Pet by Isabella Starling
General Genres & Darkness Level - Basic info & Content
Darkness Level 4, BDSM, Contemporary, NOT a Happily Ever After, Psychological/Mind Fuck, Stand-Alone
Tropes & Triggers - Although I try my hardest not to include any spoilers, these tags may give away a little more of the story. If you don't want to risk the possibility of knowing a wee bit extra about the type of content and aren't too bothered anout exact tropes then don't click here 🙂
Age Gap, Alpha Hole, Angst, BDSM, Dubious Consent, Emotionally Damaged Hero & Heroine, Fucked Up & Intense Mix of Emotions, Main Character Dies, Ménage M/F/M, Psychological/Mindfuck, Ugly Cried, Virgin Heroine
Darkness Level – 4 out of 6
Pretty damn dark and triggering, woohoo!
My Rating is 5 Stars
Blurb
My name is Pet. My story is going to break your heart.
The first thing you should know about me, is that I’m a good girl.
I follow directions. I bend at the waist. I do anything and everything my King tells me to.
But King is demanding. King is dangerous. He wants to hurt me.
And there is only one person who can help me run away from King…
Except I don’t know if I want to leave him. I don’t know if I can.
Good pets always obey their master… But what if I want to have two?
PET is a standalone full-length novel. This is a DARK romance!
My Review Of PET by Isabella Starling
I…I don’t know how to explain how this book affected me.
It’s like it got into my head and implanted all of Saphire’s insecurities and needs there. I felt, at several times throughout this week, so deeply empty inside my heart and I couldn’t figure out why…it was this book.
I kept waiting for something awful to happen and it was because I knew something sad was going to happen between Saphire and King but it just hadn’t yet.
I can count on one hand the number of books that have done this to me.
SAPPHIRE
Ooft, this poor girl.
I found myself feeling way too much for her. It was like I could feel exactly what she was feeling and god, it was terrible.
She’s had such a terrible thing to overcome and she felt that she had to do it on her own.
She’s a mix of mouthy and outgoing and then shy and insecure.
She’s desperately seeking something to mean something to her in this life. Anything to just give her some hope.
She meets King one night and he was everything she never knew she needed..and way, way more.
“How old were you?” Her eyes zeroed in on mine and my heart beat a single time. “I was five,” she said. “And six. And seven. He stopped after that. He said I was…” She choked back a sob and I stared at her, a fucking broken mess of a girl that I wanted to avenge. “He said after that, I was too bad,” she went on. “And he couldn’t help me anymore. I was too dirty.” I lay on top of her and she sighed with relief when she felt my weight sink against her.
KING
I really didn’t like this man for at least the first third of the book. And even after I stopped wanting to hit his sack with a slingshot, I could not wrap my head around how or why he did the things he did.
He filled me with anxiety that followed me around in my own everyday life, lol.
He is incredibly sexy and domineering. He has some epic skills in the bedroom and even when I hated him I wanted to have angry sex with him.
But he is so fucked up, intense and complicated.
“You’re never going to break me, Pet,” he promised me. “I don’t fuck for hours, I fuck for nights. And you, I’m going to fuck for a lifetime.”
I just can’t even…
SEX SCENES
The sex was hot and intense and I had to turn off my kindle and grab my wee clit sucking machine to take care of myself before I could focus on anything else a few times, lol.
The pain. The fucking blinding, white-hot pain that built and built and built and then exploded until I saw black. “Please,” I cried out. “Please, oh my God, please!” “Come for me,” he ordered, and I did, and it hurt better than anything he’d ever done to me. “Fuck, good girl…” I could only whimper. I felt him getting bigger, so big it felt like he was ripping me apart. “Pull out,” I begged him. “Pull out, don’t come.” “No,” he growled, his voice so angry it scared me. “I’m not protected,” I said, whimpering again. He fucked me harder, punctuating every thrust with a word. “I. Don’t. Give. A. Fuck. Pet!” He broke me with a searing kiss, and I screamed my release into his mouth. He was fucking insane. And maybe so was I. He hitched my hips, pushed a pillow under my ass and it made him go in deeper. It was strangely cathartic. No more words, no more thoughts, no more feelings. No way to express what he was doing to me. No chance for me to go back from this. “Pet,” he hissed, his balls slapping off my ass. “Spread your whore legs.” I did. “Beg for it,” he grunted. “Please.” My voice was so soft, even though I wanted to scream.
FINAL THOUGHTS on PET by Isabella Starling
This book…my god, this book got to me for some reason and I can not put my finger on exactly how.
I need to read something fluffy now, lol. Lighthearted and fluffy.
5 Stars.
Thank you for reading!
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