Series: Starcrossed Lovers Trilogy #1
Pages: 342
Genre: Romance
In a single moment, she becomes my obsession...
Elaine Constantine will be mine.
And her destruction is only my beginning.
I’ve known all my life that the Constantines deserved to be wiped from the face of the earth, only a smoking crater left where their mansion once stood. That’s my plan until I see her, the woman in gold with the sinful curves and the blonde curls. My will to dominate her runs as deep as the hate I have for her last name.
No matter how beautifully she bends beneath my hands, I'll leave her shattered, a broken toy for her cruel family.
I'm a sadist, and she's the object of my obsession.
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This book was seriously not for me. When I started reading it, I knew it would be a dark romance, but this was just way too much.
I usually love characters (men) who are assholes (you know, in the healthy kind of way, I guess), but this was just too much. Lucien is a psychopath. I can't say anything else. He's in no way charming or even remotely sexy. The number of times he called Elaine a bitch (and many other degrading words) was sickening. My favourite was blonde Constantine bitch.
So, Lucien is the kind of man who sees other women as sluts and bitches and has no reservations about calling them that. Noted.
To understand the concept of this book, I'd have to know a little more of background story. Constantine and Lucien's families are enemies, yet it's not elaborated exactly why. Lucien hates that family with passion and he wants to destroy it through Constantine.
Constantine is like a broken doll. She's perfect on the outside, yet completely shattered on the inside. She's suicidal which made it all that harder to read how Lucien treated her, enemy or not.
Just a few sentences from Lucien to make you see what I'm talking about:
❝Oh, how I'd love to crush that neck in my hands as I fucked her rough enough to hurt.❞
She spun around with a sorry, and I had to choke back the need to make her pay.
This was just way too much. Especially when I didn't see any change in him, not even towards the end of the book or the end. It was even worse then when he harshly fucked her in her ass literally on top of a man he killed before (for her!), covering both of them in his blood.
And, I kid you not, Elaine ate all his shit right up. She was all for it. She wanted him to hurt her and even kill her, but not just that, she was turned on. By him. A literal monster who treated her like dirt on his shoe.
This was impossible for me to like. I couldn't even if I tried because with every sentence I read, I just thought, "What in the absolute horseshit is this?". I literally thought this was a prank.
Jade has increasingly little to say about herself as time goes on, other than the fact she is an author, but she’s plenty happy with this. Living in imaginary realities and having a legitimate excuse for it is really all she’s ever wanted.
Jade is as dirty as you’d expect from her novels, and talking smut makes her smile.
She lives in the Herefordshire countryside with a couple of hounds and a guy who’s able to cope with her inherent weirdness.
She has a red living room, decorated with far more zebra print than most people could bear, and fights a constant battle with her addiction to Coca-Cola.
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