Rating: 3.75🌈
The Tales from the Tarot series delivers another interesting new paranormal romance in The Devil’s Dilemma by Alex J. Adams. I did enjoy Adams’ story about a bored Devil casino owner and a mysterious lucky visitor making way too many successful bets. It’s got an abundance of interesting elements to the narrative, the characters themselves have an equal amount of unusual aspects to their histories and current lives to make this a book that engages the reader’s imagination and attention.
I especially enjoyed the character of Austin. Morally gray, but fairly good, loving, but not especially with perspective qualities or introspection. Awful criminal bent friends being the first example. The Devil is strangely evil. Bored , incredibly powerful but as the plot progresses, this aspect of the Devil’s character becomes oddly weaker when presented with the events and villainy that arises.
That’s the issue with a lot of the storylines and characters here. Adams has created some very promising characters and plot threads but doesn’t really fully explain or execute them to their full potential.
For every single thing that happens that I think is a good idea, there is one where I also go “what happened to that character “ or why didn’t whatever come into play. Something gets dropped.
There’s a lot going on here, so much that the author brought in crossover characters from another series and books to help explain certain plot points, to the characters and readers. So yes, this is an enjoyable story, it just feels like more should have been written into it or aspects of the characters better defined.
Tarot card is obviously The Devil.
Cover art: Fae Quin . Fabulous as always
Cover design: Amanda Meuwissen
Tales from the Tarot- 22 books
🔷 Where Fools Have Tread by Jennifer Cody❤️
🔷The Magician’s Heart by J.P. Jackson
🔷Cleric of Desire by Amanda Meuwissen❤️
🔷The Nephilim’s Touch by Morgan Lysand
🔷King of Hollywood by Fae Quin
🔷My Minotaur Daddy: An MM Romantasy by Laura Lascarso
🔷Across Space and Time by Kit Barrie
🔷Chariot of Souls by Morgan Mason
🔷By Rude Strength ❤️by K.L. Hiers
🔷Found in Obscurity by A. M. Rose
🔷Twisted Fates by Adam J. Ridley
🔷No Justice for the Damned by Hellie Heat
🔷The Angel’s Kiss by Nicholas Bella
🔷Death Song by B. Ripley
🔷Arcanum ❤️by Ashlyn Drewek
🔷The Devil’s Dilemma by Alex J. Adams
🔷Camelot’s Tower by Brooke Matthews
🔷A Highland Gargoyle’s Lucky Star
❤️by Chloe Archer
🔷Trust in the Moon ❤️by Delaney Rain
🔷Raising the Sun ❤️by Eryn Hawk
🔷Zero Judgment by Kota Quinn
🔷The End of the World by Drake LaMarque
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Blurb
Dante
That cheating low life. I swore when I got my hands on him, his life wouldn’t be worth living.
How dare he steal from me? Doesn’t he know who I am?
Only coming close to him, seeing him shudder at my touch. I’m drawn to him in ways I never imagined.
He’s an enigma and not at all what he seems.
But what I made him do. He’ll never forgive me, he’ll hate me, but if that’s all he can give me… I’ll take it.
Austin
He was filthy rich! He didn’t need the money, probably wouldn’t even miss it. How wrong could I be?
Now here I am, unable to flee and I hate him for what he made me do.
But I can’t help myself. I crave his touch and attention. I need everything he can give me.
I think I love him, but if this is all he can give me… I’ll take it, gladly.
DEVIL’S DILEMMA IS A STANDALONE MM ROMANCE NOVEL AS PART OF THE MULTI-AUTHOR COLLABORATION TALES FROM THE TAROT. THIS BOOK IS BASED ON THE MAJOR ARCANA CARD THE DEVIL.
HEA GUARANTEED.
TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR VIOLENCE, CAPTIVITY, KIDNAPPING AND STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
- Publication date: October 10, 2024
- Language: English
- File size: 2758 KB
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Screen Reader: Supported
- Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
- X-Ray: Not Enabled
- Word Wise: Enabled
- Print length: 215 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 