Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖📖 (It was short, but I was obsessed)
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔 (This is a very short story, so you don’t get much depth)
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡ (They dive right in 😆 )
Romance: 💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋 (I really loved these scenes)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑 (Basically the whole book is a sex scene)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥 (The whole book is basically a scene)
Humor: A touch
Perspective: first person from the heroine’s point of view
More character focused or plot focused? plot-ish (sex focused?)
How did the speed of the story feel? fast
When mains are first on page together: very soon in (I think it says 13% but it’s like pg 2 or 3 for me)
Cliffhanger: No. It is a complete story without a happily ever after
Epilogue: No
Format: borrowed on kindle unlimited
(Descriptions found at end of my review)

“Do you like that, pretty girl?” The robotic tone was low, stripped of all emotion, but some uncertain smugness that I was almost embarrassed by, like he didn’t expect for me to be writhing and ready for him.
“No.” My voice was almost as raspy as his, mine from desire where his was formulated crackle.
“I don’t think I believe you.”

His breath was heavy behind my ear.

"What a dirty little liar you are, baby.”

Should I read in order?
This is a stand alone short story.

Basic plot:
Our heroine is requesting a masked night of fun from her letdown of a boyfriend.

Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary setting
- please note that this story does NOT have an HEA (happily ever after)
- home invasion ravishment fantasy
- higher steam – basically the whole story is a sex scene
- full figured heroine
- a shorter story
- kink elements – degradation, primal play, masks, bondage, knife play

Ages:
- I don’t believe they are mentioned

First line:
Tonight is the night.

My thoughts:
This book! 🫠 🫠 🫠

This book gave me so much that I had no idea I even wanted. This is a super short, ravishment fantasy story and I just LOVED IT.

Our heroine is ready to dump her lame boyfriend, but gives him another chance to fulfill her fantasies. A mask. An agreed upon kink list.

Our...hero? I ate up his dirty talk. All the things he said 🫠 🫠 🫠 . As I started looking through the story for notes for my review I just reread the entire thing and enjoyed it just as much the second time around.

Some of the kink is not my favorite – I’m not into masochism and I’m a baby so knife play scares me lol but I still ate this whole novel up. I want more. More! Going to be checking out more from Michele too!

Endearments

The ‘hero’ calls the heroine ‘baby’ and ‘pretty girl’ 

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

My teeth ached to bite into him – hard – and so I did, filling my mouth with skin and muscle.
He hissed, ripping my head back, his other hand coming to cover my neck. Tacky wetness from my earlier pleasure slid against my skin, and I smirked at him.
“You like biting?” He shook my head, fingers around my throat, pushing against the twin spots under my ears that made my eyes roll in the back of my head. “Hmm?”
“Yes.” I laughed, but the sound was warbled and cut from my position. “You approved it on the sheet. Next time think about it harder.”
He made a small, agreed sound. “Next time.”
He walked me backwards, pressing me against the cold wall of glass, and the wood rough against my back. He trailed a hand between us, down my body teasingly.
His body towered over mine before he bent down to bury his face in my neck. “Remind me again,” he asked, fingerings playing across my thighs. “What else was on the list?”
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He stood then, flopping the knife on the bed behind us and slowly unbuttoned his pants. Every catch of the zipper spiked my awareness. I couldn’t move my eyes from his hands, the way his gloves looked painted on his fingers or the slow show he made opening his jeans.
“Eyes up here, baby.” I looked up at him, reluctant to look away from the sight before me, but he lifted my chin, fingers clenched tight to keep my head tilted for him. “Don’t be a brat now, not when you’ve been so good.”
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“I won’t force you, pretty girl, not with this, but if you don’t open your fucking mouth, I’ll leave and you wouldn’t like that, would you? That isn’t what you want.”
 

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

- this story involves a home invasion
- big non-consent vibes due to the home invader pretending to be someone else she had an agreement with – if you need consent and/or happily ever afters in your story this won’t be for you

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

 
Safe sex: 

  There’s no penetration but no condoms used for oral 

 
Hows the consent? 

  No go on consent – this man breaks into the heroine’s home and then pretends to be someone else 

 
31% - fingering for her (he stops before she comes), then more fingering (again interrupted), then he chases her through the house, then bondage to the bed with zip ties, knife play, forceful blow job, then the hero finishes himself off and marks the heroine