Lights Out by Navessa Allen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?
Lights Out
I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.
Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.
I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.
Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.
Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.
My new favorite stalker romance audiobook!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️💚💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌎
Character development: 🙂🥰😎🤩😀
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Duet Narration
The heroine: Aly Capellucci – she works in a trauma center in an inner-city hospital. Not much phases her after the time she had spent working there. They see all kinds of mayhem that can be done to the human body. They see as much trauma daily as soldiers see on the front lines. She has more compassion for the sad cases than most of the other nurses. She wasn’t dating anyone but was hooking up with a guy named Tyler for about a year, though she hadn’t seen him for over 2 months. She she has a cat named Fred who waits for her to come home after her long shifts.
The Hero: Josh Hammond – He was a roommate with Tyler and had met Aly once before. He thought she was hot and thought much more about her than he would like. Enough to look her up online and he probably now knew more about her than Tyler did. His dad (who he looks just like) was in the news, on documentaries, and in social media, all showing his massive misdeeds. Tyler doesn’t go out much and is a former hacker, now working for a cyber security firm. His secret life was as a masked man online, his screen name was Faceless Man.
The Story: Aly just loves the thirst traps of men in masks on social media. She especially loves the guy known as Faceless Man online. She often dreamed of him. Her kink was pretty deviant, she wondered what it would be like to be in the room when he filmed himself getting off or if he was in her living room all covered in blood just watching her. When Josh noticed that Aly had commented on most of his online posts and videos, he became even more attracted to her and started imagining doing very dirty things to her.
It wasn’t long before Josh was breaking into Aly’s house, wearing his mask. Josh is kind of funny in a way, because he is afraid of being like his father, so much so that he has always been afraid of having pets because he thought he might have inclinations to kill them, since that is how most serial killers start out.
“I need so much more therapy than I’m currently getting.”
I grinned because – same.
“Ally was f*cked up too. Hallelujah!”
“Stupid kink making me lust after a man who probably wanted to carve my skin off and make himself a pair of gloves out of it.”
“She should be wifed up by now, spoiled and cherished like the queen she was.”
I really liked this book. It was super twisted, but I like stalker books and Josh was definitely a stalker and I loved every bit of it. Of course, the things he did were so wrong and if it was real life, I would want him locked up, but for the purposes of this book, I really enjoyed it. I loved both characters, they were dark, but not. They liked their specific kinks and could handle some other not so legal behavior but they weren’t quite as bad as I expected from the book cover and blurb.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via duet narration and was narrated by Elena Wolf and Jacob Morgan. These are two of my favorite narrators. They both sound so natural, not at all like they are reading. Elena’s voice is clear and feminine, and she sounds intelligent. Jacob has a deep sexy voice and is terrific at dirty talk. Together they do a terrific job on this audiobook. I just love the steamy scenes done in duet narration. Then you don’t have a woman with a man’s voice or vice versa.
I voluntarily listened to & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts & opinions are my own.
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