Review: Unhinged
Title: Unhinged
Series: Dance With My Demons
Author: Steph Macca
Release Date: March 2024
Welcome to the Lilydale Foundation Center... home of second chances.
At least, that's what they tell us it is.
It's basically a glorified prison and asylum for the deranged with good alibis.
When the police pulled me out of my burning home, along with what was left of my Father, I was deemed broken - even if I was the reason the fire started.
So, here I am at my new home. They think they can save us with their fancy facility. But what insane person decided it was a good idea to put a bunch of young, unhinged people together? It's just asking for trouble.
Unhinged is a why-choose dark romance. It contains adult themes, sensitive topics, and is solely intended for mature audiences over 18. It is recommended that readers check the trigger warnings before diving in. Unhinged is book 1 in the Dance with my Demons series.
Upon facing prison, a spot at Lilydale opens up for Avery instead. Lilydale is an asylum for those they hope to rehabilitate back to society, full of delinquent & the deranged. Upon her arrival, she catches the eye of Grey - one of the craziest and second to Damon who runs the place. But she also gets the attention of Theo as well, who prefers his quiet and solitude but allows Avery around. As Avery tries to settle into her new life, trouble seems to find her at every turn. Can Avery be saved or will she become nothing more than another broken patient among the masses.
"You think I'm going to kill you?" he asks, wiping an imaginary tear away. "Oh, no. You've got it all wrong. You'll be seeing Heaven, but not like that."
So,I picked up this book on a whim. It has been on my TBR for awhile but recently the quote for the audio had been popping up on my feed and I love me a good crazy MMC so I decided to give it a go. It was definitely an entertaining read - if you like the type of train wreck stories that you can't look away from type dramas - this will be right up your ally. It's a dark why-choose set in an asylum - so definitely check TW if you need to - and book 1 in a series. While the storyline was a bit all over the place, and the timelines not always making sense, it was a fun read and I definitely enjoyed the characters, & want to know more. I'm not sure if I will be continuing the series or not mainly bc while I picked it up solely for the one line - it didn't quite hit the spot I was looking for. Overall it was an okay read but not as dark & twisted as I had hoped.
3 ⭐ out of 5⭐.
3🌶️ out of 5🌶️.
Tropes:
• Dark Romance
• Why Choose
• Forced Proximity
• Secret Society
• Morally Grey MMCs
• Possessive/Obsessive OTT MMCs
Trigger Warnings:
- Confinement
- Institutionalized
- Mental Illness & Panic Attacks
- violence
- murder
- removal of limbs
- suicide
- death of parent/s
- death of friend
- grief
- drug addiction
- sexual assault
- sexual content
- swearing
- tattoo
- needles
- blood
- injuries
- abuse & neglect
- penetration with foreign objects
- morgue/mortuary cabinets
ABOUT THR AUTHOR
A bestselling dark romance author, Steph made the switch from being a lawyer to writing morally gray chaos.
She lives in Australia with her family, and when she isn't writing she enjoys listening to music, venturing down Wikipedia rabbit holes and travelling.
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