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Cruel Lies
by Lilian Harris
Raphael Marino the love of my life, the hottest book boyfriend, ever, and all around my idea of perfection stole my heart the first time I met him. Raph is flawed and has been put through the wringer his whole life by his father and most recently his wife. Raph always tried to do what was right for his family even if it meant compromising his own happiness, he knew the things he truly wanted were things he could never truly have, like Nicolette. Nicolette and Raph are similar yet different from the treatment by their families to craving the forbidden, yet their special bond creates a friendship they both lived for. With all the events in book one happening Raph and Nicolette’s story is also taking place so the story flows seamlessly to mesh together then throw its own mix of twists in there. Nicolette has loved Raph from day one while knowing her sister never deserved a single thing from him and she stood on the sidelines pining, daydreaming if things were different, yet always knowing things could never be. The story has so many twists you are glued from start to finish. These two are hiding together and the tension bleeds off the pages while your heart bleeds for Nicolette’s pain and Raph’s internal struggles. I honestly feel that I have known these characters for years and their world is a dangerous but one I have loved diving into every single time. A touch of the forbidden, an undeniable love, struggles from inside and outside forces, brotherhood bonds that are unbreakable, possessive incredible bleeding heart that is Raph, and the love that defies it all this story packs one hell of a punch leaving you craving more.
“I imagine.. What if? What if she were mine? What if I were a man worthy of her?..”
“I loved him in silence then, and I continue to love him in silence now. Love doesn’t simply cease to exist just because we want it to.”
“It’s a brutal existence to live in a world with someone you can’t have.”
I also had a chance to get this on AUDIO and holy WOW!!! It’s no lie that these Messina boys really have my heart,so when I had the chance to hear my favorite (so far) come to life I jumped all over that. Let me say the narrator’s are phenomenal, but hearing Troy Duran do Raph’s voice???? OMG I totally swooned hard and fell in love with is voice, there’s just something about that deep raspy timber that got me and I LOVED every second of hearing it.
“I imagine.. What if? What if she were mine? What if I were a man worthy of her?..”
“I loved him in silence then, and I continue to love him in silence now. Love doesn’t simply cease to exist just because we want it to.”
“It’s a brutal existence to live in a world with someone you can’t have.”
I also had a chance to get this on AUDIO and holy WOW!!! It’s no lie that these Messina boys really have my heart,so when I had the chance to hear my favorite (so far) come to life I jumped all over that. Let me say the narrator’s are phenomenal, but hearing Troy Duran do Raph’s voice???? OMG I totally swooned hard and fell in love with is voice, there’s just something about that deep raspy timber that got me and I LOVED every second of hearing it.