He would never love me, at least not the way I needed him to. I was a goner as girl to a man they called Casanova for a reason. He had tattoos on his hands and wickedness tucked in his grin. Definitely, in my top books of 2020 and one, that I highly recommend.Handsome as sin, older in a way that meant forbidden.

That is a gift and the reason that this author is a master storyteller. I found myself having a maelstrom of emotions ranging from literal teary eyes to anger, sadness, and finally those of love, happiness, and excitement. Love is love and she writes it beautifully. Perhaps it is because of the vulnerability and power of how she goes about making an unrequited or forbidden love requited and accepted. However, I choose to believe it is just because this author has tapped in on being able to create a man that is vulnerable, alpha, and delicious all at the same time while simultaneously making them dreamy.Įven though with this age-gap and the circumstance of their 'family' I still have to say that it is not taboo in my book. I might be biased, because I always love this author's leading men, but Nova just almost beat my King (/gasp) which pains me to say. this sweet, amazing, beautiful, dirty talking (good lord does he take dirty talking to a WHOLE new level), complicated man.

That is because the author gave her the most beautiful of souls and hearts. She embodies so many aspects of womanhood and I have to be honest here, I had a girl crush on her. However, even those that don't have the same reason, will still connect to this amazing child and later woman. I liked being able to have a personal connection with Lila throughout the book. Maybe, because I could relate to Lila because I, too, as a child dreamt to be anything other than what I was born into. Never once did I think anything of this friendship or the close bond that they shared as anything that could be misconstrued. Within the span of minutes of starting this book, I fell in love with Lila and a boy named Jonathon. I pursued a degree in it so I could live and breathe books because there is a magic to them. I read to have those special moments where I can laugh, or even cry as I fall into the depths of a book and have it feel real. There is a cadence and tone to her writing that feeds my soul. I could have highlighted at least half of this book with the way that she used words to create an image. There is just something so dang poetic about the way that she crafts a sentence.

I have known since I first discovered this author in the Sin Trilogy that she was special.

Giana darling inked in lies