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Series: Blackwood Institute #3
Publication date: July 29th, 2022
Pages: 470
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Synopsis:
ESCAPE FROM BLACKWOOD INSTITUTE.
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE.
Sinner. Saint. Lost. Found.
I never intended to leave Blackwood Institute alive. Instead, I found a whole new family. A reason to live. Hope. Belonging. Acceptance. Love.
We barely made it out with our lives.
Now, the real fight to survive begins.
In a world of false allegiances, corruption and violence, Incendia Corporation wants to silence our voices. We survived the sickness at the heart of their twisted medical marvel. Our truth is all we have left, but the world doesn't want to hear it.
We're just six unhinged criminals, on the run.
When tragedy strikes at the heart of our family, we must forge new alliances and brave the cruelty of an indifferent world. Enemies are gathering to watch our destruction, but the greatest threat still lies within.
There's a vicious monster buried inside of me, battling for control. Patient Eight kept me alive in the dark, but Brooklyn West wants a future. The two cannot co-exist without imploding. Forging a new path will cost me everything -- including the people I love.
In death and blood, we will find our happy ending.
The game is almost over.
Check mate, motherfuckers.
Author's Note: Desecrated Saints is book three in the Blackwood Institute trilogy. They must be read in order. Full trigger warning is available inside the book.
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Review:
Brooklyn and her men are in a race to bring down the Incendia Corporation for their hand in all all the pain they reaped upon them. They took Brooklyn and her bonded Patient Seven and turned them into lean, mean killing machines. Between the two of them their body count is astronomical. The Corporation used them to kill off any individuals that opposed them until they became a formidable force. But once Brooklyn and her harem hooked up with Sabre Security they start to wonder if they might have a fighting chance against them. But when they are dealt with blow after blow of bad news, they start to realize that the corruption goes farther than they had ever imagined. Through loss and the unimaginable realization that Brooklyn's family may not all be long gone, the team have to find a way to fight for their freedom or be doomed to be forced back into the loving embrace of Incendia all over again.
I found myself really dragging through this book. There were days when I didn't feel like picking up my Kindle to continue the story. I was interested a bit in all the corruption and action but the romance aspects were starting to drain me. The addition of a new man to her harem, Seven, made me feel uneasy. I feel weird when the main focus of the harem ends up bringing in another person late to the game. It threw me off so much that I started eyeballing every man she was friendly with in the slightest as another potential person for her to drag into her bedroom. However, what did the book in for me and what almost made me DNF it completely, was the forced bisexuality that Brooklyn pressured Hudson into. I am not too keen on dynamics happening between members of the harem that aren't all focused on the woman. Eli and Phoenix were different because I felt they were already pretty established before Brooklyn was even in the mix. So I hesitantly leaned into that. But when Brooklyn starts trying to coax Hudson into being anything more than his usual alphahole self, I was completely over the book. The author kinda hinted that Hudson was a bit curious but to jump into it the way he did with little prompting after swearing up and down he was straight? It didn't sit well with me. It felt like Brooklyn was using her relationship with Hudson to try to force him to do things he was not 100% on board with. Not to mention, I barely was accepting of Eli and Phoenix. Seeing Hudson then paired off with another man? No. I was done. I finished the book only because I wanted to know what happened to Incendia but even that felt rushed. It was tied up within the last 10% of the book and almost seemed impossibly easy despite it being coined a "suicide mission".
I did not like the ending of this trilogy and it will likely make me hesitant to read the rest of the books by this author. I have a feeling they would be a lot of the same as these were and end on a sour note for me. If other dynamics within your reverse harems is okay with you, then you probably won't mind this book in the slightest. It is just not my cup of tea.
