the BEST dark romance books I read in 2025 🖤💀📖 dark romance recommendations

But Beautiful Venom I really liked. Dark hockey romance and dark like secret society out of college which I also don't normally like but for some reason I loved it.

I was having so much fun listening to this audiobook and I need book two now.

And this one I really had fun reading. I think I gave all of them like four stars.

Again, really good cliffhers in this series. I love this series.

I actually really liked these. I knew there was like a very dark scene in the beginning of this one and I ended up loving their dynamic and loving their characters.

Reena is so good at cliffhers. This series literally had me reading them back to back to back. I was obsessed.

I definitely had a lot of fun reading this one. I don't read enough mafia romances. I do enjoy them.

He literally becomes obsessed with her and he is unwell and you know things he had done in this book when you read the trilogy cuz this came out after the trilogy and I thought it was amazing. So I highly recommend reading the trilogy first and then reading the prequel.

And then I read Secrets of Mine by Alexis Grace. Obsessed. This is a Yu series where her heroine is the daughter of a serial killer and she is trying to go into the FBI to hunt down her father.

I really enjoyed this dua as well. Again, pretty big cliffhanger in this one, but I really enjoyed these characters.

And I had a lot of fun reading this. I love like cult kind of things so I found that aspect super interesting.