Title: Because You're Mine
Author: Claire Contreras
Release Date: July 12, 2018
They're the ones with experience.
The ones with secrets.
The ones that exude sex just by saying your name.
From the minute I laid eyes on Lorenzo, I knew he wasn't just bad news.
He was the headline.
My opinion didn't change on our second meeting.
Or our third.
But my head and my heart are at war.
He’s too mysterious, too gorgeous, too wild, and now, he wants me.
I should run far away.
So why am I racing toward him?
I’m totally going to get burned.
I know it.
A man like Lorenzo won’t leave me unscathed.
He'll make ashes of me.
OH. MY. GOD. I was not expecting this book. Claire Contreras has fully outdone herself with Because You're Mine. This book has stayed with me for DAYS and I'm still not sure I can do a review for it justice. But I'm going to try to put into words how wonderful, amazing, and stunning this book is.
Catalina and Lorenzo's story is deeply emotional, wickedly sexy, and breathtaking. They are from the same, corrupted side of life, but whereas Catalina is trying her darnedest to extricate herself from the life she was born into, Loren makes his living in the deep hells of that same world, and thrives while doing it. He is everything she doesn't want, but as they spend more time with one another their undeniable attraction sparks an out-of-control fire neither one of them can put out no matter how badly they want to.
The problem lies in the past. A complicated web of a past that threatens to suffocate them both when it rages into their present, into their love affair, and into any solid future they could hope to have. Decisions they made in the past, and others made for them, are horrifyingly real and could end the slice of happiness they had found together.
What I loved so much about this book was Loren and Catalina together. Everything stood in their way, and their emotional torture of the past dictates a lot of who they are now, but together they could put all of that aside. They could revel in Loren's devastatingly alpha tendencies, and Catalina's sweet, and sassy personality. They could drown in their moments together that seemingly blocked out everything bad in their world. It was a fascinating, and awe-inspiring thing to read their story. I experienced a rainbow of emotions from heart-racing wonderment, to tumultuous passion, to gut-wrenching agony, to blissfulness. This book has it all, does it all, and should be read by all. It's a hands-down must-read!
Happy Reading!
*ARC provided by the author in exchange for an honest review*
Claire Contreras is a New York Times Best Selling Author. Her books range from romantic suspense to contemporary romance and are currently translated in seven different languages.
She lives in Miami, Fl with her husband, two adorable boys, three bulldogs, and two stray cats that she refuses to admit are hers (even though they live on her porch, she named them, and continues to feed them). When she's not writing, she's usually lost in a book.
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