OMG this is sooo raw and
intense. It will grip you tight and hold you in its emotional embrace until the
very end. I had a very serious love/hate/ love relationship with this book. It
is a serious sexy stepbrother story that will grab your heart, your body and
leave you breathless.
The story follows Royal
and Noelle. We meet Royal Black and see that he is a very angry young man who
has this chip on his shoulder based on how his life turned out--His father left
him and his mother, and turned around and married another woman, he has these “anger”
outbursts that caused him problems in school and in life. Due to his behavior problems, his mother sent
him to live with his father, stepmother and stepsister Noelle. Oh that was
something Royal almost went nuclear over. Royal feels betrayed by mother for
sending him to live with his father and his evil stepmother and stepsister. There
is so much anger and hatred in him for being sent and he is ready to blow. At
first I wasn’t sure what to make of Royal except that he was a total jerk –one that
I was prepared to hate but he started to win me over. Now to Noelle-ahh what an innocent in all
this mess.
We meet Noelle, who is so
sweet, innocent and it NOTHING like her nasty mother; She is actually happy to
meet her stepbrother. She thinks they can be a “family” and only want to try to
win over Royal, she sees the “lost boy” in him- she tries so hard to be his
friend, to be a family to him but Royal isn’t having it. Soon Noelle comes to
realize that Royal is nothing but a big jerk –but the more time they spend
together, the more friction and the more chemistry builds. It’s forbidden, its hot
and its lustful. The more we get to read about Noelle, we come to see she was
bullied by her mother, she allowed herself to be walked over, to be bullied but
no more. The more she is around Royal, she starts allowing herself to speak her
mind. She speaks up and out- she comes to realize that she knows what she wants
and is going to let herself have.
Royal comes to realize
that Noelle isn’t the bad person he thought and he starts to show his good side
to her. Something he rarely does ever. We see Royal the good guy and that makes
this an even hotter read. Not to stop the train wreck that is coming because
there is a villainess in this read and OMG was I crying in this book. I wanted
to throw my kindle a few times because of this person who has no soul and Ms.
Beck had me literally screaming several times due to this person –this person
is evil and Royal is so right to hate them. There is so much angst and emotions
running throughout this story –passions, hate, anger, love, - they all run
throughout this story. I enjoyed
watching the forbidden step brother theme weave in this story. Royal and Noelle
will make you beg for their interactions and their pain , passions, anger and
love kept me hanging on until the very end. The only little thing I wish I
could have seen was some sort of fitting end for the villain in this piece. A
guillotine would have been too easy for this person. I would have liked to
found how what ever happened to this person –but overall this is a killer
forbidden romance read and I highly recommend this book.
My rating: 4.9 stars *****
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