Bunny's Reviews: Secrets of Jane Review Spotlight

Seriously, how gorgeous is this book?! Have you read The Secrets of Jane yet? We highly suggest you do! Read on for more details, and visit one of Bookstagram hosts to win 1 of 2 book boxes.

Secrets of Jane is the first book in Charlotte Mallory's The Improper Bastards series and this book took me by complete surprise. So, brace yourself! This book is going to sweep you away from page one and keep you page-turning to the end! Sound like your kind of book? Then dive in and enjoy!

Secrets of Jane is the first book in Mallory's The Improper Bastards duet and this book is insanely good. Of course, the first thing that is going to grab your attention is that gorgeous cover. Readers who like to be drawn in with a tasty piece of eye-candy cover will definitely be drawn to this book. You won't be able to look away. Next thing you know your eyes will be moving towards the blurb and then it's game over. Just go ahead, click "buy" and settle in for a delicious story. LOL!

From the beginning, Secrets of Jane is gripping and it's just Jane leaving a pub with her best friend! LOL! How the heck does that work?! Well, good story-telling, let me tell ya. LOL! Of course, the story starts off "innocently" enough, but then it shifts into darker territory, and it all starts with the smell of smoke.

Shortly after that? Enter the mercenary!!! Soren brings a sense of danger and power to the story immediately. You get the sense that he's not someone to be trifled with. I love it. LOL! Of course, unless you're like one particular idiot who still is sulking because Jane "read him the riot act." LOL! He deserved it. Well, back to Soren...he's something else! He comes off as dangerous and he knows it. But he's here on the hunt...for Jane. Looks like she has caught the attention of some people and now she has to answer for it. She probably should have toned down the fighting...too late for that now!

This book is crazy good! You're going to be in for a lot of chaos, drama, and some deliciously steamy scenes. Could it be a little hotter? Heck yes! I'll never turn down to pages that burn with steam, but it's still really good.

The author weaves together a great storyline and epic world with this book. You get magic, pirates, drama, steamy, secrets and more! I rode the fence a little concerning some of the morally grey aspects of this book, but it honestly works so I can't complain. LOL! Too much. LOL!

This book does end on a cliffhanger. Just fair warning for those who don't read all the way to the end of an author's warning. There is A CLIFFHANGER!!! Be prepared for it! It is going to happen! Don't get the book and then complain about the cliffhanger. Don't do it! Seriously. Don't.

For readers who enjoy a good cliffhanger...you're going to devour this book and then howl for more...in a good way. LOL! This book is entertaining from beginning to end and will have you looking forward to the second half of this duet.

Definitely recommend this story.

5 out of 5 stars

Thank you to the author, Charlotte Mallory, and R&R Book Tours for the opportunity to read and review this book. I look forward to what comes next!

The Secrets of Jane: Forgotten (Improper Bastards Series #1)

Publication Date: September 19, 2023

Genre: Dark Romantasy

🗝️ Enemies-to-Lovers
💀 Empath Daddy
🗝️ Everyone is Morally Grey
💀 EPIC Pirating World
🗝️ Secrets and Mysteries
💀 One bed/ One Horse
🗝️ Captor becomes Protector
💀 Steamy, Angry Scenes until Alphahole Catches Feelings First

“I’m a disciplined man, Jane. I can stay here for as long as you need before the lesson sinks in that you don’t run from me while in my charge.” — Soren.

He’s a Mercenary with powers that allow him feel the hearts/desires/fears of others.
She’s his target, and must guard her identity at all costs.

My village is aflame, and a deadly legend becomes my captor.

I’m to appear before the most elite faction of mercenaries and warlords, commanded to answer for a crime they refuse to explain. Even if my only guess for why they want me is wrong, they cannot have me. I’ve sworn to never return to Skull’s Row, home to thieves and killers; the graveyard of my childhood.

He plans to unbury every memory until my soul is stripped bare: Soren, my captor, is strangely fascinated by me. By what I hide. Of the scars I have.

I’m unwillingly drawn to him. To his brutality. He harbors the same viciousness that coats my veins. He even seems persistent in taking me for himself…

He’ll either be my reckoning, or my undoing.

The Witcher Meets Pirates of the Caribbean

This Dark Fantasy Romance is a Duet full of foul language, sensual scenes, and improper bastards.

Content Warning 18+: This series contains explicit scenes (3.5 chili peppers), depictions of war, battle violence, abduction, graphic depiction of violence, drugging, and overall a very crude world.

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About the Author

Charlotte Mallory is eager to share her love for Dark Fantasy Romance stories, and dabbling in a few Contemporary Romances. What she enjoys most is taking well loved tropes and adding her own take on them. Right now, she greatly enjoys anything with Fantasy or Contemporary with an Alpha male lead, paired with a female lead that can absolutely handle her own! In her spare time, she enjoys nature, bonsai trees, coffee, and taking random art classes.

Charlotte Mallory