Beautiful Dark Temptation by Roxas Winters📘Book Info
Tomás
I’ve lost everything.
Forced into a prison masking as a school, I find myself in the crosshairs of more than one killer. My savior? The arrogant prick who wants to control me. Kieran is a nightmare wrapped in a seductive package and when he sets his sights on me I don’t know whether to fight him or kiss him.
Kieran
I am the eldest bastard of one of the four founders of Arcadia University, and I will do anything to see my family fall.
The secrets I’ve kept hidden behind my heart now threaten to bury me alive with the arrival of Tomás. He consumes my space, my thoughts, my nightmares. I hate him for how he makes me feel. This toxic attraction between us forces me to question what matters most—vengeance, power, love. But Tomas doesn’t fit into my world of lies and violence and I’m not ready to lose it all for a beautiful dark temptation.
💭Our Thoughts
"You, Tomás. You're the last light I have left."
I can not rave enough about what an absolutely ducked-up relationship these two have.
Even at the end, though I am pretty sure it is also the beginning,
these two were so toxic for each other
They were a tailor-made couple - Dark meet Light
"The dead screamed in one unison cry inside of me"
A lot is going on with the different characters, at times we just get teasers or glimpses.
We know very little about them for the first half of the story.
As the storyline progresses more is revealed about who they are and how they are connected
There are a couple of scenes that just threw me a curve from nowhere - major plot twists
"We were the throwaways"
Pretty much a school for the unwanted.
Some families just didnt want them acknowledged
Some had defects, but nothing serious, they just weren't perfect enough
Others were there for their safety, so their sponsors said
"At least in the hood, we fought for respect, family, land area that didnt belong to us. We fought for something."
Tomás stole my heart. Despite the abuse from his mother and the loss of certain family members, he was still so innocent, so honest, and so damn trusting
The sacrifice thing made me so mad!
And then for them to turn around and act that way toward him...
He was a lot more forgiving than I would have been
"The stains of all those suffering bleed on the walls, the floor the ceiling. They scream and nobody listens"
Kieran...
Falls in the morally grey area
However, at the same time, he doesn't
A lot of the things he does and how he responds are his way of protecting the people he cares about as well as responses that have been ingrained into his psyche (I'm trying not to ruin it)
His youth was as bad as Tomás' but in a different way
"It's not that I want you. It's that you are mine."
I just want to circle back to the relationship between these two
Holy Hades...
Tantalizingly Toxic
"My father always said not to go digging for answers I wasn't ready for"
I am so torn with rating this one. I did devour it in one sitting but there were a lot of scenes that brought me out of the storyline and had me looking for answers. A me thing, as I am sure the author left unknowns, and actions to be questioned for a reason and to be answered at a later date. I do wish she had maybe split this into two books or just had more information on things. There are some surprises, some pretty gnarly twists, and some characters that left me with questions
Authors Website➱ https://roxaswinters.com/
Blog Post ➱ https://awonderfulworldofwordsa.blogspot.com/2024/10/im-not-ready-to-lose-it-all-for.html
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