My Revenant: MM Dark Romance (Runaways Book 1)

I leave this book in my kindle. Its so good. I’m so thankful for this author and their time. They write angst in a way that isnt cringe or boring. They write love in a really unquie way i couldn’t do anything but believe. It was a beautiful story and the amount of possessive i feel most books are afraid to go but its what i’ve been looking for for so long. Ronan Marlow, you are an incredible author and i hope you stay true to yourself. You know what youre doing. Don’t get clouded by reviews or warp your writing to fit someone elses narrative. I will always come back to your work. I really really loved this book. Youre doing something different and refreshing.

Rating: 4 ⭐️ Format: 🎧📖 Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ What an absolute beast of a debut novel!! This was sooo good. These men are insanely toxic but they fit each other so well. I love how the author set up for the next books because I want to know what exactly is happening. Let’s talk about Jonah, I didn’t know what he had in him but this man is a ride or die literally. He will pop hands for his man and I love an energy like that. Dex was just 🥹. I love my broken babies and can’t wait to see them more.

"But he wasn't the only thing hunting me down. There was something bigger. Something worse. The truth" I have so many highlights in this book, so many good quotes. And I just love how it's written. The dual pov of past and present works really well (at least for me personally). It's like we're running away from whatever secret/past with Jonah, and as we run we see more and more pieces come together. The story felt well paced, and at no point did I feel like I knew what would happen next. Rather the opposite, the more we ran, the more desperate I got to finally know what is chasing/haunting us. It hooked me from the first chapter, and I couldn't put it down. Lost boys and found family is some of my fav tropes. Jonah and Dex together is just two pieces of a whole, and you never question their connection. Desperate, obsessive and possessive. I loved it! And loved it even more when it didn't say "the end", but the end for now. I'm looking forward to seeing these guys again. Please do remember to read the TW, and stay safe, as the title states; this is a dark romance. "I wished he were right, though. I wished I were the devil. I wished I were this vile, evil thing incapable of love. But I wasn't. I was human. And I craved love so much it made me sick. Maybe, just maybe, he could be the one to love me."

"Ghosts are real. I know, because I'm being haunted by one." "You seem like someone who shouldn't be alone right now." "There was a fire inside him, wild and untamed. I wanted to watch it burn." "A raging fire, heated and set on destruction. Well, I was the ocean, raging in a whole different way. Fierce. Wild. Free. Untamable. What happens when a wildfire meets the sea?" "Pale eyes locked onto mine---water on fire---like I was the only thing he could see. And it did feel like he saw me, like he actually looked at me and saw everything that was inside me." "Why am I drawn to you?" "Because something in you is the same as something in me. Feral dogs seek feral dogs." "Hate me more. Despise me, Rabbit. Loathe me. Detest me. Abhor me and let me feel it. Let me taste the hatred on your lips, let me drink it from your skin and feel the heat of it burning inside you. Burn me with it." "I was burned and he was frozen and neither of us knew how to love at the correct temperature because we'd never known it." "Show me. Let me feel it. Love me, Devil. Show me I'm yours. Love me and let me feel it. Let me taste the love on your lips, let me drink it from your skin and feel the heat of it burning inside me. Burn me with it." This was such a phenomenal debut. This was a masterpiece. I am in awe of how well this story was written. This is definitely a top book of 2025 for me. I normally don't like dual timelines in books, but the flow of the timelines and events matched up…

What a great debut book. Ronan is one of my favorite authors now, and I will be reading the next book. Both of these men are so broken. They are together through pure will and crazy love. Jonah turned out to be a lot crazier than I was expecting, and Dex was not nearly as bad as he was made out to be. The story told in the past gave me a sense of dread, but it was beautifully pulled together at the end.