Triple Threat by K. Webster

Triple Threat by K. Webster

Series: Deception Duet #1

Publication date: January 11th, 2022

Pages: 368

Spice: 🌶️🌶️

Synopsis:

I'm a prisoner in a prestigious world.

A perfect princess locked in a tower.

My father will never let me go.

Not that I could leave. I would never abandon my little sister. Hope comes in the form of a devilishly handsome man with dark eyes and darker secrets.

With each encounter, I'm lured deeper into the labyrinth. The danger lurking beneath his surface calls to me, even as it warns me away.

Except there's a new side of him every time we meet. A different danger each time we touch. It's as if three different men want to devour me.

He's not just one villain. He's three.

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Review:

Landy is in an impossibly controlling world with a connected father who could destroy her on a whim. What is one to do when faced with a grand evil but to bend to their will in hopes they don't devour you whole. She puts up a cold and reserved exterior so that anyone who thinks they can ever get close to her will think again. She has to. Her sister's well-being depends on keeping her father happy. But when she is allowed to attend school and meets a pushy stranger, she may be risk it all just for one more minute with him. The problem is that he seems to have several different personalities vying for her attention. She never knows if she is going to get the cocky playboy, the studious charmer, or the dark and dangerous demon. But each one of them calls to a part of her that she buries deep so as not to be discovered. Can the man who haunts her dreams find a way to free her from her shackles or will he be the one who tosses the slab of concrete over the edge and watches her sink to the bottom until she runs out of bubbles?

I felt this story had an interesting premise. Triplet brothers all trying to pretend to be the same person trying to adapt their personalities so that their mark doesn't become suspicious. It was something they seem to have perfected over time as when they have tried it before it was never met with any sort of suspicion. But they hadn't met Landy. I loved that she was suspicious about the differing personalities from the beginning. I would have caught onto it myself and been raising a brow also. I wouldn't have gone into thinking they had Dissociative Identity Disorder, but that was an interesting excuse for their behavior differences. The fact she was okay with that was a notch in the good female protagonist box for me. Landy seemed very observant and cautious when she needed to be. I liked that she didn't immediately start throwing caution to the wind the minute "Ford" smiled at her. It took a lot of prodding from him in various settings to draw it out of her. That was a good realistic mark within the story.

I wish there would have been more chances to really get to know the guys on a one-on-one basis for me as the reader. I get the general differences between the brothers and how they feel but I don't feel that I got a long enough chance to really form an opinion of them. The story, for me, was stuttered for that reason. Landy was really fleshed out while the brothers were more hinted at or touched on rather than really knowing who they were or their life experiences. Like, why was Scout so dark? Why was Sully so unhappy with their lives under their uncle's thumb? Why was Sparrow the only one who seemed to be hungry for female companionship on a constant basis? What life experiences created those differences in personalities? It was never discussed. So I feel the guys were very two dimensional for me. This is why the story was a little hard for me to remember all the facets of it that I enjoyed. There weren't any parts I disliked though so that is what led me to the middle-of-the-road rating.