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A review by meggie82461
Hold Me by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires
4.0
đź’• Book 3: 4 stars
Series: 4.5 stars đź’•
This series came highly recommended from a few people, and I definitely understand why. It’s dark and erotic, and it features pretty much my favorite kind of alpha male: an obsessed villain. Julian Esguerra will definitely go down as one of my favorite book boyfriends of all time. He’s morally bankrupt, and he doesn’t apologize for it. He knows exactly who he is, a man that takes what he wants regardless of the consequences. If I didn’t know from the beginning that he loved Nora, I would’ve hated him. But per usual, Anna Zaires did a tremendous job creating a complex villain that I couldn’t bring myself to outright despise. I hated what he did at times, but his obsession with Nora was so intense that it was hard to fathom what else he could’ve done besides exactly what he did.
My only complaint with the trilogy is that it became a little redundant. Nora knows Julian is evil, he does something shitty to her, she gets mad and then gets over it when he whips his dick out. It’s not that she didn’t have a right to get mad- she absolutely did. But why get mad if you know you won’t stand up for yourself anyway? You know who he is. Seems like a waste of energy. That being said, I rarely read trilogies straight through, and I think this would’ve been avoided if I broke it up a little.
The sex in this series was off-the-charts hot. It’s suspenseful and at times brutal. It’s dub-con and at times non-con, and it isn’t fantasy. It’s dark and real. It’s like a different world, and I did respect Nora for adjusting in the way she did. I also liked that Zaires made Julian unapologetically evil, but still able to connect with other humans. He was a product of his environment, not a psychopath or a sociopath.
I would recommend this series to anyone that can handle some triggers and wants to read about an obsessed villain and his queen. Julian and Nora are definitely unforgettable!!
Series: 4.5 stars đź’•
This series came highly recommended from a few people, and I definitely understand why. It’s dark and erotic, and it features pretty much my favorite kind of alpha male: an obsessed villain. Julian Esguerra will definitely go down as one of my favorite book boyfriends of all time. He’s morally bankrupt, and he doesn’t apologize for it. He knows exactly who he is, a man that takes what he wants regardless of the consequences. If I didn’t know from the beginning that he loved Nora, I would’ve hated him. But per usual, Anna Zaires did a tremendous job creating a complex villain that I couldn’t bring myself to outright despise. I hated what he did at times, but his obsession with Nora was so intense that it was hard to fathom what else he could’ve done besides exactly what he did.
My only complaint with the trilogy is that it became a little redundant. Nora knows Julian is evil, he does something shitty to her, she gets mad and then gets over it when he whips his dick out. It’s not that she didn’t have a right to get mad- she absolutely did. But why get mad if you know you won’t stand up for yourself anyway? You know who he is. Seems like a waste of energy. That being said, I rarely read trilogies straight through, and I think this would’ve been avoided if I broke it up a little.
The sex in this series was off-the-charts hot. It’s suspenseful and at times brutal. It’s dub-con and at times non-con, and it isn’t fantasy. It’s dark and real. It’s like a different world, and I did respect Nora for adjusting in the way she did. I also liked that Zaires made Julian unapologetically evil, but still able to connect with other humans. He was a product of his environment, not a psychopath or a sociopath.
I would recommend this series to anyone that can handle some triggers and wants to read about an obsessed villain and his queen. Julian and Nora are definitely unforgettable!!