Title: Your Knife, My Heart

Series: Dark Forces #1

Author: KM Moronova

Genre: Dark Military Romance

Year of publication: 2025

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‘My fatal flaw is the desire to fix broken things that don’t want or care to be fixed. I’m drawn to them like vultures are to carcasses.’

BLURB

Dark. Deadly. Irresistible.

Cameron Mortem has a problem―he can’t stop killing his partners. Officially labeled clinically insane, he’s also one of the most lethal assets in the Dark Forces, a brutal underground military operation built on obedience, survival, and silence. But an experimental drug has fractured his control, making him a liability whenever someone else is on the field. As punishment, he’s thrown back into the Under Trials―a merciless boot camp designed to break the weak and sharpen the ruthless.

His one directive? Don’t kill the new girl.

Emery Maves narrowly escapes a death sentence after her own brutal crimes, only to find herself forced into the same violent world. Assigned to Cameron, she’s expected to survive the Trials and her partner’s unstable nature. But Emery quickly realizes there’s more to Cameron than bloodlust and body counts. Beneath the madness lies a terrifying allure―and a strange, dangerous tenderness.

As the Trials push them to their limits, Emery must navigate the brutal demands of the Dark Forces while resisting the pull of a man who could just as easily kill her as protect her. And Cameron must fight the one urge he’s never been able to overcome.

Their bond is intoxicating, chaotic, and born of violence. And if it doesn’t destroy them both, it might just save them.

I must admit I was a bit obsessed by this. Not quite sure what that says about me!

It was dark, savage, gory and a bit addictive!

Cameron Mortem is damaged, so damaged. He is a soldier on experimental drugs that make him basically half rabid animal! ‘He is what I imagine chaos looks like.’

Emery is thrown into a situation that she isn’t prepared for at all. Trials for the Dark Forces and a partner who has killed all his previous partners.

Brutal military unit
Violent trials
Explosive chemistry
Really raunchy, spicy schexy times
A fast paced story full of suspense 
Tortured main guy who is actually delish!

This book was relentless and that flippin ending nearly finished me off!

‘You are the bearer of my soul.’

⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5

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Title: To Cage a Wild Bird

Series: Divided Fates #1

Author: Brooke Fast

Genre: Dystopian Romantasy

Year of publication: 2025

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BLURB

In the city of Dividium, the law is simple: commit a crime, and your punishment is a life sentence in Endlock.

Raven Thorne is Dividium’s most notorious bounty hunter, living on the edge of society. But when her younger brother, Jed, is sentenced to Endlock, Raven will do anything to save him—even if it means getting herself arrested.

Now trapped in a prison where danger lurks around every corner, Raven must use all her cunning and strength to protect Jed—and herself if she is to complete her perilous mission. But there’s one obstacle she never expected: the prison guard who stirs something deep inside her. The man she should hate. The man whose true motives seem impossible to pin down.

In a world where trust is a weapon and love is a liability, Raven must decide if she will risk everything to tear down a vicious system.

Bounty hunter, Raven, sets up a crime to get into Endlock Prison to try and save her brother, Jed.

Before she commits her crime, she has a chance encounter with someone who she had instant attraction with, Vale. And guess who’s also in the prison…….

I really enjoyed this book, I listened to it in a day so you know that’s the mark of a great read!

~ The rich prosper, the poor suffer
~ Absolutely vile hunts
~ Dystopian type read
~ Fight for survival
~ Found family
~ Morally grey, protective prison guard
~ Secrets
~ Insta attraction/lust/love

I liked the ending because it leaves the door open for book 2 but not with a massive cliffie! When is this being released?!

⭐ Rating: 4.5 out of 5

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Sound like something you’d like?

Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Topic: Books About/Set In Places on My Bucket List

There was a similar topic a few weeks ago so some of my picks are recycled!

Denver – I’d love to meet the Rock Chicks
Treepoint, Kentucky – just to meet The Last Riders
Nova City (fictional) – The Extraordinairies
Thorn Manor, Austermeer (fictional) – Sorcery of Thorns
Oregon – Wolfsong

London 1794 – Damned
Spain – Spanish Love Deception
America – Red, White and Royal Blue
London 1878 – Infernal Devices
Russia (?) – Bear and the Nightingale (but maybe not at the mo!!)

What would be yours?

The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer  It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.

Hope you’ve had a good week!

I know in my last update I said I wanted to read my 6th book of March….but it didn’t happen!

What did happen was that I caught the virus my son had and I was fit for absolutely nothing! I crawled to my desk to work from home, logged off early and flopped into bed each day! Then on Thursday I lost my voice and it’s still not back! I think I may have laryngitis!

But I did manage to squeeze in the small last part of my audiobook!

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🎧 Your Knife, My Heart by KM Moronova
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

See my review soon!

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Calendar – Hello April
Feature – March Storygraph Stats
Calendar – Happy Easter

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Review – To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast
Review – Your Knife, My Heart by KM Moronova

What have you read lately?

Happy Easter! 🐰🐣

‘Easter egg hunts are proof that children can find things when they really want.’ – unknown

‘Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.” — S.D. Gordon

‘Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket.’ – Evan Esar

I always keep track of my books read in the year but, for 2026, I decided to keep track of my monthly reading stats as they help me understand my reading habits and to try and help me stay motivated.

March turned out to be a surprisingly strong reading month!

The graphic below has a page count error, am guessing because they were user added? The correct total was 3300 but, as I listened to 100% audio, I have only left the time listened below!

📖 Books read: 6
🎧 Listening time: 96 hours 42 minutes
⭐ Average rating: 4.42
🎙️ Format: All audiobooks
📚 Genre mix: All fiction, primarily romantasy

How many books did you read in March? Any faves?

‘April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden.’ ~ Marty Rubin

‘April is like a secret whispered in the woods, a hush of green and bustling life.’ ~ Sarah L. Wildes

‘April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.’ ~ William Shakespeare (Sonnet XCVIII)

HAPPY APRIL!

Hope everyone has a great month!

Top Ten Tuesday is featured by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Topic: Buzzwords or Phrases That Makes Me Avoid a Book

I don’t have many ‘Buzzwords or Phrases’ that make me say nope…..apart from…..

Love triangle
Cheating
Erotica
Billionaire
Coming of age
Miscommunication

What are yours?

The Sunday Post is a blog news meme hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer  It’s a chance to share news, a post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.

Hope you’ve had a good week!

So here we are, coming to the end of March. The clocks went forward last night and Spring is well on the way!

It’s been quite a normal week for me, really. Just work, playing Mum’s taxi, and reading!

So far in March, I’ve read five books and I’m hoping to finish a sixth by tomorrow. I’m really pleased with my total pages read… a mammoth 3300 pages read! (That’s mammoth for me!!)

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🎧 Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

🎧 To Cage a Wild Bird by Brooke Fast
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

See my reviews soon!

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Review – The Dark Lords Guide to Dating by Tiffany Hunt
Review – Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry

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Calendar – Hello April
Feature – March Storygraph Stats

What have you read lately?