warnings: Abortion, death of a spouse, death of a parent, grief, misogyny, cancer, addiction, child abuse, infidelity, domestic abuse, terminal illness, alcoholism, sexual assault
Favorite Quote: I admit it, given a choice, with a handful of exceptions, I tend to prefer the company of animals to the company people. Animals are honest-there’s not a hint of pretense about them, they just unapologetically are who they are, and their capacity to love and be loved outshines ours by about a million.
Plot 5/5: Kelly chronologically hops along through the major events in her life. She covers the high points as well as the lows. She leads us on a journey from starving artist Carole Bishop to a closing in on 80 years old Kelly Bishop.
The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden
Rating: 3.5/5
Spice: 0
Primary Genre: Thriller
Trigger Warnings: Sizeism and body-shaming, Classism, Attempted rape, Infidelity (on-page), Discussions of domestic abuse and violence, Disordered eating & food thoughts including calorie counting and food shaming, Suicidal ideation, Alcohol consumption, Infertility mentioned, Blood depiction, Emesis, Death of a mother from a stroke mentioned, Murder by gun & knife violence, Physical assault, Stalking, Incarceration for physical assault mentioned, Poverty & financial difficulties discussed
Favorite Quote: “You hiding drugs up there?” “No! Definitely not!” I just murdered somebody, that’s all. Sheesh.
Always To Be Found by J.S. Gazaille
Happy Release Day! Available Now: ALWAYS TO BE FOUND by J.S. Gazaille! Grab it now on KU!
Why you need to one click this book...
Romantic Suspense
Thriller
Exotic Destinations
Reign of Cinders and Glass by Linsey Hall, Veronica Douglas
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 2
Primary Genre: Romantasy
Trigger Warnings: Violence, gore
Favorite Quote: “Touched by the Fates?” Aamon scoffed. “She’s a drunk. She’s touched by whiskey, not prophecy. You know as well as I do that there’s no magic beyond these walls.”
Free eBook Friday
It Friday so you know that that means…Free ebooks! I’ve carefully selected these free books based off of their reviews on Amazon so if you’d like to beef up your Kindle library and get some new free weekend reads, look no further!
Fatal Infatuation by Melanie Nowak
Rating: 3.5
Spice: .5
Primary Genre: Paranormal romance/Vampire romance
Trigger Warnings: Alcohol, Assault, Blood, Death, Religion, Slut shaming, Violence
Favorite Quote:
“If you can’t deny that they cling to you in fear, whether it’s fear of you, or fear of being without you…you might as well be all alone. And if you’re going to be all alone, you’d better be able to live with yourself.”
The Memo by Rachel Dodes, Lauren Mechling
Rating: 3.5/5
Spice: 0
Primary Genre: Women’s Fiction
Trigger Warnings: Emotional abuse, toxic relationship, toxic friendship, abandonment, drug use
Favorite Quote: No matter how hard I pounded the dough, I was never quite able to knead away the sense that I was committed to a guy who would never be fully committed to me.
Cole and Laila Are Just Friends by Bethany Turner
Rating: 3
Spice: 0
Primary Genre: Romance
Trigger Warnings: Mention of terminal illness, abandonment, alchohol/prescription drug use, death of a family member/parent
Favorite Quote: Who knew romantic comedy was such a brutal sport?
Plot 3/5:
Slow burn, friends to lovers, closed door romance. And when I say slow burn, we’re talking the slowest. This story is about a girl and a guy who live in a small town in Colorado, have known each other since they were little kids, and are extremely close best friends.
