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Dark Delights by Mila Kane

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lacyparrish's review

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4.5

The author is upfront with the CW and TW note at the beginning of her book -- read it and proceed well-warned. Eve Martino's twin brother is one of the Ice Gods, but she's never been kissed -- everyone is terrified of being caught by Asher. Beckett Anderson is the beyond-wealthy only son the richest man in town ... and Mrs Martino is their housekeeper. Eve helps her mom out from time to time and has had several run-ins with Beckett. When Mrs Martino reports
finding drugs (like a lot of them) in Beckett's room
, Eve ends up in Beckett's sights ... Asher is away and he is ready for revenge.
Their first time in the bathroom while hiding from robbers at the local pharmacy breaks both of them in very different ways. Beckett is medicating to forget childhood SA from his stepmother that his father won't acknowledge; Eve's dealing with lots of money and health issues with her mom as she gets ready to go off to college. When her room is cancelled, but not her brother's, she ends up with Beckett as a roommate and he can intensify his control over her. They end up in a push/pull relationship, like magnets that cannot stay away from each other. As the semester continues, we get a lot of information about their actual feelings and traumas that they are both processing.
This is a pretty classic college romance with the very bleak overlay of bully and control.
I appreciated the conflict in this book, because both of them need to deal with and figure out their own stuff, while trying to navigate this uncontrollable attraction. The prolonged grovel was *chef's kiss* and I loved that Eve finally brought Beckett the family that he deserves, including turning his father back around to see what was going on all along.


Full Rating (out of 10 possible): 8.000 (based on a modified CAWPILE system)
Romance level (out of 5 possible): 4 (for on-page, detailed intimacy scenes) 
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