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Enthralled (The Enslaved Duet #1)

Giana Darling

Start date: June 1, 2019

Finish date: June 30, 2019

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Mar 29, 2019 Sissy's Romance Book Review rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019-read, series, 5-star, cliffhanger, arc-author-publisher, dark-romance, first-book-in-a-series, kindle-sent, contemporary, trt

ENTHRALLED by Giana Darling is book One in The Enslaved Series. This is the start of the story for Cosima Lombardi and Alexander Davenport, the Earl of Thornton, and is a spin off of the The Evolution of Sin Series. I enjoyed this book more since I had read (and loved!) that series but I did think it could be made a standalone book.
Cosima on her 18th birthday was sold for 5 years to pay for her father's debt. This opened her to the world of Master/Slave with Alexander being her Master. I am a b ...more

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May 26, 2019 Colee Porter rated it really liked it · review of another edition

WOW 😲

This is a new author for me. I came in open minded and with no pre-conception of what I believe the story would be. I loved it, it was fantastic. This is definitely an author to look for in the future, that will be dominating Kindle and iPad alike.

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Mar 31, 2019 Liv rated it it was amazing

Shelves: arc, romance, ebook, erotica, dark, bdsm, suspense, mafia-mob-crime, age-gap, taboo

4.5 Stars

I knew to expect the unexpected with this book by Giana Darling but still it left me speechless because I wasn't prepared for this.

Having met Cosima in The Evolution of Sin Trilogy I never imagined her story to be like that. I guess I got comfortable with the author's previous books and lovable characters because no matter how mean, violent, sexy or romantic they were, I still loved them all so much in different ways.
This time though she really got me because I was not prepared for ho 4.5 Stars

I knew to expect the unexpected with this book by Giana Darling but still it left me speechless because I wasn't prepared for this.

Having met Cosima in The Evolution of Sin Trilogy I never imagined her story to be like that. I guess I got comfortable with the author's previous books and lovable characters because no matter how mean, violent, sexy or romantic they were, I still loved them all so much in different ways.
This time though she really got me because I was not prepared for how dark she would go. I mean, I’ve read my fair share of dark books and it's not that I didn't love this one, it's just that I was taken aback by how much I hated the barbaric characters in this story. And the twisted, fucked-up person that I am, I still loved this book because it was just so magnificent and vile at the same time that it shook me to the core.

I will not talk about the story because saying anything would already give too much away. What I can tell you though is to not come looking for romance in this book! It's not for the faint of heart and only for you if you love angst, violence, taboo, and asshole men who treat women like even less than a doormat. Yes, it's that kind of dark.

Oh my heart! I swear I had heart palpitations!! And when my heart wasn't pounding so hard in my chest that I feared it might burst, it stopped beating a lot during this read when I held my breath and struggled with the emotions flooding me!
Never did I imagine that it would be possible for me to hate someone as much as I hated Alexander and some other characters in this book. I was so furious and raging on Cosima's behalf. But not everything was as it seemed and not all of them were entirely evil because it was much more complex than that.
Yes, there was violence, degradation, humiliation and pure evil, and it was unbelievably hard to read at times because I was disgusted by what was done to Cosima. But despite or even because of all that, I loved this book in all its fucked up glory. Call me sick and twisted but I can't deny how fantastic it was. Not many people have the gut to write a story so full of darkness and expose themselves and their stories to the harshness of reality and people’s different opinions.

One of the reasons why I love Giana's books so much is that they touch me so deeply, whether it’s out of frustration or full of love, they always bring out the worst but also the best in me.

I didn't want to love the dark but felt compelled to, and what better way to explain how I felt about this book than with a quote from this story?! ->

‘I wanted to hate that such a cruel, nonsensical man had given me my first experience with mind-bending pleasure, but a small part of me wondered if that wasn’t one of the reasons I’d loved it.’

May can’t come soon enough!

In case you're wondering why I gave this book 4.5 Stars, I felt that especially in the first half of the book some things were unnecessarily detailed which slowed the story down. Apart from that, I also wasn't fond of the stockholm-syndrom feelings from Cosima later on in the story (although it was to be expected, I thought her character was stronger than that), and how the book ended with a rash and uncharacteristic decision by Alexander.

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Apr 03, 2019 Tee loves Kyle Jacobson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: dark-and-disturbing, kindle-books, candi-kane-pr, suspense, triggers, cliff-hanger, 2019-must-read, march-2019

HOLY HADES..... where do I begin with this review? Well first off let me start by telling you there are TRIGGERS in this story so if you are triggered by abuse, sex slavery, and dark disturbing reads then this is not the book for you because this story is dark and disturbing and suspenseful and so much more I can't explain it to you without giving away the story but I will say this this is one messed up read that I enjoyed!

Cosima has just turned 18 when she is sold to Alexander to pay off her fa ...more

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