Den of Psychos: Masquerade of Sin by Avery Song

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I woke up to the chilling sound of gunshots. A soured deal, a raid of vicious men, and a blow to my head contributed to my psychosis.

My name is Eloise Genevieve, but the rest of the world calls me crazy. Can I really blame them?

After all, I speak to the monsters who have known me since that Devil’s Raid. Sweet, sinful men who are just as royal, powerful, and merciless as I wish to be. I’m the only one who can see them, and that’s the problem. I want more than just to see.

The older I get, the stronger these urges become. Their company isn’t enough for me anymore. I yearn to touch them, hold them, kiss them, and make love to them.

They tease me every night with a blindfold across my face to keep their monstrous appearances secret, but I know better. I know everything about them.

The Masquerade of Sin is finally here, and this will be their chance to claim what’s always been truly theirs.

I may have enemies waiting to strike, but that’s the least of my concerns. For they have never played a game with a psychotic monster, and I have all the right cards to win.

Welcome to the Devil’s Playground!

Den of Psychos

I was hoping for more.

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💜🩷💙
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: ☹️😄😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Eloise Genevieve – she is seven years old and wakes to the sound of gunshots. She was frightened because she knew her safe spot had been breached. She hears the mansion guards talking about protecting her and keeping her safe, though they sound anxious. She didn’t know where her parents were, she didn’t think anyone would have the guts to go against her wealthy, powerful family that ruled the biggest drug network in the Boston underground, so they could be dead already. She has been trained all her life, so she hid behind a magic wall and prepared to fight against any foe.

The Story: While Eloise was hiding, she hears a bunch of men come in looking for her. They said they needed her to blackmail her family. She saw the masked men in her room, while she was hidden. When one of them finds her after she unleashes on him, he tells her that she must leave “because they know she is destined for them.” She was chosen by a den of psychos. He was angry because her family and their friends have killed his entire family, and he wants to take her out in retaliation. Eloise was shot and lost consciousness.

Years later, everyone thinks she is crazy because she sees monsters that nobody else can see. She runs drugs for her family to the top nightspots in the city. She is fearless and deadly in her own right, though her monsters often do the deeds for her. She just wants to have her monsters be real and love her like she loves them. Though she doesn’t know that they are real, and they are the den of monsters that are destined to be bonded to her, and they do love Eloise. They are members of a secret society that run the world. Claude, Yu, Kai and Venom meet Eloise in a dream world, but it is nearly time they come into her world.

I think I may have had my fill for a while of psycho’s as the anti-heroes. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like psychosis as much as a lifestyle choice and I guess I kind of like my psychos as truly mentally challenged rather than just crazy for the sake of making people fear you. The story wasn’t bad, but I got a bit bored with it and had hoped for something more exciting.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Gregory Salinas and Kiera Stevens. Gregory Salinas has a nice deep voice that I like, though he isn’t one of my favorite male narrators. Kiera Stevens has a youthful sounding voice which fits for Eloise, and she is very expressive and natural. She always does a terrific job.

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