Lights Out - Navessa Allen

Lights Out

By Navessa Allen

  • Release Date: 2024-08-06
  • Genre: New Adult Romance
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 1,383 Ratings

Description

#1 New York Times bestselling series and Instant USA TODAY Bestseller

The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you’ve never seen before. Can you handle the ride?


I want someone with a soul as black as night. Someone who would burn the world down for me and not lose a single minute of sleep over it.

Trauma nurse Aly Cappellucci doesn’t need any more kinks. She likes the one she’s landed on just fine. To her, nothing could top the masked men she follows online. Unless one of those men was shirtless, heavily tattooed, and waiting for her in her bedroom. She dreams about being hunted by one in particular, of him chasing her down and doing deliciously dark things to her willing body. She never could have guessed that by sending one drunken text, those dreams would become her new reality.

I want things most people don’t, craving darkness and depravity instead of light and love.

Josh Hammond has spent his life avoiding the limelight, but his online persona is another story. At night, he posts masked thirst traps for his millions of fans to drool over, but one follower has caught his eye: Aly. After reading a comment begging him to break into her house wearing a mask, he decides to take her up on her offer.

Together, Aly and Josh live out their darkest fantasies, unaware that Aly has captured the attention of someone else. Someone with far more sinister intentions than a little light stalking. As Josh turns from predator to protector and the stakes heighten, he must ask himself how far he’s willing to go for the woman he’s obsessed with.

Lights Out is a fast-paced dark romance with a morally gray male lead. Some themes and scenes may be disturbing to readers. Please check the TWs at the beginning of the book.

Tropes
Stalker romance
Morally grey MMC
Masked stalker
He falls first
Black cat x golden retriever
Kink friendly

Reviews

  • Disappointing

    2
    By Lorelions
    I read this because of all the fanfare around it, but was very disappointed. I would not categorize this as a dark romance really at all. The dark romance aspect was very quickly thrown out, and it just turned into a gushy romance that really tried to lean heavily into a comedic aspect. There were a few genuinely funny moments, but most of it was really forced and hackneyed. The amount of times the leads use girlfriend/boyfriend to refer to one another and bumped foreheads became unbearable for me by the end. I really thought it had a lot of potential with the set up at the beginning, but it just went off the rails pretty quickly.
  • Fantastic!

    5
    By megs9443
    I loved it and I cannot wait to read the second book.
  • Couldn’t put it down

    5
    By Niferbops
    I thoroughly loved this book and I was super sad when it ended. It’s one of those books where I never wanted to finish it while at the same time could not put it down. It’s not dark and twisted, so if that’s what you’re looking for then this isn’t the book for you. The trigger warnings are a little overboard, in my opinion, as the book really isn’t dark. If you love spicy romance books with well written characters and plot lines along with fun comedic timing and happily ever afters, then this is the book for you. I loved it from start to finish.
  • Extra spicy! 🔥

    4
    By Taylor Muzio
    This exciting read was an extra spicy romance with an unexpected murder scene!
  • Masked muscle man what else do you need ?

    5
    By Juhvey
    Rate 10/10 !!! Couldn’t stop reading , heart beating out of my chest
  • Witty & Wild

    5
    By EmmalikeAlot
    Humor and Happiness, this book skips the misunderstanding and naïvety of other characters and shows both a strong FL and ML who counter each other well and keep the comedy rolling. I mean who wouldn’t love a cyber security nerd!
  • Absolutely loved it

    5
    By cathyely
    I don’t think I’ve EVER read a book that fast. Thank you for so much for letting me escape reality in this book. On to the next!
  • I loved it.

    5
    By Cara_ayyee
    Definitely very tame under the “dark romance” genre, but overall still a wonderful read. Can’t wait for the next one!
  • Masterpiece

    5
    By Chewbaby02
    Never quit writing, I wish I could read it for the first time again (sigh) I guess I’ll have to settle for the 5th..
  • Had me giggling

    5
    By PRpretty
    Need. More