Genre: Dark Romance/Fairytale Retelling
Published: September 7, 2021
Pages: 312
From international bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan.
He wants revenge, but he wants her more…
James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.
Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.
He wants revenge, but he wants her more…
James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game.
Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook.
I borrowed the audiobook of this from my library. This is my honest review.
I had been torn about reading these books because of all the hype. It both made want to and made me leery because what if they didn't live up to that hype? But then I went to check the hold wait time for Hexed at the library and saw that I could borrow all but one of the books right away and that really decided it for me. Luckily the books so far have not disappointed.
What I like most about this series is the way McIntire takes some of our favorite fantasy stories and makes them realistic, twisting the tale just enough that no matter how familiar with the original you are, you're never going to be quite sure who the real villains are. And I think we all know that being a criminal doesn't necessarily make you a villain.
Overall I give Hooked 3.9735 out of 5 stars. - Katie
Emily McIntire is an Amazon top 20 author of painful, messy, beautiful romance. She doesn't like to box herself into one subgenre, but at the core of all her stories is soul deep love. A long time songwriter and an avid reader, Emily has always had a passion for the written word, and when she's not writing you can find her waiting on her long lost Hogwarts letter, chasing her crazy toddler, or lost between the pages of a good book.
No comments:
Post a Comment