hunt me darling: A Dark MFM Stalker Romance (The Darling Games)

I really enjoyed this book! I didn’t want to put it down. I thought I had the stalkers figured out about 3 different times. It was so satisfying when they were finally revealed. I am really looking forward to the 2nd book in the series. Overall, this was such an enjoyable stalker romance! I’m glad I ignored the negative reviews!

There were some aspects to this book that I loved. The mystery of who could be the unlaivers and after Alex was one of my favorite parts. The other awesome aspect was trying to decide who Alex could trust while being suspicious of everyone. Lastly, I loved how everything came together in the end.What I didn’t care for was how repetitive a lot of the book was. When we read about Alex’s day to day life, it was basically reading the same day over and over. She gets up, goes to the cafe for a coffee and bagel, gets to the office where there’s no leads, talks about how tired she is and goes home where her stalkers then show up. This was a good chunk of the book. I just didn’t find it all that interesting. With that said, I figured out who the stalkers were pretty early so I wasn’t all that shocked by who they were. I was shocked by how it all connected and others involved. I wasn’t expecting that.🌶️Spice Wise: the chapters with spice were 3, 6, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 23, 26, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 40. There is quite a bit of spice. The story did have a plot as well. This felt like thriller dark romance or maybe even an erotic thriller. Overall, if you want to try it out, you definitely should give it a shot.

Oh my my! What a book! Love love love please read you won’t regret it! It’s like Dexter, criminal minds, and a love triangle all swept up together in a crazy delicious way!

I liked the guessing game of it all but the ending could have been more exciting. Still glad I read it

I loved this twisty dark stalker romance. Agent Darling in the FBI is set on a case tracking a team of serial killers. But the game is about to change. A great dark read!!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️At first wasn’t a fan in the beginning due to the repetitiveness of asking if you are okay and I’m here if needed every time Alex walked into the FBI unit. But Alex is a beast. She’s new to the unit and does not show it. She stands her ground cause she knows no one will intimidate her.I love how it is a game of Truth or Dare with her stalkers. They don’t back down. They are truly obsessed and will not stop till they get what they want. The spice in this book was spicing. I was eating it up! But the backstory was great. Is she the next victim or do they have something else in mine for either Little Darling? I will say the ending got me I was totally wrong on who I thought Truth or Dare was!

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Favorite Quote: We will never apologize for things we do in our efforts to show you that you belong with us.This was the very first book that I read by Maree Rose and I'll never stop recommending it. The way I couldn't put down this book, because I HAD to know who Truth and Dare were.🔍 Normally I can anticipate who might be the stalker(s), but this book kept throwing me for a loop (I was here for it)! 🖤 This is an MfM/why choose romance between our FMC, Alexander Darling, who is an FBI agent trying to take down two serial killers. Our MMC's Truth and Dare are obsessed with their Little Darling and will do everything in their power to show her just how far they are willing to go to be with her. 💀 Overall, I highly recommend this book for anyone who is a fan of the st@lker trope, why choose trope, loves good banter, and wants to go on a thrilling ride of mystery to figure out who the real killers are. 😈

Our female main character is an FBI profiler joining a team of other agents to track down killers who target women that don’t seem to have anything in common. There’s a huge emphasis on all of the victims being women that were stalked, kidnapped, and killed after different lengths of time. The ones who reported their stalking died faster, which comes into play when the FMC starts being stalked herself and chooses not to tell anyone.The FMC is hand picked for the team by its captain, who coincidentally trained her years back. She has a knack for getting into the mind of killers, which unfortunately ends up just meaning she has a hidden kink for the macabre and depraved.Since it’s immediately established the killers are a duo pair, I guessed their identity when the FMC was instantly attracted/interested in her broody new partner and the charming reporter that keeps hounding them for details. She keeps running into them and starts getting texts from the killers right before or after almost every run-in. The fact that there’s little character development to the only two people she’s attracted to makes it all the more obvious that they are the killers.The author might have done better by not immediately introducing both killers or at least making it a single killer and having it be a mystery as to which of the two men it was.I was ready to close up shop when the FMC chose to play truth or dare via text with the killers in hopes of tricking them into revealing their identities, and is drugged and left at their mercy for her troubles. She was actually drugged by the killers more than three separate times, one of which she chose to drink the drugs on a dare. She takes a few moments to think about the danger in meeting up with SERIAL KILLERS but ultimately falls victim to her own curiosity and lust for them. If you’re going to make your leading lady a stupid person who only thinks with what’s in her pants, don’t make her a damn FBI profiler.On one of the drugging occasions, the killers leave the FMC a bunch of evidence on a flash drive, which leads to her only break in the case and further proves she’s a terrible profiler. Apparently all of the victims were actually terrible people with ties to child predators. The trope of killers being humanized by the revelation that they’re killing bad people is now active. The FMC becomes suspicious of her investigation and team in general after realizing the victims crimes were all covered up, and uses that as a rationale to continue withholding evidence and hooking up with masked serial killers who drug her and admit to switching out her birth control. I’m not sure how this makes sense since the killers are only killing women and the ringleader ended up being a man who is found to have been abusive towards the women under him. The ringleader also has two male henchmen/agents, along with an additional male that’s been pestering the FMC for a date. Why go through the trouble of establishing they are only killing women and then make the final baddie and all his underlings male?That additional male is kidnapped by the killers and exposed as a predator. Here we are meant to believe the FBI agent FMC snaps and kills him and then has sex with the killers in front of his cooling corpse. It would have been great if the author switched it up at the last minute and the victims crimes were planted evidence by the killers who just wanted to fool the FMC into becoming an accomplice to their murders.Finally, the absolutely absurd ending. We come to find that the FMC is actually a childhood friend of the killers. She called them truth and dare because she couldn’t pronounce their actual names at first. Apparently her captain is the ringleader and enlisted her to find the killers so he could kill them himself before they exposed him. Even better, he was a regular presence in her life as her mother’s abuser and brutally murdered her in front of the FMC. The FMC, who is a freaking FBI profiler but somehow never recognized her partner let alone the man who murdered her mother right in front of her during the years of training under him or being on his team, gleefully stabs her captain to death before going to pound town with her men.Wow.