Caitiebelle
Written on Jan 21, 2021
I first got to know this author through her Omegaverse trope books, so to read a new book that isn't Omegaverse but also still part of a Dystopian world, was a great experience. This isn't the first none-omegaverse book I have read by her, I have also read '[b:Bad Boss: A Steamy Romantic Comedy|56883798|Bad Boss A Steamy Romantic Comedy|L.V. Lane|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1611981825l/56883798._SY75_.jpg|74736539]' which I also highly recommend (a romance, HEA, fluffy and entertaining book).
[a:L.V. Lane|19017663|L.V. Lane|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1600686465p2/19017663.jpg]'s [b:Owned|56376820|Owned|L.V. Lane|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1608608050l/56376820._SY75_.jpg|87845429] is a 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, but also their alpha male men.
Now, as I said earlier this book is not in the Omegaverse category, but 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, talk 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 Omegaverse. Which I found so fascinating and cool! :D I also picked out several Omega traits from our two main female characters!
This isn't something you would probably pick up on though if you weren't into that trope, or have read any of her other books - to me it actually made the book even more interesting because I built this picture in my head that the book could very well be some sort of unofficial prequel to Omegaverse as if this was the very very beginning and another setting for how it came about that we developed ABO dynamics hehe. But that is 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. :)
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 '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 for a 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 h are and what they are running from etc.
The main Hs are very family-oriented and I really liked them. :)
Definately a 5* from me!