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Severed by Vengeance: A Dark Romance by Elle Maldonado

Series:
The Severed Signet

Genre:
Romance, Dark, Novella, Standalone, Touch Her and Die, Contemporary, Arc from Author, Enemies to Lovers, Spicy Romance, Steamy Romance, Slow Burn

Publication Date:
July 14th, 2023

Pages Numbers:
392

Read Date:
July 8th, 2023

Date Finished:
July 9th, 2023

Rating:
2/5

Blurb:

She was mine.
Made for me.
Born to ruin me.

Evangelina :
I lived my life surrounded by luxuries, love, and attention.
While at the mercy of lies, death, and deceit.
I was tired of being just a pretty face.
The woman who always had to prove her worth.
When tragedy tears yet another gash in my heart, he was there to help mend my grief.
But there was a mystery hidden behind those alluring diamond eyes.
A whisper of ghosts and trauma from his past.
Red flags I knew I shouldn’t ignore.
Yet I couldn’t help the feelings blossoming within me or the fire that scorched my skin under his touch.
Derek Cain held promises of love and protection.
But what if he was who I needed saving from?

Derek :
As a child, I knew nothing but hate and pain.
I was a soulless, unlovable bastard bred into a killer.
Bound by blood to the world’s most obscure and elite society of global puppeteers.
For years, I fantasized about taking revenge on the man who’d abandoned me.
And when his time finally came, that’s when I saw her .
His weakness.
Detective Evangelina Cruz was mine to taint, use, and ruin.
Until the lines of vengeance and obsession blurred.
And she consumed my every thought.
Though my secrets would destroy her, I’d bathe the world in blood before letting her go.
Would the love we forged in darkness prevail in the light of truth?

Review:

I don't know where to start with this book.

While the premise and the characters sounded fascinating and the whole trope drew me to the book, there was nothing in the book - be it characters or storyline - that could keep my interest. Honestly, I skimmed over the book and considered DNF'ing the book altogether.

This book had every trope I love - a morally grey male with red flags flashing around him such as obsessive and stalkerish with a touch-her-and-die attitude. All the red flags we love from our male lead from a dark romance. Derek is a syndicate crime boss that sought out his father and literally killed him, but not before catching sight of Eva and promising his father, before death, that he would be corrupting the girl. I don't remember if he was the one who sent the mail to Eva but of course, if he did because of reasons to start up the plotline.

Eva, on the other hand, is a detective. A girl that seemed so badass in the beginning but was more interested in the "monstrous cock" between Derek's legs. There is nothing interesting about this female. She is pretty much most of the architect of what most females are supposed to be in dark romances. Much like them, she fails in this category. She's dumb and she should be doing her job as a cop and reporting and yet, she doesn't. I don't know how the hell she got her job as a detective, but I believe it was through the Cracker Jack Box.

As for the plot, it gets pretty much lost somewhere in there. I mean, it is there but you have to really dig to find it. It does eventually show up with a less-than-stellar ending.

I don't know if I will continue with this series, but who knows?