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The Dark Lord's Guide to Dating (Guides to Villany and Love #1) by Tiffany Hunt

Genre:
Romantasy, Fantasy, Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Magic, Dark, Adult, Cozy, Humor, Forced Proximity

Publication Date:
June 19, 2025

Page Numbers:
532

Read/Finished Date:
July 16th, 2025 - July 18th, 2025

Rating:
DNF'ed @ 60%

Premise:

Step Kidnap someone cute.

Step Force her into marriage.

Step Try not to get feelings.

When Dark Lord Kazimir Blackrose kidnaps Lady Arabella for a forced marriage, he expects an obedient, trembling bride. What he gets is a knife to the throat and a furious woman with her own terms. He may need her heroic bloodline to achieve ultimate dominion, but she's not about to make this easy for him.

Arabella has already survived her father's tower prison and a lifetime of being treated like property. Being abducted by the realm's most notorious villain is just another Tuesday. If she must be married to the infuriating (and infuriatingly attractive) Dark Lord, she'll do it on her freedom within his fortress, hands strictly to himself, and complete honesty about his plans.

But when his plans go awry, Kazimir faces his most terrifying challenge yet. He must actually date his own wife. Between awkward dinners, magical training sessions, and playing golf with the eyeballs of his enemies, his villainous seduction plans are failing spectacularly.

As they navigate magical explosions and jealous exes, they discover a far more terrifying prospect than war or magical

They might actually be falling for each other.

A villain and his captive bride discover that magical artifacts, ancient conspiracies, and unconventional dating activities make for one hell of a honeymoon in this dark and sexy fantasy romance.

Review:

I loved the premise of the novel. The idea of the villain falling first is always fun and let's not forget all those tongue-in-cheek chapter titles. The downside: the novel is LONG. It seems to be mostly filled with fillers than an actual plot. I get the idea that Arabella needs to be trained and Kazimir needs to woo his wife for the artifact to finally work, but the story did not need to be the length it was. I ended up bored sixty percent into the novel. I considered skimming the rest of the novel, but I felt it wasn't worth it.

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author: tiffany hunt, series: guides to villany and love