You know those books that literally swallow you whole and stays with you past every point when you reluctantly must put it down for you know…real life. Like the reflection in a neurotic person’s eyes. A flicker of something bright and full of life.

Cool silk sheets beneath a darkening sky.

Not until I’d snuffed out that pretty fire in your eyes.”Ĭleverly woven into an emotional story about two complex characters, Danielle Lori also inserted comedic one liner’s which made us laugh out loud, intense softness which made us melt into puddles on the floor and moments of quirkiness which we found so addictive to the point that we were waiting for the next moment to appear. “You want to know why I don’t touch you? Because if I did, I wouldn’t stop. Why? Well, where do we begin character connection…we’ll get back to this later because bloody hell, a brilliant storyline, angst, sexual tension, and the passion, oh wow the passion! It was outstanding, ticked all our book love boxes and is a favourite for 2021. The Maddest Obsession by Danielle Lori has without question become one of our most loved dark mafia/antihero romances we’ve read to date. I suddenly knew, this was a game I wanted to play with everything in me.’ He mildly considers himself to have OCD, despite never having been diagnosed.‘He wanted me, and he hated it. He also admits he lost his virginity to a nurse in prison when he was 15 and did not use a condom.ĭescribed to be a very tall and built man with dark blue eyes. She was choking on her own vomit, and he did nothing but watch her die.Ĭhristan admits he went to jail at 14 years old for 5 years because his mother tried to sell his younger brother, Ronan, to some of her clients, in which he responded by killing the man who attempted to hurt his brother. He watched his mother die one night when she came home drunk. Eventually she also allowed her clients to abuse Christan as well as a small child. His mother often was a drug addict often high on heroin and engaged in prostitution.

Christian mentions he grew up without a father and lived with his mother and younger brother.

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