A review by megdigsbooks
Taming Seraphine by Gigi Styx

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Taming Seraphine is a crazy, jacked up love story that sucks the reader in with the first chapter and doesn't let go until the very last chapter. Seraphine has been held captive by her own family for five years, abused and taught to kill. She is practically feral. When professional assassin Leroi goes in to kill every member of her family, he finds her hidden away in the basement. She looks so small and wounded. He can not help but take her away from the carnage he leaves behind. He moves her into his own home, not sure what, if anything, he can do to help her.  As her shock wares off, Seraphine realizes her life may be different, but her nightmares are the same. And she has an unusual way of making them more tolerable. Leroi has his own demons, but when he looks at Seraphine, he sees an angel, an avenging angel with poor impulse control. The goals become teaching her to manage her more basic compulsions and help her get revenge on those who harmed her. In the process, they realize they work pretty well together. They accept each other for the bits of darkness that live in their hearts and tarnish their souls and love each other that much more because they see them but also see past them. This book has about twenty trigger warnings, and all should be taken seriously. It's a dark romance that will take you from the depths of desperation to the heights of triumph, with a twisty bit at the end that I didn't see coming. I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed this wild little book.
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