source: purchased
rating:★★★★✩
from goodreads:
He has a heart of ice...but for her, he'd burn the world.
Alex Volkov is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can’t escape.
Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart.
But when he’s forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he starts to feel something in his chest:
A crack.
A melt.
A fire that could end his world as he knew it.
***
Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember.
But despite her broken past, she’s never stopped seeing the beauty in the world…including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn’t want.
Her brother’s best friend.
Her neighbor.
Her savior and her downfall.
Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen—but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both…and everything they hold dear.
Twisted Love is a brother’s best friend/opposites attract romance with a hint of suspense. It's book one in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.
my review:
favorite quotes:
Driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success and vengeance leave little room for matters of the heart.
But when he’s forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he starts to feel something in his chest:
A crack.
A melt.
A fire that could end his world as he knew it.
***
Ava Chen is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember.
But despite her broken past, she’s never stopped seeing the beauty in the world…including the heart beneath the icy exterior of a man she shouldn’t want.
Her brother’s best friend.
Her neighbor.
Her savior and her downfall.
Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen—but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both…and everything they hold dear.
Twisted Love is a brother’s best friend/opposites attract romance with a hint of suspense. It's book one in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone.
my review:
twisted love was exactly that. you think you know that someone really loves you but in reality they don’t, or do they? do the ones closest to you love you? would they burn the world for you? so many questions came to mind while reading this book. it was such a roller coaster of emotions. i found myself laughing, getting angry, and hurting for the characters.
i say i hate two narrator stories but here i am, AGAIN, with a two narrator book. twisted love was very well written and it was very easy to keep up with. i found myself more excited to read alex’s POV than i was for ava’s, maybe because he was the one who’s opposed to relationships and she’s super giddy about them. either way, both sides were super interesting to read and kept me intrigued. there were some flash backs in the book that kind of threw me off in the beginning. i thought i skipped a page or something and got lost but i re-read them and it all made sense. it all came together once you started to learn more about ava and alex and what they went through during their childhood. their relationship developed super fast but wasn’t rushed. they knew each other for 8 years, something had to have been boiling up throughout that time, even though they both denied it from the start. being completely different, they balanced each other out perfectly and their relationship flourished, or did it?
i loved the relationship ava and josh had and the relationship between ava and her friends. after learning about her life and everything she went through i loved that she had a “family” and people that cared for her. bridget and stella were my favorites, i didn’t really care for “jessica rabbit” jules, she seemed very condescending to me. when everything unfolded with michael i thought josh was going to leave ava’s side, but like always, he was there until the end.
this was my first ana huang book and definitely won’t be my last. i’m already excited to read the next book, not too excited that it doesn’t continue alex and ava’s story but it should be good nonetheless.
favorite quotes:
"Self-defense is a skill you never want to use, but which could mean the difference between life and death when you do have to use it."
"Humans want a lot of things, but in every heart, there beats one true desire. One thing that shapes our every thought and action."
"If you let lesser people determine your self-worth, you'll never reach higher than their limited imagination."
"You are the light to my dark. Without you, I'm lost."