Series: Sinners of Saint #1
Pages: 339
Genre: New adult
Emilia
They say love and hate are the same feelings experienced under different circumstances, and it’s true. The man who comes to me in my dreams also haunts me in my nightmares. He is a brilliant lawyer. A skilled criminal. A beautiful liar. A bully and a savior, a monster and a lover.
Ten years ago, he made me run away from the small town where we lived. Now, he came for me in New York, and he isn’t leaving until he takes me with him.
Vicious
She is a starving artist. Pretty and evasive like cherry blossom. Ten years ago, she barged into my life unannounced and turned everything upside down. She paid the price.
Emilia LeBlanc is completely off-limits, my best friend’s ex-girlfriend. The woman who knows my darkest secret, and the daughter of the cheap Help we hired to take care of our estate. That should deter me from chasing her, but it doesn’t. So she hates me. Big fucking deal. She better get used to me.
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I had high hopes for this book, but it wasn't anything special for me. I've read so many great reviews, saw it has amazing ratings, but I ... don't think the same.
This book is a clear representation of how women obsess over a bare minimum in men. Honestly, this was so sad to read and I hated some parts of it. It was interesting, I can't say it wasn't, but it's problematic in so many ways.
I didn't like Vicious. He was a rich asshole and it ends right here. He literally tortured Emilia, took everything away from her and basically ruined half of her life.
And when they meet again, Emilia is ready to forget it all and would go between the sheets with him if he asked just because he's hot.
Emilia took the torturing, she accepted him humiliating her, giving her a nickname "Help" which she even liked, even though he called her that in front of other people.
I learned that this is a trope in L. J. Shen's books: male characters that are pure mean and stupid women who take their shit just because they're hot and rich and nothing else matters.
I was excited to read this book, but it wasn't how I expected it to be. I basically hated both of them and they were both annoying. Their relationship was toxic as hell. Maybe I'm just tired of reading about these bad boys that are necessarily mean to the main female character. That doesn't make them sexy in my eyes, it just makes them an asshole and no one should accept that because it's stupid and unhealthy.
Vicious was acting like he's stuck in a five-year-old body and like the whole world is his. It just gets annoying when there's no change in him. I'd accept it if it was at least a major character development, but there was none.
L.J. Shen is USA Today and Washington Post bestselling author of contemporary romance books. She lives in California with her husband, son and lazy cat.
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