OMG!! I don’t know what to
say regarding this book except this was sooooooooo good yet sooooo dark. Viktor Melikov is one of those
characters that you do not want to root for but the author has written him in
such a way that you are immediately drawn to him and do feel this pull. At
first, for me, it was this oh –hell –no get away from me psycho ..hmm.. there
is something here draw toward Viktor as I was able to learn his story…and his
story is interwoven with the heroine, Alexis Kidd. Now she is not like
the regular heroine that you would read about; she isn’t the cookie cutter
heroine –she has some dark spots in her past –do know that only thing that
keeps her going is her younger sister-that girl is her hopes and dreams so what
she does to get by is to help her younger sister and that is how Alexis and
Viktor cross paths and yet meet again. Viktor is a man who is determined to get
what he needs out of Alexis and trust me when I say he is determined to make
her pay the price and this is when he decides to keep her as his prisoner as a
price her a sin someone else close to her committed…how far will he go to seek
his price?
Clarissa Wild had me
engrossed in this story from start to end in one sitting, it was that
good. She had written Viktor as a man
tormented by his past, bitter and angry but Alexis was his one bright spot and
that makes him angry all over because he doesn’t want to have her be all that
for him. There is so much angst. Viktor
has this friend named Winston who helps him see the good that comes from Alexis
and the light she brings in his life? Also, there is a tie in from Viktor’s
past that comes from Alexis that she is unware of. The sins of the past are now
coming back to haunt Viktor and could surge up and hurt Alexis and her sister.
I was on the edge of my seat, praying all worked out because really, this was a
modern day Beauty and the Beast retelling but done in a modern Mob twist. I
enjoyed it and would love to see Alexis’s sister get her own story. I cannot
say enough good words about a book that took me out of my everyday world and
into a world that took me into Viktor and Alexis modern twist on their love
story and keep an eye out on who the bad guy is—trust me, I was shocked and I have
to hand it to the author because I didn’t see the twist coming on the bad guy
and the past being revisited .
My rating: 4.9 stars *****
**I was
given an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review***
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