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Depraved

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Depraved

By: AJ Merlin
Narrated by: Lia Holland
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There’s nothing out there.

That’s what I keep telling myself while I walk back from a campfire to my isolated cabin.

Being kidnapped at 12 years old by my stepfather means even the campground where I work and live is never truly safe from my anxiety. If it wasn’t for my dogs, I’d fall apart completely.

But then Virgil comes into my life.

The masked stalker slides into my room at night and takes what he pleases, making sure I enjoy every second of it. What starts as a fantasy soon becomes something inescapable for us both.

He’s unhinged, psychotic, and utterly obsessed with me. And while those things should be deplorable, I can’t help thinking that maybe they aren’t so bad. I’m just as addicted, no matter what it might mean for my sanity or safety.

Can a depraved serial killer learn to love me, or will I fall prey to the pleasure he brings?

Depraved is a contemporary dark romance stand-alone set in the Pleasure & Prey universe. This is an MF romance. Please see author’s note at the front of the book for a full list of content warnings.

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Fast-paced Storyline • Engaging Plot • Fantastic Narration • Steamy Romance • Twisted Suspense • Original Concept

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This was an amazing dark romance and I highly recommend it. It’s underrated and deserves more hype. It had some of my favourite things to read: Stalker, serial unaliver, mask k!nk and dirty talk galore. The spice was super hot, had great k!nks and CNC which is my favourite. It wasn’t too dark which was fine. Also loved the realistic portrayal of mental health that Sloane goes through. Enjoyed the writing style and plot as well, looking forward to reading more from this author.

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Love how quickly the storyline moves. Great plot, unexpected. Sexy and makes me wonder how I could be so depraved.

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I really enjoyed listening to this book. I mean don’t we all want a masked man to become obsessed with us in all the best ways? Protect us from the bad people of the world and fulfill all of our fantasies (and a few we did not know we had). I liked that we still got a little bit of backstory for the characters to help us better understand them. The spice is great as well! I hope we get to learn more about Virgil’s friends in the subsequent books, because they seemed very interesting! I received this book as a gift. This review is my own personal opinion.

Love? Obsession? Or both?

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Overall Thoughts: This was my second book by AJ, and while I liked it, there were aspects that kept me from loving it. I’ve listened to a couple of books narrated by Lia, but this one felt disconnected, like she was just reading it to get through it and wasn’t putting enough emotion into it to make me feel it in a several point throughout the book. I wish there was more about Virgil’s, the MMC, background and there were some things that seemed predictable, but it may just be me, since I have been swimming in a deep pool of dark romances lately.

Narration: Solo narration, first-person present tense multiple POVs, with some flashbacks/memories.

Tropes: Mentally fragile FMC, service animals, dark, serial unaliver, CNC, rough s3x, st@lker, wilderness, past comes back to haunt her, masked MMC

Overall: 3.5
Spice: 3.5
Humor: 2
Drama: 3.5
Darkness: 3.5

Sloan lives in a reclusive setting taking care of houses at a remote campground in northeastern Ohio. After the trauma of her childhood she is happy living a quiet life with her two dogs. Until Virgil shows up and decides to rent a cabin for a while. Sloan is instantly attracted to Virgil, but shy around the new visitor, even as he tries to break her out of her shell.

Then some weird things start occurring. One of her faithful pups starts disappearing for a short time in the woods, and then a masked man shows up in her room, while she is using her toys for some alone time fun. Going against everything she knows and believes, she lets him stay, and allows him to come back again and again.

Could this masked man be the answer to Sloane living a truly, happy life, or his he going to be a living nightmare?

It was good but not the best

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I am a huge fan of AJ Merlin and I devoured this book in one sitting as an ebook, the audio took me two sittings but it was much of the same! I really like this series and the performance by Lia Holland was incredible.

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