Hexed by Emily McIntire on November 5, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary
Pages: 624
Format: eBook
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“You can’t ever count on a man, but you can always count on the poison that will kill him…or whatever that saying is.”
Venesa Andersen has never been good. She wasn’t good enough for her parents, and she isn’t good enough for the gangster uncle who took her in after they died. But she’s cunning. Beautiful. Dutiful to her uncle’s demands. And she doesn’t have time for a moral compass, anyway. When her runaway cousin returns to their coastal southern town, she brings a man with her…and Venesa soon realizes he’s the only one who’s ever seen her for her. There’s just one problem: she can never have him. Enzo “Loverboy” Marino is a wealthy businessman by day and prince of the underworld by night. Underboss to a notorious mafia syndicate, he answers to no one except his father, the strongest don in the northeast. When he’s tasked with marriage, Enzo doesn’t think twice. Until he meets his fiancée’s cousin. Venesa is everything he never knew he wanted, bewitching him with her sultry voice and supple curves. But Enzo learned long ago that for a man like him, life is better without the things you want. When plans unravel and temptation sings its siren song, they’ll both have to choose what’s more important: duty to their families or a forbidden love that was never supposed to be.
This wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t the worst. It was actually just really blah and seemed like all her others. It didn’t stand out to me and the characters were not really notable and memorable. It pains me to say this, but the story felt convoluted and juvenile. It had its high points, but honestly I cringed in some places. There was just too many betrayals between the characters that the story was unbelievable. Not to mention the politics of this were just childish. I’ve said this before—I NEED A LITTLE REALISM WITH MY FICTION.
So…. I feel bad rating this novel only three stars because that was truly my thoughts. But I just read that this was her baby as she was going through chemo for breast cancer. So, now I feel bad rating this low when she was going through so much as she wrote it.