Requiem of the Soul: A Sovereign Sons Novel (The Society Trilogy Book 1)
by A. Zavarelli and Natasha Knight
Blurb
I was born with noble blood in my veins.
Heir to a powerful dynasty.
Wealth. Power. Aristocracy.
Temptations too dangerous to resist.
Until someone tried to steal it all.
Scarred and broken, I emerged from the flames.
Now I’ve returned to take what’s mine.
Revenge.
The first item on my agenda?
Make Ivy Moreno my wife.
Second?
Bend her until she breaks.
My Review
Santiago: I'm a monster because I have burn scars on me.
Ivy: I'm deformed because I have an eye that looks like a cat. I also have vestibular dysfunction. That’s fancy for I get dizzy and fall down a lot.
Santiago: I'm going get revenge and marry Ivy just to break her.
Ivy: Gasp! No, you're a monster!
Santiago: Yes, I am. Now, listen to me or I will punish you.
Ivy: Never!
Santiago: That's it...spank, spank, spank, tie you up and make you wear this very heavy helmet, bad girl, I own you, some weird religious punishment BDSM stuff, I'm a monster.....
Ivy: I hate you!
Some eating, sleeping and dressing. More eating, sleeping and dressing. Nothing, nothing, nothing.
Last 2 chapters something big happens annnnnnnd end cliffhanger.
Done!
Alright, for the more serious review. I didn’t realize this was going to use BDSM. I stopped reading this genre about 10 years ago because it got boring. I’m happy to see I’ve missed nothing. The only difference I saw with this book, for the punishment, they used religious punishment. For example, Santiago made Ivy recite hail marys, swatted her feet with a cane, and smacked her with a ruler. He has sex with her at the alter in a church, right in front of a Jesus Christ statue. I wasn’t into it - at all. That’s some weird kink if you ask me.
The other things I weren’t into. Santiago and Ivy. Santiago lived through an explosion that killed his brother and dad, but only left him with burn scars. Thus, making him a monster (his words). You won’t ever forget this fact because it’s repeated in each chapter. He’s a monster because of his burn scars. Since when does that make someone a monster? Their actions, yes, but burn scars? No. I wasn’t understanding the dramatic feelings from Santiago.
Ivy had the same dramatic, poor me, feelings going on. She has an eye deformity that makes her eye appear like a cat’s eye. And she has vestibular dysfunction. Which causes her to stumble in every chapter. These are odd characteristics to have in your main characters. I wasn’t feeling it. Especially, when they kept referring to themselves as deformed. Whatever.
Lastly, nothing happens in the book. This book is part of a trilogy and I can’t imagine the other books having more action. It dragged on until the last 2 (short) chapters before anything eventful happened. This is an example of a series that could be done in one book.