Pierce Me
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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Publisher Description
I lost the three most important things to me within the span of a month.
My best friend.
My mom.
My voice.
The world became bleak and my stint in the hospital brought none of them back. Months later, I showed up at college and learned that I could save two of them. Unfortunately, I can't raise people from the dead, and in order to save my relationship with my childhood best friend, I have to accept what I'd done to destroy us.
I'll serve whatever sentence he deems necessary for my transgressions, help him and his friends confront enemies known and unknown, and learn how to use this new version of my voice.
After all, my silence is now the loudest sound in the universe.
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Pierce Me is a new adult dark romantic suspense novel featuring an enemies to lovers and why choose relationship dynamic. Our heroine will never choose between our three heroes. It is intended for a mature audience ages 18+. It centers around a young woman who has lost her voice to traumatic mutism as she goes up against her old childhood lover, as well as enemies both known and unknown to her. It does end in a cliffhanger, and is book one of a planned four book series. For more in depth content information, please visit the author's website.
Customer Reviews
Needs an editor
From what I can gather, this is a self-published book, and it’s not bad. There’s a plot, there’s characters and there’s sex. Altogether not a bad start.
However.
There’s also confusing storylines and motivations from the main male characters. One minute they hate the FMC, and the other they don’t and it’s like those car dealerships that have the blow up friendly waving thing — you’re just not sure which way the plot is going or why. The author writes the characters as if they’re trying to hide from the reader, for instance when the FMC is crying because one of the MMCs is treating her poorly but then 2 paragraphs later is dancing with them willingly and grinding up on them, or getting on their bike or in their car and then having three-ways. Like, with no scene change or character arc or background story that makes sense for the way they’re acting. It’s confusing and quite frankly annoying because it does nothing to move the story along.
Also there’s a trigger warning page before a chapter saying the reader can skip it without losing the plot. Idk … for the dark romance this genre is written for, I think readers expect dubious sexual situations? And as a reader, I was far more angered at the fact that the MMCs took her autonomy away early on in the book and forced her to cook and clean for a fraternity, locking her up in the equivalent of a maids closet with no bathroom, only freeing her when they needed to get off. And then carrying her “bridal style” (too many repeat mentions of this throughout) when the MMCs are showing that they are caring.
The thing is is that this is not a horrible book but after not having much of a plot past three MMCs having sex with the equivalent of a mute girl, I had to DNF 2/3rds in. The book needs an editor who can see the through-threads of a decent story and make it shine.