Lady of Darkness

Lady of Darkness Series, Book 1

By: Melissa Roehrich

Narrated by: Laura Horowitz

Length: 18 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

Shadows always return to the darkness.

A cage.

Owned by a ruthless Assassin Lord, Scarlett Monrhoe and her two sisters have been trained since they were children to torture and take life. They are the most feared trio on the continent, but they are also wild and unpredictable. A tragic night has Scarlett finding herself locked away in a noble's household, trapped and forgotten, until she's ready to fall into line.

A choice.

Until the day she is presented with a job. If she completes the assignment, her payment will be something she has coveted for 10 years. Revenge against the Fae Fire Prince who brutally killed her mother 10 years ago. Is she willing to sacrifice her ideals for retribution?

A mystery.

But when children begin disappearing from her home, all her plans are put on hold as she races to save the most innocent. With the help of old friends, a jilted lover, and a mysterious newcomer who claims the magic of the Fae is possible in the mortal lands, Scarlett delves into the darkest corners of the world. Forgotten secrets will come to light, and she will discover the darkness extends far beyond her own kingdom.

Lady of Darkness is book 1of 5 in the Lady of Darkness series. It is a new adult, dark fantasy romance novel. It features slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers troupes and may have triggers of love-hate themes, sexual scenes, references to sexual trauma, violence, and jealous/possessive themes. It is part of a series and does end on a cliffhanger. Fans of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Raven Kennedy will fall in love with this series.

©2021 Melissa K. Roehrich (P)2023 Melissa K. Roehrich

Great but room for potential.

I like the book, sure it has its moments where you want the main character to rally her mind and move on, but critically thinking from a perspective that she is in fact a person whose been through trauma, dealt with others trauma, and had to endure more than others its kind of relatable. The world building is great, the fantastical background hinged with magic and races and a historical foundation of the realm is an added bonus. Although I am probably a low percentage of my kind that read this stuff. I see mostly woman read these kinds of books, but a straight married man can become interested in romance too.

Loved it !

Absolutely love this story. I wish audible would keep up with having an entire series available to listen to. It’s really hard when there is only one or two books in a five book series available. I have been an audible user for over 10 years. In the beginning they had more completed series available to listen to lately. It is more of the one or two only please do better.

FMC is so annoying

This story would be good, it really would. But the FMC is so annoying. Her character is supposed to be a bad ass but she is constantly getting captured. Throwing temper tantrums. Acting like she is betrayed, when she is not. It was hard to finish. The narrator was good.

Great start for my next series

If you’re a fan of ACOTAR and Fourth Wing then this is right up your alley!! Laura does an amazing job narrating- she just pulls you right in and you can’t stop listening! I can’t wait for book two!!

So Amazing!!

This book was so good! I was entertained the whole time. The narrator was up amazing. It was so entertaining to listen to the story and also read along on the Kindle Unlimited. This was one of the best fantasy romance enemies to lovers vibes, type of book that I have read in a long time with a strong, female character, who is an assassin Type girly. This book gets five stars from me hands-down!

Discount Aelin

Oh- a young girl with light hair and eyes, who lost her parents gets taken in by an assassin lord, turns out to be powerful Fae, likes to read and play the piano?
Narrator is good but this is trying really really hard to be something it’s not.
I wish everyone would stop jumping on the SJM train and just make cool, different fantasy stories.

Had room for Potential...

Hmm... I'm giving this book 3 stars overall, & if i could it'd be 2.5 stars but with narration I'm giving it 3, bc this book had room for potential & the general idea of the story and the main character was good, but it didn't keep me roped in all the way bc of how anti climatic events were and how chaotic the characters were in this first book with little to no development. I wish I could have loved Scarlets character a little bit more, but I didn't bc she was the biggest headache out of everyone in this book & I feel like the author just threw in a little bit of everything she wanted for a main female character and didn't keep Scarlets character as consistent as she should have. I loved the idea of scarlet being a strong badass, but the author made her like that only for anticlimactic moments that didnt tie in very well to the story. & I could go on about these little details about scarlet that felt so unreal for her supposed character but I would digress, anyways, like I said has potential, but overall was a bit of a headache just trying to keep up.

Best audiobook I’ve heard in years

I’ve read this book before & it was already one of my fav series of all time. This narrator does SUCH an amazing job with the characters, but the emotion behind them is what makes this one of the best I’ve ever listened to. I’m so excited for the rest of these audiobooks to come out for this series!!

Loved it!

This was such an interesting and engaging story, it keeps you guessing with the plot and what is going to happen with Scarlett! She is such a multi-faceted character!

So much potential

This story could have been epic. The world building, the story line, it was great but the FMC was sadly so disappointing. I seem to say this a lot lately, please don’t make a main point of the FMC be that she’s this feared assassin to only have her shutdown every single time something happens. The 1st of the 2 love interest became cringy and annoying and lost any purpose in being in the story. The MMC and the other characters in their circle were great and shows the authors ability in creating likable, relatable characters. I will read then next book as I have hope for the characters growth and I do like the authors writing style.