Black Forever (Obsidian Book 4)

I really enjoyed the first three books, but I was very upset by the ending of the third book. It was cheating, end of story. I've spent the last week wondering how the author could possibly reconcile the lying and cheating of the male character when it was stated clearly in the previous books that he was a man of his word. This book turned a great romance into a tragic character study.********* SPOILERS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **************************1 ) he lied to her for six months in the first book, and then he lied and cheated on her repeatedly in this book. Cheaters always say two things: one, they meant nothing to me and two, it's your fault you're not giving me what I need so I had to get it somewhere else. The only remorse they seem to feel is remorse about getting caught. Calloway's attitude is very cold and callous in this regard, he doesn't really care how badly he has hurt her because his own needs are more important. He deceives her for months, again, rather than break up with her. It is not romantic to have sexualized experiences with subs behind your girlfriends back in order to try and save your relationship. It is not romantic that the male character gets so angry he has to whip his sub before he can go back and finish an argument with his girlfriend. His extreme anger issues are disturbing and his selfishness is more important than the pain he causes her.2 ) Rome never lies to him and never cheats on him. Her resistance to the "sub" way of life is due to her repeated traumas from childhood and from her last boyfriend, we are talking molestation and sexual assault, something that Cal finds to be inconvenient to his needs. His lack of empathy is very disturbing. Remember he is supposed to love her.3 ) He is also has a traumatic sexual past but has no desire to get counseling because he sees nothing wrong with destroying his relationship with the only woman he's ever loved in order to continue his previous lifestyle.4 ) Rome never gets counseling either, despite the fact that she has been repeatedly molested, stalked and assaulted..5 ) The fact that he tries to save her after being shot is ridiculous. If he had really had wanted to save her, he should've called the cops rather than try and reach her himself. I mean, he had been shot in the stomach. It is unrealistic in the extreme.6 ) he shows a lot of frustration because she will not talk to him about her past traumas. However, in the end when she tries to tell him about it, he shuts her down and says nope I don't want to hear it.7 ) it's interesting that during their D/s relationship she gets punished for not obeying him, for annoying him, for arguing with him. And yet he is never really punished for his sins. So my take away is that she has to get in line with his demands, but he never has to face the consequences of his deceptions, cheating or mistakes.8 ) The most offensive thing, however, is the attitude towards Isabella at the end of the book. He cheated with her, she destroyed their relationship, she harassed both Cal and Rome repeatedly, she held a gun on Cal - and shot him !!! - while Hank kidnapped Rome, not caring what would happen to Rome at the hands of her abusive ex-boyfriend. And yet, Cal says of her in the end 'oh but she was just depressed she's a good girl, go ahead and date her, Christopher '. Christopher being Rome's brother. I cannot imagine a more sick and perverted thing to say in front of Rome, as if Rome had not endured an attempted rape and near-loss of the love of her life because of this woman.And to make it even worse, when Rome dares to argue against this, he just gives her a "Dom" look to force her to submit to his authority, which sadly she does.Ultimately, Callaway gets everything he wants without having to face any emotional cost to his lying cheating ways. He stated several times throughout the books that he really wants to break her, that he will enjoy breaking her, and then he does break her. It's a very sad end for a woman who was so tough, smart and feisty in the beginning. People say that it's compromise, but instead it's winner take all.

Betrayed...Lied to...Misled...I am so upset right nowI am 50% done with this book and at book 4I have never been so tempted to give up! There is NO loyalty here! I hate that he betrayed her, wheather he technically did or not. And I feel betrayed. I bought into the beautiful, loyal man/Dom that wouldn't even entertain deceiving a sub that he didn't care about from book 1. So I thought, yes, he would be honorable. What went wrong? And she begs him to take her back as he's hitting on another woman! Seriously??!! My stomach just hurts!!!I just finished the book, and I am completely disappointed. If you read my blog, you know I hate giving bad reviews. I rarely do it. But I feel horrible. It seems that when you go back and read carefully, Caloway never actually cheated on Rome, but he lied to her and engaged in erotic BDSM play with other women. It reminded me a smidge of Christian and the psycho sub that he bathed, except that was once and there was no deception. And he didn't blame Anna for it. Ugh!!! I'm sorry to do this, but I didn't like this book for that reason,And had I know, I wouldn't have read the series.

Remember in the beginning of book 1 where Rome hits Cal, because she thinks he's a liar and a cheater who hurt her friend. Well...In book 1 we start off with Rome, who is a strong women out there helping people in need, and ends up with a weak doormat, who is willing to do anything to keep the guy. This said guy, cheated on her (yes, it was cheating), and when they broke up, she wasn't eating or sleeping, but the H Cal, was out there living the life. What really got to me, was that all along he said that he's a sadist and that why he needs this, but when they broke up, he finds two girls and orders them around to pleasure themselves, but wait... he can't touch, so he's still good. And then there is Rome's brother. He's basically going behind his sisters back and dealing with Cal, and is also mooching off of Cal, and living in an apartment that Cal is paying for. His advise to his lovely sister was that, yeah he lied and cheated on you, but the problem is with you not him. You need to give him what he needs, and start submitting to this lying, cheating, b******, if you want to be happy. Oh, I would also like to date the girl the love of your life cheated on you with sis.The relationship between Cal and Rome, is what anyone would term as an abusive relationship. We have a man who feels powerful when he embraces his inner monster, and can abuse and beat on women, and we have a women (and here's the most important distinction) who is NOT at masochist, and doesn't like it when Cal hurts and hits her, but is willing to stay with him, because she can't be happy without him. But oh wait, she gets an orgasm, so it's all good, and this must me love. I can honestly say that Cal was the worst H I've ever encountered in a novel. At one point he even acknowledges that he's never going to be happy without Rome, and will never find love again, but he can give up on love, but not beating on women.

I read the entire series and while I enjoyed it enough to read all four, it was not worth the crazy amount of money. I finished all 4 books in 2 and a half days. The continuum was broken a few times. First there was a best friend for about 4 pages in the very beginning of the first book then you never hear about her or from her again. Then Christopher and Jackson know each other in the second book and by the last book they had never met. Cal states in the last book that he went back to sleeping with random people and drinking. But at the end says he never slept with anyone else. Because of the price of the books I would have thought that the Author was more well written and experienced. It had a lot of potential but I feel she rushed it.

The conclusion of a very well written romance. I was with Rome all the way until she caved. The Men are selfish, given her background and the abuse she suffered why would her own brother advise her to go with it. A light spanking on the ask no questions is all nice but a leather belt. She could do better. The guy was all about him, his needs and he rubbed it in her face every chance he got that he'd given up being a dominant for her (his choice). He then beat another woman on the side to feel powerful what an absolute coward. Maybe its just me but he was everything to her lured her in with romance and then went all spitting his dummy out because he couldn't get his own way. Rome should have walked.Good characters and dialogue and a happy-ish ending.Nice series although really frustrating and predictable.

I enjoyed reading the first three books in this series and went to purchase the fourth and final instalment only to find that the price was, in my eyes, a bit steep at £6.99. Despite this, I decided to treat myself as I wanted to find out how this series ended and purchased the kindle book. It started off great and I thought, finally a book that isn't just cut short by a rushed epilogue! However, upon reaching the half way point, the book did indeed cut short and a completely new series started! I'm sorry but for £6.99, surely we should be getting a full book of what we paid for, not half of one and then half of something we didn't even know about!

Amazing story with Calloway and Rome in the 4th book in this series ...absolutely LOVED these books! I just couldn't put them down, an absolute must read and definitely highly recommend. If you like a story with a hot, strong, capable, dominant man and a feisty, strong, independent women, with a rollercoaster ride through their story of love, romance, erotica, heartbreak, sadness, laughs and tears, you won't be disappointed. Victoria Quinn is up there with my top author's to read.

Loved this series read the series in a week . If you liked fifty shades you will love this . From the moment. Cal and Rome met you were just willing them to be together. Definitely will read more from this author . The story focuses on the main characters more than the surrounding characters gives the story more dept and has a wonderful way of drawing you in ... what to read next !

I have now finished all four books in this series. Absolutely loved all of them. However the author is very hard to get hold of,I have asked several times on her social media pages when will the paperbacks be out in the UK over the last few months and find it rude that an author simply doesnt care about their readers