📖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. Innie Is an avid reader & ARC Reviewer of everything Dark/Erotic/Historical/Taboo/PN Romance. A lover of the Alphaholes. Reads MM, FM, MMF, MFM, RH. Contains content 🔞 Her reviews tend to be saucy, spicey and do not hold back on the ‘umf’ but she always aims for the ‘positive sandwich’ even when she DNFs the book. Her favourite place to read is on her Kindle…all..night…in bed – under her duvet, terrified her…
