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📖This book is available on KU! Get KindleUnlimited! Owned & Knotted belongs to one of my favourite universes by L.V. Lane. The ‘Darkly Ever Afterverse’ is a Dystopian Omegaverse world set in the future. In the first book, Owned, we don’t have the designated ABO terms as we do in this short story sequel, but it was quite clear to me when I read the first book that the Author might go that way. Read my review of the first book here. In this 2nd book, the Omegaverse is fully developed and the designated categories exist. Though in this O-verse Betas can develop into Alphas or Omegas unless they take a sort of medication that blocks the transition, which I found kinda neat and a new twist on it. It’s never really made clear if the 2nd book co-exists along with the 1st one or if it’s sometime after the 1st one, but Taylor (from book 1) is still present and in charge (though we don’t meet him in book 2) so I assume it’s a bit further forward from the first book. Also considering the dynamics have now developed properly, though there were tonnes of hints towards them in the 1st book (which I go into in detail in that review). Owned & Knotted is a ‘why choose’ type of book, which is a category I do enjoy. It is an MMFM, making it a RH hehe. It’s something Lane writes extremely well and her intimate scenes are always a good favourite of mine no matter if it’s MM or MF. She does them sexy, smutty, heartfelt and dominating, but her female characters tend to be strong women who don’t take shit. Imogen’s Alphas are OTT Alphas, they are a bit of an Alphahole I won’t lie. This is the typical Dystopian atmosphere. It can be a little dark but this short story is quite lite in my opinion and focuses more on the Alpha Trio getting back together again after they were split up for several years, as well as Imogen and her leadership of her people in her community. A community whose territory Taylor very much wants – hence why That especially is the case here in the DEA verse as all three FMCs we have seen so far, are all of strong personalities and survivors. And even though they are aware that they are inferior in many ways to the men, and despite Taylor’s rules of ‘Ownership’ – these women fight strongly for what they believe in and are not to be trifled with, so if you enjoy strong females this is def a series worth exploring. This is a 5-star read from me and if you have never read this series, I do think you should start with book 1, but this short story can be read as a stand-alone. I truly hope there are more books to come in this universe as there is something unique about how Taylor rules his lands that is a bit…

📖This book is available on KU! Get KindleUnlimited! L.V. Lane‘s Owned is a dark-dystopian-HEA rough around the edges, kind of book. It’s got all the good stuff we have come to love from her writing. It’s erotic, it’s brilliant world-building, great character-building, and I really fell in love with the characters. This book is read from several perspectives, we have the two main female characters; Ava & Nora, but also their Alpha male men. This book is therefore two interlinked stories. This specific book has not been put in the Omegaverse category by the author, but the 2nd book ‘Owned & Knotted’ has. The setting itself, and the fact that this takes place in a dystopian world with slight a slight Sci-Fi feeling, where one of our male main characters, talks about the ‘enhancements’ that people have gotten, but also that he for example, and others, have had after-effects from these enhancements, and what he mentions, there are some of the things that we recognize from the Alphas in the Omegaverse trope. This I found very fascinating and cool! I also picked out several Omega traits from our two main female characters! I built this picture in my head that the book could very well be some sort of unofficial prequel to an Omegaverse world as if this was the very very beginning and another setting for how it came about that they developed the ABO dynamics hehe. But this was purely my own interpretation of the book and how I saw things, hehe, but it did open up for brainstorming and I enjoyed it, so I thought I would mention it. (It also turned out I was right when Book 2 was released! ) All in all, this is a wonderful book filled with action, but I must highlight that the setting is dystopian and women are in fact..well…owned. I say women, but I guess you could say, people. This is done by branding – so depending on who “owns” you…well… let’s just say that one of the main females has bad experiences. Therefore this book def. has power exchange, and the men are very very ALPHA, some are even insane (though not the main Hs) and so forth. The book has the normal dystopian setting, though it’s far from too gritty and I don’t consider the book to be extremely dark. It does have some dark content obviously, but mostly I found it to have more mystery of who the heroines are and what they are running from etc. The main Heroes are very family-oriented and I really liked them.

Genre: Dystopian

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