Moonchild by Cara Wylde

3 Stars

This story was cleanly written and edited, with no typos that I could discern in the ARC version of this manuscript. The world building was top notch. The characterization was not great, with the heroine being completely unsympathetic and two of the heroes having zero redeeming qualities. This heroine was a passive doormat with no fight in her whatsoever. Romance heroines who are doormats are not worth the time spent reading them, in my opinion. There was no real romantic relationship development in this novel, with most interactions between the heroine and the heroes either being abusive or completely sexual in nature. The plot and pacing was somewhat slow, with very little happening, plot-wise, until the very end of the novel. There was an unnaturally low level of angst or hate experienced by the heroine, considering all the trauma she was experiencing in this novel. The stakes were fairly high, even though the slow pacing and minimal plot of this novel did not make the stakes FEEL high. This reverse harem romance used the Bad Boys and the Virgin trope. The world building was three stars. The plot and pacing were two stars. The characterization and development of the romantic relationship were two stars. Normally, I would give this novel a combined score of two stars, but I added a star because of the clean writing and good editing. This novel had a cliffhanger ending, which is a massive con to this novel. I do not recommend this story to fans of dark m/f omegaverse romances unless you do not mind doormat heroines. I do not plan to buy myself a keeper copy of this novel. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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