Life in the Book Lane: BOOK REVIEW CONFESS by A Zavarelli

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

BOOK REVIEW CONFESS by A Zavarelli

MY REVIEW - 5 STARS 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

This is up there amongst my favourite reads of the year - it really should be top of your TBR list

So these were some of my thoughts when I was reading this......

"Oh my word this isn't the book I expected. It is soooo much more. There are touches of dark but even more there is so much depth of feeling and emotion."

"I've been naughty, there are some pretty big hints at a certain type of heartbreak, so I couldn't resist skipping ahead to the epilogue.

It's been years since I read the last few pages but I had to do it for The Girl and her Ren, and I had to do it again for this book. Even though in many ways nothing major has happened in the story, this book has my emotions in free fall."

"I feel anxious and on edge in only the way an amazingly written book will do."

I read into the early hours of the morning to finish this, because I quite simply could not put it down. I'm not sure there were any emotions that this book didn't trigger - it left me with one of the biggest book hangovers I've had in a long time.

Gypsy was my 'perfect' heroine. I have such a soft spot for a tough-as-nails, dragged herself out the gutter, take-no-prisoners woman that hides her brokenness so well. Her life has been really tough, she has made many mistakes and she doesn't trust easily at all. There were so times that my heart broke for Gypsy, she is a girl that so deserves a HEA. Lucian is such an enigma for a chunk of this story, but we slowly get to know the measure of the man, and eventually the word 'hero' really and truly does apply to him. I loved this couple both as individuals and as a pair even when they dragged me to hell and back.

The book has so many different phases, there is darkness, bliss, absolute devastation, hope, suspense and growth, not necessarily in that order! The writing touches your soul and this is definitely a story that will stay with you long after so many others will have blown away in the dust of time. The blurb only gives a hint at the magnificence of this story, but telling you more would only spoil the joy of discovering it for yourself.

I'm saying no more other than - read this, just read it.

SYNOPSIS

Lucian

A life free from sin.

For seventeen years, I have lived and breathed those words. But there is no balm to the war inside my soul.

Until her.

The mysterious beauty too lethal to taste. She’s a thief, a con, the essence of everything I loathe. Still, she lures me in with her lying eyes.

In the dark of night, she came to confess her sins, and in the light of morning, I plotted to steal her away.

She will be my ruination. My damnation. My biggest regret.

So help me, God.

Gypsy

A word of advice? Don’t show me your vulnerabilities because I will find a way to exploit them. I learned the hard way to take what I want from life with no regrets.

Until him.

He’s one of the most hated men in America. A soulless criminal attorney. A recluse. And as of five minutes ago, my new husband.

He wants to keep my secrets and collect my tears, but he should know that a wild animal can’t be domesticated.

I don’t know how to love men. I only know how to leave them.

With everything I want.