Wretched
Ratings21
Average rating3.6
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Ratings21
Average rating3.6
A woman can be great, and terrible too.
Evelina Westerly has always been the bad guy. As the brains, brawn, and botanist behind her family's drug empire, she's her father's ruthless secret weapon. With her days divided between perfecting her greenhouse, seeking revenge for her sister's murder, and putting a gun to the head of anyone in her way, Evelina doesn't have time for anything else. Especially not for love. After a one-night stand with a gorgeous man at a nightclub, she's sated her urges and is back to her criminal ways. That is, until that same man shows up as the new Westerly lackey...under a totally different name.
But Nicholas Woodsworth's real secret is much more dangerous than an alias. He's an undercover DEA agent, and he's hell-bent on destroying the drug trade that devastated his family. When he realizes the youngest daughter of the Westerly empire is the same woman he's been fantasizing about since that night at the club, attraction wars violently with disgust. Evelina embodies everything he's against, and he's been sent here to be her downfall. Yet the more they learn about the darkness in each other's hearts, the more alike they seem, and when hatred turns to something more, Nicholas will have to decide whether he can love a wretched woman, even if it means bringing both of their lives to ruin.
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5 primary booksNever After is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Emily McIntire.
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I was really looking forward to this book but it fell flat. I really liked Nick and Evie as characters but the mob family aspect wasn't for me. And as with Hooked, the ending was so unrealistic for what these characters got up to. I also really didn't like all the poetry in this. I think if I was familiar with it, it may have worked for me. But I found myself skimming over though sections because I just found it annoying they were quoting these seemingly random poems to each other.
3.5* i didnt love these characters as much as the prior books and found the nods to the original to be lacking in comparison as well but still an enjoyable read
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This may just be it! It's been a while since I've stayed up until 2am to just finish a book because I couldn't put it down. Nick and Eveline are just absolutely wonderful. Their connection can be felt from the beginning and being thrown together in close proximity only enhances that.
The enemies to lovers is strong with this one. Eveline and Nick both hate who each other is, and they hate that they have these feelings towards each other. The hate sex is unreal. And the gun scene
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Rounded down to 3
Secret agent. Drugs. The unloved sister. Sex.
Good, not great. Great variation from McIntire's other books and, from what I've been told, other romance books/stories, where it's the perfect “Dorothy”-type character who is the main love interest. Evelina is rough and definitely not that type of girl. Nicholas is the good boy who is drawn to the tough girl. It's a good story. I'm not sure why I didn't like this one as much. Hot scenes, good story, and I liked the back-and-forth nature of their relationship (lots of good, playful banter), and I liked that it was a reimagining of a story that isn't just one of the classic fairytales that I've seen too much of.
Overall, good story, just didn't resonate with me as much as McIntire's other works. Really abrupt ending... almost too abrupt.
