1,5/5⭐
I started this because I kept seeing people talk about how good it was and I wanted to understand the hype but I really didn’t. I almost never DNF, so the fact that I stopped around chapter 28 (about 35%) says a lot for me.
The story made me deeply uncomfortable. It revolves around a powerful, lighter-skinned man who takes in a darker-skinned man as a slave. He lets him sleep with other men and also sleeps with him himself. Their entire relationship feels built on smut, smut and more smut, with very little emotional depth or real development.
The slave is completely obsessed with him, and while the obsession does seem mutual, the dynamic still felt unhealthy and uncomfortable to me. As for the plot… I honestly kept wondering what the actual plot was. I do know how it ends and the ending sounds more interesting plot-wise, but I just couldn’t get myself to continue reading to get there.
Definitely not for me. If others enjoy it, that’s fine but it wasn’t something I could connect with at all.