The Auction by Sadie Kincaid
The Auction by Sadie Kincaid
I’ve read a few of Sadie Kincaid’s books in the past and enjoyed them, so I was excited to read this one after seeing the premise. A Beauty and the Beast inspired mafia dark romance, sign me up! However, after reading it, I was a bit disappointed and it will not be my favorite of this author.
This book is slow in the fact that not much happens between the two characters other than smutty scenes. After the cliffhanger ending, it makes a bit more sense now that I know this is the first of a series. It is very much building the scene and background before the second book comes out which I believe will have more of action and mafia situations thrown in. Without knowing there would be a second book for 99% of reading this, I just found myself bored by the main characters. Although the smut was good in the beginning it got very repetitive and nothing else was really happening outside of it, so I just didn’t find myself invested in these two main characters. They fell a bit flat and were not developed enough in their personalities and mannerisms outside the bedroom.
The Auction itself in the very beginning also went by so quickly. I do appreciate that Kincaid was sensitive to something that could be very triggering and terrifying, but I was a bit surprised how after that short scene the rest of the book didn’t feel “dark” at all.
I did appreciate how the FMC is slowly finding herself, even in something as simple as what food she may enjoy and becoming more comfortable in being somewhat free. I am sure this growth will continue into the second book in promising ways, but I am not sure I am invested enough to continue reading.
I would still recommend giving some of Kincaid’s other books a chance and maybe the second book will redeem this one! It is definitely for someone, just not me.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an ARC in exchange for my review.
Synopsis: I was trained to be a pawn, but I will rise as a queen.
My life has never been my own. After the death of my parents, I was saved by my grandfather, with the promise that he would turn me over to the Brotherhood on my twenty-first birthday. I was kept away from the outside world so I could one day be sold to the highest bidder—pure and unsullied. Penance for my parents’ alleged crimes.
That’s how I come to be sold at an auction. And who buys me but the reclusive billionaire, Lincoln Knight?
Some say that he’s a monster, more dangerous than any of the evil men from the Brotherhood. That he wears a mask to cover his scars. But I believe he’s hiding more than just his face behind his mask.
My fate is sealed when he takes me to his crumbling mansion deep in the woods. I’m trapped. Entirely at his mercy.
I have to escape.
But something here isn’t what it seems.