This is a spoiler-free review! Debt Inheritance is currently available for free on iBooks and Kindle.
Once again, the free romance section on iBooks has me in its clutches, and that is how I ended up here. I was trying to get into another book, but I kept looking back for a quick romance before diving back into a fantasy novel. I honestly did not know what to expect from this book, and I have to say that every turn of the page had me surprised. Twenty-four-year-old Nila Weaver is given to Jethro Hawk as an inheritance gift for his twenty-ninth birthday, ensuring her almost certain death as she is taken to serve him, as all first-born daughters of the Weaver family are.
I will be the first to admit that this book had me going crazy the second that Nila and Jethro became acquainted with one another. You could literally feel the tension and uneasiness coming off the page as she is handed off to Jethro, and the story immediately picks up into her unknown future. As an erotic dark romance, this book definitely delivers on that front -- Jethro is not playing around for one second, and Nila is thrust into this insane situation that will only end horribly for her, as the Hawk family embraces family tradition.
Just to mention because I absolutely could not ignore what I was reading -- but Nila and her brother are way too close. A set of twins who basically flirt every time they speak, had me literally rooting for Jethro to take her away, because anything is better than incest. The way they speak to each other and the way that Nila thinks about him after she leaves with Jethro had me more disturbed than what was going on in the Hawk family home. Even Jethro notices how eerily close they are, and I could not shake it from my mind the entire time I was reading this book.
So many of the men in this book are slimy and downright disgusting, and yet we are set up to believe that somehow Jethro is the best choice for her survival at her new home. Nila is basically being thrown around like a rag doll throughout the book, and has to take whatever this family deals her in order to live another day and avoid any treatment worse than she is already getting from them. Jethro has a number of brothers that are arguably worse than him, and a father that is his match when it comes to the way he treats Nila.
I could not put this book down -- any time that I even attempted to stop reading, I was picking it back up not even five minutes later to keep on going. The plot moves very well and is paced to the point where you just want to read it in one sitting. The themes in this book are not for everyone, and I encourage readers to look at trigger warnings if you are concerned about the content. I would have loved to see a little more character building for Nila and Jethro, and a little less text messages between Nila and Kite007 -- I felt that the text messages were beginning to take away from the story that was currently happening.
Fans of Savage Royals by Ana West and Haunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton will definitely enjoy this first installment of the Indebted series. A very quick read that will leave the reader wanting the second book immediately after reaching the end -- Winters gives readers a suspenseful dark romance that is only the beginning for Nila and Jethro.
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