Twisted by Emily McIntire on February 7, 2023
Genres: Fiction / Noir, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Erotic
Pages: 448
Format: eBook
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“Some people say that family is family, blood is blood. But I say that toxic is toxic, and no one is more important than my inner peace, even if it means I lose them for good.”
Yasmin Karam, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, has never known strife. So, when her beloved father falls ill, she’s determined to make his final days his happiest. His last wish? To see her married to a man of his choosing. Except Yasmin’s heart already belongs to someone else. A servant. A street rat. A man her father would never consider worthy. Stuck between a rock and a hard place, Yasmin strikes a desperate deal with her father’s right-hand man, Julian, not realizing he has his own twisted agenda. Julian Faraci has one goal: become the most powerful man in the world. He’s built a future from broken bones and faded bruises, never caring who he hurt along the way. But when his mentor falls ill, he finds himself on the verge of losing everything, and he’ll stop at nothing to inherit what is rightfully his. Even if it means forcing a woman he can’t stand into marriage. Yasmin is a brat who speaks out of turn, and he’s the villain of her story. But he decides she’ll be his—no matter what it takes to convince her.
This is he fourth novel in McIntire’s Disney reimaged and is loosely based off of Aladdin. I am a huge face of enemies to lovers so I think I had anticipated this one to be great. However, the whole hate to love thing was so sudden, the build-up very dull, that the moment the love switch was turned on, I was so confused I had to go back to check if I hadn’t miss anything, for how rushed it was. McIntire is the queen of slow burn, but this one dragged too much. I was about 65% through and still there was so much hate which made the switch that much more confusing. I felt like I didn’t know the characters as well as I thought I had.
I gave this novel 3.5 stars. There’s nothing bad about this book, but there’s nothing special about it, either. I was a little disappointed because I could hardly see any difference between this book’s dark romance and the previous Never After ones.