The Deepest Well

Dominion, Book 1

By: Juliette Cross

Narrated by: Allie Rose

The same night Lady Katherine Blakely discovers just what a monster her husband is, she meets a charming stranger, a gentleman from top to toe, not a wolf in gallant evening dress as so many of them are. But even he is not all that he seems.

Lord George Draconis Thornton has returned from abroad as Earl of Melbourne. As the commander of the Dominus Daemonum, demon hunters set on earth to purge the world of creatures corrupting mankind, his mission is to expel the demon prince, Damas, back to the underworld before he corrupts his last remaining descendant. But a golden-haired beauty derails his plans. Determined to save her from an abusive marriage, he loses his way. And the price for his failure will be the greatest loss he has felt in all the centuries he has lived on earth.

Contains mature themes.

©2016 Juliette Cross (P)2022 Tantor

Drawn out

This was a very drown out story, good writing the story was good don’t get me wrong but it took forever to get there.
Lots of abuse Kat goes threw. Glad with the ending.

Hmm this one was a miss for me

Skip it.
In a nutshell: Narrator isn’t the best, almost no steam, low spice, hardly any romance, ending is confusing, lackluster hero/MMC, wanted to smack fmc, boring/drags, felt like side characters backstory prequel/spin off.

[Full Review] ⬇️

I just finished it, and the ending was very confusing. Not so much the series of events but how this suddenly seems like an afterthought prequel novela. Like the characters are people you would recognize from some other book and this is there spinoff history. Also the narrator, while not terrible, doesn’t do much for the story.
Besides the obviously bigger plot/storyline, I wasn’t a fan of how the romance played out. Personally I thought the demon was hotter, more interesting, and treated her really well considering(him being evil etc etc). I’m left with that feeling of “why the hell did I just listen to all that?”. Again, strong feeling this is additional background info for different books. It was on the boring side, I wanted to slap the shit out of the fmc, and there’s not even close to enough steam to make up for anything. Luckily this book was free . I’m strongly considering getting the next book since the MMC is a demon. I’m hoping that will be way hotter, and hopefully a lot less sweet soft vanilla!
I just discovered this author and like her work(for the most part. I love her world builds at the very least). The first book I listened to was The Wraith King, and the steam in that book was much darker(better!) than what Iv been coming across in her other earlier books. That’s definitely a personal preference thing. For this book though, I’m going to have to stick with : skip it, unless you read the unknown ( to me at the moment) wider world plot/ series , and your after some side characters backstory ( presumably). It is free at the moment but if that changes I definitely wouldn’t use a credit on this one. Spend it on one of her other books, you will be happy you did.

Endless victimization

If you fancy a story ala Sansa’s from GameOfThrones, then this might work. However, I was expecting a romance and the endless victimization of Katherine, combined with her being helpless for 90% of the story, made this a depressing, and plodding, listen.

If this had been a novella, I would have enjoyed the arc about the millennia old war against demons.
But, 9 hrs of suffering to get to the last 1.5 hrs of redemption/victory made for a fantasy story as depressing as the romance.

Finally, the narrator was decent except for her pronunciation of the Big Bad, a demon by the name of Dumas, which I would have pronounced Doom-ahs and which the narrator unfortunately pronounced Dumb-ass. (I kid you not)

Mild spoilers:



Katherine is married for half the book, while subjected to her husband’s cruelties and perversions.
Then, Katherine is imprisoned for another three or four hours of book time, and a century in story time, while being subject to the cruelties and perversions of a demon. Several other women are abused too. The majority of this book, therefore, is men hurting women and demon hunters like George powerless to do anything except “save” the women from further abuse.