04 March

♕ REVIEW ♕ ARC ♕ WHEN SINNERS KNEEL BY R. SCARLETT

TITLE: When Sinners Kneel

SERIES: (The Blackest Gold World #1)

AUTHOR: R. Scarlett

GENRE: New Adult/Paranormal

PUBLICATION: March 8th, 2018

WHEN SINNERS KNEEL: Is a New Adult, Paranormal Romance novel and is the first book in the (Blackest Gold World) series by new to me author R. Scarlett.

PAST: In the ’Prologue’ we meet eleven year old Alexander (Lex) she’d been sent by her employer to steal from the ‘Scorpios’ a powerful group of demons that had the run of New York City. Being caught that night changed her life forever, now under their protection from this day forward she solely works for them.

Lex is a soul eater: She has the ability to taste people’s emotions.

PRESENT: Eighteen year old Lex is on a mission she’s after any information she can get on the whereabouts of her friend Dolores, she didn’t tell anyone she was going to the Pit to fight, and she was getting her ass kicked, Beau recognised her straight away and jumped in the Pit and whisked her away, battered and bruised he reigns kisses over her body healing her fully.

He has the ability to heal with a touch by using his lips and body.

Beau is the son of a Dux, a family of born leaders. But ten years ago at the age of eighteen he had committed the ultimate crime, he’d fallen in love with a human being and had impregnated her out of wedlock which subsequently resulted in their deaths and was striped of right to become a dux.

Now, all that was left within me was darkness and chaos. Thunder and lightening. And a never-ending emptiness.

He’s as dark as they come, he lives in the darkness, it consumes his soul daily like groundhog day on repeat, night and day he’s shrouded in darkness. In the Pit he’s known as ‘Savage’ this place was his saving grace, it's full of deviants, criminals and beasts, where he dominates and could embrace the beast fully and walk away with blood on his hands without remorse.

Heartless

Shameful

A Sinner

Murder, mayhem, chaos, revenge, only the strongest will survive!!

Promising not to appear in the Pit again falls on deaf ears, nothing will stop her seeking whatever information she can find about her friend that is missing which sets all eyes on her.

Two souls bound together by loneliness, two souls seeking that ultimate forbidden love, a love that could get them killed.

This author's writing style is flawless, you are pulled in straight away, you get hooked before you know it, the only gripe I do have with this book is that I didn’t realise that these two characters are crossover characters from a previous book which I didn’t realise but other than that you still pick up the gist of the story.

The author definitely captured the true essence of Beau and Lex perfectly, both are scarred, both are damaged, both are broken, his soul is pitch black her soul is the light within the darkness he feeds off.

I tiptoed into this book for the sole reason being that this was my first on many levels, first time reading this genre, and first time author to me. So I went in with that feeling of trepidation but came out the other end by placing this on my 2018 favourite shelf!! First of the year!!

This book was all kinds of epic, unputdownable, allconsuming, a riveting page turner.

I adored these characters and I definitely can't wait to read more by this author because this book for me was amazing!!

Beau Knight's Book.

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

Lex Harvey came to The Pit to find her missing friend. Someone who fights there must have the answers she’s seeking. Instead, she found him. The damage inside her matches the darkness inside him. She’s only eighteen, but the feelings she has for him are as old as time.

Beau Knight should have ruled New York. Falling in love was the beginning of his end. He watched her die and he lost his heart. Now, The Pit is his heaven and his hell. The only place he can be himself.

They’re both beyond fixing. Addicts, with desires humans couldn’t understand.

A soulless man and a souleating girl.

How do you find redemption from your demons when you are one?

R. Scarlett lives in a small quaint town in Southern Ontario, Canada and has an unhealthy obsession with mythology and romance.

From studying English literature and minoring in History, she loves losing herself in a good book and snuggling up to her Brittany Spaniel.

When she's not writing or plotting a delicious novel, she can be found hanging out with friends and family, going on long car rides, exploring small towns, or watching reruns of Sex and the City.