Verona Blood by Lili St. Germain
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Recommendation
This is a love story, but one that is twisted, dark and brutal at times. Lili St. Germain makes dark romance an art form in every story she writes. She dances around brutality and weaves darkness into obsessive passion then calls it love… and it works. Verona Blood is darker than Romeo & Juliet with all the same intoxicating parts. Avery and Rome are very interesting characters, and while both were raised with hate in their minds towards the other, neither can deny the love running through their veins that draws them to one another. Their connection, though disturbing in many ways, is real and powerful. There are quite a few triggers in this, and if you’ve read her books before, you are aware of how dark she can get. I cannot wait to see where Lili takes this story.!
Excerpts
We're in the wild, down here, and we're nothing but animals writhing in sweat and blood.
Love makes you weak. Hate keeps you strong.
But I paid attention to Avery Capulet, and she paid attention to me. And something about the fact that we were forbidden only made me what her more.
Publisher synopsis
An arranged marriage. A brutal abduction.
And a love so forbidden, it might destroy them both.
San Francisco is going to burn if the coveted princess of California’s criminal underworld isn’t returned to her family in one piece …
Avery Capulet is missing.
Taken by a madman. Kept in the dark.
She might not survive.
He’ll use her body. Destroy her mind. All before he ever lays a hand on her.
Rome Montague is a drug dealer. A criminal. A thief.
And he needs the secrets Avery and her family are keeping – even if it means cutting them out of her pretty Capulet flesh.
Rome Montague is missing – but nobody will miss him.
Not that it matters; After the things he’s done to this girl, he doesn’t deserve to be found.
Prepare to step into the dark and bloody underworld of California, as Lili St. Germain brings you a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, in the same vein as her bestselling Gypsy brothers series.
Verona Blood, set in the criminal underbelly of San Francisco, follows two warring families who are ruled by blood, power and twisted desire.
Review published July 9, 2018