Blood & Lies (A Twisted Duet #1)
4.75 "Blood vs. Lies" stars So, this was indeed presented as a dark and twisted romance with scenes of public humiliation, abuse and sexual situations that may be triggers...and what a fuckin rush it was!!! Tatum Linscott's life has changed in an instant as she wakes up in a small darken room staring at the eyes full of hatred and rage. The eyes of her captor looked familiar and yet they were not. She's confused and lost and scared.
I knew nothing, I chose to know nothing. All I wanted was my drawings, my art, getting lost in my own world of colors, contours, and my vivid imagination
She would soon find out the reason she's been held captive expecting the ultimate punishment for the crime she hasn't commited.
Soon she would discover there are worse things to fear than death, and that eternity in Hell would be a far lesser punishment than what has now become her world. Her world now only consisted of one thing...me.
Castello Fattore has planned this for several months, carefuly strategizing, step by step, it was supposed to be only the beginning of the revenge he and his family planned to carry out, as a retaliation for his twin brother's death, that followed by the death of his father, leaving him the next in line to take over the position of the Boss.
Our family had been torn apart, and now it was up to me to put it all back together. My life was no longer my own as I held the future of everyone who once served my father in the palm of my hands.
the pent up hurt, anger and constant fuel of rage pushed upon him by his mother and younger brother, turns Castello into a hardened, cruel monster inspite of his own tendencies of not being this way. BUt he has no choice but to exact the promise of vengenace.
I felt nothing. No remorse, no regret. There was nothing inside me that even remotely resembled any kind of simpathy or emotion-only complete emptiness.
yet he was a shattered mozaic of grief, guilt and anger mixing inside of him stirring his own dark desires that lingered there on a tiny thread and that fact that he liked a certain kind of women to satiate this dark need, he found his captive weak and pitiful yet she defied him in little glances of her eye, inspite of being scared of the looming fate,
I loved seeing the fear in her eyes, witnessing as it ate away at her soul.
but her defiance, no matter how small, only stirred more rage in Castello to fight within.
This entire goddamn game just kept on feeding, taunting and teasing every ounce of desire I had for the darness, for the forbidden. And God knows she had forbidden stamped all over her.
What he sees in Tatum is a person that hides a dark desire of her own beyond the beautiful features and the allure to let it out is painful not to succumb to it.
"This is wrong on so many levels, Castello." "Which is why it feels so fucking good."
I loved how she looked at me with hate and lust, rage and desire, fury and need.
Tatum could not surpress the need anymore, even though she hated him, not knowing the reason why she 's being held, tortured, humiliated, abused, punished and then totally submitted to the one man she sould not give in...but the need and the dark that consumed her and crushed the resistance of her will, taking them both into the abyss of undulated passion seeking deliverence somewhere in between pleasure and pain.
We are completely fucked little mouse..in more ways than one..
This was me, this was her, this was us. These moments where we consumed each other, these were the dark moments that defined us both. It's in these moments we escaped, embracing our inner demons, our depravities, and forgetting about the world that so eagerly judged and destroyed
We might be enemies, but somehow whenever we were this close, it felt like we were the same - the same creatures craving the forbidden.
BUT then the truths come surficing as the revelation sink in and Tatum has to cope with the lies, lies, lies from the man she thought she loved, that she thought he loved her BUT betrayed her instead, her own father played a role of shattering her dreams to tiny little pieces...and yet she could not deny the fact that she gave her bare body, mind and soul to Castello
BUT one lie doesn't come alone, it brings the army of many more until they intertwine the suffocating web that blinds you into submission thinking one thing but doing it for the wrong reasons...and Castello would find that his own family he wowed to protect and obey its laws stood for nothing but the rotten flesh of lies, rage, selfish and malicious intent and sickening vengenance...and he would have to make a choice in the final downfall for them all...
This was retaliation, vengeance, payback - and all because my actions protected something worth protecting. Her.
This would divide one family while shattering another BUT the outcome would yet to be revealed...
This is my first book by this author and I was amazed by the effortless writing and the easy flow of the storyline, that was thrilling, enticing, passionate, dark and gritty and even though I never once romanticized the main characters, I felt every sense of their turmoilous struggles to fight off the cravings of darkest needs against all reasoning and yet they both succumb to each other out of recognition of the same deepest desire that goes beyond emotional label we call love. It's a bond that surpasses the very same notion we hold dear. I am so looking forward to finding out the outcome of the upcoming events in the next installment. ***ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review***
