I’m asking for little to no smut because I find a lot of them to be poorly written in my opinion and I feel like a lot of dark romance books sacrifice story telling just to focus on the kinky smut part which sucks for me. I don’t mind non con but the problem is that a lot of the non cons in dark romance books have body betrayal syndrome and the female lead doesn’t seem to be traumatized just a little angry and annoyed and she forgets about it later on. I also prefer female lead that is not feisty and sassy because a lot of them are poorly written and annoying in my opinions (no offense to those who like them this is just me personal preference).
I actually want a male lead or villain to actually be possessive. I don’t want him to just show one moment of possessiveness and that’s it. I want it to be consistent
.Some dark romances that I’ve already read
Lemonade (loved)
Quid Pro Quo (I gave it 3 stars it was ok. It had some body betrayal moment and the writing felt amateurish to me)
Corrupt Idol (3.5 star, the writing is much better than quid bro quo and the fl did reflect on the traumatizing experience that the mc put her through, but there was several instance of body betrayal, but it wasn’t bad as other dark romance books.)
Quarantined by dreth anis (dnf, I found it to be a little boring and I think there was a body betrayal scene in the book, I can’t remember)
Midnight Hunter (4 stars, loved it. The smut wasn’t much and it wasn’t cringe. I really liked the mmc and the fmc wasn’t annoying.)
I’ve also read the Caraval trilogy which isn’t a dark romance, but I loved it. One of the main villains is a yandere and I planned on reading the Once Upon a Broken Heart Trilogy soon.
by Fluid-Mode6547