alexs_books_and_brews 's review for:

Duplicity by Elodie Hart

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Duplicity is opulent, dirty, and deeply emotional—a transactional relationship gone spectacularly rogue, where power plays, sex, and sincerity collide—and nothing is ever just what it seems.

At the heart of this book are two wildly compelling leads: Marlowe, a scrappy, fiercely loyal single mother desperate to save her daughter, and Brendan Sullivan, the billionaire bad boy with a filthy mouth and an increasingly inconvenient conscience.

But what elevates Duplicity beyond typical billionaire smut (and make no mistake—it’s scorching) is how relentlessly it interrogates consent, commodification, and the messy, maddening gray area between survival and desire. There are moments of explicit eroticism that'll make you gasp—like Brendan’s blunt “I want to see what I’ve bought” —but they’re immediately complicated by Marlowe’s whiplash of revulsion, pleasure, and disbelief.

In the end, it gives us a love story not between savior and victim, but between two deeply flawed people learning to choose themselves, eachother and their happy ending!