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A review by _youfloweryoufeast_
Inked in Lies by Giana Darling
4.0
4 ⭐️
Genre: Adult romance
Age group : 18+
POV : Dual
Characters: 5/5 ⭐️
Plot: 4/5 ⭐️
Setting/Themes: 4/5 ⭐️
Writing: 4/5 ⭐️
Spice: ✅
• please check trigger warnings
• mature language, graphic sexual scenes, neglectful parents, violence, murder, torture, physical assault, death, sexual assault, mentions of rape, mentions of child pornography, substance abuse, guns, mentions of OD, mentions of physical abuse of a minor, sex trafficking
• dark MC romance
• Unrequited love
“She had a sunflower soul with a heart of gold, a hankerin’ for adventure, and a thirst for knowledge. She was raw and earthy, mellow and cataclysmic, sexy and lovin’.
She was the epitome of everythin’ I loved in this world.
And it was gettin’ hard to remind myself why I shouldn’t make her mine.”
YEEEEEE, I LOVED INKED IN LIES SO MUCH. Ngl, I wanted to skip Nova and Lila’s story and move on to Priest and Bea instead BUT IM GLAD I DIDNT. Okay, plot? Beautiful, wonderful, intriguing, engrossing. The lyrical writing got me falling harder for this book. Also can we talk about the spice? (Just so some of you are warned, Nova was “technically” Lila’s foster brother, I did have my issues initially, but it’s barely mentioned throughout the story)
Lila. TATTOOED BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL LILA. Badass, loyal, intelligent and extremely, extremely brave. I loved Lila through and through, already planning our wedding. Lila’s loyalty to the Fallen was one hell of a kind, her bravery? IMMACULATE. She’s also super intelligent, very much into flowers and quite an intellectual person in general. At some parts this badass babe pining after Nova had me wanting to strangle her and ask her WHY?! she moved on, not entirely but she made efforts, knowing her worth, but bloody Nova-
Nova. see I would love him but he had my baby Lila heartbroken and for that I want to strangle him. I really do. But all of our Fallen men struggle with their moral compass and claim being away from their women keeps them safe (absolute BS) When he did get with Lila though, it was beautiful. Wonderful. Magnificent. I mean the man knows a way into a woman’s heart
*spoiler alert*
exhibit a - filling the booth of Lila’s car with flowers
exhibit b - getting Lila to tattoo their initials onto him
exhibit c - A GIGANTIC MURAL OF LILA AT THE WALL OF HIS TATTOO PARLOUR
exhibit d - “I’m gonna fight for you,” he repeated. “The way I fought for you as a girl. I’m sorry as fuck I ever stopped, and I swear to God, I won’t again.”
Yeah you get my point. I loved hearing about Loulou, H.R, Bea, Zeus and Lion and Bat and the rest of my Fallen men again. I think it’s what keeps me coming back, if feels familiar, like home.
I also loved the relationship between Dane and Lila. The love they had for each other genuinely had me crying, it was wholesome and beautiful. Nova, Dane and Lila as a trio made sense, a little girl protected by the two people who would die for her, and in return, she planted gardens in their hearts.
Honorary mention of the gorgeous Indian woman, Daksha. I wish she would’ve been a bigger part of the story as well.
So yeah, go read this. <33
Genre: Adult romance
Age group : 18+
POV : Dual
Characters: 5/5 ⭐️
Plot: 4/5 ⭐️
Setting/Themes: 4/5 ⭐️
Writing: 4/5 ⭐️
Spice: ✅
• please check trigger warnings
• mature language, graphic sexual scenes, neglectful parents, violence, murder, torture, physical assault, death, sexual assault, mentions of rape, mentions of child pornography, substance abuse, guns, mentions of OD, mentions of physical abuse of a minor, sex trafficking
• dark MC romance
• Unrequited love
“She had a sunflower soul with a heart of gold, a hankerin’ for adventure, and a thirst for knowledge. She was raw and earthy, mellow and cataclysmic, sexy and lovin’.
She was the epitome of everythin’ I loved in this world.
And it was gettin’ hard to remind myself why I shouldn’t make her mine.”
YEEEEEE, I LOVED INKED IN LIES SO MUCH. Ngl, I wanted to skip Nova and Lila’s story and move on to Priest and Bea instead BUT IM GLAD I DIDNT. Okay, plot? Beautiful, wonderful, intriguing, engrossing. The lyrical writing got me falling harder for this book. Also can we talk about the spice? (Just so some of you are warned, Nova was “technically” Lila’s foster brother, I did have my issues initially, but it’s barely mentioned throughout the story)
Lila. TATTOOED BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL LILA. Badass, loyal, intelligent and extremely, extremely brave. I loved Lila through and through, already planning our wedding. Lila’s loyalty to the Fallen was one hell of a kind, her bravery? IMMACULATE. She’s also super intelligent, very much into flowers and quite an intellectual person in general. At some parts this badass babe pining after Nova had me wanting to strangle her and ask her WHY?! she moved on, not entirely but she made efforts, knowing her worth, but bloody Nova-
Nova. see I would love him but he had my baby Lila heartbroken and for that I want to strangle him. I really do. But all of our Fallen men struggle with their moral compass and claim being away from their women keeps them safe (absolute BS) When he did get with Lila though, it was beautiful. Wonderful. Magnificent. I mean the man knows a way into a woman’s heart
*spoiler alert*
exhibit a - filling the booth of Lila’s car with flowers
exhibit b - getting Lila to tattoo their initials onto him
exhibit c - A GIGANTIC MURAL OF LILA AT THE WALL OF HIS TATTOO PARLOUR
exhibit d - “I’m gonna fight for you,” he repeated. “The way I fought for you as a girl. I’m sorry as fuck I ever stopped, and I swear to God, I won’t again.”
Yeah you get my point. I loved hearing about Loulou, H.R, Bea, Zeus and Lion and Bat and the rest of my Fallen men again. I think it’s what keeps me coming back, if feels familiar, like home.
I also loved the relationship between Dane and Lila. The love they had for each other genuinely had me crying, it was wholesome and beautiful. Nova, Dane and Lila as a trio made sense, a little girl protected by the two people who would die for her, and in return, she planted gardens in their hearts.
Honorary mention of the gorgeous Indian woman, Daksha. I wish she would’ve been a bigger part of the story as well.
So yeah, go read this. <33