House of Secrets by Marie RobinsonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Clever, Dark and Passionate
This was a free book and I wasn’t really expecting much from it, as I’d never heard of the author. To my surprise it was superb. This book was dark and sexy, with clever allusions to fairy tales and myths. It starts off as a Cinderella inspired paranormal reverse harem romance and turns into something a little darker with clever plot twists and a hell of a cliff hanger.
Eleanora is an orphan who’s father died when she was 9. Her mother had disappeared mysteriously years earlier. Her father re-married a woman with two daughters and after the death of her father she was transformed into an unpaid servant, hidden by veils from the wealthy and powerful warlock society that she should be a part of.
The story starts the night of a masquerade ball, held to unite different syndicates within the magical world; shifters, vampires and warlocks. Eleanora needs to find someone powerful enough to help her gain her freedom from her stepmother and access her magical heritage.
It’s a very captivating book and the sex scenes are hot, but not too graphic. The scenes convey the passion and desire of four people coming together for the first time in way that pulls you into their emotions.
Eleanora is strong and proud of her heritage, despite being little more than a slave who is hated for her scars and her inheritance, but people who are supposed to look after her. Her strength shows in the way she fights to gain her freedom despite her well founded fears. She knows the risks, fears the consequences of her actions, but still continues with her plans, because she can’t see any other way of escaping her situation, which she can no longer bear.
Thankfully the second book already seems to be available, otherwise I’d be very disappointed. I really want to read the next book, as this one sucked me in completely, not letting me go until the last page was turned.
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