Dark Sexy Knight by Katy Regnery

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Title: Dark Sexy Knight
Author: Katy Regnery
Series: A Modern Fairytale #4
Published by: Indie
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 282
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Fairy Tale Retelling
Potential Triggers: View Spoiler »Violence, non-detailed allusions to sexual assault « Hide Spoiler
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 Beat the Backlist Challenge, Lenoreo's 2019 Diversity Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's 2019 Retellings Reading Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Winter 2018
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My rating:

Blurb:

From New York Times bestselling author Katy Regnery comes another timeless tale of love everlasting!

Loosely inspired by the legend of Camelot, Dark Sexy Knight tells the story of dinner theater knight Colt Lane, who meets down-on-her-luck Verity Gwynn on the worst day of her life. Evicted from their home, Verity and her special-needs brother, Ryan, must find jobs or risk being separated. Colt, who is the furthest-possible thing from a white knight in real life, comes to their unlikely rescue, quickly cementing his place in Verity's heart.

Colt has dark, deeply buried secrets that keep his smile hidden and his eyes down, which has kept people away . . . until he meets Verity, who seems immune to his gruff manners and taciturn ways. The more time Colt spends with her, the more he longs for her sweetness in his life and yearns to be the knight in shining armor she so desperately needs. Certain he will lose her if she learns the truth about his past, he must decide if he can trust her with his yesterday in order to build a beautiful tomorrow.

**Contemporary Romance. Due to profanity, mild violence and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.**

All novels in the ~a modern fairytale~ collection are written as fundraisers.

Dark Sexy Knight is part of the ~a modern fairytale~ collection, which includes six standalone, completely unrelated novels inspired by beloved fairy tales:

The Vixen and the Vet (Beauty & the Beast) - available nowNever Let You Go (Hansel & Gretel) - available nowGinger's Heart (Little Red Riding Hood) - available nowDark Sexy Knight (Camelot) - available nowDon't Speak (The Little Mermaid) - available 2017Swan Song (The Ugly Duckling) - available 2017.

My Review:

4.5 stars — Yay!  Another fairytale success for me!  My reactions have been very mixed with these, so I was so relieved when I was immediately sucked into Colton and Verity’s love story.

I found Colton to be absolutely fascinating.  I loved the extra little bit about the disability he was struggling with, something I had actually never heard of before, but it was dealt with with respect IMO.  I LOVED the way his story arced, and how it developed in the end, and it just made the ending that much more satisfying.

I probably felt a little more strongly about Colton, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t love sweet Verity as well.  I think one of the things I loved the most was that she *was* super sweet, but that that didn’t mean she wasn’t interested in the sexy times.  One can exist in the same space as the other.  I admired how much she loved her brother, and how desperately she tried to make life good for them.

There was great chemistry between our two leads, though as an aside, I laughed at the huge penis because I was just in a conversation about that very thing in romance novels, and how I’m really tired of it.  Ah well.  There was a lot of happiness and giddiness in the romance between Colt and Verity, even despite their insecurities.  It’s like they honestly couldn’t help themselves from falling in love, and there were so many moments that made my heart giddy, and made my tummy tingle.

One of the things I loved most about this story was how Ryan and Melody were portrayed…you could tell the author has personal experience with developmentally disabled individuals, which was confirmed in her note at the end.  Both were just delightful characters who you couldn’t help but fall in love with.  I would like to believe that the kind of torment they both received were exaggerations, but alas…there are cruel people in this world.

In a similar vein, sometimes the obstacles thrust in their way felt a little cliche, and sometimes the secondary characters were a bit too much like caricatures of evil people, but whatever…I think sometimes these fairytale retellings exaggerate those aspects…or else choose to show us the worst of humanity to contrast.  It’s not that I don’t believe people like that exist, it’s more that I don’t believe there would be so many in one place.  Thank god for Joe, otherwise it would be unreasonable.

Basically this was just a feel good love story, where it was easy to root for our hero and heroine, and where I was immensely satisfied with the happily ever after.