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Exploring Love and Violence in Obsession by Harleigh Beck

Posted on 17th May 202518th Nov 2025 by Letty Reads

Obsession by Harleigh Beck

Obsession is a book which focuses on Robbie, an inmate on death row convicted of killing multiple women and Savannah, a journalist who Robbie requested to interview him before he is given the lethal injection. Savannah is drawn to Robbie despite his being a notorious killer and being the same age as her dad. Robbie is likewise drawn to Savannah and will stop at nothing to have her. This is a dark thriller romance which contains graphic sexual scenes and graphic violence, check the trigger warnings.

Rule number one: Don’t fall for the sob story.

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Exploring Derek’s Dark Story in the Consumed Trilogy

Posted on 17th May 202518th Nov 2025 by Letty Reads

Consumed Triolgy by Brooklyn Cross

At the end of 2024 I asked 12 friends to each recommend me a book, as I wanted to partake in the 12 friends, 12 months, 12 books challenge that I saw on TikTok but I wanted to not just create a post, I wanted to add it to my book journal and read one of the books each month.

My beautiful friend Corina gave me the Consumed Trilogy as her recommendation. Now I technically only needed one book and was just going to read book one, but I ended up reading all three.

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Book Review, Jescie Hall

That Sik Luv: A Dark Tale of Love and Religion

Posted on 17th May 202518th Nov 2025 by Letty Reads

That Sik Luv by Jescie Hall

This is a Dark Romance book, which follows Briony, who is a catholic (I believe) girl whose life very much revolves around her religion and her church. Briony has been taught that fornication is a sin and that sexual thoughts and actions are immoral. Briony has a stalker who brings out these feelings in her, and she is fighting with herself over what she has been taught and the way her stalker makes her feel. Aero is the demon who has been stalking her and showing her the truth of the church she lives for, along with the truth of the people around her. This book is dark, thrilling and sexy.

This book has many trigger warnings, some of which are stalking, religious trauma, degradation, depictions of violence/murder and many, many more. Make sure you read them unless you’re like me and you don’t really have any triggers.

She broke my fucking finger, and the blood instantly rushed to my groin.

My fiesty little bitch enjoys bringing me pain, and its entirely unfortunate for her that her little outbursts trigger me further.

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Book Review, nikki castle

Revive Me: An MMA Fighter’s Journey to Love and Healing

Posted on 17th May 202518th Nov 2025 by Letty Reads

Revive Me by Nikki Castle

I applied for the ARC for this book through Chasing Books PR. Even though this is an ARC my review is 100% my true opinion.

Revive Me follows Roman, an MMA fighter who is about to have the biggest fight of his career, and Liliana, who is a Physical Therapist. Roman ends up with a spinal cord injury during his title match, leaving him unable to walk or fight. Fighting has been all Roman has known since he was a teenager, and he can’t fathom a life without it; he doesn’t know who he is without MMA. Roman has been to many PTs, but 2 years after his injury, he ends up at Liliana’s workplace, and it is up to her to get through to Roman and get him back on his feet. However, this wouldn’t be a romance book without the romance, would it, and Roman and Liliana fall for each other, but it’s complicated due to Roman being her patient.

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Book Review, freida-mcfadden

Thrilling Short Story Review: A Must-Read from Amazon First Reads

Posted on 17th May 202518th Nov 2025 by Letty Reads

I downloaded this book because it was the bonus read for May’s Amazon First Reads, I didn’t know if I would ever read it but it was free so I downloaded it.

I have previously read the Housemaid Series by Freida McFadden and I enjoyed book 1 and 2, book 3 not as much but I wasn’t blown away by them enough to think about picking another one of her books up, I have some on my shelf but these were purchased before I read the Housemaid Series. Don’t get me wrong she isn’t a bad writer at all, just quite predictable I feel, but like I said I haven’t read any other books by her.

I had just finished a thriller that I didn’t enjoy and thought why not give this a try it’s only 79 pages.

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Book Review, Maria Frankland

Booktok Group Reads: Our Thriller Experience

Posted on 17th May 202518th Nov 2025 by Letty Reads

I Don’t Like Mondays by Maria Frankland

There’s a bit of a story behind how this book got chosen, so bear with me. Me and a group of friends who all met through booktok, have a WhatsApp group where we talk about books and also lots of other stuff, but it centres around books. Each month, we decide to do a group read. This month, we each picked a genre and put it in a spinny wheel, as we usually chose a Dark Romance read and wanted something different. These were the genres up for grabs: Thriller, Gothic Horror, Rom Com, Romantasy (this was my genre), Cowboy Romance and Erotic Horror.

Thriller was the genre that the wheel chose, and then we each had to put forward a thriller book to go into another wheel. These were the choices:

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Book Review, Fantasy/Paranormal, lauren roberts

The Ilya Trilogy Review: Love, Loss, and Resilience

Posted on 17th May 202518th Nov 2025 by Letty Reads

My review of Fearless by Lauren Roberts.

I started this book on the 1st May and finished it on the 4th May. I was originally scared to read this book, which I know sounds stupid, it’s just a book, but I fell in love with Kai and Paedyn, and the end of Reckless had me scared for what was to come next for them. I also didn’t want my time in Ilya to end.

I, however, jumped in with both feet, and it felt so good to be back in Ilya, even if I knew it was my last trip. I know many people didn’t love Powerless, but I did, and I love the direction Lauren took the trilogy. I cried at the end of Powerless, and yes, it doesn’t take much to make me cry, but still, I did. I also did the tandem read of Powerless and Powerful, and I would personally say that is the best way to read them. If you want the details of the tandem, read. I have a picture you can download. I used it as a bookmark.

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