browsing some dark romance titles for reasons (you know why) and ran into this in the blurb for The Ritual
what does it mean that they "require their blood in payment"? obviously it's a play on the idea of receiving payment in blood, but what do those words actually mean in that order? also and unrelated what the fuck do you MEAN the most powerful men in the world are a gaggle of college undergrads? Tyler from Intro to Psychology???
working at a university really makes any romance set among college undergraduates unreadable but ESPECIALLY the dark romances where they're supposed to be like sinister mastermind daddy doms. he's 20 years old dude. there's a good chance he doesn't know how to do laundry. I know a guy who was living in a house with 4 other dudes when he was 20 and they were all sharing one fork. that guy's not leading the college mafia.
I have undergrads who still ask for permission to swear and use the bathroom in non-classroom social settings. most powerful men in the world my ass.
male main character is doing the awful dark romance dirty talk schtick where he's like "gird your loins my little wombat... I'm about to do things to your pussy that would violate the Geneva conventions" and then he takes her to his room where it's just a mattress in the floor. it looks like this
