The Chain Loop (Sovereign #1)
N. von Wolf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
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Explicit open door [?]
· 4 ratings · 218 pages · Published: 20 Sep 2025
Beyond the city walls, the world is ash and ruin. Storms hunt the living. So do worse things. Things like him.
Silent. Part man – part machine. Deadly.
He chains me up and drops me into a world where obedience is currency and flesh is owned.
But I’ve fixed machines tougher than him. And I see the cracks in his code.
If I play this right, I might escape.
If I don’t, I won’t just be trapped underground – I’ll be a keepsake.
And the worst part?
Some twisted part of me wants that.
The Chain Loop is a gritty, psychological dark sci-fi romance about a captive tech-savvy heroine, a cybernetically augmented brute unravelled by obsession, and a world ruled by AI where autonomy is coded, suppressed, and violently reclaimed.
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- dystopian 3
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- secret relationship 1
- slow burn 1
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The 'Sovereign' series
4.50 · 4 ratings
slavery · tortured heroine · post-apocalyptic · disabilities and marks · tortured hero · non-hea · past-child-abuse · height-difference · abuse · science fiction · dystopian · forbidden love · mental illness · secret-relationship · torture-scs · victim-blaming · slow burn · rape · substance abuse · competent heroine
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