Sunday, 5 September 2021

REVIEW - Veins of Shade (Chronicles of Madness #3) by Crea Reitan


 The Book

Release Date: 4 June 2021

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Mal is no longer a Fixer but the Queen of two of Laddenworn’s kingdoms Redd and Hart. Although the Bloody Reign has ended, Wonderland has not been set free.
Because, Wonderland does not exist right now. Mal and her men are trapped inside a toxic fairy tale, made dark and bloody by the infection of another. Their biggest problem now is figuring out what triggered Wonderland’s break and right it.
However, there are questions left unanswered and mysteries left to solve. What happened to the original Queens of Wonderland? Where is Wyat’s kindle? Where is the looking-glass? How to cure Madness? And although Redd and Hart are in fact dead - Mal beheaded them herself - where is the new threat coming from?
For there is a new threat. The Dark Ones are turning Silence into a horror show. Every victim, animal, person, or unnamed, are left a rotted shell covered in the black clutches of a painful death. But who holds the reins of the Dark Ones?

**This is a new four book series following the Chronicles of Blood. A new adult, reverse harem, dark romance novel with a ‘why choose’ ending, meaning the main character gets a happily ever after with more than one man. It contains magic, demons, shifters, nonsense, explicit sex scenes, blood, murder. There are references to past emotional abuse. This is a MMFMM book with a STRONG focus on the woman (although there is some MM and MMF in here, too).

My REVIEW  5 STARS

Goodness, this one certainly packs a punch and gives you all the feels.  At one point I was actually sobbing.

The journey for Mal and her husbands to fix the story continues as she tries to fix the story while helping her husbands get better at being happy too.

All the characters go through a lot, their is more kidnappings, LOTS of sex, action, fighting, areas where the group struggle with their feelings for other members of their remcule, but you just get so swept up in the story that it seems a struggle to put the book down for anything.

Lane takes a major focus on this book and we learn a lot more about the Faerie, Lane's talents and the attachment he has with his lovers and more recently Mal.

More things are being ticked off Mal list and things are pulling more together toward an ending and we really find out what the problem is with this fairy tale.

I am so invested in this series and I cannot believe that I only have one more book for Mal's story left to read.

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