A wide smile, pink lips pulled over rabid teeth. Ren Hirokazu. A trained assassin who answers to no one. His stare cripples him. His rough voice unravels him. Yuli craves exactly what he shouldn’t. Not a human. An Android. A criminal. A murderer. A monster. The sweetest sin. Then a mysterious discovery forces Yuli to defect from the Yakuza. Hunted. Branded as a traitor there’s nowhere left to hide. Yuli must take the devil’s hand. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And Yuli is about to be consumed. Warnings: Cyberpunk MM romance, third-person present tense, dark MM romance that deals with mature themes of rape and torture with a HEA please be advised.
Review: ⟫ Unfortunately, this wasn't the book for me. I felt that it showed a lot of promise and loved the story idea. However, the execution just didn't work for me. I felt like I was reading (bad) fanfiction. There were leaps in the story that made little to no sense, the character development was non-existent and there was little to no world-building.
I don’t want to tear this down, so will leave it as a 1.5/5 from me, rounded up to 2.
I received an ARC from Booksprout.
