Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖 (I’ll be honest, the writing wasn’t 100% my jam but some of the events were! And it’s shorter...so I wanted to read. I think if it was longer I would have gotten a bit more frustrated with it)
Feels: 🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔 (You don’t get any background for the heroes, the heroine you only get a light history of her bullying)
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞 (If you find stalker and obsessive behavior romantic, which I kinda do because I’m romantically disturbed 😂 )
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥+
Humor: Not really
Perspective: first person mostly from the heroine but there is a chapter from Ghost
More character focused or plot focused? plot
How did the speed of the story feel? fast
When mains are first on page together: very soon in (about 4%)
Cliffhanger: not really? It ends with a happy for now, though it’s a touch abrupt and uncertain
Epilogue: No
Format: read through kindle unlimited

Should I read in order?
This is the first in Doyle’s Order of the Unseen series.

Basic plot:
Quinn goes out for fun on Halloween when she finds herself in need of rescuing...

Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- why choose (no M/M) with MFMM
- halloween themes (Salem setting)
- revenge on your bullies
- one night of fun
- obsessive hero
- higher steam – 6 scenes, kinks including masks, exhibitionism, knife play, breath play, praise, blindfolding

Ages:
- didn’t catch any mentioned

First line:
Jack-o’-lanterns are spread out along the sidewalk and leading up to the front door.

My thoughts:
I have a bit of a love hate feeling about this book. The parts I enjoyed – I LOVED. But some (a lot?) of this was so cringy to me. Over the top. Too much, not in a good way for me.

This is a bloody ravishment fantasy and I appreciated it for the mask kink fest it was. I didn’t necessarily love the story...the plot felt repetitive (how many times is this heroine going to get groped and then someone get stabbed?). I didn’t like things like how our main ‘hero’ ‘fucked without emotion’, but he was actually really emotional about everything all the time.

You’ll have to go into this one being okay with over the top jealous and toxic heroes. And I can love that stuff. But some of his lines were just bleh to me. The threesome activity didn’t feel developed in any way – I guess the guys are friends? And even though Ghost will kill anyone that looks sideways at the heroine, he’s okay with sharing her with these 2 friends. Again, I just went with it and didn’t question things too closely haha.

Endearments

Ghost calls the heroine ‘little Quinn’. 

Quotes/spoiler-y thoughts:Any mistakes/typos are my own

Eww no

“I want to explore every inch of that sexy little body you got there,” he continues. “Such a sexy piece of ass you are, little Quinn.”

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Oh I like this

“Please,” I whimper, taking my bottom lip between my teeth.
“That’s right,” he bites out. “Fucking beg.”
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“Fuck,” he groans, his face still buried against my wetness. “You taste too good, baby. I need more.”

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I hated the bully confrontations. I am all for revenge, but this just felt immature to me.

“You took the last one,” I observe, eyeing her gelatin shot. “Bummer. Blue raspberry is my favorite.”
“That sucks,” she remarks, her jaw tightening.
“Give it to her,” Michael orders, and I am blown away.
She scowls. “What?”
“He said, give it to me,” I repeat his words, stepping forward until I’m mere inches away.

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I don’t want to kink shame here but nope for me….

There he is in the center of the room, chained to a wooden chair, duct tape covering his mouth. My dick twitches at the thought of ending his life.

and

All this murder has really gotten to me this time. The sight of blood always makes my dick hard. I need to be inside her.

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And when Ghost is fucking her against a wall and a fire comes in the room and he just keeps going and going...and then says

All that matters is her.
Her safety.

Huh? I didn’t get he was that worried about her safety lol
 

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- multiple sexual harassment/assault scenes
- remembrance of bullying
- remembrance of self harm and scarring
- heroine suffers from panic attacks
- parental death
- kinks includes some riskier elements like knife play
- scenes of violence including physical assault, murder, arson and stabbing
Author included trigger warnings: graphic sexually explicit scenes, physical assault, attempted sexual assault, mentions of self harm/bulling, blood/gore, mask kink, breath play/choking, knife play, fire play, raw sex/sex without a condom, praise/degradation kink, and murder.

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

  heroine mentions she’s on birth control and says she’s ‘clean’ and asks if he is and he says yes 

 
Hows the consent? 

It’s….okay? The heroine is into it all, but the hero is aggressive and a boundary pusher. He also knows his friends are watching while he goes down on the heroine but doesn’t tell her and she is unaware. 

 
19% - 🔥 fingering and oral for her by Ghost
33% - 🔥 fingering for her, sex in the bathroom on the sink with Ghost, then him holding her up, then sex against the wall
45% - 🔥 kisses with Ghost that lead to oral for her from Jason while Ghost plays with her throat, then missionary with Jason, then her on top with Jason and anal with Ghost (DP)
69% - 🔥 blow job him, sex and knife play with Ghost, and continuing sex while the room catches on fire
80% - 🔥 kisses with Ghost, Jason, and Michael, doggy with Michael, then missionary, bj for Jason, then tied to the bed, bj for Jason, anal with a knife handle, then more sex with Michael
91% - 🔥 sex with GHost