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75_sweetestbook's review against another edition
5.0
What a amazing roller coaster ride of emotions. This a second book that is a amazing read that will have you hooked from the first page.
mom2three's review against another edition
5.0
I am still reeling from the emotional journey this one took me on. It was like having my heart ripped from my chest, stomped on, shoved back in, and the wound covered with a bandaid. It was beautiful! The pain, fear, anger, distrust, passion, explosive heat, love... It was gripping. I am in awe of Ms. Bene's ability to draw me in and make me live in her characters. The story is pure perfection from beginning to end!
lifeinthebooklane's review
5.0
ETA: I've just completed a re-read of this, ready for [b:Redemption|54394899|Redemption (Fragile Ties #3)|Jennifer Bene|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1594799550l/54394899._SY75_.jpg|84883297] and loved it just as much. It's so wrong but just feels so very right.
I need to start by reassuring Ms Bene that all the angst, all the heartache, all the tearing at her hair, cursing at her keyboard and despairing at her first drafts was so VERY WORTH HER TIME AND EFFORT. In fact I would go so far as to say that all her suffering, all her emotion, bled into this work and made it SUCH an emotional read. Once started, it is one of those books that you just don't want to put down until you've read every word. It's way beyond the mere 5 stars available to bestow upon it.
David and Lianna are where they want and need to be, with each other. Yet everything is wrong. Instead of being left alone to rebuild her and their life, outside forces are determined to hold them back and drag them down into the corruption that both are desperately trying to claw their way out of. I need to add at this point that Inheritance isn't a stand alone book. It's the second in a trilogy, [b:Destruction|36671520|Destruction (Fragile Ties, #1)|Jennifer Bene|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1511782979l/36671520._SY75_.jpg|58434552] must be read first to fully understand David and Lianna's tale.
Inheritance is full of power, passion, and pain. So many times it slips back into the dark waters of David's soul, leaving marks both physical and mental on the both of them. Yet that suffering and hurt are necessary, for there lays the path to light, hope and redemption. Lianna and David continue to burn up the sheets with their explosive, and ofttimes violent, chemistry. Theirs is a raw, visceral and twisted relationship but, as two sides of the same coin, they somehow make it work.
So much happens in this book, and yet in some ways not very much at all. It is very much a tale of personal growth, of accepting who you are but also realising that you can change that individual. Realising that the past doesn't dictate the future. Acknowledging that the sins of the father do not need to be visited upon the son. I loved every single minute of reading Inheritance, even when it made me cower away in horror. And it builds such a twisty, tangled web of love, suspicion, hope and distrust that will no doubt fray and shatter when they find their final Redemption.
The only promise he'd ever break was the one he'd made to leave when she told him to go.
That promise they'd broken together. Tonight. But every promise he's made on the cold tile he'd keep. He'd die to keep them, because she was his hill to die on.
His world, his future.
His everything.
I need to start by reassuring Ms Bene that all the angst, all the heartache, all the tearing at her hair, cursing at her keyboard and despairing at her first drafts was so VERY WORTH HER TIME AND EFFORT. In fact I would go so far as to say that all her suffering, all her emotion, bled into this work and made it SUCH an emotional read. Once started, it is one of those books that you just don't want to put down until you've read every word. It's way beyond the mere 5 stars available to bestow upon it.
David and Lianna are where they want and need to be, with each other. Yet everything is wrong. Instead of being left alone to rebuild her and their life, outside forces are determined to hold them back and drag them down into the corruption that both are desperately trying to claw their way out of. I need to add at this point that Inheritance isn't a stand alone book. It's the second in a trilogy, [b:Destruction|36671520|Destruction (Fragile Ties, #1)|Jennifer Bene|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1511782979l/36671520._SY75_.jpg|58434552] must be read first to fully understand David and Lianna's tale.
Inheritance is full of power, passion, and pain. So many times it slips back into the dark waters of David's soul, leaving marks both physical and mental on the both of them. Yet that suffering and hurt are necessary, for there lays the path to light, hope and redemption. Lianna and David continue to burn up the sheets with their explosive, and ofttimes violent, chemistry. Theirs is a raw, visceral and twisted relationship but, as two sides of the same coin, they somehow make it work.
So much happens in this book, and yet in some ways not very much at all. It is very much a tale of personal growth, of accepting who you are but also realising that you can change that individual. Realising that the past doesn't dictate the future. Acknowledging that the sins of the father do not need to be visited upon the son. I loved every single minute of reading Inheritance, even when it made me cower away in horror. And it builds such a twisty, tangled web of love, suspicion, hope and distrust that will no doubt fray and shatter when they find their final Redemption.
helenfinch's review against another edition
4.0
Not my usual.
I don't read a lot of dark.romance. The story was good and the characters intriguing. This was my first book by this author. I would read her again.
I don't read a lot of dark.romance. The story was good and the characters intriguing. This was my first book by this author. I would read her again.
kelly_reads_books's review against another edition
5.0
Jennifer Bene you are author extraordinaire! Your books are always written with emotion and gusto. Your characters are well thought out and exemplary.
Lianna makes the reader feel sad and angry on her behalf. She is character who life and circumstances keep pushing but she survives with her light still shining.
David makes the reader cheer for him, his strong, dark, Alpha male presence makes me hope that he wins in the end.
The Faure's, and Jean-Luc in particular have me guessing what their ulterior motive is, and what will happen to this couple.
Looking forward to reading book three!
Lianna makes the reader feel sad and angry on her behalf. She is character who life and circumstances keep pushing but she survives with her light still shining.
David makes the reader cheer for him, his strong, dark, Alpha male presence makes me hope that he wins in the end.
The Faure's, and Jean-Luc in particular have me guessing what their ulterior motive is, and what will happen to this couple.
Looking forward to reading book three!
nefellyk's review
dark
2.75
It wasn't bad. However, it felt like a filler book..kinda. I believe that it could be combined with the first book (?) Or half in the first have in the last one (?). There were one/two important events but did they need an entire book? No.
I will read the last one of the series and will see if I'm right or not.
I will read the last one of the series and will see if I'm right or not.
monadh's review
5.0
Dark romance to take you past your limits
Jennifer Bene is the mistress of dark, dark romance, she isn’t only balancing on the knife’s edge of darkness, but takes you past your limits and makes you crave it.
Inheritance is the second book in her Fragile Ties series and you should definitively have read book one, Destruction, before delving into this one.
The whole begins as a revenge tale: David abducts and tortures Lianna because he holds her father responsible for the death of his mother and the ruination of his family. While he wants to use her to destroy her father and dismantle his business, he derives sadistic pleasure from keeping Lianna prisoner and inflicting pain on her and forcing pleasure from her. But he doesn’t manage to break her and it slowly dawns on him that she might be ignorant of her father’s machinations. So he tells her the truth and provides evidence that dear dad is a member of an international crime family and succeeds in turning her against her father. After he ends up taking a bullet for her during a botched rescue attempt, Lianna helps save his life and keeps quiet about his involvement in the events that led to the death of her father. And after he is released from hospital, she takes him home with her, because she wants to learn more about her father’s dealings and about his family and because she has come to crave David’s brand of torture.
So that is where they are at at the beginning of book two, Inheritance. Because of the exposure of her father’s criminal activities she is now under scrutiny from the FBI herself and her assets have been frozen and she is not allowed to leave the country. While she is fighting to prove her innocence and to reclaim her life, she is contacted by Jean-Luc Faure, her uncle and the head of the crime family. Jean-Luc is very undemanding and invites Lianna to visit the family in France. Since she has no other family left, Lianna feels compelled to explore the connection, even knowing what the Faures are. That she is getting entangled with the Faures is driving David crazy and he tries to keep her from having any further contact. But as much as Lianna likes being dominated in the bedroom, she is putting her foot down outside of it and David comes to realize if he wants to keep her in his life, he has to bend. And to make things worse, Jean-Luc miraculously manages to make all of Lianna’s problems go away, drawing her in further…
I really loved how the relationship between Lianna and David developed, how in some ways they were like a normal couple, while still retaining the darkness that drew them together in the first place. And I absolutely loved the glimpses of David’s domesticity, which made him endearing and all the more sexy at the same time. It seems like book three will see Lianna and David in France, and I can’t wait to discover how that turns out. Is it wrong of me to hope for a little more violence and sadistic bedroom games in the next installment?
Jennifer Bene is the mistress of dark, dark romance, she isn’t only balancing on the knife’s edge of darkness, but takes you past your limits and makes you crave it.
Inheritance is the second book in her Fragile Ties series and you should definitively have read book one, Destruction, before delving into this one.
The whole begins as a revenge tale: David abducts and tortures Lianna because he holds her father responsible for the death of his mother and the ruination of his family. While he wants to use her to destroy her father and dismantle his business, he derives sadistic pleasure from keeping Lianna prisoner and inflicting pain on her and forcing pleasure from her. But he doesn’t manage to break her and it slowly dawns on him that she might be ignorant of her father’s machinations. So he tells her the truth and provides evidence that dear dad is a member of an international crime family and succeeds in turning her against her father. After he ends up taking a bullet for her during a botched rescue attempt, Lianna helps save his life and keeps quiet about his involvement in the events that led to the death of her father. And after he is released from hospital, she takes him home with her, because she wants to learn more about her father’s dealings and about his family and because she has come to crave David’s brand of torture.
So that is where they are at at the beginning of book two, Inheritance. Because of the exposure of her father’s criminal activities she is now under scrutiny from the FBI herself and her assets have been frozen and she is not allowed to leave the country. While she is fighting to prove her innocence and to reclaim her life, she is contacted by Jean-Luc Faure, her uncle and the head of the crime family. Jean-Luc is very undemanding and invites Lianna to visit the family in France. Since she has no other family left, Lianna feels compelled to explore the connection, even knowing what the Faures are. That she is getting entangled with the Faures is driving David crazy and he tries to keep her from having any further contact. But as much as Lianna likes being dominated in the bedroom, she is putting her foot down outside of it and David comes to realize if he wants to keep her in his life, he has to bend. And to make things worse, Jean-Luc miraculously manages to make all of Lianna’s problems go away, drawing her in further…
I really loved how the relationship between Lianna and David developed, how in some ways they were like a normal couple, while still retaining the darkness that drew them together in the first place. And I absolutely loved the glimpses of David’s domesticity, which made him endearing and all the more sexy at the same time. It seems like book three will see Lianna and David in France, and I can’t wait to discover how that turns out. Is it wrong of me to hope for a little more violence and sadistic bedroom games in the next installment?
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