Belle Aurora

Raw and Beautiful or Raw and Brutal Readers’ choice. I like it.
Okay, so I wrote a really sad two-line review for this book and it is really sad and it needs to be redone. This is brilliantly brutal and beautiful depending on how you read it. My thoughts are below. Holy Crap this book killed me. I have read it for the second time because I wanted to continue the series this year and it owns a part of my soul. I absolutely loved this dark stalker romance from the bottom of my heart and loved the way Twitch and Lexi came to be. This story was sexy, provocative, dark, suspenseful and so thrilling. It is one of the Indy stories I will never forget! It makes me want to find more of this genre and just get lost in it for months.
This story was absolutely incredible. Twitch was dark and dirty and knew that Lexi would be his. I was absolutely floored by the writing and the emotion it evoked. I had my heart in my throat the entire time reading and could not stop rooting for them. But that ending? I was inconsolable for weeks. But I cannot lie and say it was not brilliantly written. I want to sit down with the author and give her a high five and pick her brain. God that sounds bad doesn’t it?
But again - that ending? It was probably the mic drop of the century. This story was pure emotions from the first page. I felt the fear, suspense, anxiety and sorrow. After the post of this review I should be honest I have already read book two and it is amazing. If this is on your reading pile, I suggest picking it up now.
… (mais)

Belle Aurora left us breathless and wanting to throw our kindles at her at the end of RAW (...or at least I did) I reread Raw earlier this year and was left with a big hole in my heart for the brutal honesty and beautiful pain that is Raw. If you haven’t read Raw STOP RIGHT HERE and GO GET IT! You won’t be sorry.
As soon as I started this book I had to stop and ask myself, "Who the f@@k is Alejandra?" Needless to say, I did not read the blurb like a normal human because I like to feel the story as it comes at me. However, I was really expecting more Twitch and Lexi...and there is some, but this book is all about (Ana) Alejandra (Castillo) Gambino and Julius Carter with a splash of Ling-Ling Nguyen.
Ana comes from a mob family that was looking to merge with an Italian mob family, so as the eldest daughter of Eduardo Castillo, she is arranged (Yes, I said arranged) to marry, Dino Gambino, the eldest son of Vito Gambino. She was the sweetest, most beautiful young lady and at the age of eighteen, she married Dino. He is such a loving gentleman, who dotes on Ana every chance he can. However, once they get married everything changes. When Ana doesn't fall in love with Dino as fast as he fell for her, he decides to beat the love into her. In Dino's mind submission is love and humiliation is punishment when Ana doesn't bend at his whim. He is cruel and sadistic and I could not turn the pages fast enough to see if he meets a brutal end.
When Raul, Ana's brother-in-law and ex-boyfriend, goes missing, Julius Carter and his assistant Ling-Ling Nguyen are called in as mob enforcers...this job has Julius as judge and executioner. However, after acting as a witness, Ana backstabs Julius by lying and making him look like a fool in front of his peers. His job then turns into him finding Ana and bringing her back to be judged.
Meanwhile, Twitch is going all over the United States to eliminate his obstacles that are keeping him from Lexi and his five year old son, AJ. Five years is way too long to go without those that you love more than yourself. Nothing will stop Twitch from achieving his goal, consequences be damned. I loved that this was weaved in to the Ana and Julius story because it kept me connected to all the characters even more.
Belle Aurora wrote this book so you know that this story will not unfold as you think it will. The more I got into this book, the more the webs spun together causing everyone and everything to connect in the craziest way. And then again, she left me NEEDING the next book in the worst way. I just hope that RAW: Rebirth will be just as crazy a ride as Dirty was. This is a Ride or Die kind of series and I am in it until the end. All three parts are out and on Kindle Unlimited so if you are a member pick this up and get pulled in like I did.
… (mais)

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The best kind of slow burn!

I am one of those people who marked their colanders for when this would come out. Then when it finally happened, I had to reread the first two books to get myself back in the mind set to fall in love with Twitch and his family all over again. This was so a punch to the gut but so worth it. So, from one reader to the next here is an ice pack go read this like NOW. It can not be read as a stand alone so do yourself a favor and go purchase, barrow or listen to the other two books first. This was such a slow burn that is worth all the hurt that you will experience. All the feels rushed at me at once and left me with no sleep. Work who needs it? Well I do but hey. Their story started many moons ago at the age of eight when she took care of a wee boy in the neighbor’s back yard who was hurt and hiding, she fixed him up with a band aid. It is a messy story with blood sweat and tears but it is their story and if you are a die-hard fan like I am it will be your story.

Twitch was a man of good intentions, stitched together with barbed wire and fueled by raw fury.

The King Pin Twitch presumed dead and his Queen left to raise their son alone. This story is like a beautiful phoenix rising from the ashes. Twitch has been watching and plotting from the shadows on how he can claim his place with his family and friends. Will it be easy? Hell, no if you know Lexi then you know she will make him work hard to claim her this time as he did the first time and you will be clawing your way back with them. I think Belle Aurora you hands down out did yourself with this book. I do not know if there is any book that I have read in 2019 that is more gut wrenching yet enjoyable as this was for me. That being said I want to let everyone know that if all else fails for you in 2019 and the coming new year, if you haven’t read this series you are completely missing out. I have suggested this to so many of my friends that it is not even funny. Some look at me like I am crazy and some give me a high five and become die hard fans of Twitch and Lexi and it is worth every laugh smile and dirty look. I hope this series leaves you all Raw and exposed.
… (mais)