Hello Readers,
Thank you Nikki Rae!
This book was provided by the author for free in exchange for an honest review.
This book was provided by the author for free in exchange for an honest review.
This
book is a little different to the usual books I read and review on my blog but
after reading reviews of this, the first book being compared to The Handmaid’s
Tale meets Fifty Shades of Grey my curiosity got the better of me and I joined
the book tour for Wilt. Trigger Warning
for Sexual Assault and Abuse. Spoiler warning guys sorry.
This
is also my first bit of the book tour (I look like I know what I am doing).
I know I don’t usually post on a Sunday, but my blog tour post will be going
live tomorrow morning and I can’t review the second book without reviewing the
first.
Synopsis
Given
to The Grimm Order as an infant, Fawn was raised in a world shaped by the rich
and powerful. When she was sold at the age of nine to a Suitor, Fawn believed
he would protect her from the “Mainworld”, where those who know nothing about
the Order live. Living with the cruel man who bought her freedom, she finds
just what the Order is about: money, control, and status for the Owner and
humiliation and abuse for those they own.
Unwilling to accept the expectations of being Owned, Fawn goes from golden girl to maid, content to live in the shadows of the Order as long as she isn’t Owned again.
It’s been ten years since she disgraced her former Owner’s name, and now the brooding Frenchman Elliot Lyon wants her. Master Lyon is kind, smart, and unlike any man she’s met. She doesn’t want to admit it to herself, but Fawn is drawn to him despite constantly planning her next escape.
Even the prettiest flowers have thorns, and Master Lyon is hiding secrets that will uproot everything she thinks she knows about him.
Unwilling to accept the expectations of being Owned, Fawn goes from golden girl to maid, content to live in the shadows of the Order as long as she isn’t Owned again.
It’s been ten years since she disgraced her former Owner’s name, and now the brooding Frenchman Elliot Lyon wants her. Master Lyon is kind, smart, and unlike any man she’s met. She doesn’t want to admit it to herself, but Fawn is drawn to him despite constantly planning her next escape.
Even the prettiest flowers have thorns, and Master Lyon is hiding secrets that will uproot everything she thinks she knows about him.
Bloom
is dark, disturbing, and compelling and possibly one of the darkest book I’ve read
in a while, and I had different and conflicting emotions while reading. Trigger
Warning for Sexual Assault and Abuse. I will admit I was wary when I first
began reading. It’s different, it’s certainly uncomfortable and dark at times,
but nevertheless, it is everything that makes Rae’s books wonderful. From the
very first sentence, Nikki Rae pulled me into this book. This book is
written from Fawn’s point of view and you really feel like you’re in her head.
You become a part of her world.
The
book starts like most dystopian novels; doom and gloom. Bloom shines with its
complex characters. They and the dark story took my breath away. There were
some scenes that made my stomach turn. It wasn’t the concept though, just a few
scenes that made me feel a little uneasy as I read. It made my stomach turn but
I couldn’t stop reading. The world that
Nikki Rae created is as fascinating as it is infuriating. The characters are
amazing, well rounded, and legit feel like real people. My own heart was
pounding alongside Fawns. My own heart was thudding in my chest because I
wanted to know what was going to happen because clearly anything could. I was
engrossed. I loved Fawn. With all that she went through, she is seriously the
most badass character I have ever read. Even though she is literally made to
feel like she’s nothing, she still has the spark of a fight in her.
Let’s
be honest most romance stories when stripped bare retell the Greek myth of
Persephone, in which an innocent young woman is captured and dragged down into
Hell to be the consort of a dangerous man and lays it bare.
Fawn has spent the past 10 years keeping her
head down and staying hidden. She knows what it’s like to be owned and she never
wants to go through that again. In comes Elliot Lyon and he buys Fawn. I
thought I had Master Lyons pegged, but I had it wrong. He is unlike any other
master Fawn has seen or heard of before as he is kind and understanding. But he
is still an owner. He still can make Fawn do anything he wants, and she has no
choice. Fawn, on the other hand, she was
strong.
Fawn
knew how to play the game, but she hated it. Her situation sucked, but she
never stopped trying to change it. Even when she learned what was really
happening. Fawn has escaped from a cruel Owner to end up with a slightly kinder
one and must negotiate both the threats to her physical safety and freedom.
Bloom also makes clear the problems for the "master" in such a
relationship and emphasizes that both parties are trapped, through necessity
and social convention, in a relationship they might rather not be in and might
not know how to escape.
If you like your stories dark and challenging,
your heroes dark and brooding, and your heroines desperate and wily, you may
very well find that Bloom is just what you’ve been looking for.
Author Bio:
Nikki
Rae is an independent author who lives in New Jersey. She explores human nature
through fiction, concentrating on making the imaginary as real as possible. Her
genres of choice are mainly dark, scary, romantic tales, but she’ll try
anything once. When she is not writing, reading, or thinking, you can find her
spending time with animals, drawing in a quiet corner, or studying people.
Closely.
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