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Sacrificial Sinners by J. Rose
Series: Blackwood Institute #2
Publication date: January 28th, 2022
Pages: 498
Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Synopsis:
RETURN TO BLACKWOOD INSTITUTE.
RUN BY THE INSANE, FOR THE INSANE.
Monster. Victim. Predator. Prey.
I've always been certain of one hard fact -- I don't deserve to live. For all the pain and suffering I've inflicted, I tried to take the ultimate punishment. Anything to escape the horror of living with my crimes.
Survival wasn't part of the bargain. The family I never intended to find are determined to keep me alive, but my mind has been turned against me.
I don't know what's real anymore.
When the devil comes knocking, I'm forced to confront the truth. Blackwood Institute is far from what it seems. Now, I must learn how deep the darkness truly goes.
As our lives are thrown into chaos, harrowing secrets are uncovered and the carefully constructed illusion begins to unravel, I'll stop at nothing to protect my family, even if that means sacrificing myself to the horrors of the Z Wing.
I've been running from my demons for a long time, but the truth is about to catch up to me.
Time to become the monster the world thinks I am.
Author's Note: Sacrificial Sinners is a reverse harem contemporary romance set in an experimental mental health institution. This is book two in the trilogy and it must be read in order. Full trigger warning is available inside the book.
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Review:
Up on that rooftop Brooklyn was ready to die. She was ready to finally put to rest the evil that she felt lurked within her. What other explanation could she give for the crimes that landed her in the Blackwood Institute in the first place. She had four men who would do anything to make her see that she has something worth living for in them. But there are darker secrets within the walls of Blackwood than just the crazy delusions that circle the minds of its patients. Brooklyn decides that if she is going to live then she is going to have to do more than just survive. But the Institute is changing. This should be a good thing since the man who drove Brooklyn to that rooftop was gone, but the man who replaced him, the illustrious Dr. Augustus has other plans in mind for Brooklyn. He wants to turn her into a killing machine and will use the people she loves as leverage to do so. Can Brooklyn find a way to keep her mind intact as well to keep her men from harm?
This installment within the trilogy was intense. Brooklyn broke so many times and had her mental facilities falter over and over again. It is amazing that she still found a way to fight her way out of it. Granted she had a lot of help from her lovers, an oddly friendly guard, and a fellow enlistee for Dr. Augustus's big plans. It got to the point where I could understand her breaking but I was rubbing my temples wondering when this poor girl was going to get a break. It was beautiful the way she started to find ways to heal with each of her men in different ways. Although I was ready to strangle Phoenix for being an asshat after the rooftop incident. He was too busy focusing on how he felt about what happened and tormenting her for being weak. I lost a lot of respect for him as a character which stinks since he was one of my favorites before.
I liked that we got a deeper look into each of their pasts. From Hudson's reason for being locked up to the sacrifice that his brother took to support and protect him. The addiction issues that Phoenix turns to every single time things get hard and Eli's trauma with his father. The growth for each of the characters was profound and I felt like I truly got to know them a little better. Some of them I grew even fonder of and others I grew indifferent to. But however my feelings shifted for the characters I was glad to get to know them a bit more as individuals and not just as Brooklyn's men.
This was a good middle book, it added even more mystery to what the Institute was up to and what they were hoping to accomplish with their most forgotten patients. It also gave the main characters chances to shine within their own individual stories. I would have liked a little less repetitiveness with Brooklyn's breaks because it started to take away some of the sympathy I felt for her as frustration started to seep in. I am curious to see where it goes from here with her, her guys, and her newly acquired friends.
