I kept reading this thing hoping that the author would have to course correct at some point. It shows me this author has no clue what she's doing that she would go so incredibly out of her way to make 3 of the 4 men entirely unlikable jerks with NO REDEEMING QUALITIES AT ALL. This is true for dark and lighter romance, for reverse harem, for ANY kind of trope romance out there. Rule number one of writing romance: you want **on some level** your readers to WANT your characters to be together. That begs the question what am I rooting for here as a romance reader? The other three (Enzo, Giovani, Maximus) literally couldn't care less if she dies. None of the male characters in the harem with the exception of one even have any sort of feeling or attraction to the female protagonist. There is NO romantic element whatsoever, even as a dark romance. This is sold as a "reverse harem contemporary romance" when that could NOT be further from the truth. Dark, light, one pairing, reverse harem, etc.
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