Beautiful Liar by Roxas WintersMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
📖Book Info
Kieran
I gave in to temptation, but happily ever after was never part of the deal.
I am heir to a mafia kingdom and taking my place means leaving Arcadia behind. Arcadia U was built to house bastards of the criminal elite and wayward children of soldiers loyal to the four founding families. I am neither. When a death at the school puts everyone at risk, I return to keep my friends safe. But things have changed since the three months I've been gone. Loyalty must be earned, and my secrets revealed. But is it too late to save what I want most?
Tomás
I chose the enemy. I chose to be a secret. Kieran asked me to wait until he was ready, and I fell easily into the lies. But I have a lie of my own. After a death puts the school on lockdown, I'm forced to face a past I buried. A past that threatens everyone I love, including Kieran. To protect him, I must lie to him.
But lies fester. And the rot always finds a way out.
Beautiful Liar is best enjoyed if you've read Beautiful Dark Temptation.
💭Our Thoughts
Do my best for no spoilers -
There are a lot of HOLY SHITTAKE moments and some pretty wild reveals
"Pieces of a puzzle that will never fit. Is that what we are?"
Tomás and Kieran are still a beautifully disastrous mess
Kieran still refuses to come out, and Tomas still loves him despite being his dirty little secret
"I'm sorry for falling in love with you"
Kieran is a fool if he believes his "brothers" do not see the truth
"Lies between us cause dissension"
They are unraveling at the seams
The pressure - The lack of trust
The nightmares come to life
The Betrayals
The Losses
If they don't get it together, everything they had hoped and worked for is going to slip through their fingers
"Every day was a fight to survive. I was fucking tired. And at twenty, I should've just been living my life, not contemplating death"
In book one, we were given little clues and breadcrumb trails that helped us put together a rough draft as to who was who and what might be going on
Now we are given the final pieces to craft the whole picture
How the guys interconnect, the catalysts that brought them together, and the curators behind it all
We get their backstories
We also get to meet some new players, and Holy Cow, mixed feelings here!
Keep an eye on Lucas- I am with Tomás when it comes to how I feel about him
There are some pretty intense moments to get through, and not all ended the way I thought they would
This does end with an HEA for our main couple, but there are still so many unaccounted-for and unanswered questions
This is an organized crime mm romance with some darker elements and a whole lot of WTF moments
High steam, turbulent relationship between our two main characters - Yes, they are on again and off again, but there is a method to that madness
Some of my favorite quotes
"I couldn't break. I couldn't let him break me. I couldn't"
"My heart shattered. The last pieces flaked off like the shards of the mirror I'd busted. If this was the only way to have him, I didn't want it"
"I swallowed the beautiful lie with a bruising kiss. The words tasted like sweet poison on my tongue. He wasn't mine"
"It's everything. I want to be what he needs. I want him to be happy and safe. I want to be home for him"
Author Website: https://roxaswinters.com/
Blog Tour Page: https://awonderfulworldofwordsa.blogspot.com/2025/04/i-gave-in-to-temptation-but-happily.html
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