A review by ravensandlace
Run, Rabbit, Run by Juniper Hartmann

5.0

Title: Run Rabbit Run

Author: Juniper Hartmann

Genre: Dark Romance/BDSM Erotica

Format: eARC from author

Series: NA

Star Rating: 5 stars

tw: sexual assault, physical assault, humiliation/degradation, group sex (mmmf), forced exhibitionism, forced orgasms, kidnapping, drugging, child abuse

A special thank you goes to Juniper Hartmann for providing me with a copy of this book. Please know that this does not influence my rating or thoughts on the book itself.

I am 100% obsessed with this book! It is up there in my top ten books of 2024 and it’s all I think about. Everything about this book was perfect and it had everything I could ask for in a dark romance book. It had aftercare (which unfortunately you do not see a lot of in dark romance or even romance books), psychological elements (I am a psych major so this especially intrigued me), and so many different types of spicy scenes. It was just so perfect. Even the book itself is pretty! The artwork is just stunning. 

There are a couple of really awesome things I want to mention. One is the discussion of fantasy and reality. Bunny, the main character, talks about reading smutty books where the MC is captured, stalked, etc and spicy things ensue. Just because someone reads those kinds of books doesn’t mean we want them to happen to us. The point is brought up multiple times as Bunny dives further and further into depravity. I enjoyed reading about that. Because oftentimes, people tend to think that just because someone reads a spicy book like this one, Den of Vipers, Haunting Adeline, etc, we want that stuff to happen to us. Which we don’t. We just enjoy reading it. It’s like people reading dystopian. Obviously we don’t want the world to end and be subjected to something Hunger Games-related.  

Another thing I wanted to mention is that it isn’t as big as my previous paragraph, but this book reminded me a lot of Anne Rice's Beauty series. I’m not entirely sure why; maybe it’s the BDSM aspects. But I promise when I say it’s a good thing. I adore that series, and this book is right up there with some of my all-time favorite books. I just had this thought the entire time I was reading Run Rabbit Run. 

Overall, I loved this book. Bunny was fabulous. Demetrius was the perfect Daddy Dom. I’m so hoping we get a book from his point of view because I have a feeling I would love it. I just need more of these two because they were giving me life. Like I said, before, everything about this book was perfect.