Thirst by L.A. Wayward
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A Dark Stalker Romance
She escaped me once, but I’m back to claim what’s mine
They say I’m crazy, public enemy number one
I kill others with a smile on my face
I’m the king in the shadows who hunts those that deserve itAnd now I’ve come to collect
Paxton is the only one that recognized the darkness inside
The anger that consumes meI’ll make her scream
Beg
And she’s going to love every second of itPaxton is the one that opened my eyes, and wasn’t scared of the monster I’ve become
The hunt is on and she’s the prize
I’m not stopping until I get what I want
Sweet dreams baby, I’m coming for youThirst
Psychopath’s obsession!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔🤓😘😄
The heroine: Paxton (a.k.a. Paxxie) – she has worked for her father and with her brothers as a bounty hunter in the bail bonds industry since she turned eighteen. Though on her first real job with them, something went wrong, and she was kidnapped by the man who had been stalking her for two years. She got pregnant and disappeared for thirteen years and stayed off his radar with the help of a boyfriend Derick who worked for the CIA and provided her with fake passports and paperwork. Now that her son is older, she didn’t want to be on the run anymore, so she is home in New Orleans.
The Heroes: Jonathon (a.k.a. Salvatore) – he is a hitman and a psychopath, without empathy. Since the first moment that Paxton accidentally bumped into him on the street, he has been obsessed with her and knew she was his. He would watch her sleep, touch her, lick her and he planned an elaborate game to catch her and have her. Though she ran and stayed hidden for thirteen years, now she is back, and he still wants her.
The Story: Paxton’s ex-boyfriend from the CIA blackmails into going after one of the best assassins in the world, known only as Padre. He wants her to kill the guy since the assassin killed his partner. She flies to Alaska and finds out that Padre, is Jonathon, the father of her son. Though it does take her way to long to figure that out, when all the signs were there.
The one thing I really hate in books is the unbelievable, and this one had some of that. Jonathon was an assassin and a proficient one, handsome and deadly, but we are supposed to believe that he was a virgin who saved himself for this girl he became obsessed with, and he waited and watched her for two years before he made himself known to her? I dislike it when the Hero is a virgin either way, but that was just a bit too much to be believed when he was so worldly in other ways.
Though I do love books where the Hero is a psychopath or sociopath, who has no emotions, but falls in love with one particular woman. He was definitely crazy in this one, though both the Hero and heroine liked things a bit deviant in bed, so though the trigger warnings said non-con or dub-con, the heroine really did like what he did to her, and she had been fantasizing about him before they ever got together.
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