The Sacrifice

That was something else. So to start off, I accidentally grabbed the 3rd book in the series, but actually im kind of glad I did. I dont think i would have continued the series if I started with Ryat.

probably spoilers in my jumble of words here.The Sacrifice follows Tyson and Laikyn. Laikyn is set to marry another LORD(Secret society members that start off at Barrington University), Luke, when Tyson derails that wedding and he ends up marrying her. He turns their “marraige” into pure sex, with these odd occasional niceities, sort of. Example, she steals one of his credit cards as she has no money of her own or card, and sneaks out to buy a 300k car. OK. Sure. Throughout the book, Laik is constantly humiliated, and degraded. As a dark romance, some of these things I can get past, and I enjoyed some of the book. In particular, I didnt like the collar. Tyson has Laikyn wear a shock collar. What? OK. What kept me going was there is this b side mystery happening. Laikyns sister was murdered 3 years ago, supposedly by Tyson, so why did he choose to marry her? And why is her family so mad about it? Then eventually her sister is revealed to be alive and married to Luke! What? How! And why does her sister hate her to the point of being complicit in Laikyn nearly being sex trafficked or her grape. Why do her brother and father hate her? I dont get it! Why was Luke set up to marry her when he was already married. Theres a lot of unanswered questions for me.Theres a lot of conflicting personality traits here too. Tyson is supposed to be a LORD of this secret society, where they use and abuse their women. They literally give no fcks about anything. But Tyson wants to save Laikyn, he apparently HAS gone against the LORDS orders, but he has managed to keep his status. Then there is Laikyn, she has been groomed to be a LORD's Lady, so shes supposed to want to please other people. I thought her character was just kind of weak. She a “virgin”(And I fricken HATE the bloody virgin trope. HATE IT. Its a made up thing! Stop using it please) but she constantly also wants sex? I mean, really, who thinks about sex THIS much.

I removed a star for EXCESSIVE sex, like it was really too much. And then the other because of the grape. Again, I know this is a dark romance and thats usually something in them, but I feel like using grape a conflict point in the plot wasnt really necessary. Well I never think its necessary.