Love Like Poison
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4.3 • 12 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Every year on my birthday, my tormentor returns to claim one of my firsts.
A DARK MAFIA / ARRANGED MARRIAGE ROMANCE
On my sixteenth birthday, a stranger from Corsica shows up at my party. Angelo Russo looks like an angel, but more the kind who decapitates dragons than the kind with soft white wings. He’s dark like the ocean and breathless like water. He says he wants all my firsts as if he already owns them, but my father orders me to stay away from this man.
No matter how hard I try, I can’t escape him. No one can keep me safe. Every year on my birthday, he brings me a gift, each one having a detrimental effect on my life with unimaginable consequences. With every gift he offers, he claims another one of my firsts. Before I know it, he’s taken control of my existence, turning me into a nervous wreck, because when I turn eighteen, I know what first he’ll come for next.
Note: Love Like Poison is the first book in the Corsican Crime Lord series and ends on a cliffhanger. Sabella and Angelo's story continues in Hate Like Honey, Book Two.
Customer Reviews
Love Like Poison was full of passion!
I absolutely loved how Sabella and Angelo met since it was not what I was anticipating! Angelo made no apology for who he is, what he does and how he gets what he wants, and I relished that about him. “Sabella [was] straightforward and uncomplicated” until a certain point in the book, and I did feel for her. She “gave him my love and my hate,” and through it all I could feel their passion! The ending was not what I was expecting (although I knew it would be a cliffhanger), and I can’t wait to read what happens next!
*I requested and received an advanced copy of this ebook, and I am voluntarily leaving my honest review.
Too toxic of a book series
It’s well written don’t get me wrong, just too toxic for me to continue reading..
Angelo and Sabella
4.8 stars
I had the pleasure of reading the book and listening to the audiobook for the first book in the Corsican Crime Lord series and oh boy what an enthralling, tension filled storyline that holds one’s attention. Sabella was a young girl of sixteen when she met Angelo and unbeknownst to her, she was promised to him as an arranged marriage. However, Sabella’s father seems to have selective memory when it comes to making the deal between his daughter and Angelo and this is the beginning of a chain of events that has serious repercussions for Sabella. It is an intense, emotional, heartbreaking tale with betrayal, obsession and a whole lot more. Ms. Pauls has a writing style that is all-encompassing and has one feeling everything. The narrators do a wonderful job feeding off of each other to give listeners the characters’ depth as if they were actually there. It does end in a cliffhanger and I cannot wait for the next book to release. I recommend this book.