I will admit though, this Icarus analogy was top tier and made a lot more sense than the retelling ever did. To Cillian Persy is the sweetest form of drugs, she attracts him so much that he can't even look at her, what if she infatuates him. You are going to walk out of this room and forget you know me, just as I’ve failed to notice your existence thus far.

An explosion of unrequited love, clashing personalities, destructive secrets, and raw power meant to destroy for all others. Where Hunter was a bit more on the humorous side, Kill's book is a much more serious, mature novel, full of dark themes and deep wells of emotion. Yeah, he’s misunderstood, hates almost everyone else except his girl—but that applies to nearly all the assholes L.Persephone’s husband left her to deal with his debt and since she was being threatened with her life she went and asked Cillian for help. J. focuses on THIS Belle in the next two books—the one who’s caring, independent, and cunning without the overexaggerated millennial/Gen-Z speak—then maybe there's a win for me somewhere in this series. That sociopathic asshole will make you want to smack him and give him a smacking kiss in equal measure.

Edit: the Icarus analogy was actually taken—verbatim, without any reference—from David Jones's Love and Space Dust (2014). When Persephone left Cillian she said she will “divorce” him after the case with his enemy Andrew is over. Because it is harmful, addictive, play with our head, might distract us, flip our world upside down so naturally, we avoid it at all cost. Plus, it really bothered me that Persy never defended her sister, who clearly played the protective, older sister during her entire life. Life on hold, I even went to bed at an ungodly early hour just to stay in the zone, inhaling everything this author threw at me.A woman with no money gets in trouble and (because she's sensible and it's obvious she won't ask her friends for help lol), she goes to the man she's been hopelessly in love with and begs him to take her problems away. They form a marriage contract where Cillian promised to help her out with her debt and all she needs to do is play the role of a dutiful wife and have his babies. Also, this passage: "Sam always says, a child who is not loved by his village will burn it down to feel its warmth" is another example of plagiarism.