Twisted Love

The 32nd book I read this year was Twisted Love by Ana Huang, the first book in the Twisted series.

Plot summary

Ava has always been intimidated by her brother Josh’s best-friend, Alex; a cold, calculated genius who Josh had been bringing to thanksgiving dinner for the last 8 years. When her brother goes overseas for Doctors Without Borders type program, he asks Alex to watch out for his baby sister, to which Alex reluctantly agrees. Ava isn’t happy about it but is determined to make the best of it and tries to get to know Alex better, which quickly becomes a challenge set by her friends: ‘make Alex show emotions’. Alex is totally focused on revenge against his parents murderer, accruing power, blackmail, connections, companies and wealth, all in pursuit of revenge. So when a girl who is sunshine personified begins to get under his skin, he finds himself reluctantly losing sight of the goal that has consumed him for more than ten years. Neither can resist the other, but will Ava drag him form the darkness, or will Alex bring her down with him?

What did I think?

You know what, I fully went into this book expecting it to be a bit crap. I wanted a romance book with a bit of a ‘morally grey’ love interest, and a few good tropes, for an easy read. But, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book! It does play with some tropes quite well and walks the line of a ‘dark’ love interest, who is not borderline abusive like some can be, quite smoothly. Not only that, but the romance in it is believable. You can feel the passion and understand why the FMC is willing to overlook his… dodgier business practices. The spicy scenes are good and they also have a little bit of consent and contraception chat, as well as ‘tap out’ codes for any rough play (again, differing it from other ‘dark romances’ I’ve read where the MMC is basically abusive, a FMC is only consenting in her inner monologue, after the fact).

I would genuinely recommend this to a romance genre fan, I really enjoyed this book and have already downloaded the next book in the series.

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