Review: Claiming Liberty by Nicole Cypher

The final instalment in a series that should be a crime. Give me freedom and Liberty!

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Dates read: 20/11/2025 to 21/11/2025

Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Word to describe: Car Crash Romance

Genre: Romantic Fiction

Lets do a recap on the previous two books in this hot mess. Liberty is married to a rich old asshat, and meets a mysterious bad-boy at a gala. Her asshat husband then sells her to an island to become a sex slave for the other rich and wealthy asshats. Bad boy at the gala? Turns out to be one of the island men and we call him Angel. Angel and Liberty start an estranged romance in which he claims her as his slave, and then out of guilt sets her free. But not everything is as it seems.

Liberty finds herself with freedom at last, and makes her way to her dirtbag husband and kills him. Deserved, but honestly pretty mild start. There she finds out that her beloved niece (cousin? Maybe, her character up until this point had been entirely forgettable) had been sold too so now Liberty must make her way back to the island to rescue her female relative, and shut down this organisation once and for all. Meanwhile Angel is burying himself alive with his own obsession and is craving Liberty's return like a teenage boy and his teacher crush.

From there the famous duo find themselves plotting revenge and making rescue attempts, whilst everyone else is simply there for background pleasure. The explosive ending makes way for happily ever after, and surprisingly no one gets arrested (little too close to reality there).

I love-hate this series. The plot, general writing, and character development is awful. It reads like the old smut stories on Wattpad with an attempt at writing dark romance, but feels badly thought out and even worse executed. But, Nicole Cypher must be doing something right because I was HOOKED, and still devoured the entire series despite this. It was like a bad movie you can't help but watch (think The Spaghetti Man or other movies of similar ridiculousness). A series that's so shameless you tune in each week. And a song that's so irritating and overplayed but you can't help but sing along.

I have to admit. It was entertaining.