A review by elle_lit_zabeth
When Lies Unfold by R.C. Boldt

5.0

❤️/5🌶️4/5 🌻13/20📚115/240

I’ve been obsessed with R.C Boldt’s work since I read An Armored Heart and spent an entire year promising myself that I’d read more of her books. It’s now a promise kept thanks to Valentine PR and the author with this ARC (but yeah, I still need to read more of her books!).

And just like I did with An Armored Heart, I fell for this book. HARD.

Let me tell you that I’m not a huge mafia romance girl but boy, did this book change my mind.

What you’ll find: perfect writing. Amazing character development. Hot as sin tension. A true enemies-to-lovers story. Danger all around. The vibes in this book are immaculate. We are in Costa Rica. We’re lost in the jungle. We’re afraid of the monsters lurking in the shadows. 

I felt so deeply for the characters! Lola is a hell of a woman. Strong. Brave. Smart. So resilient and resourceful. I absolutely loved her.

Somehow, even though they’re drastically different, she and Santiago fit so perfectly. They’re opposites and complementary in every way. They’re the missing pieces of each other and the very meaning of the word fate (that last flashback broke me!).

I won’t even talk about the spice because I melted at every turn with these two. Some of the things that man says, PHEW.

I also loved little Alma so, so much. She’s a breath of fresh air and won me over immediately, just like the other side characters did. The way they all form this family and make sense together made me swoon.

I absolutely loved this book! A masterpiece of the genre.