💞🏒𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖎𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖁𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖒 𝕽𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖊𝖜🏒💞

Author: MT Morgan

Couple: Blaise Sheffield & Desmond Rickmond

Tropes: dark romance, hockey romance, college romance, praise k!nk, taboo, bully romance, enemy to lover, roommates x forced proximity, childhood crush, orally grey MMC

 

Review: MT Morgan took me on an angst filled, hate to love you, second chance romance in The Bitterness of Venom and nothing is the same afterwards! Blaise and Desmond are the definition of toxic soul mates who can’t resist the draw to each other or the hurt they like to cause. MT was able to create an intricate web of deceit, twisted and taboo while also giving us the steam, chemistry and love as these two work out where their childhood bond went wrong.

Blaise and Desmond are similar to what would happen if two dark titans clashed. Each one had different scars and emotional baggage that fueled their inner fire. The way Desmond and Blaise pushed and pulled at the other’s sanity left me in states of chaos, anger and lust as they both evolved and devolved together. MT was able to toe the line with dubious consent and twisted lust perfectly and I enjoyed seeing Desmond become almost feral for Blaise after their meet-hate.

Blaise’s POV tore me to shred multiple times since her past, present and dreams were so full of tragedy. The way MT was able to unravel the twists and turns in her POV were shocking and surprising to me since I thought it was going one way only to see the end results completely different than what I thought! I also wanted to both hug her and shake her since she was incapable of staying out of trouble!

Desmond was also a MC that shredded me. His anger led me on a road full of ironic twists and dark humor only the morally grey can live up to and I loved every minute! From the degradation and humiliation he inflicts to the absolute obsession and possessiveness he develops (or rather never lost) for Blaise, he was everything I wanted in a toxic MMC! The intensity of the heat between the two of them also added to his allure since his mouth was DIRTY and fanned the flames between them every time!

While this book was full of spice and heat, the center piece was the way the two healed each other. MT was able to grow their bond from toxic to slightly less toxic by the end. MT’s twists surrounding the tragedy of their childhood bond tied up the loose ends and allowed for just enough closure for them both so they could get their HEA and what an HEA it was!

Rating: 5/5, Desmond Rickman…give me more of that deliciously dark man!

Thank you to MT Morgan for sending me this ARC!