Review: The More I Hate - Book #1 Gilded Decadence Series - Blake Hensley - February 2024 Scrolling through my Kindle one day, searching for something to really sink my teeth into, I stumbled across The More I Hate by Blake Hensley. The moment I clicked on it and saw who was behind the pen name, I felt that familiar flutter of excitement as Blake Hensley is the combined forces of two of my absolute favourite dark romance authors, Zoe Blake and Alta Hensley, who have joined their surnames just as they've joined their talents. These two women are queens of the genre, and the idea of them collaborating had me immediately sold. I'll be honest  I'd taken a bit of a break from dark romance lately. The books had started to blur into one another, leaning heavily into explicit content at the expense of the thing I actually crave most: chemistry. That slow-burning, charged, magnetic pull between two people that makes you forget to breathe. So I came into this one cautiously hopeful,...

Title: The More I Hate Series: Gilded Decadence #1 Author: Zoe Blake & Alta Hensley writing as Blake Hensley Genre: Dark Billionaire Romance Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Arranged Marriage Forced Proximity Release Date: February 23, 2024 BL URB His family dared to challenge mine, so I am going to ruin them… starting with stealing his bride. Only a cold-hearted villain would destroy an innocent bride's special day over a business deal gone bad… Which is why I choose this precise moment to disrupt New York High Society's most anticipated wedding of the season. As I am Luc Manwarring, II, billionaire heir to one of the most powerful families in the country, no one is brave enough to stop me. My revenge plan is deceptively simple: humiliate the groom, then blackmail the bride's family into coercing the bride into marrying me instead. My ruthless calculations do not anticipate my reluctant bride having so much fight and fire in her. At every opportunity, she resists m...

Review: Bad Babygirl - The Expert - Book #3 Bad Babygirls Series - Zoe Blake - July 2019 At the end of Book #2, we read as Lyla was kidnapped by Anna and taken somewhere. Now in Book #3 we have the last Babygirl's tale - Quinn and her Daddy aka Assasin Ryder. The book starts with Quinn about to pack up shop when Roman and his men come barging in for Quinn and of course Ryder is there to stop them. He doesn't know at this stage why they want Quinn as you know these alpha doms, they aren't very good at sharing anything. Life would be so much easier if they did. There's a bit of back and forth and of course Ryder dishing punishment out on Quinn but we eventually get the Lyla storyline and how she is coping with staying alive by playing into Anna's game. I did enjoy this story as we got to see deeper into Anna's psyche and what she has been through and how psychotic she really is. Can the Daddy Doms pool their resources to save their loved ones...

Review: Bad Babygirl : The Thief - Book #2 Bad Babygirls Series - Zoe Blake - July 2019 In Book #2 we meet Lyla whose specialty is being a thief. Like the others in her group of friends she has been viewed as a toy to play with by a Daddy Dom. Her one comes in the form of Roman who is the bodyguard and advisor for Ethan whom we meet in Book #1 with Piper. At the start of this book we learn that Mary is dead and that Lyla sends a text message with one word "RUN". Piper manages to escape and Lyla tries but is stopped by Roman whom she has an all-out spar war with. I have to say it was nice to see Roman meeting his match with Lyla and not having her play a victim or damsel type character. She was gutsy which I have liked about the Babygirls in this book. During the book Lyla and Quinn are taken to Reid's compound where we learn about the significance of the tattoo on her inner thigh.  Bad Babygirl Thief also lays the groundwork for the next book with Quinn...