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Writer's pictureElena Monroe

Periculum (Devil's Playground #1)

The Purge, Saw, Escape Room and Hunger Games had a love child


𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘂𝗺 (𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹'𝘀 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 #𝟭) ʙʏ ɴᴀᴛᴀʟɪᴇ ʙᴇɴɴᴇᴛᴛ



✩✩✩✩✩/5


This is my second book by Natalie and I am still stuck in a state of thirsty for more. She has the perfect way of not letting you see the ending coming even when your Kindle is taunting you with the percentage.


This read isn't for the

faint of heart or those who don't like darkness in their tea...


I haven't read ANYTHING like this. EVER. I'm a weird read kind of gal (Palahniuk, Bukowski & Ellis kind of girl). Romance as a genre took a real back seat to me finding crazy reads that pushed the bounds. Natalie Bennett has pushed the bounds and still managed to make this read romance based - which is INSANE.


Image the Purge bell goes off and that voice counts down the commencement in 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... but instead of havoc you get dropped into an Escape Room filled with maps and clues all begging you to be smart enough to figure them out. Once you make it through the doors it becomes survival of the fittest. Like for real, people die (told you it's dark). That's when it becomes Hunger Games because Liliana has to decided to save herself and her friends when it comes down to saving others. Making their way to Hell the group unwraps the mystery of why they're throw together and where this all ends.


AND that is where Natalie Bennett leaves your now dead body. Withering, shaking, cold, hunger, mind twisted up into knots and now we wait for salvation in book two (Maleficium) which releases July 23rd, 2020.



BLURB

Ave Satanas, something wicked this way comes.

It’s time for the reckoning to begin.

Enter the Devil’s Playground wary where you tread, for demons are lurking with trickery up their sleeves.

Here good and bad cease to exist, and not all will make it to the end.

The price of freedom will be revealed only after bloodshed and rapture.

A claiming of one and purging of others.


That audio recording played exactly three minutes before the crash.

It was a riddle, a warning, and a promise. But they didn’t know that until it was too late.


Now stranded with two friends and a group of apprehensive strangers, Liliana Serpine must decide who and who not to trust as they navigate their way through hell in the form of an opulent city.


There’s one person who stands out among the others. He’s got a gorgeous face and darkly enigmatic aura. Being drawn to him is inevitable but staying by his side becomes necessary to survive.


When secrets start being revealed in blood, everything changes. From dabbling in the taboo, being tempted by the forbidden, and falling in lust with the carnage.


For those that make it out of this alive, they’ll never be the same people they once were.


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