Review: Blackmail

Blackmail by Amelia Wilde
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Note: I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Note 2: This is a trilogy. Blackmail is the first book. Extortion is the second. Coercion is the third and final book for now, coming January 10th 2023.

Triggers: child abuse, abandonment, cons, death, mental health issues, poverty, sexual manipulation, noncon and dubious consent.

Well this book was just so damn on fire wasn’t it.

The writing - the characters - the plot line - everything was hell bent on being insane.

Specially the stories of these characters - poor meets rich, poor steals from rich, poor gets tossed into a sexual game of Russian roulette with said poor by the rich.

Somehow then enters Stockholm syndrome - debunked by the way - and she ends up wanting it all with the rich one. Despite him being manically insane.

And then come the heroine’s father’s problems. And she’s trying to solve them yada yada.

Things go for worse but our antihero rescues her. Hurray but then where does he go?

So I appreciate the plot and the action and the characters, the relationships shown, the stories of them, etc etc. Only thing I wished was the heroine to not be a complete doormat and the hero not falling to complete cliches of what it meant to be an antihero.

Other than that, the story was quite addictive, along with the writing, the characters, the chemistry, the relationships, the backstories, the insanity in general.

I loved it and I cannot wait for the next novel!

Until the next read,
TMR

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