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hikami_d 's review for:
Souls and Sorrows
by Sav R. Miller
Okay guys and gals, here I am! Had to think on that one quite a bit.
This is a dark-romance marriage-of-convenience story between a heavily childhood-abused, early-twenties yo mafia princess and middle-thirties yo lawyer. This tells you already A LOT about the story. She–overly childish, immature, arrogant and deeply traumatized is married, more or less willingly, to him, who's obsessed with her but won't touch her.
The book is labeled as slow burn, but is it really a slow burn if both passionately burn for each other but won't touch the other? That's the slow burn. Lusting but no touchie until later. Not really a slow burn in the trope's sense. Next, the book tells you to be inspired by Eros and Psyche but except for the butterfly Symbolism (which is already a stretch if you know greek mythology) there is NOTHING that has an ounce of Eros Psyche. Not. An. Ounce. Which doesn't have to be bad!
Now that my criticism is out of the way; overall, I did enjoy it. It's steamy, dark, it was thrilling to see how the mafia story would play out, and I was impressed how well Miller portrayed how deeply how traumas affect us.
If you look for something dark romance-y with some hot pining and spicy scenes and some morally-grey choices, this is the read for you.
This is a dark-romance marriage-of-convenience story between a heavily childhood-abused, early-twenties yo mafia princess and middle-thirties yo lawyer. This tells you already A LOT about the story. She–overly childish, immature, arrogant and deeply traumatized is married, more or less willingly, to him, who's obsessed with her but won't touch her.
The book is labeled as slow burn, but is it really a slow burn if both passionately burn for each other but won't touch the other? That's the slow burn. Lusting but no touchie until later. Not really a slow burn in the trope's sense. Next, the book tells you to be inspired by Eros and Psyche but except for the butterfly Symbolism (which is already a stretch if you know greek mythology) there is NOTHING that has an ounce of Eros Psyche. Not. An. Ounce. Which doesn't have to be bad!
Now that my criticism is out of the way; overall, I did enjoy it. It's steamy, dark, it was thrilling to see how the mafia story would play out, and I was impressed how well Miller portrayed how deeply how traumas affect us.
If you look for something dark romance-y with some hot pining and spicy scenes and some morally-grey choices, this is the read for you.