Title: Ruby Tears
Author: Pepper Winters
Series: The Jewelry Box #1
Pages: 450
Genre: Dark Romance
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I’m the bastard son of a monster.
My other half-blooded siblings have their own demons…but me?
I truly have the devil inside.
I try to be good.
To do my best to ignore the deep, dark, despicable urges.
But every day it gets harder.
I thought family could help.
I reached out to my infamous half-brother, Q begging for his secrets to stay tamed.
Instead, he gave me an ultimatum to prove I’m not like our father.
Infiltrate The Jewelry Box: a trafficking ring of poor unfortunate souls, kill the Master Jeweler, free the Jewels, and don’t lose my rotten soul while trying.
Only problem is…my initiation into this exclusive club is earning a Jewel all of my own.
She sparkles like diamonds, bleeds like rubies, and bruises as deep as emeralds.
She’s mine to break.
I can’t refuse.
If I want to prove to my half-brother that I’m not like our sire, I have to sink into urges I’ve always fought, plunge into madness, and lose myself so deeply into sin that the only one who will be breaking is me.
Review
Trigger Warnings: BDSM, kidnapping, noncon, dubcon, master & slave, bondage, explicit sexual acts, trafficking, bloodplay, breathplay (pulled from Pepper Winters' site)
I finally have another Pepper Winters series to love. So if you don't know, Pepper Winters is a dark romance author. She is actually is my favorite dark romance author. Her books are always so dark and juicy.
Ruby Tears follows Henri who happens to be Q's little brother. If you don't know who Q is, he's the hero in the Monsters in the Dark series. Henri is fighting some demons. He has figured out that he likes pain with his sex. Real pain, not 50 Shades kind of stuff. He wants crying. He wants screaming. He wants blood. He decides to find his brother to see if he can find family and love. He confesses to Q of his dark desires and Q sends him on a mission to infiltrate a sex trading ring that he has not been able to locate.
Enter in Ily. The bait to get him into this ring. Henri and Victor (the ring leader of the sex ring) overhear Ily and her shitty boyfriend arguing and hear that they are on vacation and that she wants a divorce. Victor orders Henri to kidnap Ily to show that he is willing to get into the club.
He obviously does because he wants to gain Q's trust and wants to help.
Henri and Ily's story starts from there.
Words cannot express how dark I think this series is going to get. I almost feel like it's going to be her darkest one yet... Why? Because this book barely had anything dark in it. I could just be insensitive to things because of how much dark romance I do read.
Who knows?
I'm a little bit disappointed that I didn't get to find out what is going to happen during the Ruby Tears "game". This book was left on a cliff hanger. Luckily for me, I think three books are already released in this series.
I am so very excited to read this series. This first book was honestly just a huge set up for what's going to be happening in the next books. There were times I felt a bit underwhelmed but that's okay. I'm ready to see how dark this series is going to get.
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