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A review by lmrivas54
Contempt by A. Zavarelli
4.0
Incredibly long and dark, excellently written, very multilayered and complicated. The book is written in two time periods, the present and the past, alternating every chapter. The past starts when Madden and Bianca first met in the ranch when they were seventeen, the current when Madden is in the motorcycle club in Las Vegas and suddenly sees a woman who looks just like Bianca, the woman he loves. She has been absent for more than four years, after the murder of his brother, Adam, who was also her fiancee.
The author did an excellent job in moving the story along, coordinating events in the past with events in the present. It was as if we needed to read the chapter of the past to understand what just happened in the chapter of the present time. The plot was very well organized and made it very easy to understand the sequence of events.
There’s a lot of passion, love, betrayal, infidelity, love triangle, rockstar, drug abuse, forced arranged marriage, domestic violence, sexual abuse, amnesia, paranoia, a whole maelstrom of emotions. It’s dramatic without being melodramatic, but it felt like a lot of drama that endures for interminable chapters. I found it exhausting and oddly fascinating, given the whole spectrum of human emotions, both dark and light.
The love between Bianca and Madden lives eternal during all the years they were apart and the years they were together. Their relation sometimes seems toxic, I felt they were at times selfish, but in reality, they were soulmates with a broken destiny. Initially, I felt they were more toxic than loving, and at moments their back and forth was tiring. I was ready for them to give it up, but Bianca more than Madden was tenacious in her love and her devotion. She kept their love alive even when Madden was lost in his demons and his addictions. It was truly a struggle of evil forces and a devotion that endures through abuse, war, and addictions. By the end of the story, I was happy to finally have an HEA, and exhausted from all the story telling and emotional ride.
The author did an excellent job in moving the story along, coordinating events in the past with events in the present. It was as if we needed to read the chapter of the past to understand what just happened in the chapter of the present time. The plot was very well organized and made it very easy to understand the sequence of events.
There’s a lot of passion, love, betrayal, infidelity, love triangle, rockstar, drug abuse, forced arranged marriage, domestic violence, sexual abuse, amnesia, paranoia, a whole maelstrom of emotions. It’s dramatic without being melodramatic, but it felt like a lot of drama that endures for interminable chapters. I found it exhausting and oddly fascinating, given the whole spectrum of human emotions, both dark and light.
The love between Bianca and Madden lives eternal during all the years they were apart and the years they were together. Their relation sometimes seems toxic, I felt they were at times selfish, but in reality, they were soulmates with a broken destiny. Initially, I felt they were more toxic than loving, and at moments their back and forth was tiring. I was ready for them to give it up, but Bianca more than Madden was tenacious in her love and her devotion. She kept their love alive even when Madden was lost in his demons and his addictions. It was truly a struggle of evil forces and a devotion that endures through abuse, war, and addictions. By the end of the story, I was happy to finally have an HEA, and exhausted from all the story telling and emotional ride.