Sinner’s End (Forgotten Shadow Lords 1) by Jade Marshall & Raven Hush -review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date February 7, 2025
Adreanna
My world has always been myself and my twin sister in our gothic home at Sinner’s End near the graveyard beyond our small town. I’m the responsible one. She’s the party girl. But I know it’s a bad idea when she drags me to Harken, the refurbished asylum-turned-dance club run by the most dangerous man in the city everyone is obsessed with. I know, and I still go. But I don’t walk away unscathed. None of us do.
Mana
Forget-Me-Knot. That’s the reason people come to my club. To drink the demon aqua vitae on offer and release their cares on the pithy lives they live from sunrise until sunset. The hours I spend strapped to a chair, filling vial after vial with my own blood to provide their entertainment, locked to this plane in a deal I should never have made. The endless torment I hate, until I meet her. Adreanna. The human I want to ruin with every strand that connects me to this realm. But she also has the power to shatter me—if she chooses to use it.
Kaleb
Taking the bartending job at Harken was a no-brainer. I needed the cash, and the night hours freed my time to live it up. But between the freaky AF owner of the asylum and the girl I can’t take my eyes off, I’m screwed before everything turns weird. Before I end up in a twisted quartet where I don’t have to be touched to experience pleasure or pain. I end up kneeling for a creature I don’t want to worship. All for the girl I’ll give everything for…even when I discover a part of myself that’s more terrifying than all the monsters Harken has to offer.
Lethe
I don’t know where I came from. I don’t know my own name, only the one given me by Harken’s monstrous owner. But my purpose in this place is protect the woman we all obsess over with my dying breath. Let her come to no harm. Give her every part of myself, even if it means tarnishing the purity inside me. I am the opposite of all Harken stands for, but the moment I touch Adreanna something awakens inside me I cannot—and will not—control. Even if it means twisting my purpose and making her mine, no matter the consequences. And those can be deadly.
Bowen
This world will end by my hand. I’ve known it since I fell, but I am not the only Fallen in Harken. Pity the other doesn’t recognize his face in the mirror or know his own name. I am the end, the delusion, and the never-ending darkness. All will come to know their fate through me. Harken’s stones will fall silent.
Blood will flow.
One will die.
One will live.
One will rise above all.
And she will reign.
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REVIEW:SINNER’S END is the first instalment in the adult FORGOTTEN SHADOW LORDS dark, erotic, paranormal, why-choose, reverse harem story line co-authored by Jade Marshall and Raven Hush. This is Adreana (Addi), Mana, Kaleb, Lethe, and Bowen’s story line.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there WILL BE triggers for more sensitive readers.The number of TW is long, not much is left to the imagination.
Told from five first person perspectives (Addi, Mana, Kaleb, Lethe, and Bowen) plus one chapter from Asmodeus, SINNER’S END follows the highly sexual, erotic and questionable power arrangement and relationships between Addi, Mana, Kaleb, Lethe and Bowen. Mana is the proprietor of Harken, the asylum as the residents have come to call it, but behind the darkened and scream filled walls lies the unspoken sexual proclivities of the men who will each claim Adreana as their own. Adreana will quickly discover there is more to the men then she could ever have imagined, and our heroine will become payment for a debt, a debt she will pay with her life.Sinner’s End is the house in which Adreana and her sister Emma reside, a house that is more than anyone could have ever imagined.
The world building follows the highly sexual, and sexually graphic nature of the relationships between Addi, Mana, Kaleb, Lethe and Bowen. The story focuses on need, want and demands; the push and pull between the heavens and the underworld, and the men who take as much as they are willing to give.
The secondary and supporting characters include Addi’s twin sister, as well as the King of demons and his spawn, a fallen angel, a succubi, a hellspawn, and the reaper.
SINNER’S END is a story of secrets and lies, domination and submission, power and control, possession, manipulation, obsession, acceptance and love. The premise is dark, dramatic, and not without questionable consent;-there is more $ex than story; the characters are supernatural, determined and broken.
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Reviewed by Sandy