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His Trick
Shiloh:
I went to the Harding Hunt for my girlfriend Xanthy—her warmth, her light, the only tether keeping me from the darkness of my past.
But in the masked chaos of the corn maze, I met her brother.
Carrington.
His golden eyes behind the mask, are ruthless, hunting me like I was the prey.
Every dark corner he forces me into submission.
A heat I hate. A need I can’t control. He makes me question everything I thought I was.
Now every touch, every glance, every moment he steals makes me ache and tremble, torn between the light I cling to and his darkness I can’t escape.
Carrington:
The Harding Hunt isn’t a game.
It’s who we are.
The masks, the chase, the thrill of fear in the maze. it feeds my desire to control, to chase and to own.
But the new shiny toy in my playground this year feeds me more.
He thought being my sisters boyfriend made him untouchable.
He thought he could walk into our world without consequence.
He was wrong.
From the moment I saw him under those floodlights,
I knew I’d strip him down.
Make him run.
Make him mine.
The Hunt never ends, not for me.
And this year, he’s the prize I want.
I went to the Harding Hunt for my girlfriend Xanthy—her warmth, her light, the only tether keeping me from the darkness of my past.
But in the masked chaos of the corn maze, I met her brother.
Carrington.
His golden eyes behind the mask, are ruthless, hunting me like I was the prey.
Every dark corner he forces me into submission.
A heat I hate. A need I can’t control. He makes me question everything I thought I was.
Now every touch, every glance, every moment he steals makes me ache and tremble, torn between the light I cling to and his darkness I can’t escape.
Carrington:
The Harding Hunt isn’t a game.
It’s who we are.
The masks, the chase, the thrill of fear in the maze. it feeds my desire to control, to chase and to own.
But the new shiny toy in my playground this year feeds me more.
He thought being my sisters boyfriend made him untouchable.
He thought he could walk into our world without consequence.
He was wrong.
From the moment I saw him under those floodlights,
I knew I’d strip him down.
Make him run.
Make him mine.
The Hunt never ends, not for me.
And this year, he’s the prize I want.
463 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 10, 2025
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About the author
S.K. Pryntz
19 books735 followersWhat do you get when you have a horror lover with daddy issues?
A whorror author! I am all things gore and (w)horror!
My list of publications is the Reflections series, the connective Asylum Devils series, Bodies duet, Bloody Valentine from the St. Valentine series, and Mara of the Wellard asylum series.
I have a lot of works in progress and can't wait to share them with you all!
A whorror author! I am all things gore and (w)horror!
My list of publications is the Reflections series, the connective Asylum Devils series, Bodies duet, Bloody Valentine from the St. Valentine series, and Mara of the Wellard asylum series.
I have a lot of works in progress and can't wait to share them with you all!
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November 24, 2025
My poor brain is still processing this one 🤯 If you’ve read any of SK’s books you kind of know what to expect from her writing especially if it was Beneath his Robes 🤭
Carrington is a force to be reckoned with but when he feels attracted to Shiloh, he starts to second guess himself. He senses the darkness in him, he uses this to get under Shiloh’s skin and ensure he’s ingrained into his very being. Shiloh on the other hand has a lot of baggage and is with Carrington’s sister. It doesn’t stop Carrington from pursuing Shiloh but to what cost? Their darkness may intertwine but will light win out? Not giving anymore than this, there’s more in the synopsis plus I sooo don’t want to spoil it for you. Do read the triggers though 😉
"𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲,"
There’s is no pussy footing about in this story, SK grabs you by the neck and throws you straight in, not at the deep end, no…she pulls you along until you are drowning and can’t escape 🤣 The story builds up with intensity, MM spice, MF spice, with their past being explained,their present a mess, their future uncertain, m^rder and much more, all bundled together in one doozy of a read 🫶🏻
Carrington is a force to be reckoned with but when he feels attracted to Shiloh, he starts to second guess himself. He senses the darkness in him, he uses this to get under Shiloh’s skin and ensure he’s ingrained into his very being. Shiloh on the other hand has a lot of baggage and is with Carrington’s sister. It doesn’t stop Carrington from pursuing Shiloh but to what cost? Their darkness may intertwine but will light win out? Not giving anymore than this, there’s more in the synopsis plus I sooo don’t want to spoil it for you. Do read the triggers though 😉
"𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲,"
There’s is no pussy footing about in this story, SK grabs you by the neck and throws you straight in, not at the deep end, no…she pulls you along until you are drowning and can’t escape 🤣 The story builds up with intensity, MM spice, MF spice, with their past being explained,their present a mess, their future uncertain, m^rder and much more, all bundled together in one doozy of a read 🫶🏻
December 16, 2025
DNF page 72/460.
Now hear me out because no way is this an average 4.74/5✨
TW from the pages I read: rape, sexual assault, lusting over family members, suicide, murder, death, animal abuse, and more!
The prologue - "many years ago" Carrington fucks an older woman for his father god knows why but then he ends up cutting her with glass shards repeatedly because she touched him? He says he was a virgin but somehow he also touched multiple men beforehand (assuming he means with women?)
My mom’s saggy tits weren’t much different, and my sister was a younger version of this, without all the fake plastic injected to create the illusion of youth.
^ Page 13.
^ Sorry not sorry, WTF?! Why does he confidently know what his mother and his sisters boobs look like?!
Chapter 1 - Carrington is the family maze. Two girls go in early as they snuck in through the fence or whatever. They keep touching him and laughing so he leads them into the far corner before making them kiss. He tells girl 1 to make girl 2 come before attacking girl 1 with a knife so she's bleeding out. Girl 2 then takes his knife and kills herself. He finds it AMUSING.
Not because I wanted my sister. That thought was not appealing at all. Kill her, sure, but fuck her? Nah.
^ Page 49.
^ Considering sexual stuff with his sister AGAIN 🤮 For context he was watching Shiloh fuck his sister's mouth and how he almost choked her.
Shiloh goes into the haunted house as he's overwhelmed and wants to kill horny women. Carrington jerks them both off despite Shiloh saying stop REPEATEDLY!!
How does Shiloh respond after that you may be wondering? He goes outside to the end of the maze, into the woods and tries to kill a rabbit. A woman comes over and the rabbit manages to get away thankfully. HE RAPES THE WOMAN. To make it more annoying, she's repeatedly saying "I'm not like the other women" - shut the fuck up. However, she also repeatedly says "I don't want this."
How the fuck this book has 0 reviews for anything under 4* is beyond me. No doubt it's all the arc readers who are afraid of expressing their opinion and rating books below a 4*
Whoever got me interested in this on one of the MM Facebook groups, get a brain that actually works. How tf did you read this and think "hmm I should recommend this to multiple people" to think I actually fell for it and waited for the release date.
Edit to add:
I have read the trigger warnings and I have read plenty of books with rape and assault in. This book just felt like the characters can rape and kill women for fun. I didn't like that.
I do apologise for my comment about the readers, but I do find it strange when I discover a book with only 4/5* reviews and no one seems to give lower opinions.
Now hear me out because no way is this an average 4.74/5✨
TW from the pages I read: rape, sexual assault, lusting over family members, suicide, murder, death, animal abuse, and more!
The prologue - "many years ago" Carrington fucks an older woman for his father god knows why but then he ends up cutting her with glass shards repeatedly because she touched him? He says he was a virgin but somehow he also touched multiple men beforehand (assuming he means with women?)
My mom’s saggy tits weren’t much different, and my sister was a younger version of this, without all the fake plastic injected to create the illusion of youth.
^ Page 13.
^ Sorry not sorry, WTF?! Why does he confidently know what his mother and his sisters boobs look like?!
Chapter 1 - Carrington is the family maze. Two girls go in early as they snuck in through the fence or whatever. They keep touching him and laughing so he leads them into the far corner before making them kiss. He tells girl 1 to make girl 2 come before attacking girl 1 with a knife so she's bleeding out. Girl 2 then takes his knife and kills herself. He finds it AMUSING.
Not because I wanted my sister. That thought was not appealing at all. Kill her, sure, but fuck her? Nah.
^ Page 49.
^ Considering sexual stuff with his sister AGAIN 🤮 For context he was watching Shiloh fuck his sister's mouth and how he almost choked her.
Shiloh goes into the haunted house as he's overwhelmed and wants to kill horny women. Carrington jerks them both off despite Shiloh saying stop REPEATEDLY!!
How does Shiloh respond after that you may be wondering? He goes outside to the end of the maze, into the woods and tries to kill a rabbit. A woman comes over and the rabbit manages to get away thankfully. HE RAPES THE WOMAN. To make it more annoying, she's repeatedly saying "I'm not like the other women" - shut the fuck up. However, she also repeatedly says "I don't want this."
How the fuck this book has 0 reviews for anything under 4* is beyond me. No doubt it's all the arc readers who are afraid of expressing their opinion and rating books below a 4*
Whoever got me interested in this on one of the MM Facebook groups, get a brain that actually works. How tf did you read this and think "hmm I should recommend this to multiple people" to think I actually fell for it and waited for the release date.
Edit to add:
I have read the trigger warnings and I have read plenty of books with rape and assault in. This book just felt like the characters can rape and kill women for fun. I didn't like that.
I do apologise for my comment about the readers, but I do find it strange when I discover a book with only 4/5* reviews and no one seems to give lower opinions.
December 9, 2025
First of all - SK Pryntz, you owe me compensation for emotional damages and at least five years of therapy. AGAIN.
I'm heartbroken and I don’t even know what to do with myself right now. This book consumed me completely.
Carrington Harding. That man is pure violence and trauma, and somehow one of the most magnetic characters I’ve ever read. He is unhinged in the most deliberate way - sharp, calculating, and so painfully lonely it actually hurt to read.
And then there’s Shiloh. Sweet, broken, simmering Shiloh...who pretends to be the golden boy while hiding a darkness just as deep and deadly as Carrington’s.
Watching these two circle each other like predators recognizing their own reflection? I was literally vibrating. Their chemistry wasn’t romance...it was collision. Gravity. Something older and darker than love.
This story is wild. Bloody. Emotional. Disturbing. Beautiful. And brutally painful. I kept wanting to look away, but I physically couldn’t. Every chapter had me whispering "please, no" and "oh my god, yes" at the same time. They’re both monsters in their own right, but the way they see each other...truly see each other - might be the most intimate thing I’ve ever read.
I’m destroyed. And obsessed.
I fear I will not recover anytime soon.
I'm heartbroken and I don’t even know what to do with myself right now. This book consumed me completely.
Carrington Harding. That man is pure violence and trauma, and somehow one of the most magnetic characters I’ve ever read. He is unhinged in the most deliberate way - sharp, calculating, and so painfully lonely it actually hurt to read.
And then there’s Shiloh. Sweet, broken, simmering Shiloh...who pretends to be the golden boy while hiding a darkness just as deep and deadly as Carrington’s.
Watching these two circle each other like predators recognizing their own reflection? I was literally vibrating. Their chemistry wasn’t romance...it was collision. Gravity. Something older and darker than love.
This story is wild. Bloody. Emotional. Disturbing. Beautiful. And brutally painful. I kept wanting to look away, but I physically couldn’t. Every chapter had me whispering "please, no" and "oh my god, yes" at the same time. They’re both monsters in their own right, but the way they see each other...truly see each other - might be the most intimate thing I’ve ever read.
I’m destroyed. And obsessed.
I fear I will not recover anytime soon.
December 14, 2025
"I felt his words in my mouth, and hearing that he was here with me, that I brought him back from his darkness, made me feel hope for the first time in so long. Maybe, it was possible to keep it at bay when… you had something to show you light."
Sk Pryntz what have you done to me?! I am still reeling about my boys Shiloh and Carrington. And of course my girl Xanthy.
His Trick is an erotic horror - not to be confused with a romantic tragedy - and whilst there are spicy scenes, they are overtly dark in nature and are not relationship-based. This book is about obsession and desire and control and it has some dark as pitch themes.
Be warned and check the author's TWs - this DOES NOT have a HEA!
What To Expect:
🖤MM and MF spice
🖤Stalker vibes
🖤Hate to love
🖤Obsession
🖤Mine
🖤Dark AF themes
🖤Sister's boyfriend
🖤Dual POV
🖤Deadly games
As I am always drawn to the dark themes, this was a winner for me.
4.5 stars
Sk Pryntz what have you done to me?! I am still reeling about my boys Shiloh and Carrington. And of course my girl Xanthy.
His Trick is an erotic horror - not to be confused with a romantic tragedy - and whilst there are spicy scenes, they are overtly dark in nature and are not relationship-based. This book is about obsession and desire and control and it has some dark as pitch themes.
Be warned and check the author's TWs - this DOES NOT have a HEA!
What To Expect:
🖤MM and MF spice
🖤Stalker vibes
🖤Hate to love
🖤Obsession
🖤Mine
🖤Dark AF themes
🖤Sister's boyfriend
🖤Dual POV
🖤Deadly games
As I am always drawn to the dark themes, this was a winner for me.
4.5 stars
December 3, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 [Spice But Make It Horror]
📚 Standalone
🗣️ Dual POV
🖤 MM
🌑 Dark Meter---Black Out
🔫 Check Those Triggers!!!
Man this was a ride, I dont think that I have read something this unhinged since Skeleton King. Which honestly if you know, you know. I obviously do not shy away from unhinged, so please make sure that you check the extensive list of trigger warnings before you give this one a go. If you however like dark, twisted, unhinged characters, and MM is your thing...Then you need to read this.
You will be shocked to know that this book isnt just about spice, while there is spice in this...you get so much more than that. SK grabs you by the throat and literally drags you along with emotional depth, obsession, and twisted secrets. Carrington & Shiloh compliment each other in a way that isnt traditional romance. Do not look for anything "common" about them, you wont find it here and I mean that in the best possible way!
As always, SK hits it out of the park, and I cannot wait to read her next book.
Tropes:
🖤 Masked Men
🖤 Sisters Boyfriend
🖤 MM
🖤 Deadly
🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 [Spice But Make It Horror]
📚 Standalone
🗣️ Dual POV
🖤 MM
🌑 Dark Meter---Black Out
🔫 Check Those Triggers!!!
Man this was a ride, I dont think that I have read something this unhinged since Skeleton King. Which honestly if you know, you know. I obviously do not shy away from unhinged, so please make sure that you check the extensive list of trigger warnings before you give this one a go. If you however like dark, twisted, unhinged characters, and MM is your thing...Then you need to read this.
You will be shocked to know that this book isnt just about spice, while there is spice in this...you get so much more than that. SK grabs you by the throat and literally drags you along with emotional depth, obsession, and twisted secrets. Carrington & Shiloh compliment each other in a way that isnt traditional romance. Do not look for anything "common" about them, you wont find it here and I mean that in the best possible way!
As always, SK hits it out of the park, and I cannot wait to read her next book.
Tropes:
🖤 Masked Men
🖤 Sisters Boyfriend
🖤 MM
🖤 Deadly
November 25, 2025
I can’t thank enough that I got an ARC of this book 🙏🏻
But everything below is just my feelings, no filters.
I’m not okay, genuinely
I don’t even know if I’m in the right mindset to write a review, but I have to, because I’m still in the aftershock and it means a lot
I don’t think I’ve read anything this unhinged and this dark this year — and I’ve read a LOT!!
This is not what you expect.
Not what you’re used to.
Not what romance usually looks like.
This book doesn’t follow the rules — it breaks them, burns them, and then keeps going.
And if you’re going to read it…
do NOT do it without the playlist. Seriously.
You need it.
It made everything sharper, heavier, darker, more real. Like the story was becoming darker together with the playlist
This book is soaked in intensity.
In raw, naked emotions.
Everything is exposed, and it gets under your skin
Carrington and Shiloh are not your typical broken boys.
And they’re not your morally grey men
They are something else entirely.
Something darker, uncomfortable.
Something I didn’t even think was possible to write like this 🤯
They’re both OTT in this insane, delicious way where it should feel too much…
but it doesn’t.
It just works, blends with the story and wrap you around it 💔
And then from around 80% I was sitting there like: 🤯😳🥵 and my heart just started to crack with theirs.
Everything sped up.
I forgot where I was, who I was
Up until the words
THE END
And the playlist destroyed me even more 🥲
I never thought I would want to cry during a sex scene.
But here I am, and not once 🥺
I honestly feel like I just went through some kind of emotional extreme sport.
I’ll probably need a break from dark romance now, because this one was a nuclear bomb to my heart.
But I also know I’ll reread
Because it’s worth it.
Thank you, SK Pryntz, for trusting me with this ARC.
And I’m not saying this lightly — this book is not just a story. You said - “don’t read for the plot” - but the plot was there and it mattered and it was a wonderful experience.
But everything below is just my feelings, no filters.
I’m not okay, genuinely
I don’t even know if I’m in the right mindset to write a review, but I have to, because I’m still in the aftershock and it means a lot
I don’t think I’ve read anything this unhinged and this dark this year — and I’ve read a LOT!!
This is not what you expect.
Not what you’re used to.
Not what romance usually looks like.
This book doesn’t follow the rules — it breaks them, burns them, and then keeps going.
And if you’re going to read it…
do NOT do it without the playlist. Seriously.
You need it.
It made everything sharper, heavier, darker, more real. Like the story was becoming darker together with the playlist
This book is soaked in intensity.
In raw, naked emotions.
Everything is exposed, and it gets under your skin
Carrington and Shiloh are not your typical broken boys.
And they’re not your morally grey men
They are something else entirely.
Something darker, uncomfortable.
Something I didn’t even think was possible to write like this 🤯
They’re both OTT in this insane, delicious way where it should feel too much…
but it doesn’t.
It just works, blends with the story and wrap you around it 💔
And then from around 80% I was sitting there like: 🤯😳🥵 and my heart just started to crack with theirs.
Everything sped up.
I forgot where I was, who I was
Up until the words
THE END
And the playlist destroyed me even more 🥲
I never thought I would want to cry during a sex scene.
But here I am, and not once 🥺
I honestly feel like I just went through some kind of emotional extreme sport.
I’ll probably need a break from dark romance now, because this one was a nuclear bomb to my heart.
But I also know I’ll reread
Because it’s worth it.
Thank you, SK Pryntz, for trusting me with this ARC.
And I’m not saying this lightly — this book is not just a story. You said - “don’t read for the plot” - but the plot was there and it mattered and it was a wonderful experience.
December 9, 2025
Let me warn you first: His Trick is not a typical romance in any shape or form. It’s twisted, unsettling, and brutally dark—one of those stories that gets under your skin and refuses to leave.
The dynamic between these two damaged souls is less about love and more about obsession, control, and a spiral neither of them can escape. Their connection is toxic, magnetic, and completely unhinged… and I couldn’t look away for a second.
I thought I was prepared, but this book pushed far deeper than I expected—raw, disturbing, and emotionally wrecking in all the ways only SK Pryntz can deliver.
And that ending? I’m still recovering. Truly.
The dynamic between these two damaged souls is less about love and more about obsession, control, and a spiral neither of them can escape. Their connection is toxic, magnetic, and completely unhinged… and I couldn’t look away for a second.
I thought I was prepared, but this book pushed far deeper than I expected—raw, disturbing, and emotionally wrecking in all the ways only SK Pryntz can deliver.
And that ending? I’m still recovering. Truly.
December 2, 2025
Wow this book was 😩🥵🫠 and I definitely needed a day or two to process it! This was dark, unhinged, shocking, horrific, disturbing, and erotic. And you need to add it to your TBR ASAP! If you like spice and horror, you’ll love this book. There were plot twists that I didn’t see coming, and I knew it would be a tragic ending but nothing could have prepared me for what happened. 10/10, S.K. Pryntz is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!
December 1, 2025
His Trick 📖🥺
“His Trick” quite literally burned me, pulled me in, and left me absolutely wrecked.🫠🤤💔
From start to finish it’s fiery, addictive, and unexpectedly striking. I honestly don’t know how to explain it without spoilers, because every scene is unforgettable in its own dangerously perfect way.
This is the second book I’ve read from the author, and I’m convinced I will never forget either of them.
Just imagine…
A man who has never been loved, turned into a weapon for other people’s gain, never touched anyone, raised on obsession…
And then he falls in love with the one person who becomes the only light in his entire life.
That’s when everything becomes darker, deeper, and even more magnetic.
Throughout the story, my emotions were completely thrown off balance.
It felt like riding a rollercoaster — every feeling flipped upside down.
And yes… while I was reading, you followed right behind me with that aged, devilish smile on your face, watching me slowly burn… until I finally turned into ashes.
You may be happy now 😔😈 @sk_pryntzauthor
If you’re looking for a dark, fiery, passionate romance with a heavy psychological edge,
His Trick is exactly what you need. 🖤
“His Trick” quite literally burned me, pulled me in, and left me absolutely wrecked.🫠🤤💔
From start to finish it’s fiery, addictive, and unexpectedly striking. I honestly don’t know how to explain it without spoilers, because every scene is unforgettable in its own dangerously perfect way.
This is the second book I’ve read from the author, and I’m convinced I will never forget either of them.
Just imagine…
A man who has never been loved, turned into a weapon for other people’s gain, never touched anyone, raised on obsession…
And then he falls in love with the one person who becomes the only light in his entire life.
That’s when everything becomes darker, deeper, and even more magnetic.
Throughout the story, my emotions were completely thrown off balance.
It felt like riding a rollercoaster — every feeling flipped upside down.
And yes… while I was reading, you followed right behind me with that aged, devilish smile on your face, watching me slowly burn… until I finally turned into ashes.
You may be happy now 😔😈 @sk_pryntzauthor
If you’re looking for a dark, fiery, passionate romance with a heavy psychological edge,
His Trick is exactly what you need. 🖤
December 10, 2025
*ARC REVIEW*
Rating: ♾️⭐️
Your mental health matters — please check your triggers; they’re a mile long.
There is no HEA here.
I’m still reeling from this book hangover. I don’t think anyone will ever compare to Carrington and Shiloh. The darkness in this story was all-consuming — in the best, most devastating way. These two take you on a roller coaster that makes you want to get off at every turn, yet you can’t help but hold on just to see how their story ends.
SK always writes MMCs you can’t help but fall for if you love morally gray men — and in this book, you get two.
The story begins with the hunt, where we meet Carrington (Carebear) and his sister Alexandra (Xanthy), who don masks and hunt “prey.” Xanthy invites her boyfriend, Shiloh (Sunshine), and little does he know how much his life will change after that night. He becomes the prey, and from there the push and pull between him and Carebear is intense, raw, and addictive — leaving the taste of Turkish tobacco on your tongue.
Both of these boys are so beautifully broken. 💔
Rating: ♾️⭐️
Your mental health matters — please check your triggers; they’re a mile long.
There is no HEA here.
I’m still reeling from this book hangover. I don’t think anyone will ever compare to Carrington and Shiloh. The darkness in this story was all-consuming — in the best, most devastating way. These two take you on a roller coaster that makes you want to get off at every turn, yet you can’t help but hold on just to see how their story ends.
SK always writes MMCs you can’t help but fall for if you love morally gray men — and in this book, you get two.
The story begins with the hunt, where we meet Carrington (Carebear) and his sister Alexandra (Xanthy), who don masks and hunt “prey.” Xanthy invites her boyfriend, Shiloh (Sunshine), and little does he know how much his life will change after that night. He becomes the prey, and from there the push and pull between him and Carebear is intense, raw, and addictive — leaving the taste of Turkish tobacco on your tongue.
Both of these boys are so beautifully broken. 💔
December 2, 2025
Well 💩 my mind is effing reeling right now! I may need to let some time pass to process this but once again SK has griped me by my preverbal balls and wrenched my guts out , again. But that’s ok that’s why we read to feel and this book is so full so many emotions and I’m good with feeling all of the emotions. I’ve been reading some light fluffy holiday reads so this book was just what my dark heart craved and it delivered in every aspect from unforgettable MMC’s and oh I’m in my MM era so this book was perfection. Do yourself a favor and add this to your TBR just heed the triggers this one is not for the faint hearted.
December 18, 2025
I did not even start on this book.
When I read the blurb, I expected a little darkness, and a little gore (it is labelled as a horror romance), but reading the trigger?
Not for me.
Can't stand when a book claims dark romance and it's just one MC raping the other, and them eventually falling in love.
What I also can't believe is how many people rated this book 5 stars.
A little concerning, actually.
Edit:
I've just completed the book, and I cannot begin to describe how much I loathe it.
It's just absolutely disgusting.
For one, Shiloh is just such a shallow character; there's just no personality to him.
And the ending? The ending just feels lazy, like there was no thought put into it.
I regret ever dedicating my time to this.
When I read the blurb, I expected a little darkness, and a little gore (it is labelled as a horror romance), but reading the trigger?
Not for me.
Can't stand when a book claims dark romance and it's just one MC raping the other, and them eventually falling in love.
What I also can't believe is how many people rated this book 5 stars.
A little concerning, actually.
Edit:
I've just completed the book, and I cannot begin to describe how much I loathe it.
It's just absolutely disgusting.
For one, Shiloh is just such a shallow character; there's just no personality to him.
And the ending? The ending just feels lazy, like there was no thought put into it.
I regret ever dedicating my time to this.
November 26, 2025
I just love SK's writing. It's dark and spicy but has so much depth to it. We meet Carrington and Shiloh, both have dark secrets but Shiloh is better at hiding them. When Shiloh goes to his girlfriend's house and meets her family, he is drawn to her brother and Carrington is to him as well. Carrington sees Shiloh and what he's made of and that scares Shiloh.
December 4, 2025
I’m not sure where to start with this review…….I have just finished this book and I am still trying to process that ending 😭
This book took hold of me and I don’t think it will ever let go. The connection between Carrington and Shiloh was so intense. Two broken men who needed light in their lives. This is not a feel good love story. My emotions were all over the place reading this. I cried several times, I wanted to throw my kindle across the room. My heart was ripped out and stomped on. And I loved it. Honestly it is one of the best books I’ve read all year. This book is dark, it is raw and it was beautifully written.
Please read the content warnings.
This book took hold of me and I don’t think it will ever let go. The connection between Carrington and Shiloh was so intense. Two broken men who needed light in their lives. This is not a feel good love story. My emotions were all over the place reading this. I cried several times, I wanted to throw my kindle across the room. My heart was ripped out and stomped on. And I loved it. Honestly it is one of the best books I’ve read all year. This book is dark, it is raw and it was beautifully written.
Please read the content warnings.
December 9, 2025
Read your trigger warnings
BRO WHAT THE FUCK
I can’t even wrap my head around wtf I just read.
Was it soul crushing? Yes the fuck it was. The twisted push and pull with Carrington and Shiloh was literally blowing my mind. The innocence of Xanthy was heartbreaking. The overwhelming feeling of screaming “WHO THE FUCK AM I” to the sky and never getting a response is so deafening. My heart and my head feel messed up from this one.
BRO WHAT THE FUCK
I can’t even wrap my head around wtf I just read.
Was it soul crushing? Yes the fuck it was. The twisted push and pull with Carrington and Shiloh was literally blowing my mind. The innocence of Xanthy was heartbreaking. The overwhelming feeling of screaming “WHO THE FUCK AM I” to the sky and never getting a response is so deafening. My heart and my head feel messed up from this one.
Review of advance copy received from Author
This book... I have no words. Its a hell of a journey from start to finish. The tension is dripping, the characters addictive. A descent into the darkness born from the most rawest connection. Its beautiful and completely devastating... this book is amazing. It will linger on me for a long ass time. Currently in my top 2 favourite books of the year!
November 26, 2025
This was another banger of a book from S.K. Pryntz. Everything changes for Shiloh and Xanthy. Shiloh thought he could keep on the trajectory he was on for his life and a future with Xanthy, until Carrington (Carebear) set his sights on Shiloh. What is done in the dark will always come to light and unfortunately for Shiloh the choices he makes trying to keep his secrets break everyone...
December 5, 2025
This book is absolutely brilliant but destroyed me! Their love story had me loving this book from the beginning! Such a strong connection between them. Then gut wrenched when Shiloh goes through so many after he finds out devastating news. I felt both their pain and suffering and all the emotions through this book! There isn’t a happily ever after. This book is incredible but will make you cry so hard. Highly recommend.
December 23, 2025
⭐2.5star/ 5
🌶️2.5star/ 5
NOTE:- Whatever review I've written here on Goodreads, I originally wrote it first for my official Instagram post..you can check it out!
And this is my first review on Goodreads.
I don't usually write reviews on Goodreads, but I thought I should try it, so yes.
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#REVIEW⤵️
DISCLAIMER :- I’ll say this upfront: this review contains spoilers.
If you’re planning to read the book and want a spoiler-free experience, stop here.
Second thing. This review is purely my personal opinion and criticism based on how I experienced the book. I never attack or hate authors as individuals. When I talk about a book, whether positively or negatively, I think of it strictly as a story and its characters, not the human being behind it.
In short, I don’t bring the author as a person into my reviews. I can criticise characters or the writing as a work, but not the author as a human, and definitely not their entire body of work or personality. Even if I mention the author’s name in the review, I want this to be clear: I don’t hate authors as people. I judge the work as a separate entity.
Another thing I debated a lot was whether to place this book at 2 stars or 3.5 stars on my personal rating scale (you can check my highlights for that). Based on my overall reading experience, it fits more into the 2-star category. That said, it also leans toward 3.5 stars because I did enjoy some of the spice scenes. Still, for me, this book does not go above 3.5 stars.
Also, a proper warning: this book has multiple trigger warnings. It’s an erotic horror/a dark “romance,” so please check the TWs before reading. And just to be clear, yes, I did check the trigger warnings, but for me, it doesn’t really matter because my personal triggers are different. Violence and crime are not triggering topics for me. So please don’t assume I rated this book low because I was triggered by some trigger content. That’s not the case.
So, about this book's story, tell it from start to end (again saying, if there's any spoiler anywhere in the review, it will be here). So in this, there are two boys. Shiloh has a girlfriend named Xanthy, and they have been in a long-distance relationship for some years, but even before this one year, they were in a relationship, just not long-distance? I guess.
Then, after a year, one day, Xanthy invites her BF to her house for the annually held hunt called The Harding Hunt. Now, 90% of the story moves during this time when Shiloh comes to her house in the middle of his studies. Now, in this hunt, there is nothing much, just masked chasing type stuff to earn money and for entertainment.
But when he arrives, the other main character, Carrington, sees Shiloh and his sister before the hunt and becomes obsessed. Now you might be thinking, because of his body? Then no, mostly because Carrington himself is a psychopath type, and he sees Shiloh's darkness, his fake facade, and then some chapters revolve around this hunt.
Now, this Carrington goes after him to claim him, to remove his fake good boy facade and show his true form, aka darkness, he forces him, but not like—meaning he doesn't do it directly, like sometimes he gets carried away in the flow, but then he struggles to control himself again.
And then the story changes, no context remains the same, but then the push and pull type thing happens a lot, and by the end, there are two paths for Shiloh: either choose Carrington or choose his girlfriend. And if he chooses the girlfriend, then Carrington goes mad and forces Shiloh to choose him, but no, he doesn't, and then Carrington just dies by suicide.
Then Shiloh calmly gets married or engaged to his girlfriend, I don't know what he does (I didn't pay attention because my tolerance had run out by the end), and then in the last part, he becomes cruel, he goes into that darkness, meaning his true form. Why? Because now he doesn't have Carrington, and in the last 1-2 chapters, basically after Carrington's death, he realizes that his true light was not that girlfriend but Carrington, and then he kills the girlfriend and himself sometime later.
Basically, it was technically a sad ending, or in the right words, it was a tragedy! BUT, but guess what? I got some peace only in the last chapter when this Shiloh killed himself and his girlfriend!
Now, why am I saying this? You'll understand everything in the review ahead.
First off, I have one thing to say, even though the author never officially mentioned it in tags, TWs, or notes anywhere. Based on what I read in this book, it feels like His Trick is basically an MF book with some "boy fucking boy" scenes scattered here and there, some cute nicknames like "my sunshine" or "my care bear" that the two guys call each other, and some... oh sorry, some VERY frequent "I love you"s to each other. But what does love even mean here? Every 20-30 pages, when the chance comes, they fuck each other and then? Nothing, they go back to their own things. That's the meaning of "I love you" in this book.Yes!
Even after 450+ pages, His Trick could NOT convince me that this is a genuine MALE X MALE love story. (And before anyone jumps in saying the author didn't tag it as dark romance, I know that, and let me tell you, yes, the cover says MM erotic horror, so you can guess there's no traditional love here, which I accept. But even that so-called "dark" boy x boy bond or relationship, even if toxic, isn't there! It's just in name only. Also, the author wrote on the TW page that it's a dark "love" story, so please don't go ahead of me on that.
If it's still not clear, let me give an example, okay!
Now let's imagine you're reading a book about a specific kind of relationship, for example, MF? (And no, not MMF, MFM, love triangle, why choose, blah blah, only male x female.) You know what MF is, right? A heterosexual relationship, basically one man and one woman? Okay, you're reading comfortably, but then in that book, the guy, the straight MMC, is actually bisexual, and right now in the story's present time, he has a boyfriend (since he's bisexual), and the heroine and this MMC's current BF are in a relationship as siblings, okay? Fine, you're reading the book, you know from the start that suddenly, the hero won't just dump his current BF to "love" heroine, right? Yes, so let's assume it's slow burn or enemies to lovers. In this book, the hero fucks the heroine, but he doesn't dump his BF, basically no breakup. Yes, he cheats, but breakup? No, not yet.
Then okay, you wait for when the hero will finally choose the heroine, and you wait like that for 100 pages! Then okay, you're still waiting because so far, the hero is still stuck with his current BF, and let me tell you, he doesn't actually love him, he's just stuck because he can't break up. Actually, his true "love" is heroine, even though in his POV in the book, he fucks his "BF" multiple times (more than heroine actually).
And then this wait drags to 200-300 pages, and still no breakup happens, and then boom, the end. And now you might think, okay, at least in the last 100 pages, this "slow-burn" must end, right? But NO. Nothing like that happens. Right up to the last chapter, the hero chooses his current BF, and heroine? Heroine just a "lOvEr" in name only and nothing else! Even at the end, the heroine dies for the hero, but the hero? Nothing, he marries his BF, and then randomly at the end, emotionally kills both of them! Why? Because the heroine is the FMC of the book, right? So the hero "loved" her.. how could he live alone? That's a separate thing that while alive, he never chose the heroine (yes, this girl is the main lead of the book), but after death, he has to choose, right? Otherwise, how would the book become a classic heartfelt "the best lOvE sTOry ever"?
And just like that, the book ends, and heroine? The reader? Who came to read a supposed heterosexual "dark love story," you end up as a joker.
So... the imagination I just painted for you is exactly how it felt to me, and that was my situation while reading His Trick! Basically, in this supposed "male x male" book, instead of reading the love story or chemistry between the two boys over 450+ pages, I was just reading about Shiloh with his "beloved" GF, whom he DOESN'T actually love! And what about Carrington? Nothing, both he and I were jokers in the end, that's it.
The author tried really hard to make His Trick an emotional tragedy or dark tragedy, but she seems to have forgotten at the end that the book is "MM" and not some love triangle with a female.Like seriously, and that's the reason why I rated this 2-3 stars because that's what it deserves! Like,
what else can I give it? Throughout the entire book, I read more about Shiloh fucking his so-called GF than the scenes between the two MCs (and no, not just a line or two, but page-to-page descriptions).
This book is a peak example, at least for me, that if you don't feel like writing MM romance, if you're only comfortable with female gender (Hetrosexual sex scenes/ hetero relationship), then DON'T WRITE IT.
Because if you do write it, you end up with a book like this, where the title, blurb, everywhere screams MM, except the book itself, because the main character Shiloh barely gets a moment away from fucking/ "fake" but so real caring his GF, so when will he focus on the other MC?
Now let me tell you, this book technically has 2 main characters, both guys (as it's supposed to be an MM book), but if you read it, you'll realize there are 3 main characters, and the third is Shiloh's GF, Xanthy.
Yes, if the two MCs' importance, their scenes, their highlights are 100% in the book, then this bitch has 90-95%.
Yes, I'm not just saying this randomly, I'm saying it after tolerating 450+ pages of an MM book where there were just 2-4 sex scenes between the two guys in the name of MM, that's it, and the supposed love story.
Seriously, I was SO excited for His Trick, but alas, what a letdown. And before you say, "Well, some books have side characters as important as MCs," okay, but for how long? The entire Fucking book? From start to literally the end?
Now, I'll give an example of a duet here, by the way, I don't usually compare books with books, but there's this duet called *Painter's Obsession* (I have its review on my Insta). It has two interconnected books, and *His Trick* and this duet are somewhat similar in the sense that neither is traditional dark romance, both are MM erotic horror, both don't have HEA, in both the MMCs die by suicide at the end, and both have the *his brother* trope. But in that book, the bottom has a sister who is already the top's GF, and then the top becomes obsessed with his own GF's brother.
Let me tell you, in that duet too, in the first book, this GF has a huge role for almost 80-90%, meaning tons of her scenes come up, and the MC Ren gives her a lot of importance too! But at the end of the day yes, she's just like his other victims, while the other MC is special for Ren (the other MC).
It's not like I didn't feel irritation in that book, because I did, a lot. Come on, in a specific genre relationship between two people, if a third person gets so much importance, it will irritate you, right? So I was irritated, but I gave both books of that duet infinite stars (5-star read). Why? Because even though the girl had a major role for many pages, by the second book, the MC shifted full focus to the other MC, and right till the end, both MMCs fell into "tragic" love with each other! When they died, I cried, I loved this duet so much! It's special to me.
And this book has almost the same scenes as that duet, but here, when both MMCs died, forget crying, I felt relief that finally I'm free from this torture and this cheap version of Male x Male "lOvE sTOry"!
And yes That's the difference between the two.
While I was reading this book, I was literally reading it for 7–8 hours straight every day. Not because I was enjoying it that much, but because I was searching for a reason.
What reason, you ask?
The thing is, even after reading nonstop for hours for one or two days, I still couldn’t form a connection with either of the MMCs. Genuinely. It honestly felt like I was reading, but not feeling anything properly. I kept thinking, what is missing here? This book is technically exactly the kind of book I usually like, so why isn’t it working for me? What is going wrong? And just to figure that out, I kept reading and reading without any breaks.
And guess what? After 200+ pages, I finally understood why I wasn’t feeling that link. Not between me and the MMCs, and not even between the MMCs themselves.
That reason was Xanthy’s character.
Now let me explain how. Basically, what kept happening in this book again and again (every single time) was this: whenever I thought, okay, now the MMCs are finally going to get closer, instead of that happening, we’d switch to Shiloh’s POV. And in almost every other POV, we’re shown how he’s FUCKING his girlfriend this way and that way, in full DESCRIPTION, the same way sex scenes between two MCs are usually written.
Or we’re told how he doesn’t actually love her, he’s just fucking her, while his mind is thinking about Carrington and how he only “loves” him. But still, this entire thought process never ends without him fucking his girlfriend, or without Xanthy’s name being mentioned in every single Shiloh POV.
And this right here is my main problem (not the only one, but a big one).
I genuinely don’t understand why the author gave this bitch so much importance in this book. I mean, the entire book, can you imagine, the WHOLE book, all 450+ pages. The amount of detailed sex scenes, interactions, and focus Shiloh has with Xanthy is MORE than what he has with Carrington. There’s more talking, more fucking, more on-page intimacy with her than with the actual male love interest.
And that didn’t just irritate me. It genuinely made me feel like the author might not actually be comfortable with an MM relationship. Because why else would an author give so much importance to a female gender (basically An opposite gender from the couple's gender book) character in a TWO SAME GENDER relationship love story? In a book where the core, the main point, is supposed to be a SAME GENDER relationship.
(The irony is honestly insane. It’s exactly like reading a lesbian book where, instead of focusing on two GIRLS fucking each other or their chemistry, the Females are constantly fucking some random guy in the background, or there are more heterosexual or gay male sex scenes than actual lesbian sex/ content.)
About both MMCs - "Xanthy didn't speak. She just kept crying. I laughed, a brittle, broken sound. My calm had left the building the second he'd grabbed her. My hands shook as I hit him again, until the blood on my knuckles felt like it belonged there, like it was a part of me."
Now let's talk about Shiloh, but before that, did you read those words I wrote above? Okay, now you might think, wow, he's protecting this woman? Wow, such a gentleman. But let me tell you, I haven't said how much of a gentleman he is, I'm telling you this scene appears in almost 76% of the book. Yes, fucking 76%, more than half the book. Now if some non-MM reader reads this, they'll say, "Wow, look at him, the way he protects her." And okay, I'm not saying here that he shouldn't protect her because in this book she's his GF, still, you know, again, let me remind you this is an MM book, okay? And why the fuck is he being so protective alpha for her? I told you above, he doesn't love her, and it's true, he himself has said it a thousand times, but look at his reaction! Can anyone say he doesn't love her? (Sorry, I don't think so. At least, not love, but whatever feelings this MC has for this bitch are more than for Carrington, which is the problem.)
And yes, in this scene, basically this bitch's ex meets them at a wedding and starts forcing her, but then the MC gets angry. Why? Because she's his love, most beloved sweet GF, so he has to protect her, and he jumps in, and then this scene happens. Oh my god, the way he got angry for real for her? It's beyond me. Because by this point, I was convinced the author should place this book in "MM book with more importance to hetero relationship than homosexual relationship" instead of MM erotic horror.
Now look, basically, I'm not angry at the book for how many scenes Shiloh has with his GF or how much sex he has with her. The problem is that his relationship with this bitch overshadows the entire male x male relationship. I'm not even talking about "actual love" here, I'm genuinely saying it
Shiloh has now joined the list of my most hated characters. Yes! I hated him and he irritated me SO MUCH that I can't even explain!
Now, about his personality: he also has a bad past, which I can understand, but I don't get what the author wanted to do with him? What was she trying to convince us of? Basically, he's studying to become a doctor (which I can't believe this idiot would have ever become if he stayed alive, because he's dumb. In the book, 1-2 times it's obvious that Carrington is in behind the things but he acts like he doesn't understand anything).
So basically, as soon as he came to his GF and meets Carrington, throughout the entire book he plays "hard to get," and even at the end, he chooses that bitch. Now I understand it was supposed to be enemies to lovers, but in the whole book, this idiot followed just one routine: whenever he meets Carrington and they're alone, Carrington fucks him, he half-ass resists and then? Nothing, he enjoys the sex fully, and as soon as sex ends? Nothing, he goes home, fucks his so-called GF again, acts all lovey-dovey with her, and then keeps debating between his so-called darkness and light. Basically, I didn't understand what the author wanted to do with this darkness thing throughout the book.
What I mentioned above is basically Shiloh's thing: he's not a normal guy, he has some darkness and to hide it he uses "light" and that "light" is Xanthy. And yes, that's why he doesn't leave this bitch till the end, because if he leaves her, his darkness will swallow him. And what is this darkness? Let me tell you (as much as i understood in from this book).......
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🌶️2.5star/ 5
NOTE:- Whatever review I've written here on Goodreads, I originally wrote it first for my official Instagram post..you can check it out!
And this is my first review on Goodreads.
I don't usually write reviews on Goodreads, but I thought I should try it, so yes.
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Also > My English is not that good, so I used Al apps for review translation.
#REVIEW⤵️
DISCLAIMER :- I’ll say this upfront: this review contains spoilers.
If you’re planning to read the book and want a spoiler-free experience, stop here.
Second thing. This review is purely my personal opinion and criticism based on how I experienced the book. I never attack or hate authors as individuals. When I talk about a book, whether positively or negatively, I think of it strictly as a story and its characters, not the human being behind it.
In short, I don’t bring the author as a person into my reviews. I can criticise characters or the writing as a work, but not the author as a human, and definitely not their entire body of work or personality. Even if I mention the author’s name in the review, I want this to be clear: I don’t hate authors as people. I judge the work as a separate entity.
Another thing I debated a lot was whether to place this book at 2 stars or 3.5 stars on my personal rating scale (you can check my highlights for that). Based on my overall reading experience, it fits more into the 2-star category. That said, it also leans toward 3.5 stars because I did enjoy some of the spice scenes. Still, for me, this book does not go above 3.5 stars.
Also, a proper warning: this book has multiple trigger warnings. It’s an erotic horror/a dark “romance,” so please check the TWs before reading. And just to be clear, yes, I did check the trigger warnings, but for me, it doesn’t really matter because my personal triggers are different. Violence and crime are not triggering topics for me. So please don’t assume I rated this book low because I was triggered by some trigger content. That’s not the case.
So, about this book's story, tell it from start to end (again saying, if there's any spoiler anywhere in the review, it will be here). So in this, there are two boys. Shiloh has a girlfriend named Xanthy, and they have been in a long-distance relationship for some years, but even before this one year, they were in a relationship, just not long-distance? I guess.
Then, after a year, one day, Xanthy invites her BF to her house for the annually held hunt called The Harding Hunt. Now, 90% of the story moves during this time when Shiloh comes to her house in the middle of his studies. Now, in this hunt, there is nothing much, just masked chasing type stuff to earn money and for entertainment.
But when he arrives, the other main character, Carrington, sees Shiloh and his sister before the hunt and becomes obsessed. Now you might be thinking, because of his body? Then no, mostly because Carrington himself is a psychopath type, and he sees Shiloh's darkness, his fake facade, and then some chapters revolve around this hunt.
Now, this Carrington goes after him to claim him, to remove his fake good boy facade and show his true form, aka darkness, he forces him, but not like—meaning he doesn't do it directly, like sometimes he gets carried away in the flow, but then he struggles to control himself again.
And then the story changes, no context remains the same, but then the push and pull type thing happens a lot, and by the end, there are two paths for Shiloh: either choose Carrington or choose his girlfriend. And if he chooses the girlfriend, then Carrington goes mad and forces Shiloh to choose him, but no, he doesn't, and then Carrington just dies by suicide.
Then Shiloh calmly gets married or engaged to his girlfriend, I don't know what he does (I didn't pay attention because my tolerance had run out by the end), and then in the last part, he becomes cruel, he goes into that darkness, meaning his true form. Why? Because now he doesn't have Carrington, and in the last 1-2 chapters, basically after Carrington's death, he realizes that his true light was not that girlfriend but Carrington, and then he kills the girlfriend and himself sometime later.
Basically, it was technically a sad ending, or in the right words, it was a tragedy! BUT, but guess what? I got some peace only in the last chapter when this Shiloh killed himself and his girlfriend!
Now, why am I saying this? You'll understand everything in the review ahead.
First off, I have one thing to say, even though the author never officially mentioned it in tags, TWs, or notes anywhere. Based on what I read in this book, it feels like His Trick is basically an MF book with some "boy fucking boy" scenes scattered here and there, some cute nicknames like "my sunshine" or "my care bear" that the two guys call each other, and some... oh sorry, some VERY frequent "I love you"s to each other. But what does love even mean here? Every 20-30 pages, when the chance comes, they fuck each other and then? Nothing, they go back to their own things. That's the meaning of "I love you" in this book.Yes!
Even after 450+ pages, His Trick could NOT convince me that this is a genuine MALE X MALE love story. (And before anyone jumps in saying the author didn't tag it as dark romance, I know that, and let me tell you, yes, the cover says MM erotic horror, so you can guess there's no traditional love here, which I accept. But even that so-called "dark" boy x boy bond or relationship, even if toxic, isn't there! It's just in name only. Also, the author wrote on the TW page that it's a dark "love" story, so please don't go ahead of me on that.
If it's still not clear, let me give an example, okay!
Now let's imagine you're reading a book about a specific kind of relationship, for example, MF? (And no, not MMF, MFM, love triangle, why choose, blah blah, only male x female.) You know what MF is, right? A heterosexual relationship, basically one man and one woman? Okay, you're reading comfortably, but then in that book, the guy, the straight MMC, is actually bisexual, and right now in the story's present time, he has a boyfriend (since he's bisexual), and the heroine and this MMC's current BF are in a relationship as siblings, okay? Fine, you're reading the book, you know from the start that suddenly, the hero won't just dump his current BF to "love" heroine, right? Yes, so let's assume it's slow burn or enemies to lovers. In this book, the hero fucks the heroine, but he doesn't dump his BF, basically no breakup. Yes, he cheats, but breakup? No, not yet.
Then okay, you wait for when the hero will finally choose the heroine, and you wait like that for 100 pages! Then okay, you're still waiting because so far, the hero is still stuck with his current BF, and let me tell you, he doesn't actually love him, he's just stuck because he can't break up. Actually, his true "love" is heroine, even though in his POV in the book, he fucks his "BF" multiple times (more than heroine actually).
And then this wait drags to 200-300 pages, and still no breakup happens, and then boom, the end. And now you might think, okay, at least in the last 100 pages, this "slow-burn" must end, right? But NO. Nothing like that happens. Right up to the last chapter, the hero chooses his current BF, and heroine? Heroine just a "lOvEr" in name only and nothing else! Even at the end, the heroine dies for the hero, but the hero? Nothing, he marries his BF, and then randomly at the end, emotionally kills both of them! Why? Because the heroine is the FMC of the book, right? So the hero "loved" her.. how could he live alone? That's a separate thing that while alive, he never chose the heroine (yes, this girl is the main lead of the book), but after death, he has to choose, right? Otherwise, how would the book become a classic heartfelt "the best lOvE sTOry ever"?
And just like that, the book ends, and heroine? The reader? Who came to read a supposed heterosexual "dark love story," you end up as a joker.
So... the imagination I just painted for you is exactly how it felt to me, and that was my situation while reading His Trick! Basically, in this supposed "male x male" book, instead of reading the love story or chemistry between the two boys over 450+ pages, I was just reading about Shiloh with his "beloved" GF, whom he DOESN'T actually love! And what about Carrington? Nothing, both he and I were jokers in the end, that's it.
The author tried really hard to make His Trick an emotional tragedy or dark tragedy, but she seems to have forgotten at the end that the book is "MM" and not some love triangle with a female.Like seriously, and that's the reason why I rated this 2-3 stars because that's what it deserves! Like,
what else can I give it? Throughout the entire book, I read more about Shiloh fucking his so-called GF than the scenes between the two MCs (and no, not just a line or two, but page-to-page descriptions).
This book is a peak example, at least for me, that if you don't feel like writing MM romance, if you're only comfortable with female gender (Hetrosexual sex scenes/ hetero relationship), then DON'T WRITE IT.
Because if you do write it, you end up with a book like this, where the title, blurb, everywhere screams MM, except the book itself, because the main character Shiloh barely gets a moment away from fucking/ "fake" but so real caring his GF, so when will he focus on the other MC?
Now let me tell you, this book technically has 2 main characters, both guys (as it's supposed to be an MM book), but if you read it, you'll realize there are 3 main characters, and the third is Shiloh's GF, Xanthy.
Yes, if the two MCs' importance, their scenes, their highlights are 100% in the book, then this bitch has 90-95%.
Yes, I'm not just saying this randomly, I'm saying it after tolerating 450+ pages of an MM book where there were just 2-4 sex scenes between the two guys in the name of MM, that's it, and the supposed love story.
Seriously, I was SO excited for His Trick, but alas, what a letdown. And before you say, "Well, some books have side characters as important as MCs," okay, but for how long? The entire Fucking book? From start to literally the end?
Now, I'll give an example of a duet here, by the way, I don't usually compare books with books, but there's this duet called *Painter's Obsession* (I have its review on my Insta). It has two interconnected books, and *His Trick* and this duet are somewhat similar in the sense that neither is traditional dark romance, both are MM erotic horror, both don't have HEA, in both the MMCs die by suicide at the end, and both have the *his brother* trope. But in that book, the bottom has a sister who is already the top's GF, and then the top becomes obsessed with his own GF's brother.
Let me tell you, in that duet too, in the first book, this GF has a huge role for almost 80-90%, meaning tons of her scenes come up, and the MC Ren gives her a lot of importance too! But at the end of the day yes, she's just like his other victims, while the other MC is special for Ren (the other MC).
It's not like I didn't feel irritation in that book, because I did, a lot. Come on, in a specific genre relationship between two people, if a third person gets so much importance, it will irritate you, right? So I was irritated, but I gave both books of that duet infinite stars (5-star read). Why? Because even though the girl had a major role for many pages, by the second book, the MC shifted full focus to the other MC, and right till the end, both MMCs fell into "tragic" love with each other! When they died, I cried, I loved this duet so much! It's special to me.
And this book has almost the same scenes as that duet, but here, when both MMCs died, forget crying, I felt relief that finally I'm free from this torture and this cheap version of Male x Male "lOvE sTOry"!
And yes That's the difference between the two.
While I was reading this book, I was literally reading it for 7–8 hours straight every day. Not because I was enjoying it that much, but because I was searching for a reason.
What reason, you ask?
The thing is, even after reading nonstop for hours for one or two days, I still couldn’t form a connection with either of the MMCs. Genuinely. It honestly felt like I was reading, but not feeling anything properly. I kept thinking, what is missing here? This book is technically exactly the kind of book I usually like, so why isn’t it working for me? What is going wrong? And just to figure that out, I kept reading and reading without any breaks.
And guess what? After 200+ pages, I finally understood why I wasn’t feeling that link. Not between me and the MMCs, and not even between the MMCs themselves.
That reason was Xanthy’s character.
Now let me explain how. Basically, what kept happening in this book again and again (every single time) was this: whenever I thought, okay, now the MMCs are finally going to get closer, instead of that happening, we’d switch to Shiloh’s POV. And in almost every other POV, we’re shown how he’s FUCKING his girlfriend this way and that way, in full DESCRIPTION, the same way sex scenes between two MCs are usually written.
Or we’re told how he doesn’t actually love her, he’s just fucking her, while his mind is thinking about Carrington and how he only “loves” him. But still, this entire thought process never ends without him fucking his girlfriend, or without Xanthy’s name being mentioned in every single Shiloh POV.
And this right here is my main problem (not the only one, but a big one).
I genuinely don’t understand why the author gave this bitch so much importance in this book. I mean, the entire book, can you imagine, the WHOLE book, all 450+ pages. The amount of detailed sex scenes, interactions, and focus Shiloh has with Xanthy is MORE than what he has with Carrington. There’s more talking, more fucking, more on-page intimacy with her than with the actual male love interest.
And that didn’t just irritate me. It genuinely made me feel like the author might not actually be comfortable with an MM relationship. Because why else would an author give so much importance to a female gender (basically An opposite gender from the couple's gender book) character in a TWO SAME GENDER relationship love story? In a book where the core, the main point, is supposed to be a SAME GENDER relationship.
(The irony is honestly insane. It’s exactly like reading a lesbian book where, instead of focusing on two GIRLS fucking each other or their chemistry, the Females are constantly fucking some random guy in the background, or there are more heterosexual or gay male sex scenes than actual lesbian sex/ content.)
About both MMCs - "Xanthy didn't speak. She just kept crying. I laughed, a brittle, broken sound. My calm had left the building the second he'd grabbed her. My hands shook as I hit him again, until the blood on my knuckles felt like it belonged there, like it was a part of me."
Now let's talk about Shiloh, but before that, did you read those words I wrote above? Okay, now you might think, wow, he's protecting this woman? Wow, such a gentleman. But let me tell you, I haven't said how much of a gentleman he is, I'm telling you this scene appears in almost 76% of the book. Yes, fucking 76%, more than half the book. Now if some non-MM reader reads this, they'll say, "Wow, look at him, the way he protects her." And okay, I'm not saying here that he shouldn't protect her because in this book she's his GF, still, you know, again, let me remind you this is an MM book, okay? And why the fuck is he being so protective alpha for her? I told you above, he doesn't love her, and it's true, he himself has said it a thousand times, but look at his reaction! Can anyone say he doesn't love her? (Sorry, I don't think so. At least, not love, but whatever feelings this MC has for this bitch are more than for Carrington, which is the problem.)
And yes, in this scene, basically this bitch's ex meets them at a wedding and starts forcing her, but then the MC gets angry. Why? Because she's his love, most beloved sweet GF, so he has to protect her, and he jumps in, and then this scene happens. Oh my god, the way he got angry for real for her? It's beyond me. Because by this point, I was convinced the author should place this book in "MM book with more importance to hetero relationship than homosexual relationship" instead of MM erotic horror.
Now look, basically, I'm not angry at the book for how many scenes Shiloh has with his GF or how much sex he has with her. The problem is that his relationship with this bitch overshadows the entire male x male relationship. I'm not even talking about "actual love" here, I'm genuinely saying it
Shiloh has now joined the list of my most hated characters. Yes! I hated him and he irritated me SO MUCH that I can't even explain!
Now, about his personality: he also has a bad past, which I can understand, but I don't get what the author wanted to do with him? What was she trying to convince us of? Basically, he's studying to become a doctor (which I can't believe this idiot would have ever become if he stayed alive, because he's dumb. In the book, 1-2 times it's obvious that Carrington is in behind the things but he acts like he doesn't understand anything).
So basically, as soon as he came to his GF and meets Carrington, throughout the entire book he plays "hard to get," and even at the end, he chooses that bitch. Now I understand it was supposed to be enemies to lovers, but in the whole book, this idiot followed just one routine: whenever he meets Carrington and they're alone, Carrington fucks him, he half-ass resists and then? Nothing, he enjoys the sex fully, and as soon as sex ends? Nothing, he goes home, fucks his so-called GF again, acts all lovey-dovey with her, and then keeps debating between his so-called darkness and light. Basically, I didn't understand what the author wanted to do with this darkness thing throughout the book.
What I mentioned above is basically Shiloh's thing: he's not a normal guy, he has some darkness and to hide it he uses "light" and that "light" is Xanthy. And yes, that's why he doesn't leave this bitch till the end, because if he leaves her, his darkness will swallow him. And what is this darkness? Let me tell you (as much as i understood in from this book).......
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December 14, 2025
Intense. Gritty. Thrilling. Pitch black. Spicy and hot AF.
His Trick is a chaotic, addictive descent into obsession. Equal parts “WTF did I just read?” and “oh my god this is brilliant.”
Carrington and Shiloh bleed tension, desire, and forbidden longing on every page. Carrington is the brother of Shiloh’s fiancée, Alexandra “Xanthy,” and the connection between them is raw and chaotic. A bond that shouldn’t exist but refuses to die, tangled in shame, need, and something that feels disturbingly like fate.
There were moments that shocked me, moments that gutted me, and moments that left me in absolute awe. SK Pryntz delivers another riveting, pitch-black story that hooked me straight through the heart. Brutal, messy, beautiful and I loved every twisted minute.
His Trick is a chaotic, addictive descent into obsession. Equal parts “WTF did I just read?” and “oh my god this is brilliant.”
Carrington and Shiloh bleed tension, desire, and forbidden longing on every page. Carrington is the brother of Shiloh’s fiancée, Alexandra “Xanthy,” and the connection between them is raw and chaotic. A bond that shouldn’t exist but refuses to die, tangled in shame, need, and something that feels disturbingly like fate.
There were moments that shocked me, moments that gutted me, and moments that left me in absolute awe. SK Pryntz delivers another riveting, pitch-black story that hooked me straight through the heart. Brutal, messy, beautiful and I loved every twisted minute.
November 26, 2025
I should have worn a seat belt because this book took me for a ride! I am at a loss for words. Every book I have read by this author has been amazing. This is actually my first MM book.( I think) Carrington and Shiloh’s story is a beautiful tragedy written in blood and longing. One has fought not to give into the darkness and the other one has flourished in it. This is a sister’s boyfriend and brother. It is dark and depraved. I went into this completely blind and the ending the MF ending!!! Ahhhh as if I needed another reason to cry on rainy days!! Anyway get your tissues ready and pick out a wall to stare at. Remember you cannot have dark without light.
Favorite quote
All the broken f*cking pain I felt had me drowning too. Because the truth was… I didn’t hate Carrington. F*ck me. I loved him too.
Favorite quote
All the broken f*cking pain I felt had me drowning too. Because the truth was… I didn’t hate Carrington. F*ck me. I loved him too.
December 10, 2025
‼️Let me start of by saying, this is NOT a romance, it does NOT have a HEA. This book is dark and has really dark themes. So please if you do have any triggers that really get to you. READ those Trigger warnings. This is NOT a light dark book, this book will make you scream and cry. ‼️
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
This book, it was so freaking good. I had to take breaks cause of how emotional this book made me. I had moments where I was screaming in my head and yelling at the characters. There were times I wanted to throw my kindle across the room.
We first meet Carrington, who I absolutely loved. He h@tes touch doesn't matter who it is. This is due to his father, from what I read. He is the best unhinged unl!ver. Then he see's Shiloh, who is his sisters boyfriend. Well, he see's what he wants so he does what I will do to get Shiloh. Shiloh, sweet Shiloh has a darkness in him that he doesn't want anyone to see. Well, let it behold Carrington sees his darkness and wants to bring it out.
I love the nick names Care bear (Carrington) and Sunshine (Shiloh)
The way this book ended, I had to hold back tears. I was definitely emotionally damaged at the end, That I am still in a book slump lol. Cause This book was so d@mn good.
Some of my favorite Quotes:
"Oh, f*ck, Sunshine. You look so beautiful like this. Trying so d@mn hard to hold on but knowing you're going to lose the battle. Does it feel less like defeat if you torture yourself before? My beautiful little masochist. Your will fail. Not because you can't help it, because deep down you want to. You want to break for me."
Thew fury at my father had not left me. It faded into something manageable. Now it was like glass that I could slip into my pocket and carry. Painful and damaging, but not all consuming.
Maybe Shiloh is with her because she is the light he wished he had?
Oh, you want to test me, Sunshine? Good. I like it when you bare your teeth, baby boy. Just remember. I'm the one who decides when you bite and when you f*ck!ng beg.
I defiantly give this a 10/10 read
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
This book, it was so freaking good. I had to take breaks cause of how emotional this book made me. I had moments where I was screaming in my head and yelling at the characters. There were times I wanted to throw my kindle across the room.
We first meet Carrington, who I absolutely loved. He h@tes touch doesn't matter who it is. This is due to his father, from what I read. He is the best unhinged unl!ver. Then he see's Shiloh, who is his sisters boyfriend. Well, he see's what he wants so he does what I will do to get Shiloh. Shiloh, sweet Shiloh has a darkness in him that he doesn't want anyone to see. Well, let it behold Carrington sees his darkness and wants to bring it out.
I love the nick names Care bear (Carrington) and Sunshine (Shiloh)
The way this book ended, I had to hold back tears. I was definitely emotionally damaged at the end, That I am still in a book slump lol. Cause This book was so d@mn good.
Some of my favorite Quotes:
"Oh, f*ck, Sunshine. You look so beautiful like this. Trying so d@mn hard to hold on but knowing you're going to lose the battle. Does it feel less like defeat if you torture yourself before? My beautiful little masochist. Your will fail. Not because you can't help it, because deep down you want to. You want to break for me."
Thew fury at my father had not left me. It faded into something manageable. Now it was like glass that I could slip into my pocket and carry. Painful and damaging, but not all consuming.
Maybe Shiloh is with her because she is the light he wished he had?
Oh, you want to test me, Sunshine? Good. I like it when you bare your teeth, baby boy. Just remember. I'm the one who decides when you bite and when you f*ck!ng beg.
I defiantly give this a 10/10 read
December 25, 2025
Buckle up buttercup, it’s about to get bumpy and bloody and depraved and deranged and hot AF.
Meet Shiloh and Carrington, aka Sunshine and Care Bear. Boy meets girl, boy meets girls brother, and that’s when it gets really fun. It seems as though Care Bear’s life has become one epic game of how to break my sister’s boyfriend and consume him piece by delicious piece. It comes easy to him though, he was taught from a young age there’s no place for weakness in his world and he wants to show his Sunshine that the light only goes so far before the dark takes over and consumes everything in its path.
Shiloh just wants to smother his darkness with the soft and sweet Xanthi’s light. He soon realizes that one doesn’t exist without the other and he can run as far as he wants, but his past will inevitably catch up to him. He makes a fatal mistake and his mask slips. When it does Carrington is there to see what lies beneath the carefully curated lies that his Sunshine hides behind and it matches his own darkness.
Carrington yearns for control, but when Shiloh manages to shine light on him he soon realizes he never had a chance to live in dark. Feeding off each other’s most baser desires they both find complete and total freedom, but neither of them truly wanted that freedom. When the past obliterates their future they beg to claw their way back to the safety of their own personal cages.
Life is all about choices and what we choose to do with the gifts we’re given. When you’re handed a blade, you learn to cut deep and when you’re handed what you thought was freedom you soon learn there is no such thing as freedom from yourself. Only by embracing what your soul craves can you ever truly be free and the price you pay for freedom is high.
This is an edge of your seat, high heat erotic horror that is the epitome of the genre. Without the darkness you can never truly appreciate the light and this tale gives you a soul deep love that’s soaked in violence and blood.
I’d highly recommend it for fans of the erotic horror genre.
Meet Shiloh and Carrington, aka Sunshine and Care Bear. Boy meets girl, boy meets girls brother, and that’s when it gets really fun. It seems as though Care Bear’s life has become one epic game of how to break my sister’s boyfriend and consume him piece by delicious piece. It comes easy to him though, he was taught from a young age there’s no place for weakness in his world and he wants to show his Sunshine that the light only goes so far before the dark takes over and consumes everything in its path.
Shiloh just wants to smother his darkness with the soft and sweet Xanthi’s light. He soon realizes that one doesn’t exist without the other and he can run as far as he wants, but his past will inevitably catch up to him. He makes a fatal mistake and his mask slips. When it does Carrington is there to see what lies beneath the carefully curated lies that his Sunshine hides behind and it matches his own darkness.
Carrington yearns for control, but when Shiloh manages to shine light on him he soon realizes he never had a chance to live in dark. Feeding off each other’s most baser desires they both find complete and total freedom, but neither of them truly wanted that freedom. When the past obliterates their future they beg to claw their way back to the safety of their own personal cages.
Life is all about choices and what we choose to do with the gifts we’re given. When you’re handed a blade, you learn to cut deep and when you’re handed what you thought was freedom you soon learn there is no such thing as freedom from yourself. Only by embracing what your soul craves can you ever truly be free and the price you pay for freedom is high.
This is an edge of your seat, high heat erotic horror that is the epitome of the genre. Without the darkness you can never truly appreciate the light and this tale gives you a soul deep love that’s soaked in violence and blood.
I’d highly recommend it for fans of the erotic horror genre.
November 30, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
My brain is still somewhere on the floor because this story absolutely wrecked me—in the best, most chaotic way possible. If you’ve ever stepped into one of S.K.’s worlds, you already know she writes darkness like it’s poetry, and this one ? This one slithered under my skin and stayed there.
Carrington is the kind of character who walks onto the page and instantly becomes a problem—sharp, magnetic, and dangerous in ways even he’s afraid to face. The moment he feels that pull toward Shiloh, everything in him starts to unravel. Instead of running from the shadows inside him, he uses them like a weapon… or maybe a lure. And Shiloh ? Poor boy never had a chance.
Shiloh arrives with dreams of being a doctor, a picture-perfect girlfriend, and an invite to her family’s yearly “hunt” that’s supposed to be harmless fun—fake screams, fake blood, fake danger. Except the darkness inside him doesn’t understand the word “pretend.” And neither does Carrington.
The second their eyes meet, the world tilts. Shiloh burns. Carrington obsesses. It becomes this slow, violent collision of two souls dragging each other into places they’ve spent years trying to avoid. Shiloh fights it—fights himself, fights the pull, fights the truth—but every step he takes only tightens the rope between them.
Because some people aren’t meant to escape each other.
Some people are built from the same shadow.
And the entire book has you questioning : Are they each other’s destruction… or their only chance at redemption ?
I’m telling you, I was kicking my feet like a feral creature from chapter one because the tension ? The obsession ? The unraveling ? S.K. does not miss. Ever.
(And please—check the trigger warnings. You’ll thank me later.)
December 8, 2025
How one persons choice can seal the fate of others and this is the case for Shiloh, the wrong choice he makes.
When Carrington first see Shiloh he wants to consume him, to get under his skin. He turned off his emotions a long time ago to survive until he meets Shiloh. For Shiloh is a mirror of him, both hiding behind their masks.
“Shiloh Anderson you will be by ending”
Shiloh was afraid he would end up alone in the world that no one would care for him, he was different. With Carrington he could fall over the edge, fall for him. He couldn’t understand why he had these feelings for him, he shouldn’t he was his girlfriend’s brother.
“Carrington left a hole in me and now I was bleeding my darkness”
They both put a claim on each other, they will burn for each other. Carrington has the power to destroy him, to ruin him. Shiloh didn’t want to give up what little power he had over him. He becomes Carrington’s anchor from the darkness that consumes him, his sunshine.
The heartbreak that was ahead, they will never be the same. The past will come back to haunt Carrington.Shiloh breaking down over his feelings for Carrington and also his betrayal to his girlfriend Xanthy, she didn’t deserve his darkness, when she was his anchor to the light.
Shiloh belongs to Carrington always.
I couldn’t put this book down, I was consumed by the world of Carrington and Shiloh, the obsession, the hatred, the love, the storm brewing between them, the heartache. Sk Pryntz her style of writing, the way she has with words, creating these characters, their flaws , their trauma that you love to hate them but find it difficult to. I was hooked even from the first line,
“ People always thought violence made me cold”.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chapter 22 🥵🥵🥵
When Carrington first see Shiloh he wants to consume him, to get under his skin. He turned off his emotions a long time ago to survive until he meets Shiloh. For Shiloh is a mirror of him, both hiding behind their masks.
“Shiloh Anderson you will be by ending”
Shiloh was afraid he would end up alone in the world that no one would care for him, he was different. With Carrington he could fall over the edge, fall for him. He couldn’t understand why he had these feelings for him, he shouldn’t he was his girlfriend’s brother.
“Carrington left a hole in me and now I was bleeding my darkness”
They both put a claim on each other, they will burn for each other. Carrington has the power to destroy him, to ruin him. Shiloh didn’t want to give up what little power he had over him. He becomes Carrington’s anchor from the darkness that consumes him, his sunshine.
The heartbreak that was ahead, they will never be the same. The past will come back to haunt Carrington.Shiloh breaking down over his feelings for Carrington and also his betrayal to his girlfriend Xanthy, she didn’t deserve his darkness, when she was his anchor to the light.
Shiloh belongs to Carrington always.
I couldn’t put this book down, I was consumed by the world of Carrington and Shiloh, the obsession, the hatred, the love, the storm brewing between them, the heartache. Sk Pryntz her style of writing, the way she has with words, creating these characters, their flaws , their trauma that you love to hate them but find it difficult to. I was hooked even from the first line,
“ People always thought violence made me cold”.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chapter 22 🥵🥵🥵
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 22, 2026
This book really shook me to my core. I knew this was dark and I read some dark stuff but this was next level. The pull between Shiloh and Carrington is extremely palpable. Shiloh is in a serious relationship with Xanthy, who is Carrington's sister.
The book starts off with a organized masked men chase. This is not necessarily the premise of the book though. It does truly set the aesthetic of the book. I thought both guys metaphorically wore a mask everyday. I would get so frustrated but I could not, with great certainty, pinpoint which one I felt this way towards. My heart broke for Xanthy, but at the same time, was turned off by her naivety. Or maybe it was how she would look the other way. Maybe she was in the relationship for the same reason as Shiloh.
The relationship in itself was so raw and beautiful even though it was dark and tortured. I can't really explain it, but the love was so strong neither could fight it, however they just could not fight their own demons and love each other at the same time. Seeing them, it was always a fight, whether with each other or internally. There is so much pain in this book.
The author did such a wonderful job of having me as a reader, feel what these characters felt. I will read this author again. I do not read a lot of MM but this may make me change my mind.
꧁𝓠𝓾𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓼꧂
𝙈𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣. 𝙄 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙣𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙…
𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙐𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣’𝙩.
"Ah. You chase ghosts while sleeping with demons. How Quaint."
The book starts off with a organized masked men chase. This is not necessarily the premise of the book though. It does truly set the aesthetic of the book. I thought both guys metaphorically wore a mask everyday. I would get so frustrated but I could not, with great certainty, pinpoint which one I felt this way towards. My heart broke for Xanthy, but at the same time, was turned off by her naivety. Or maybe it was how she would look the other way. Maybe she was in the relationship for the same reason as Shiloh.
The relationship in itself was so raw and beautiful even though it was dark and tortured. I can't really explain it, but the love was so strong neither could fight it, however they just could not fight their own demons and love each other at the same time. Seeing them, it was always a fight, whether with each other or internally. There is so much pain in this book.
The author did such a wonderful job of having me as a reader, feel what these characters felt. I will read this author again. I do not read a lot of MM but this may make me change my mind.
꧁𝓠𝓾𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓼꧂
𝙈𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣. 𝙄 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙣𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙…
𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙐𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣’𝙩.
"Ah. You chase ghosts while sleeping with demons. How Quaint."
December 2, 2025
I know I’ve asked before, and I’ll ask again… SK, sweetheart, who hurt you? Do you need a hug or an alibi? I’ll happily provide you with both, as long as you promise to keep ripping my heart out and stomping on it with your words. Your writing is so beautifully brutal and traumatic. Please Check Triggers!!!
If you haven’t read a book by SK please be aware, what she writes will have you feeling all the emotions. You will scream, you will cry, you will have hope, just to have it thrown back in your face. She can’t just give you the happily ever after you would expect, or that the characters deserve. You will be taken on twists and turns full of heartbreak and pain.
This book is full of yearning and unhinged feelings between the MMCs. One knows exactly who he is, while the other is trying to cling onto the ‘light’ they so desperately think they need. If you look up toxic and unhinged MM relationships, I’m sure you’ll find a picture of Shiloh and Carrington right there next to it. But holy crap it’s beautiful. Their story completely sucked me in and held me in a chokehold throughout. I struggled to put it down, as I just had to know where their journey was going to go. If you thought Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy, this hit me harder. I’ve been staring at my phone for hours trying to process and write this review. I feel like my words just aren’t enough for this raw masterpiece.
If you haven’t read a book by SK please be aware, what she writes will have you feeling all the emotions. You will scream, you will cry, you will have hope, just to have it thrown back in your face. She can’t just give you the happily ever after you would expect, or that the characters deserve. You will be taken on twists and turns full of heartbreak and pain.
This book is full of yearning and unhinged feelings between the MMCs. One knows exactly who he is, while the other is trying to cling onto the ‘light’ they so desperately think they need. If you look up toxic and unhinged MM relationships, I’m sure you’ll find a picture of Shiloh and Carrington right there next to it. But holy crap it’s beautiful. Their story completely sucked me in and held me in a chokehold throughout. I struggled to put it down, as I just had to know where their journey was going to go. If you thought Romeo and Juliet was a tragedy, this hit me harder. I’ve been staring at my phone for hours trying to process and write this review. I feel like my words just aren’t enough for this raw masterpiece.
December 5, 2025
If you’ve ever wondered, “Why survive one unhinged MMC when I could offer myself to two?” — then consider this book your downfall, carefully crafted to unravel you page by page.
From the opening line, I was pulled into a world where chaos is currency and morality is optional. These two MMCs aren’t just morally grey — they’re the kind of beautifully broken disasters who make you laugh, ache, and question what exactly is wrong with your type (don’t worry, you’re not alone). Their chemistry crackles with danger, obsession, and a kind of volatile devotion that feels like standing too close to a lit match.
The story is a perfect storm of feral longing, sharp-edged tension, and emotional devastation. It moves fast, hits hard, and never once lets you get comfortable. And that plot twist? The kind that rips the breath from your lungs and leaves you staring at the page, unsure whether you should scream or reread it immediately.
This book is dark, unhinged, and utterly consuming. If you thrive on twisted love, chaotic men who should probably come with warning labels, and a narrative that drags you somewhere gorgeous and terrible at the same time, move this straight to the top of your TBR.
And that ending… it doesn’t just hurt — it annihilates. Don’t expect a HEA. Expect to bleed a little.
A wild, hauntingly addictive ride. Highly recommended for readers who crave shadows with their romance.
From the opening line, I was pulled into a world where chaos is currency and morality is optional. These two MMCs aren’t just morally grey — they’re the kind of beautifully broken disasters who make you laugh, ache, and question what exactly is wrong with your type (don’t worry, you’re not alone). Their chemistry crackles with danger, obsession, and a kind of volatile devotion that feels like standing too close to a lit match.
The story is a perfect storm of feral longing, sharp-edged tension, and emotional devastation. It moves fast, hits hard, and never once lets you get comfortable. And that plot twist? The kind that rips the breath from your lungs and leaves you staring at the page, unsure whether you should scream or reread it immediately.
This book is dark, unhinged, and utterly consuming. If you thrive on twisted love, chaotic men who should probably come with warning labels, and a narrative that drags you somewhere gorgeous and terrible at the same time, move this straight to the top of your TBR.
And that ending… it doesn’t just hurt — it annihilates. Don’t expect a HEA. Expect to bleed a little.
A wild, hauntingly addictive ride. Highly recommended for readers who crave shadows with their romance.
December 10, 2025
4.5 ⭐
Shiloh and Carrington (or Sunshine and Care Bear)
Even days later, I find writing this review so hard because why SK … whyyyyyyyy.
This is not a romance; this is a collision of two forces that are built only to destroy.
Carrington’s father recognised his son’s nature and takes advantage of it by moulding him into the perfect killing machine. Carrington knows he’s a monster and fully embraces his darkness. Shiloh was also born a monster, but he fights against his darkness, desperately clinging to the mask that hides his true self. That golden boy persona begins to slip the moment he lays eyes on Carrington. From that moment on it’s a vicious fight for dominance between two apex predators that spirals into a toxic obsession for control that neither can walk away from.
Sometimes you get an ending that isn’t a HEA but is vital to the impact of the story and you walk away with all the feels, but you know it couldn’t have ended any other way. This was not one of those books! Which made for some ugly crying and serious snot bubbles. Let me be clear, I LOVED THIS BOOK … however, knowing that this could have ended differently makes it that much more heartbreaking.
I am not ok! I’ll just be over here; arms folded, bottom lip out, screaming “It’s not fair!”
There’s a long trigger warning list, for those who check the menu. For those who love an all you can eat buffet – enjoy your meal but don’t forget the tissues.
Shiloh and Carrington (or Sunshine and Care Bear)
Even days later, I find writing this review so hard because why SK … whyyyyyyyy.
This is not a romance; this is a collision of two forces that are built only to destroy.
Carrington’s father recognised his son’s nature and takes advantage of it by moulding him into the perfect killing machine. Carrington knows he’s a monster and fully embraces his darkness. Shiloh was also born a monster, but he fights against his darkness, desperately clinging to the mask that hides his true self. That golden boy persona begins to slip the moment he lays eyes on Carrington. From that moment on it’s a vicious fight for dominance between two apex predators that spirals into a toxic obsession for control that neither can walk away from.
Sometimes you get an ending that isn’t a HEA but is vital to the impact of the story and you walk away with all the feels, but you know it couldn’t have ended any other way. This was not one of those books! Which made for some ugly crying and serious snot bubbles. Let me be clear, I LOVED THIS BOOK … however, knowing that this could have ended differently makes it that much more heartbreaking.
I am not ok! I’ll just be over here; arms folded, bottom lip out, screaming “It’s not fair!”
There’s a long trigger warning list, for those who check the menu. For those who love an all you can eat buffet – enjoy your meal but don’t forget the tissues.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 30, 2025
It kept me alive. Pain meant I was breathing even if it felt like fire. But was I really alive?
���I don’t want. I demand. I take. I devour. And you? You obey.”
Ohhh boy where do I start with this one ... I will try and give a review to do it justice without spoiling anything .... try 😅
I went in to this blind.... I saw the devastation from people who read it but didn't know why ... until now 😭
My Sunshine ☀️ and his Care Bear 🧸....
💫This is a very dark and disturbing book so please read triggers for your own mental health
The tooing and froing between these 2 was brilliant, the TENSION it brought to the story was UNREAL!
They want to ... ohhh they want to give in but they are fighting a battle in their own mind aswell as with each other. Trying to be normal but they know deep down they are anything but.... I devoured these 2 broken souls 🥹
I really enjoyed the k*lling thrown into the plot and the clean up 🤣
The author throws you through loops with the storyline and just when you think it is over .... it's really not...
The pain, the desperation, the trauma .... I am NOT ok ... I won't be for the foreseeable....
This book broke me and not in a good way 😅 and I need this on my shelf as I will be re-reading to tab and annotate ..... He enjoys pain. Of course he does. F*ck. A sadist and a masochist?... this... this is me 🤣
The author maaaay have had a few choice words from me while reading this too annnnd then they had the AUDACITY to rub salt in my wounds! 🤣🤣🤣
���I don’t want. I demand. I take. I devour. And you? You obey.”
Ohhh boy where do I start with this one ... I will try and give a review to do it justice without spoiling anything .... try 😅
I went in to this blind.... I saw the devastation from people who read it but didn't know why ... until now 😭
My Sunshine ☀️ and his Care Bear 🧸....
💫This is a very dark and disturbing book so please read triggers for your own mental health
The tooing and froing between these 2 was brilliant, the TENSION it brought to the story was UNREAL!
They want to ... ohhh they want to give in but they are fighting a battle in their own mind aswell as with each other. Trying to be normal but they know deep down they are anything but.... I devoured these 2 broken souls 🥹
I really enjoyed the k*lling thrown into the plot and the clean up 🤣
The author throws you through loops with the storyline and just when you think it is over .... it's really not...
The pain, the desperation, the trauma .... I am NOT ok ... I won't be for the foreseeable....
This book broke me and not in a good way 😅 and I need this on my shelf as I will be re-reading to tab and annotate ..... He enjoys pain. Of course he does. F*ck. A sadist and a masochist?... this... this is me 🤣
The author maaaay have had a few choice words from me while reading this too annnnd then they had the AUDACITY to rub salt in my wounds! 🤣🤣🤣
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