But I also really liked how the relationship between Zeus and Lou built throughout the book. This is the most taboo of all the books and one I did struggle with a little. Welcome to the Dark Side: This one follows King’s father Zeus and his romance with Lou. It was a great introduction to The Fallen Men world. The banter, the respect and the love that they have. One of the things that I also loved was the relationship between Cress and the men of the MC. While Lessons in Corruption didn’t have a lot of the traditional MC tropes or events until the last 30% or so and I enjoyed that as well. There was this small alpha male trope going on – but it wasn’t really heavy on that. He was this bad boy, but also loved reading and gosh I loved that. King was a really interesting male protagonist. However, as the novel did go on and because of certain events, I did enjoy Cress and King together. I wanted to fall in love with these characters because they were great, but this did make me pull away from the story. This part of the romance was hard for me. They have an instant connection, but that gets turned on its head when he turns out to be her student. Cress is trying to put her life back together after leaving her loveless marriage and then she runs into King. But I liked how Giana Darling explored the relationship.

This series had been on my radar for a while, but I didn’t know how I would go with the romance. However, it wasn’t as bad as I first thought it was going to be. This is one of the most taboo books of the series, and I was very hesitant to pick it up. This is a slight student/teacher romance. Lessons in Corruption: Book one in the series starts with a bang. So The Fallen Men series is in the middle at the moment for sure. It’s on the tamer side of some of the MC romances I’ve read with the Hades Hangman series being one of the darkest. But that does come along with the MC romance genre.Īt the moment this series is in the middle of being dark – but I feel that it will go there for sure as the series goes on. These are MC and age gap romances, therefore, some things happen throughout the series that is questionable at times. Trigger Warnings: Abuse, Abduction, Neglect, Torture, Death, Cancer.

But today I’m sharing my thoughts of the first four books in the series. Book five Inked in Lies is due to release later this month and I’m so excited. But I thought it was time for me to write a full series review of the books that are currently out. I’ve talked about this series briefly over the last couple of months.

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