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Periculum: Unus (Devil's Playground Book 1) Kindle Edition

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Tragic and Twisted fell in love...

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 she navigates her way through Hell in the form of an opulent city. There’s one person who stands out among the others.

He has a gorgeous face and a darkly enigmatic aura. Being drawn to him is inevitable, but staying by his side becomes a necessity for survival. 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, those that make it out of this alive will never be the same people they once were.

**Author Note**
Twistedly ambiguous romance, unhinged MCs, and varying content some may find distressing or distasteful. I strongly advise new readers to check the CW or author note inside.

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Devil's Playground
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23 April 2020
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B083FYZXZ1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ BB PUBLISHING (23 April 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1898 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 282 pages

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Lover of all things twisted and unusual Natalie Bennett writes romantic horror and dark romance where the villain always gets the girl. When she isn't behind her PC she can be found reading, caring for her family and their fur babies, and trying to adult. You can find her fantasy and PNR titles beneath her pen name Mae Royal.

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Siobhan

An addictive dark new adult romance

Reviewed in Australia on 23 April 2020

I am actually at a loss for words in how to describe this deliciously twisted book 🤣 all I know is I devoured it in one sitting and need more!!!

It is creepy, gruesome, depraved and totally addictive. I guess it is kind of like a horror mixed with a twisted kind of romance that still managed to have me swooning over the anti-hero Ciaran... not sure what that says about me 🤣🤣

I can't say much without giving anything away but if you like dark and sinister stories definitely check this one out. Be warned, it is not for the faint hearted 🖤

It ended with a cliffhanger that has left me with so many questions! I cannot wait for the next book in the series.

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The hot mess library

Welcome to the Devil's Playground!

Reviewed in Australia on 23 April 2020

Periculum is book one in the ‘Devil’s Playground’ series by Natalie Bennett and boy is it going to mess with your mind! The book focuses on Liliana Serpine, a girl who throughout the story we don’t know much about, apart from the fact that she comes from an influential, old family. At the end of her holidays with her girlfriends Grace and Mel, they are involved in a series of events which lands them in the kill or be killed zone.

This book introduces a lot of characters at one, but has a big focus on Ciaran and his band of brothers who we see throughout the story. But the main focus is certainly on Lana and Ciaran as they play a game of cat and mouse without any real answers. The book takes all the characters through the ‘Devil’s Playground’, where Lana seems to be the main precursor to the event, but doesn’t understand why. It is only through reading the book that we see she has similar non emotive traits like Ciaran, but he definitely has his own agenda, which I guess we’re going to have to wait until book two to figure out what it was. There is a strange relationship between Lana and Ciaran, as though they know each other before but Lana doesn’t just know where, as well as some sexual tension which is off the charts.

Basically, the book is a cross between ‘The Purge’, American Horror Story’ and a classic murder mystery. You never know who to trust and what everyone’s end game is going to be. There is a game to be played and Lana and her friends are definitely in the middle of it. We do know that it all relates back to their ‘families’ but you can’t quite grasp that thread yet!

There are certainly some triggers to this book and it isn’t for the faint hearted by any means! If you do read this book, beware that you are going to go on a hedonistic ride of the demented senses!

ARC received for a fair, honest and sometimes long review 😊

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Twisted tale

Reviewed in Australia on 23 November 2021

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This is a twisted and unusual tale for sure. Hints of 90’s films, a little AHS and very short lived characters, all thrown in at once.

Ciaran and Lana were a touch predictable, as the theme above suggested. It still progressed quickly. Not a romance as such. Lots of inappropriately timed seggs though.

Add a cliffy, it’s an interesting idea. Dark themes certainly.

Very short double spaced read. Pretty much a novella.

Dropped a star straight away based on errors for me. Reading as a physical book the fine line between a good proof and a pleasant read was absent.

Reviewed in Australia on 24 April 2020

Wow this book is definitely one of the craziest books I have ever read. It took me on a damn ride I did not won't to get off. I don't think i've ever read a book quite like this. The main characters were NUTS. It was full of suspense, danger mystery and all the steam you all love. I need the next book asap!

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Darcy

My all time favourite 😍

Reviewed in Australia on 18 July 2021

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I think this is now one of my all time favourite series ever!

I was so excited starting this book and it did not disappoint in any way, shape or form. I absolutely love the theme, it has the purge meets hunger games feels too it!! Add in some forbidden romance, riddles and family drama…. I was hooked from the beginning.

I don’t know what it is about a psychopath that will do anything for his girl that drags me in but i am here for it 🤤

“We’re all full of hellish intent, demons wrapped in pretty packaging. The more beautiful someone is, the more vicious those demons tend to be”

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Megan Alexander

Oh my god

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2023

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What a bloody amazing first book in the series. I am obsessed... purge meets saw with the dark romance and hot smut 🔥 everything I need in a book. The cliffhanger though... thank god the next book is out!

Candace Mel

Whoa

Reviewed in Canada on 8 October 2020

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I need more!!!! This book was phenomenal!!! It was so unique and dark and disturbing, I couldn’t read it fast enough. This was the most epic game ever played, if Jumanji and the purge had a messed up inbred love child, this would be it! I’m choked I have to wait for the second book...I need answers!!!!

Joyffree

10 bloody stars - “That’s what you are, my perfect puppet.”

Reviewed in the United States on 23 April 2020

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10 bloody stars

“We’re all full of hellish intent, demons wrapped in pretty packages. The more beautiful someone is, the more vicious those demons tend to be.”

This series may actually give the Badlands a run for the most psychotic cast members.

I loved every bloody moment!!

This was like the fun house at the fair
Each turn presented you with a new hurdle
Mirrors that twisted reality
Rooms that became cages fraught with trepidation
Tunnels that turned you in circles -
denying you any footing until your stomach was a touch queasy
and your reality a bit skewed

This was Periculum - I do not know how else to sum up how it affected me

I am a big fan of Bennett's work
Her ability to get my heart pumping
To make my stomach clench
To break my mind just a touch
And she did that with Periculum

“That’s what you are, my perfect puppet.”
"When I tug on your strings, you come to life.”

Lilliana and her friends were headed home -
back to being nothing more than the expensive bobbles that would unite and adorn another generation of "families" - so not telling (said in a sing-song voice)
What they didn't expect was the pit stop that would alter their reality.
The price?
Just a life, or two. Why not make it three?
From the get, Lilliana was not that easily swayed to just follow along. Being a sheep was never her forte.
But alas our little rebellious lad caught the eye of one Ciaran, that devilishly handsome man, who was dead set on being her Sheppard.
Who could say no to that?

My heart is still beating erratically
WTH just happened
This ends on a cliff hanger folks but the next in series is just around the corner

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Twisted in all the right ways

Reviewed in Canada on 23 June 2020

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This was a creepy twisted book ,but I loved it! A spine tingling read for sure and the masked hunters were a nice touch. Can't wait to read book 2

Lo

so so good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 August 2022

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Couldn’t have predicted what was going to happen next, literally read this all at once because I couldn’t put it down! So excited for the rest of the series.

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