They’re all also what I would classify as Mary Sue‘s. Everything all of them say is redundant and surface level: generic “I’m scarred”, “I’ll hurt you”, “My dad was an asshole”, “We run this town” blah blah blah.

Roxy is boring- through the whole book it doesn’t feel like you ever really get to know her. Ryder is the typical suit wearing leader who doesn’t want to let people help him Kenzo is a sweetheart with a heart of gold and a bad mean streak Garrett is the hurt and scarred fightin’ man with woman issues and Diesel is a literal psychopath. The characters are some of the most boring and stereotypically tropey characters I have ever encountered.

It does not deserve its absolutely stunning cover because it’s just so misleading. And how it has such high ratings and glowing recommendations is way beyond me- BookTok you have severely let me down. I am absolutely floored a publisher looked at this, an editor read it, and everyone still decided to publish it. I’m going to try and be nice because authors are real people with feelings, but my God this book makes that difficult.ĭen of Vipers reads like a horny teenager’s Wattpad story fanfiction is written better than this every single day. I’ll try to keep this review as clean as possible, but given the content of the book, that’ll be challenging.

Ok, disclaimers done, let’s get into the nitty gritty. TRIGGER WARNINGS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: RAPE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, GRAPHIC SEXUAL CONTENT, GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF GORE AND VIOLENCE, GRAPHIC LANGUAGE There could be romantic relationships between the men as well, but they aren’t necessary for a book to qualify as a reverse harem. In a true reverse harem, the woman does not choose one singular relationship over the others, but instead ends up with all of them. In a reverse harem, there are at least three men, who are all interested in the same one woman. Den of Vipers is also a reverse harem book, a relatively new trope that’s gaining in popularity. Usually I don’t exactly care what people read, but this is not suited for anyone younger than 18- it’s really rough, really graphic, and really messed up.

A few things before I even start the review: this is an 18+ book with graphic violence and sex.

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