Wretched by Emily McIntire on November 1, 2022
Genres: Fiction / Noir, Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Erotic, Fiction / Romance / Suspense
Pages: 432
Format: eBook
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“All I knew was that I couldn’t let her fall. And maybe that makes me stupid, maybe it makes me weak. Maybe she’s manipulated me into becoming something I never wanted to be. Whatever the case, I don’t care. Because she’s changed me fundamentally. Irrevocably. And there’s no going back. I don’t love Eveline in spite of her flaws. I love her because of them.”
Evelina Westerly has always been the bad guy. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family’s drug empire, she’s her father’s ruthless secret weapon. With her days divided between perfecting her greenhouse, seeking revenge for her sister’s murder, and putting a gun to the head of anyone in her way, Evelina doesn’t have time for anything else. Especially not for love. After a one-night stand with a gorgeous man at a nightclub, she’s sated her urges and is back to her criminal ways. That is, until that same man shows up as the new Westerly lackey…under a totally different name. But Nicholas Woodsworth’s real secret is much more dangerous than an alias. He’s an undercover DEA agent, and he’s hell-bent on destroying the drug trade that devastated his family. When he realizes the youngest daughter of the Westerly empire is the same woman he’s been fantasizing about since that night at the club, attraction wars violently with disgust. Evelina embodies everything he’s against, and he’s been sent here to be her downfall. Yet the more they learn about the darkness in each other’s hearts, the more alike they seem, and when hatred turns to something more, Nicholas will have to decide whether he can love a wretched woman, even if it means bringing both of their lives to ruin.
I loved this one! It was short and totally crazy! I had no clue how this one was going to turn out. If you thought Hooked was amazing then let me say that this blew the meter of greatness with how fantastic this story was. I was taken on an intense, dark, twisted ride full of grief, anger and duty with two characters made of darkness. I am fully obsessed and can’t get enough of them. Both wanted to peel back the others layers one by one until all their secrets and deepest dark desires were found all the while falling head over hills for each other despite the roadblocked thrown in their way.
I gave this novel a 4.5 star rating. This reimaging of the Wizard of Oz was so twisted but in a good way. I was completely hooked not just by the steamy dirty sex but also by Eveline! She might be crazy but considering how she was treated by her own family I’m not surprised.