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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Decent amount of spice, but got a bit bored with the story. Pretty predictable.
fast-paced
fast-paced
Booktock got me on this one but this guy took E.L. James style writing (think ‘bit lip’ changed out for ‘big arms’ and the pet name lamb) and made the main character and the writing cringier somehow.
5/5 ⭐️
5/5 🌶️
i wanted a brothers best friends and this was definitely that and more! i mean come on, past military man, hides that he’s a big mob man/secret agent from everyone including the girl that tricked him into taking her virginity?? can’t get any better than that 🤭
this book had so many mixed emotions! you mean to tell me this man takes her virginity then leaves?? just like that?? then she cuts him off after suffering the unbearable because she doesn’t want him to have to deal with it too. my heart broke when i found out the reason she ended things while he was away 😫 but once he finds out he continues to prove to her how badly they want each other despite her thoughts about not being strong enough to handle his dark ways of living. i loved everything about this. i cried and wanted to scream half the time but i loved it 🥹
⚠️ this books deals with losing a child (off page), severe depression and anxiety. please check tw ⚠️
💛 forced proximity
🖤 second chance
💛 brothers best friend
🖤 temperature play
💛 water play
🖤 voyeurism
💛 wax play
🖤 strong heroine/possesive alpha
Dante was the boy down the street and also Delilah’s big brothers best friend. Lilah has always liked Dante but kinda knew he wouldn’t want her. She also knew he was off limits as he was the best friend of her brother. She was always his friend. When he went into the military she was the only one that would write to him. When she was 18 and before she went to college she schemed to get Dante to take her “V-card” when he was home on leave. They spent the next week together sleeping with each other before Dante had to go back overseas. He wanted them to keep seeing each other. They still wrote back and forth until she ghosted him. He couldn’t figure out why she stopped talking to him.
Years later Dante is out of the military and Lilah is now a nurse and working in Puerto Rico. As she was flying home with her sister they both get arrested for trafficking cocaine. Dante was the one to bail Lilah out of jail. Will he ever get to the bottom as to why she stopped talking to him and why she always avoided him? Will she forgive him once she finds out that he is related to the mafia?
I really enjoyed this book. Apparently this is book 2 of the “Tarnished Empire” series by Shain Rose. I’m reading them backwards because how Amazon has them posted. I learned I’ll have to look for the published date to make sure I read them in order. I’ll be started book 1 and already read book 3.
Years later Dante is out of the military and Lilah is now a nurse and working in Puerto Rico. As she was flying home with her sister they both get arrested for trafficking cocaine. Dante was the one to bail Lilah out of jail. Will he ever get to the bottom as to why she stopped talking to him and why she always avoided him? Will she forgive him once she finds out that he is related to the mafia?
I really enjoyed this book. Apparently this is book 2 of the “Tarnished Empire” series by Shain Rose. I’m reading them backwards because how Amazon has them posted. I learned I’ll have to look for the published date to make sure I read them in order. I’ll be started book 1 and already read book 3.
Like others said BookTok got me on this one! Have it two stars because it did get me with some scenes but so many things were just overkill