Book Review: Jacked Up: A Bloodthirsty Dark Paranormal Romance by Latrexa Nova

 

Book Description

Some people kill for fame and fortune. I'm killing for the chance to bang my Jack-in-the-box.

Yes, I mean that literally—but hear me out:

My life blows worse than my ex. The only family member I like just died, my Mom's married to a POS perv, and if you look up 'slum lord' in the dictionary, there's a picture of my property managers.

Three steps away from needing a short vacation in a grippy-sock house, I find the antique Jack-in-the-box that used to terrify me as a kid. Sure, it scared me back then, but now… It’s always there for me. I start talking to it like it's actually alive—

—And then he invades my dreams.

There, he's real—a surprisingly sexy, lanky, sad little clown man called Claus with a spring where his legs should be. But that doesn’t stop him from using that painted smile of his to bring me more pleasure than I’ve ever known.

Then he tells me he can join me in the real world—just one catch: he needs a human sacrifice.

…I'm seriously considering it, if it means I can bounce on more than just his coil.

This is a sentient object dark romance featuring a possessed Jack in the box, an incredibly unlucky FMC, bucket of violence, extremely jacked up sex scenes, manipulation, and a content warning list long enough you oughta check it out just in case.

My Review

Melody is having a very bad time. Her luck is bad, everything in her life is bad and then her grandma leaves her a creepy Jack In The Box that she hated as a kid. But then Claus invades her dreams and she realizes that Claus is the clown inside the Jack In The Box. He tells Melody that he's been trapped inside the box for many years and the curse can only be broken with a human sacrifice. But she has no plans to kill anyone until someone does something to her and she does. Once Claus is out of the box and has a 'mostly' human body, things take a very strange turn. 

Claus is not what he seems and Melody is 10 kinds of crazy. It was not the kind of dark romance that I was expecting nor was it the kind of paranormal romance that I usually read but it made me laugh at times and the insane craziness of the story kept me interested enough to keep reading. But bewarned, this story does have murder, violence, manipulating demons and graphic sex scenes. 

Sometimes reading something that turns out unexpected can be fun. 

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars. 

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