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A review by lassarina
Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran
5.0
This is a gorgeously tense novel circling around themes of right and wrong, morality and evil, about two damaged and complicated characters who are fantastic foils for each other--one doing the wrong things for the right reasons, one doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, and the way those things collide and brush up against each other is just gorgeous. I loved Olivia's fierce pride, her determination, her total unwillingness to let Alastair win.
In the previous book, That Scandalous Summer, it was really hard to feel for Alastair--he was pointlessly cruel, vicious even, and even knowing that he'd suffered a devastating betrayal, I was too busy rooting for his brother to like him. In this, his complexity is revealed, but his bad traits are accentuated before they're managed. And they are managed, not handwaved away, which is fantastic.
I loved that, in the end, both Alastair and Olivia desired the same thing, under different names; I loved the constant humming awareness of the disparity in power and how they each handled it (Alastair by restraining himself, and Olivia by being brazen.) I loved how many things were not quite what they seemed, and the way all the little pieces of this novel fit together.
Fantastic.
In the previous book, That Scandalous Summer, it was really hard to feel for Alastair--he was pointlessly cruel, vicious even, and even knowing that he'd suffered a devastating betrayal, I was too busy rooting for his brother to like him. In this, his complexity is revealed, but his bad traits are accentuated before they're managed. And they are managed, not handwaved away, which is fantastic.
I loved that, in the end, both Alastair and Olivia desired the same thing, under different names; I loved the constant humming awareness of the disparity in power and how they each handled it (Alastair by restraining himself, and Olivia by being brazen.) I loved how many things were not quite what they seemed, and the way all the little pieces of this novel fit together.
Fantastic.