Which we didn t have in book 1and it says it was edited Let s hope the editor can do a better job with Kai and Breck s storyshould he choose to accept the mission 2. 5 stars rounded up Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 This was 1 HOT2 Angsty3 Heartbreaking 4 Romantic5 HOTMax was 1 STUPID2 Jealous 3 Possesive 4 Growly5 Sexy AFSean was 1 The sweetest bb2 Fearless3 Level headed 4 Romantic 5 Hopeful Thank the lord that Max took his head out of his a Because DUDE JUST LET SEAN LOVE YOU Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 Kora Knight brings you the final chapter of Max Sean s story with Revived This story is a continuation of Unearthed.

To expand the parameters of this continuing story arc It will be very interesting to find out what s going on with Kai and Breck My half star deduction was for two specific reasons One was my personal preference that there had been some mention of counseling for their emotional issues However I never felt that the BDSM was shown or used as a cure for anything It was just shown as a way they built the necessary trust that was needed I did feel that Max s moment of epiphany was not given quite enough page time after all the self inflicted struggles he put himself through to get there. You will get far out of Max s story if you read Tad and Scott s story first If you enjoy hurt comfort Max s story really hit that trope out of the ballpark I really.

Because his problem isn t that he can t love but rather that when he loves he loves BIG as in ALL IN and loss is just something he can t deal with and so he lives but isn t alive Be prepared for Max being all sorts of a hole in his efforts to keep Sean out and many times I wanted to grab a ball peen hammer and bash his brains in because Sean is just so perfect for him and wanting to be with him and even when he knows this is true he fights and resists with all he s got which sometime can be cruel as hell He is the guy who will bring a gun to a knife fight. Now comes the fight to revive it Love Just when Max Kelley thought he d eradicated it from his life for good it snuck back in in the form of his beautiful new sub Sean Something that Max is far from happy about In fact he fights it tooth and nail Having his world decimated was hell on earth an experience he d go to any lengths to avoid repeating Problem is while his head is determined to protect his heart his heart can t stop thinking about Sean Sean his perfect sub his perfect match his perfect everything Which makes him that much of a threat Were Max to claim him and then lose him the devastation would be far greater than even Kevin s death So in order to ensure his heart and soul stay intact he must once again eradicate love from his life Eradicate Sean from his world But Sean is a scrapper just like Max and refuses to give up without a fight In their final showdown of fiery passion and wills whose heart will come out in one piece Warning This erotic gay BDSM romance contains intensely explicit sexual scenes both inside and out of the dungeon Note from the author In keeping with the promise I made to my Upending Tad devotees I ve included a small side story with Tad and Scott in book 2 where we delve a bit further into the developments of their relationship and all the wonderful ways they ve been keeping each other s hearts pounding So be prepared for a few character point of views Tad and Scott aren t going anywhere XXO Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 ARC received as part of blog tour I just frigging loved this I ll tell you why 1 Sean 2 Sean Max HOT emotional touching sweet funny and HOT 3 Scott and Max friendship4 More Scott5 More Tad 6 Which meant Tad Scott together 7 More Tad friends8 Jonah9 Additional glimpse into Kai and Breck10 Sean That seems a lot going on but oh I loved it alright This picks up right where Unearthed ended This is really about Sean forging ahead with his convictions about him and Max This is really about Max grappling with his emotions and being able to understand and accept what s happening with him and Sean. If it s still not clear while Max is no chopped liver Sean totally sealed the deal for me I loved everything about him I loved his confidence his doubts his perseverance his humor his everything GAH Sean s da man Max actions and thoughts challenged me but he also stole my heart and by his flawed actions and thoughts he also made Sean shine Not that he s not worthy of Sean because he totally is For all his challenges Max is a man who loves and cares deeply even when he wasn t ready to acknowledge it That in itself made him endearing albeit in a frustrating manner. Nevertheless I don t think I could ve asked for anything with this emotional conclusion to their story All the characters I ve come to enjoy and love made their appearance Kora didn t shy away from societal problems She handled it deftly without weighing the story down The story tugged the heartstrings Their union sizzled Kora thank you for giving me another couple to love That s it it s decided you write it I ll read it Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 Well I have to admit that for my first completed read of 2017 this was a lot of a let down and SO disappointing after being hotly anticipated Yet another whopper of a tale from Kora which was in dire need of an editor s cutting edgeliterally Waay too long about 200 pages too long and I freely admit to skimming Max s wallowing in his own quagmire of angst self denial and cowardice got pretty tiresome after a while i. e for 3 4 of the story he definitely needed a good smack upside the head or a kick up the a e and after falling in love with Unearthed a few months ago I felt somewhat cheated There was way too much Tad and Scottthey ve had their series and as much as I loved both of them this was supposedly the second part of the Max and Sean show It was time for Max to get his head out of his a e and rise like a Phoenix from the ashes of his first relationship Kevin s suicide and all How Sean kept putting up with his so called Dom s black moods changes of mind and refusal to give anything of himself and still keep his good humour and his sanity was pretty amazingI loved Sean to bits and IMHO he deserved a much better person than Max but the heart wants what it wants of course Oh and another minor nigglewe still only have a HFN and not a HEA so that wasn t a hit with me either. There were numerous typos and silly word endings book one in the Duology and you need to read them in order We met our MC in book one so I am not going to discuss them a lot as nothing has changed with the two Max is still the same broken man he was when we met him not believing in happiness or love Sean is still trying to get his Dom to see him as than a boy toy and admit there is something between them This is pretty much what occurs for 80% of the story and while we occasionally see Max slip up and give in to Sean he snaps out of it rather quickly Leaving Sean and the reader with emotional whiplash I love good ol angst but this almost crossed the line of being redundant and torture the back and forth was almost too much I mean realistically would Sean keep torturing himself like that I guess that s up to each individual reader In addition to the whiplash aspect of the story this book has additional characters thrown into the storyline from out of nowhere we are in the life of Tad While this may not bother readers who have read the other series it was confusing to me I felt it took away from Max and Sean s story as one moment you are reading about the MC and next page it s Tad s romance So this over 400 pages in length book is not all for Max and Sean be ready for that With that being said it s not a bad book I was let down yes But I still enjoyed the story of Max and Sean I appreciated that the story was told in dual POV and I can safely say after reading this story I will never see a feather duster again and NOT think of this book If I was to measure this story on kink alone it would be 5 blazing stars I would have loved to see of Max and Sean AFTER their back and forth was over we barely touched the surface on how good they are going to be together after all the work to get there You unearthed my heart and then you revived my soul is what Max says to Sean and while this is true we are left with a bereft HFN feeling at the end when it could have been so much 3. 5 Stars Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 I waited for this story since my love Red was first introduced in Upending Tad Bundle Volumes 1 2 3 I felt like he had a story I wanted to know it This is than story than I was waiting for than book 1 don t get me wrong I really enjoyed that book but this one was in the timeline that I knew Things with Max and Sean are exactly were we left them Max is a closed off man he thinks that by shutting down his feelings he is protecting himself. Sean is such a great guy I like him for Max because he is not a pushover he might submit to Max in his dungeon but he is not going to let Max get away with treating bad The relationship took some time this book is really long I love them and everything about them but gosh was this book long. I loved seeing Max heal it was slow honestly I wanted to beat some sense into him because he was a stubborn man but he came around and realized that Sean is someone he needs in his life The epilogue is a HFN with the promise of a HEA. I would have love to see of Max and Sean as a couple I mean it s very long BUT I m not complaining it was a very satisfying ot read their journey All in all if you like slow build romance and good bdsm I totally recommend to read this series Kora knows how to write sex but she knows how to create good characters with good backstories too. We get a little teaser for the next couple and man I can t wait for it Kai pushes all my buttons ARC provided by author in exchange of an honest review Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2

Revived (The Dungeon Black Duology #2) By Kora Knight

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I get it I m long winded too But this was a good story that would have benefited greatly from a cutthroat edit that made the book significantly shorter like 100 150 pages shorter but tightened up the storytelling so that the scenes had a little oompf And this is totally a personal thing but by about the half way point in this book and certainly by 75% on my Kindle I was so over the fact that a lot of the difficulties between the MCs still stemmed from Max s inability to come clean with Sean about Kevin s death Like at some point you have to put your big boy pants on and use your words and I felt like it took Max an unrealistically long time to reach this point. Don t throw things at me ducks in anticipation but I didn t really enjoy breaking away from Max and Sean in their own novel to follow up with extra scenes that belonged in the Up ending Tad series Like they had their shining moments let s leave it at that I love them as a couple but I had to attention or emotion to give them in this series Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 So so much love for this book and I can see why With a big edit I would have enjoyed it a whole heap too Sadly all the issues I had with the first book in this duology were not only still present but in greater quantities To the point that this time I really started skimming from about 60% onwards. What s that old adage The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result Well it applied two fold to my experience reading this book. The first is the book itself Characters and plot both A quarter of the words could have been cut from this story without losing any nuances in the plot So much of the overwhelming naval gazing was just repetitive Each time Sean or Max went into extended internal soliloquy it was to rehash everything we d learned not just from the first book but from the previous internal soliloquy as well This is not character development nor is it plot progression As with their thoughts the characters didn t change much either They both dived headlong into the same mistakes over and over There s only so many times he s so fricken hot I can t resist can be a reason for ignoring your own decision to not screw again The amount of times Max and Sean just went at it knowing it was wrong gah As with everything else endless sex scenes get repetitive. The second was me The amount of times I got frustrated with chunk after chunk of the same angst over and over again and put the book down only to pick it up again minutes later thinking maybe something new would crop up in the next couple of pages got ridiculous Because I rarely found what I was after And when I did get some character development it felt far too late and for all the proceeding belabouring of the same issue far too instant. I think I do still prefer Tad and Scott to Max and Sean but after this I m not totally certain Knight said she d listened to the readers desire for Tad and Scott so she added chapters from their POVs and of their continuing story For this reader it didn t work It just dragged Max and Sean s story out even needlessly If we were to get Tad and Scott they should have had their own story What was presented here by necessity of this being Max and Sean s story felt shallow and pointless There was no substance to their little side arc And sadly Tad didn t feel as Tad ish as he was in his own stories I miss that Tad. After this I m pretty sure I m not going to join in for Kai and Breck or Ledger and Jonah From the brief glimpses given here their stories seem like they may be as angsty and overbearing as this one Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 4. 5 stars rounded up Because Sean This is the sequel to Unearthed Max and Sean s story which runs concurrently with Upending Tad right into through much of this story It is a very long book but it had a lot of story to tell and I liked not having it split up into too many smaller installments Max is one incredibly broken man and worse he knows it but clings to it It s not mentioned in the book but I think it would be a form of PTSD I really liked Sean so determined and focused on trying to get Max to see him as than a part time sub Max is determined to keep it confined to his dungeon but their dynamic is remarkable The scenes they do together are scorching hot I d still call it fairly moderate BDSM Nothing was too extreme just occasionally prolonged but in a good way Extra points for inventive and inappropriate use of a hand held power tool Kora Knight seems to really know her kink and there was nothing that set off my ick alert There was also no take the sub to the club action or any sugar kink either It s not just Max and Sean s story as Tad and Scott s continuing relationship is integrated It becomes crucial to the story since Scott is Max s best friend Sean s roommate Jonah and Tad and Scott s friends are also blended in really enjoyed this and I ll be one clicking Kora Knight for future books Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 Hmmm where to start Well first things first you definitely need to read part 1 of The Dungeon Black Duology before reading this book because in reality this is really just one long necessarily so book split in two parts Though Scott Tad figure somewhat prominently here you could be a stranger to the Upending Tad series but seriously why would you deny yourself such pleasure Okay that s enough of my stalling I want to give a concise and helpful review for other readers but may just find myself doing Happy dance fist bumps but I ll give it a go. Revived starts exactly where Unearthed ended Max is still trying to convince himself that his life will continue as it was that Sean will just be his perfectly matched sub and nothing What Max hasn t counted on is who Sean is strong brave resilient curious open minded and importantly honest with himself what his feelings are and willing to act on them Man do these attributes come in handy when dealing with Max who can be in his own words a douche rocket But is also worth fighting for and who and what Sean wants Due to his past Kevin s suicide Max has erected not just a wall but like a whole fortress to shield himself from any future pain the surprise player Kai to get through to him. e to love and be loved in return is a long and hard one because he was so bound tight in his armor There are some quite extended sex scenes mostly of the BDSM variety because duh the story is about Max He is a Dom Period In many books the sex scenes are just super sexy times or sometimes filler you can skim over if you want to However Kora s guys and in this Duology particularly the sex is where the communication be it verbal or otherwise happens Where true intimacy comes into play and not just because people are naked physically but because these are the moments when they are vulnerable and their souls are naked too Open to be touched in their intimate core Exposed Good things come of this. Ultimately Sean is the hero of this story The person who without any guarantees keeps putting his heart on a platter as an offering of love and if that isn t a hero I don t know what is But I will say that Scott my twin wink is the one to give Max the final push and that is so fitting because they are brothers in the purest sense bound by love and shared experiences even finding their happy roughly at the same time. This book and I mean Parts 1 2 will take you on a emotional but ultimately satisfying roller coaster of a ride Because the hard won things are the ones we cherish the most and in their own way Max and Sean clawed their way to a HEA Thanks to Kora for delivering flawlessly on the promise of these two characters and keeping true to an original vision of this group of friends. Extra points I did a happy dance every time I got a glimpse of Scott Tad and how happy they are The appearances of Jay Marcie and Ned are icing on the cake and then we have the tasty bait of what will play out between Breck Kai Can t wait for that Even Chad his bat and his buddy we re a welcome sight and so I have one complaint the guys that jumped Tad didn t get their ass beat Maybe Kora can do us a solid and remedy that in the Breck Kai story and also will Jonah Ledger s story be a solo thing a short or woven into the Breck Kai story Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 Una montagna russa costante Meraviglioso 3 Revived The Dungeon Black Duology 2 .

, Like Sean you must have patience and persistence with Max because he is one stubborn S. B and it takes every ounce of Sean s efforts with invaluable assists from Scott and even Tad and.

Love unearthed his heart from the cold hard ground, The upside of this is the we get Tad and Scott This personally didn t bother me because I love them and I was so happy know how their relationship is going, I won t lie the book is long but not gratuitously so Max s journey to finally letting himself be open and vulnerable i: It was good to see Max finally forgive and set free his past because holding on to that misplaced anger had kept him isolated in a prison of his own making.O