Title: Raw
Serie: Raw Family #1
Author: Belle Aurora
SYNOPSIS
***Author Note: This is not a love story. This is a story of love gone wrong.*** Growing up the way I did, you’d think I’d be more screwed up than what I actually am. Soon as I turned sixteen, I left that bump in the road I called home and took my chances on the street. Best decision I ever made. Now, at the age of twenty six, I’m educated, employed and damn good at my job. My friends have become my family. Like me, they know what it’s like to grow up unloved. But the saying is true. The world makes way for those who know where they are going. That’s me. I know where I’m going and I’ll get there eventually. On my own terms and at my own pace. But then there’s him. I feel his eyes on me. I see him hiding in plain sight. He watches me. He makes me feel. It’s unconventional. But it’s real. I’m sure you’re wondering how a person falls in love with their stalker. So am I. This isn’t a story. This is my life.
REVIEW
Wow, so this book was quite the mind fuck, but I enjoyed every minute of it.
I had the opportunity to read this book at the beginning of January and I dare to say that I have no regrets about it. I completely love it! It’s really addictive, dark, twisted and as its name says that this book is dirty.
I recommend this story for those who have read books like The Dark Duet (Captive in the dark) trilogy.
This is not a story of romance, so if you're looking for romance, this is not for you.
Raw is a book where the main characters have suffered abuse during their childhood.
Alexa (Lexi) Ballentine is a sweet young woman who lived through a very difficult childhood and because of that she became a social worker so she can help other children who have been abused.
On the other hand Twitch is not the typical knight of fairy tales. He had a hard life and he is not the typical "hero". He is the villain. Twitch has been watching (persecuting) Lexi for a while, and Lexi has always felt his presence. One night when Lexi returns to home she was attacked by a stranger and it’s in that moment when Twitch appears again to rescue her.
Since then Twitch goes from being her stalker to someone that is always present in Lexi’s life. Twitch is not a good man, he is dark. When you decide to read this book you will be able to understand his behavior. There has to be something good in a shattered man. Lexi and Twitch literally are fuel together. She knows that she can’t be with anybody else but him. She only wants him. On the other hand, Twitch doesn’t know how he feels. There are moments when he wants to destroy her by giving fake hopes and there others when he wants to stay by her side forever.
The story is dark, perturbing and intense with a good dose of eroticism. The end left me totally sad. I never expected a final like that. It made me cry.
On the other hand Twitch does not know how it feels; there are times you want to destroy it by giving you false hopes and others that want to stay by your side forever. It is a dark, eerie, intense story with a good dose of eroticism. The end left me totally sad, I never expected something like this, cry!
This book is about how the circumstances in our live give us shape and make us change. It’s about how we tend to label people based on what we see, on how you judge people without getting to know them. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for an intense, nonconventional and tempting reading.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Belle Aurora is twenty six years old and was born in the land down under. At an early age she fell in love with reading. Boredom one summer had her scouring the bookshelves at home.
She stumbled across Sandra Brown’s Breath of Scandal and fell in love with romance.Having been brought up in a loud and boisterous family of Croatian descent, she developed a natural love for dramatics and humor.
Only some years ago had she discovered a new love. Humorous romance novels.Kristen Ashley and R.L. Mathewson had opened a brand new world where she could lose herself yet feel safe and at home in their stories.
Belle has been known to become a screeching banshee while anxiously awaiting their newest titles.Belle never thought she would write. It had never interested her until recently.
Friend-Zoned began to form and in February this year Belle typed the words Chapter One. And she fell in love.With words.With writing.With a creative imagination she never knew she harbored.
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