source: ARC from author
rating:★★★✩✩
from goodreads:
Everyone wants to belong, but what happens when it’s a serial killer that loves you? Join Lara, as she falls for a killer that wants nothing more than to build a life and a family with her. Whether she likes it or not, Lara is his. How can something so wrong feel so right?
Lara
I watched him kill a man in my bedroom.
A bad man.
But that doesn’t stop me from smelling the blood as I let him take me. I can lie to myself and say that this is all his fault, he broke into my room before he crawled into my bed but we both know the truth . . . I didn’t try to stop him, instead I begged for more. And now that he’s had me, he's never letting go.
I’m his and he’s mine, no matter how much I fight.
Michael
I minute that I saw her, I knew . . . Lara Kelsey belongs with me. I’m not strong enough to stay away, I tried but it was too hard. My world won’t be right until I claim her. Lara makes me rash and impatient. I want a family, a normal life. Someone who can accept me for who I am, darkness and all. She can fight this all she wants but we both know what she’s hiding . . . She feels the pull too. Lara craves me, she wants me, and she will love me. I just need to give her a reason to stay.
my review:
claim started out very stalkerish and developed into more than just stalking. some parts of this book were weird and had me very confused. i felt like it would jump around and i wouldn’t know what we were talking about or what had just happened and sometimes who was even speaking in the moment. although i was sort of confused i still was interested in the book for the most part.
Lara
I watched him kill a man in my bedroom.
A bad man.
But that doesn’t stop me from smelling the blood as I let him take me. I can lie to myself and say that this is all his fault, he broke into my room before he crawled into my bed but we both know the truth . . . I didn’t try to stop him, instead I begged for more. And now that he’s had me, he's never letting go.
I’m his and he’s mine, no matter how much I fight.
Michael
I minute that I saw her, I knew . . . Lara Kelsey belongs with me. I’m not strong enough to stay away, I tried but it was too hard. My world won’t be right until I claim her. Lara makes me rash and impatient. I want a family, a normal life. Someone who can accept me for who I am, darkness and all. She can fight this all she wants but we both know what she’s hiding . . . She feels the pull too. Lara craves me, she wants me, and she will love me. I just need to give her a reason to stay.
my review:
claim started out very stalkerish and developed into more than just stalking. some parts of this book were weird and had me very confused. i felt like it would jump around and i wouldn’t know what we were talking about or what had just happened and sometimes who was even speaking in the moment. although i was sort of confused i still was interested in the book for the most part.
lara didn’t really interest me at all. she gave in so easy to everything and i wish she would’ve fought it a little more. i do like the fact that she grew into the family and kind of fit perfectly. she had the same characteristics of standing up for your family.
michael was very interesting to me and i just wanted to know more and more about him. i wanted to know what happened with the boys, i wanted to know why he didn’t like being touched but could unalive people so easy, which is essentially touching. he was the sweetest unaliver and would do anything to keep his family and those he loved safe.
now what really kept me interested in the book is the family!! usually i end up hating the families in books because they’re never really good news but that was not the case for this book. the family made this book it for me. i loved the brothers and how they were there to protect and serve at any given moment. at any moment any of them needed anything. daniel and kaleb made this book lighthearted and giggly for me. without them i wouldn’t have liked it.
the story line was good but nothing amazing. i felt myself getting slightly bored and or annoyed with everything because i feel like it just kept repeating the same things over and over. the book wasn’t terrible, it piqued my interest (mostly towards the end). i thought it would be more spooky since it is about unalivers but it just wasn’t it. still a good quick read! thank you to jennifer ivy & her team for allowing me to be one of the first to read this book! i received an ARC in exchange for a review. all thoughts and opinions are my own.
favorite quotes:
“if our upbringing taught us anything, it’s that some things don’t need dwelling on.”
favorite quotes:
“if our upbringing taught us anything, it’s that some things don’t need dwelling on.”