โ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ค: ๐ธ ๐ป๐๐ฃ๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐น๐ฆ๐๐๐ช โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐ ๐ฉ ๐๐๐ฅ
๐น๐ช: Natalie Bennett, Esme Devlin, Rina Kent, Nicole Cypher, & Logan Foxย
๐พ๐๐๐ฃ๐: YA/NA, Bully Romance
โ๐๐๐๐๐ค๐ ๐ป๐๐ฅ๐: September. 26, 2019
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Cruel. Brutal. Vicious. Lawless. Merciless.
Maybe youโre the new girl.
Maybe youโve always had it coming.
Maybe you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Either way, youโre about to become the victim.
Youโre about to bow, break, and bend the knee. Youโre about to kneel at my feet.
Iโll destroy your credibility.
Iโll do whatever it takes to keep you by my side.
Iโll make you learn the hard way there is only one way out.
And when all is said and done, Iโll leave you begging for me to do it again…
Five possessive, controlling bullies.
Five strong, spirited heroines.
Welcome to their Savage Kingdom.
Noble Savages by Natalie Bennett, Nicole Cypher, Esme Devlin, Logan Fox, and Rina Kent is a five books dark high school romance boxset.
All standalone.
All full length.
NO cliffhangers.
All of the angst, steam, and HEA you’ve been looking for.
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Usually, I end with my overall ratings, but this time since there are 5 full-length novels, and since I had a chance to read ALL 5, I’m actually going to start with my overall rating for the box set in a whole.
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โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ All in all, this was a great box set! Some of the books were a little more my type so I enjoyed a bit more than others.ย If you are a bully romance fan and looking for some GREAT reads to binge out on, then this is an AWESOME box set for you!
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅย Some had more heat than others, but the heat was SPICY in the majority of them!
๐ชย There are NO cliffhangers! All 5 books are full-length, standalones with HEA’s.
Check out my individual reviews and ratings below! ๐๐๐
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Lawless Kingdom by Natalie Bennett is a bully romance but with all the dark, twisted, suspenseful, bloody twists, and sexiness that we have come to know and love from Natalie PLUS some! If I thought she would do YA/NA any differently than how she usually writes I WAS WRONG!
โWe were a new aged Romeo and Juliet, but our curtain call would come with a much more satisfying ending and sinister twist.โ
Rhianna Clemont has just moved to a new house and looking forward to a fresh start with her family. But when she and her BFF Audrey hit up a party to try and catch her boyfriend Dax cheating on her, her life gets turned upside down.
She has no clue that she just walked into the big bad wolf’s lair.
When she’s suddenlyย thrust into a new school, which just so happens to be Audrey’s school too she realizes thatย not everything meets the eye.
There are three powerful Famiglias, Theย Barrons, Knights, & the Rooks rule the high school as well as the town.
โEven after I wreck your world, I promise Iโll be there to help you pick up the shattered pieces of it.โ
There’s a sordid history between the Clemonts and the Barrons that Rhiannon is totally unaware of. But Judas Barron has his sights on Rhiannon, and he won’t stop until he’s broken her, and then put her back together again exactly the way he wants her… He will do anything to make this Principessa his, forever… whether she likes it or not.
Judas and Rhiannon share a secret. A secret that Rhiannon herself doesn’t even realize at first. But the more secrets that are revealed, the more the REAL Rhiannon, the one that only Judas has ever seen,ย comes to the surface.
โLoving Judas would be like agreeing to slice yourself open and bleed just to see the color of blood. Painful and beautiful, but ultimately deadly.โ
Although I LOVE Natalie, this one wasn’t really a bully romance. Is Judas a demanding, controlling, alpha? HELL YEA! But does he bully Rhiannon? No, not really. I wanted to LOVE this story, and although I really, REALLY, liked it. I couldn’t quite love it.
This one was much shorter than the other ones. I feel like if it had been just a little longer, there would have been a bit more depth to the characters as well as the storyline and everything wouldn’t have felt so rushed. Just needed a bit of fleshing out I guess you could say. Also, Judas was almost 20 years old andย apparently still in high school?
Judas is… SHEW! That boy is ALL alpha male! He’s brutal, demanding, controlling, and he oozes DANGER! My kind of psycho! ๐๐๐
โI liked the slightly psychotic Judas with a fucked-up moral compass. He fit me better than a sweet saintly boy would.โ
I love Rhiannon! Sassy, smart-mouthed chicks are my thing lol, and Rhiannon ticked all of those boxes PLUS some!
There were a LOT of unanswered questions but from what I’m hearing, this is the beginning of a new series for Bennett so I am looking forward to more from this whole crew for sure.
If you like your YA/NA a little darker and dirtier, then this is the one for you! Loved it!
โYouโre beautiful, wild, and stubborn, the queen of my lawless kingdom.โ
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Vicious Knight by Nicole Cypher, although this one, wasn’t very R-Rated as far as cursing, and darknessย I will say out of all the books, this one has the most triggers. If you are sensitive to subjects such as rape, non-consensual touching, etc. then read this one with caution. Although I don’t have triggers so it wasn’t a huge deal to me, some readers do and I feel like the author most DEFINITELY should have added a trigger warning.ย
Eden is the quiet chick that just wants to fly quietly under the radar and just get through senior year with her invisibility intact.
But when her best friend Paige starts dating a guy from the football team, Eden lets her drag her to a party she doesn’t even want to be at.
But when Eden witnesses some things she wasn’t supposed to see at the party she decides to stand up for what she believes is right. But by doing so, she gets herself caught in the one and only Cameron Knight’s crosshairs.
โI didnโt mean to start a war, but thatโs exactly what happened.โ
Camden Knight is vicious when it comes to protecting his family, and his best friend Hunter is his family. Cameron knows the best way to ensure that his secrets stay hidden and his friend is safe is to ruin Eden’s credibility and reputation just in case she decides to open her mouth about the things she saw. To help his cause, Cameron lies and tells everyone he hooked up with Eden, dubbing her “Easy Eden”
But Eden is far from easy and she’s not going down without a fight, no matter what these boys throw at her.
This one is much, much lighter than what I am used to and what I was expecting, especially with some of the content that’s involved. Not much cursing at all,ย and there wasn’t very much steam, I think the first sex scene between the main characters was AFTER the 50% mark.
The blurb drew me in and I really thought I was going to like this one more then I did, but the characters kind of fell flat for me. By the end of the book, I really didn’t care for either of them.
OK, not going to lie. I just could NOT get the image of Cam and…. who he was with when Eden walked in, in the beginning out of my head. I just couldn’t.ย ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ
โThe course of true love never did run smooth.โ
Cameron was a grade-A asshole and a compulsive liar who seemed to just lie for the hell of it. The worst part is, the whole reason Cameron even started this vendetta against Eden was to protect HIS secrets from getting out. Not Hunter like he claimed.
Eden was a weak character. SMH, the only STRONGย thing she seemed to do was when she thought something was going on, on the other side of that door she stepped up and opened her mouth when most would have just gone home and tried to forget about what they saw. Other then that, I feel like she just rolled over and took the torment.ย When she made the choice to start talking to Paige again, that was it for me. I was over the story. No way, no how. Not after what Paige stood by and allowed to happen. Not after YEARS of friendship. HELL NO!
The only redeeming quality Vicious Knight had for me, was the ending. I knewย Cameron’s secrets and lies were bound to catch up with him, but I did NOT think for a second that, THAT would happen. So far as the OMG ending factor, this one did have that.
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Merciless Knave by Esme Devlin, I really liked this one! Devlin is another new to me author so I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Merciless Knave!
โIโll make him dread the thought of walking me down the aisle. Iโll make him suffer. Iโll make him see that I can be cruel, too.โ
Michelle McLean andย Tommy Heenanย were promised to one another from a young age. When they become of age they are to marry and run the families businesses together. The two began their love/hate relationship back when they were just kids when this marriage that neither of them wanted was first sprung on them.
For 10 years, Tommy picked on and teased Michelle. For 10 years, Michelle plotted her escape.
Tommy has accepted their fate and is determined Michelle WILL be his wife. To him, she’s always been “his Shelly”.
But Michelle, well she’d rather jump off a bridge to get away from him rather than marry Tommy.
But after her first attempt at fleeing fails, she enlists help from a friend at school for her next attempt… only things to goย horribly wrong and peoples lives and futures are put at risk.
Now, who will she turn to when she runs out of options?
โEven when the odds are against me, I don’t let go easily. I love winning. I love the game. I just need to make her enjoy playing it with me.โย
I really liked this one! It was a nice little change-up from all the usual academy/founding families type of bully romances. Merciless Knave wasn’t really what I would call a “dark” read, it’s actually more on the comical/lighter side than I was expecting but either way, I really enjoyed it!
The story is set in the Scottish region and the whole Scottish/Gypsy talk from Tommy and his friends, had me laughing out loud and REALLY wishing that I could listen on audio just so I could hear it out loud! I rarely ever listen to audio so that’s telling for me! The back and forth banter just cracked me up!
โNo, you wee hussy. Itโs better than that. But if you want me to knock the breath out you later with your wrists behind your back, Iโm sure I can find the original set.โ
I will say though, as far as the bully romance aspect Michelle seemed to be more of the “bully” in this one then Tommy did. Even though Tommy could be cruel when he wanted to be, I’m not saying he was Prince Charming, but honestly, he wasn’t really that mean to her. He seemed to actually WANT to do right by her but Michelle just wasn’t hearing it. She had it set in her head how she thought things would go and she wouldn’t listen when he tried to reason with her.
โI want to fight her and fuck her every single day. I want people to look at us and know that weโre built from the same shit, forged in fire together, the both of us exactly what the other one needs. People fear that because itโs unobtainable. Itโs impenetrable. Itโs stronger than diamonds.โ
I liked the gypsy prince, Tommy. He was like the hot bad boy who was actually sweet and attentive, but with a filthy mouth that he’s not afraid to use… ๐๐
Michelle… it took me a bit to like. She came off as very selfish and a bit spoiled. One minute I could understand where she was coming from, and then the next I wanted to shake her and tell her to open her damn eyes!
The back and forth, the sexual tension, THAT BEACH SCENE… HOLY HOTNESS! I really liked this one!
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Brutal Prince by Logan Fox I, unfortunately, am NOT able to rate/review. I was only able to get through to chapter five before I gave up. I have every intention of going back and trying again, but I was just unable to get into it and then, unfortunately, I ran out of time. I honestly can’t say there was anything “wrong” per se, I just couldn’t get into the story. ๐๐๐ Sorry!
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Cruel King by Rina Kent, HOLY HELL! I’m a HUGE fan of Rina Kent‘s work but this one is TOTALLY different then what I am used to seeing from her. This is Kent’s first time branching into the YA/NA genre so I wasn’t sure what to expect but, MY OH MY,ย Levi and Astrid’s story takes us on a wild ride!
โYou couldโve escaped the battle, but you asked for a bloody war.โ
After her mother dies in a horrific car accident, one that could have just as easily stolen Astrid’s life as well, she moves in with her father and his new wife and stepdaughter.
Astrid is given two rules.ย Do not disgrace the Clifford surname, and to stay away from the King surname.
Astrid is totally OK with that, all she wants is to work on her art and stay invisible until the end of senior year.
But when she comes face to face with Levi King at a party one night, by pure accident (or was it fate?) her world is turned upside down for a second time.
Levi King is the King of the school and the hotshot quarterback of the football team. After the death of his father, he was forced to live with his Uncle and his cousin Aiden. Levi can never live up to the standards his Uncle had set for him so needless to say, the relationship there is rocky.
The Cliffords and the Kings have a feud that’s been going on for years.
Why? Well, no one truly knows, and the ones who do? They aren’t talking.
Like Astrid, Levi was warned to stay away from the Cliffords, but this bad boy has never been one for following orders. Now that he has her in his sights, this cruel king has every intention of destroying the princess.
But when secrets from both of their pasts are revealed, their worlds are turned upside down all over again.
โThe past wonโt define our lives. The future will.โ
I loved Cruel King! It has the suspense that Kent’s readers have come to know and love from her but with a YA/NA twist! Add in Levi,ย the alpha football player, Astrid the sexy in her own way artistic chick and it’s a ringer for a good romance! Throw in some family drama, secrets and a lot of love and loss, and you’ve got a 5-star read!
This one was one of the longer books from the box-set (55 chapters + Epilogue) but I stayed hooked the entire time, the suspense continued to keep me trying to unravel the secrets that I knew were lurking right under the surface but I just could not figure it out!
I’m usually pretty good at the “who done it” but this one I NEVER saw coming!
โNo one touches what belongs to me. Astrid Clifford is already mine. She just doesnโt know it yet.โ
The only real negative I had was that the dialogue between the characters was a little more mature than the characters age range. I was contributing that to them being very posh, but they did seem a little more mature then what would be natural for 18-year-olds.
Astrid is a BADASS! Like seriously, I love a TOUGH chick, and she was the definition of tough.
Levi, he has so much dark that surrounds him but yet, underneath it all he’s not that bad of a guy, just been through a lot in his young life just like Astrid.
As far as steamy…”Oh, my Vikings!” this story was HOT!
โI like you bound, princess. I like you at my mercy. I like you mine.โ
I adored the secondary characters in this one! Astrid’s best friend Dan, and then the four horsemen. Levi’s cousin Aiden, and his friends Ronan, Cole, and Xander, the banter between these guys is absolutely hilarious.
Cruel King is the beginning of Kent’s new Royal Elite Series, Aiden, and the Ice Queen’s story, Deviant King, is up next from her and I am sooo looking forward to that! I’m also REALLY hoping we get Dan’s story too… and a little birdy told me that we just might!
โI wouldโve found you no matter what, princess. It was a matter of when not if.โ
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Natalie Bennett
Natalie Bennett is the creator of erotic stories that always come with a warning label. She writes about depraved alpha a**holes and women that love to hate them. Her books donโt follow any specific tropes, have no set word counts, and tend to deviate fromย traditional HEAโs.
When she isnโt in front of her computer sheโs spending time with her husband and their three little boys.
Natalie is an avid fan of caramel frappes, horror movies, Shameless, and of course, reading.
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Rina Kent
Rina Kent is a lover of suspenseful plots and edgy characters.
She has always been obsessed with romance.
Storytelling is in her blood. Plotting is her addiction. Flawed and gripping characters are her drug.
She makes it her mission to give them all types of trouble before granting them happy endings.
When not scheming her charactersโ fate, Rina manages a hectic schedule divided between studying and living with the most supportive husband and a not-very-supportive cat.
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Nicole Cypher
Nicole Cypher is an author and avid reader of dark romance. She began her writing journey in college and hasnโt looked back since. In her books, you can expect a yummy anti-hero, plenty of action, and a happy ending.
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Esme Devlin
Esme Devlin is a Scottish author who writes books about filthy, complicated, alpha-arsehole men, and the women who fall in love with them.
She grew up on a rough estate on the outskirts of Glasgow, where her weekends were spent in a park drinking tonic with boys who she should have known better than to trust. Now she spends her mornings raising her own little ‘toe-rag’ girls, and her days on a building site; knee-deep in mud and sometimes waist-high in Scottish wet weather. We can pretend that the tradesmen on her site wear kilts and the weather is frequently warm enough for naked chests if helps build a better picture in your mind. She’s easy.
My nights are her passion though. She spends those with her face in a laptop, frantically bringing to life the men who play games in her head. She has ALWAYS fallen in love with the villain of the story, even before she was old enough to realize that made her slightly less than normal. She’s always been drawn to the dark. Things are more interesting there, where you can’t always see what’s hiding in the shadows.
She can’t promise there will always be kilts, but there will be sexy villains
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Logan Fox
Fox writes deliciously dark and twisted stories set in the sinister town of Mallhaven.
Having grown up with names like Graham Masterton, Dean Koontz, James Herbert, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, and Terry Pratchett, her stories are an eclectic mix of the sadistically twisted, the epic, and the darkly comedic. She strives to create characters you’ll either love or loathe and doesn’t hold any punches. She hails from the four-seasons-in-a-day suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. She’s so busy writing she doesn’t have time for much else except the occasional indulgent Netflix binge. She
loves hearing from readers, so don’t be shy to contact her and tell her what you thought of her writing.