The Benevolence series by Lucy Score

Books in order:

  1. Pretend You’re Mine

  2. Finally Mine

  3. Protecting What’s Mine

These books have been floating on the viral status of my social media scrolling for quite some time. I finally had the chance to check them out and I was not disappointed. In fact, they were pretty outstanding.

Lucy’s writing style was very easy to navigate through and I pranced and bounced my way through this trilogy in rapid succession. I loved that the characters intertwined through each of the three books, but yet each of the books had a different perspective and a different storyline. Each of the books could be read on their own, which is something I liked too.

After taking excessive time to read my way through the nine books of the Outlander series, I swore off reading any series for at least the remainder of the year (2023). Yet, here I was taking the plunge. Lucy did not disappoint.

One thing I wanted to be sure to point out was that occasionally throughout these books, tougher topics tend to come up - domestic abuse, war scenes, etc. and in a couple cases, they became a fairly large part of the storyline. However, I think Lucy did a good job of touching on these topics and then turning the story around into a positive. Another aspect I wanted to point out is there is a significant amount of explicit sexual/romance content throughout the stories as well. Despite the amount of this content, I really enjoyed the way Lucy wrote those scenes and I never felt like it was too much or that there was nothing else to the story. She played the balancing act well.

Usually I tend to gravitate toward one or two favorite characters in a book, but with so many characters, and each of the books having a different perspective, I can say that I can’t narrow it down this time. Lucy did a great job of character development and description that I felt some sort of connection to even the minor characters.

Overall, well done!! I would recommend this series and it definitely lived up to the hype I saw on social media. I will be reading more of Lucy’s stories in the future.